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1 Genesis Gen 1 1 1 In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
2 Genesis Gen 1 1 2 And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
3 Genesis Gen 1 1 3 And God said: Be light made. And light was made.
4 Genesis Gen 1 1 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
5 Genesis Gen 1 1 5 And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
6 Genesis Gen 1 1 6 And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 Genesis Gen 1 1 7 And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.
8 Genesis Gen 1 1 8 And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.
9 Genesis Gen 1 1 9 God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
10 Genesis Gen 1 1 10 And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Genesis Gen 1 1 11 And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
12 Genesis Gen 1 1 12 And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 Genesis Gen 1 1 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 Genesis Gen 1 1 14 And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
15 Genesis Gen 1 1 15 To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.
16 Genesis Gen 1 1 16 And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.
17 Genesis Gen 1 1 17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth.
18 Genesis Gen 1 1 18 And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 Genesis Gen 1 1 19 And the evening and morning were the fourth day.
20 Genesis Gen 1 1 20 God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.
21 Genesis Gen 1 1 21 And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 Genesis Gen 1 1 22 And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.
23 Genesis Gen 1 1 23 And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
24 Genesis Gen 1 1 24 And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
25 Genesis Gen 1 1 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Genesis Gen 1 1 26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
27 Genesis Gen 1 1 27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
28 Genesis Gen 1 1 28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
29 Genesis Gen 1 1 29 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:
30 Genesis Gen 1 1 30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
31 Genesis Gen 1 1 31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
32 Genesis Gen 1 2 1 So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.
33 Genesis Gen 1 2 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
34 Genesis Gen 1 2 3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
35 Genesis Gen 1 2 4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
36 Genesis Gen 1 2 5 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
37 Genesis Gen 1 2 6 But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.
38 Genesis Gen 1 2 7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
39 Genesis Gen 1 2 8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
40 Genesis Gen 1 2 9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
41 Genesis Gen 1 2 10 And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.
42 Genesis Gen 1 2 11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
43 Genesis Gen 1 2 12 And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
44 Genesis Gen 1 2 13 And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
45 Genesis Gen 1 2 14 And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
46 Genesis Gen 1 2 15 And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
47 Genesis Gen 1 2 16 And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:
48 Genesis Gen 1 2 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
49 Genesis Gen 1 2 18 And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.
50 Genesis Gen 1 2 19 And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
51 Genesis Gen 1 2 20 And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
52 Genesis Gen 1 2 21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.
53 Genesis Gen 1 2 22 And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.
54 Genesis Gen 1 2 23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
55 Genesis Gen 1 2 24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
56 Genesis Gen 1 2 25 And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed.
57 Genesis Gen 1 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
58 Genesis Gen 1 3 2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:
59 Genesis Gen 1 3 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
60 Genesis Gen 1 3 4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
61 Genesis Gen 1 3 5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
62 Genesis Gen 1 3 6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
63 Genesis Gen 1 3 7 And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
64 Genesis Gen 1 3 8 And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
65 Genesis Gen 1 3 9 And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?
66 Genesis Gen 1 3 10 And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
67 Genesis Gen 1 3 11 And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
68 Genesis Gen 1 3 12 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
69 Genesis Gen 1 3 13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
70 Genesis Gen 1 3 14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
71 Genesis Gen 1 3 15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
72 Genesis Gen 1 3 16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
73 Genesis Gen 1 3 17 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
74 Genesis Gen 1 3 18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.
75 Genesis Gen 1 3 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
76 Genesis Gen 1 3 20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
77 Genesis Gen 1 3 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
78 Genesis Gen 1 3 22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
79 Genesis Gen 1 3 23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
80 Genesis Gen 1 3 24 And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
81 Genesis Gen 1 4 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.
82 Genesis Gen 1 4 2 And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.
83 Genesis Gen 1 4 3 And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.
84 Genesis Gen 1 4 4 Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.
85 Genesis Gen 1 4 5 But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell.
86 Genesis Gen 1 4 6 And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?
87 Genesis Gen 1 4 7 If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.
88 Genesis Gen 1 4 8 And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.
89 Genesis Gen 1 4 9 And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?
90 Genesis Gen 1 4 10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth.
91 Genesis Gen 1 4 11 Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.
92 Genesis Gen 1 4 12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
93 Genesis Gen 1 4 13 And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
94 Genesis Gen 1 4 14 Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.
95 Genesis Gen 1 4 15 And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.
96 Genesis Gen 1 4 16 And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.
97 Genesis Gen 1 4 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.
98 Genesis Gen 1 4 18 And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech,
99 Genesis Gen 1 4 19 Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.
100 Genesis Gen 1 4 20 And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.
101 Genesis Gen 1 4 21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.
102 Genesis Gen 1 4 22 Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.
103 Genesis Gen 1 4 23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.
104 Genesis Gen 1 4 24 Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.
105 Genesis Gen 1 4 25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.
106 Genesis Gen 1 4 26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
107 Genesis Gen 1 5 1 This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
108 Genesis Gen 1 5 2 He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
109 Genesis Gen 1 5 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.
110 Genesis Gen 1 5 4 And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters.
111 Genesis Gen 1 5 5 And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
112 Genesis Gen 1 5 6 Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.
113 Genesis Gen 1 5 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
114 Genesis Gen 1 5 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
115 Genesis Gen 1 5 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
116 Genesis Gen 1 5 10 After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
117 Genesis Gen 1 5 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
118 Genesis Gen 1 5 12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.
119 Genesis Gen 1 5 13 And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
120 Genesis Gen 1 5 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
121 Genesis Gen 1 5 15 And Malaleel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared.
122 Genesis Gen 1 5 16 And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
123 Genesis Gen 1 5 17 And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
124 Genesis Gen 1 5 18 And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.
125 Genesis Gen 1 5 19 And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
126 Genesis Gen 1 5 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
127 Genesis Gen 1 5 21 And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.
128 Genesis Gen 1 5 22 And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
129 Genesis Gen 1 5 23 And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
130 Genesis Gen 1 5 24 And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.
131 Genesis Gen 1 5 25 And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
132 Genesis Gen 1 5 26 And Mathlusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
133 Genesis Gen 1 5 27 And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
134 Genesis Gen 1 5 28 And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.
135 Genesis Gen 1 5 29 And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.
136 Genesis Gen 1 5 30 And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.
137 Genesis Gen 1 5 31 And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
138 Genesis Gen 1 6 1 And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
139 Genesis Gen 1 6 2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
140 Genesis Gen 1 6 3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
141 Genesis Gen 1 6 4 Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
142 Genesis Gen 1 6 5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
143 Genesis Gen 1 6 6 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
144 Genesis Gen 1 6 7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
145 Genesis Gen 1 6 8 But Noe found grace before the Lord.
146 Genesis Gen 1 6 9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
147 Genesis Gen 1 6 10 And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
148 Genesis Gen 1 6 11 And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
149 Genesis Gen 1 6 12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),
150 Genesis Gen 1 6 13 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
151 Genesis Gen 1 6 14 Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
152 Genesis Gen 1 6 15 And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
153 Genesis Gen 1 6 16 Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
154 Genesis Gen 1 6 17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.
155 Genesis Gen 1 6 18 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
156 Genesis Gen 1 6 19 And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.
157 Genesis Gen 1 6 20 Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
158 Genesis Gen 1 6 21 Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
159 Genesis Gen 1 6 22 And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
160 Genesis Gen 1 7 1 And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
161 Genesis Gen 1 7 2 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.
162 Genesis Gen 1 7 3 But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.
163 Genesis Gen 1 7 4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
164 Genesis Gen 1 7 5 And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
165 Genesis Gen 1 7 6 And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
166 Genesis Gen 1 7 7 And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
167 Genesis Gen 1 7 8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,
168 Genesis Gen 1 7 9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
169 Genesis Gen 1 7 10 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
170 Genesis Gen 1 7 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:
171 Genesis Gen 1 7 12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
172 Genesis Gen 1 7 13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.
173 Genesis Gen 1 7 14 They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,
174 Genesis Gen 1 7 15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
175 Genesis Gen 1 7 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
176 Genesis Gen 1 7 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
177 Genesis Gen 1 7 18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
178 Genesis Gen 1 7 19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
179 Genesis Gen 1 7 20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.
180 Genesis Gen 1 7 21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.
181 Genesis Gen 1 7 22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
182 Genesis Gen 1 7 23 And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.
183 Genesis Gen 1 7 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
184 Genesis Gen 1 8 1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
185 Genesis Gen 1 8 2 The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
186 Genesis Gen 1 8 3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
187 Genesis Gen 1 8 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
188 Genesis Gen 1 8 5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
189 Genesis Gen 1 8 6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:
190 Genesis Gen 1 8 7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.
191 Genesis Gen 1 8 8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
192 Genesis Gen 1 8 9 But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.
193 Genesis Gen 1 8 10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
194 Genesis Gen 1 8 11 And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth.
195 Genesis Gen 1 8 12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him.
196 Genesis Gen 1 8 13 Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
197 Genesis Gen 1 8 14 In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried.
198 Genesis Gen 1 8 15 And God spoke to Noe, saying:
199 Genesis Gen 1 8 16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.
200 Genesis Gen 1 8 17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.
201 Genesis Gen 1 8 18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.
202 Genesis Gen 1 8 19 And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.
203 Genesis Gen 1 8 20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.
204 Genesis Gen 1 8 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
205 Genesis Gen 1 8 22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
206 Genesis Gen 1 9 1 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.
207 Genesis Gen 1 9 2 And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.
208 Genesis Gen 1 9 3 And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
209 Genesis Gen 1 9 4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
210 Genesis Gen 1 9 5 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.
211 Genesis Gen 1 9 6 Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
212 Genesis Gen 1 9 7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.
213 Genesis Gen 1 9 8 Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:
214 Genesis Gen 1 9 9 Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
215 Genesis Gen 1 9 10 And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.
216 Genesis Gen 1 9 11 I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
217 Genesis Gen 1 9 12 And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
218 Genesis Gen 1 9 13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.
219 Genesis Gen 1 9 14 And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:
220 Genesis Gen 1 9 15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
221 Genesis Gen 1 9 16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.
222 Genesis Gen 1 9 17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.
223 Genesis Gen 1 9 18 And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
224 Genesis Gen 1 9 19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
225 Genesis Gen 1 9 20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
226 Genesis Gen 1 9 21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
227 Genesis Gen 1 9 22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
228 Genesis Gen 1 9 23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
229 Genesis Gen 1 9 24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
230 Genesis Gen 1 9 25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
231 Genesis Gen 1 9 26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
232 Genesis Gen 1 9 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.
233 Genesis Gen 1 9 28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
234 Genesis Gen 1 9 29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
235 Genesis Gen 1 10 1 These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.
236 Genesis Gen 1 10 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.
237 Genesis Gen 1 10 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.
238 Genesis Gen 1 10 4 And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.
239 Genesis Gen 1 10 5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
240 Genesis Gen 1 10 6 And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.
241 Genesis Gen 1 10 7 And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
242 Genesis Gen 1 10 8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.
243 Genesis Gen 1 10 9 And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.
244 Genesis Gen 1 10 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.
245 Genesis Gen 1 10 11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.
246 Genesis Gen 1 10 12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.
247 Genesis Gen 1 10 13 And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.
248 Genesis Gen 1 10 14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.
249 Genesis Gen 1 10 15 And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,
250 Genesis Gen 1 10 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.
251 Genesis Gen 1 10 17 The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,
252 Genesis Gen 1 10 18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.
253 Genesis Gen 1 10 19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.
254 Genesis Gen 1 10 20 These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.
255 Genesis Gen 1 10 21 Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
256 Genesis Gen 1 10 22 The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
257 Genesis Gen 1 10 23 The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.
258 Genesis Gen 1 10 24 But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.
259 Genesis Gen 1 10 25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.
260 Genesis Gen 1 10 26 Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,
261 Genesis Gen 1 10 27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,
262 Genesis Gen 1 10 28 And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,
263 Genesis Gen 1 10 29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.
264 Genesis Gen 1 10 30 And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.
265 Genesis Gen 1 10 31 These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.
266 Genesis Gen 1 10 32 These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.
267 Genesis Gen 1 11 1 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
268 Genesis Gen 1 11 2 And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
269 Genesis Gen 1 11 3 And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:
270 Genesis Gen 1 11 4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
271 Genesis Gen 1 11 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
272 Genesis Gen 1 11 6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
273 Genesis Gen 1 11 7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
274 Genesis Gen 1 11 8 And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
275 Genesis Gen 1 11 9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
276 Genesis Gen 1 11 10 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
277 Genesis Gen 1 11 11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
278 Genesis Gen 1 11 12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
279 Genesis Gen 1 11 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
280 Genesis Gen 1 11 14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
281 Genesis Gen 1 11 15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters.
282 Genesis Gen 1 11 16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
283 Genesis Gen 1 11 17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.
284 Genesis Gen 1 11 18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
285 Genesis Gen 1 11 19 And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
286 Genesis Gen 1 11 20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.
287 Genesis Gen 1 11 21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
288 Genesis Gen 1 11 22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.
289 Genesis Gen 1 11 23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
290 Genesis Gen 1 11 24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.
291 Genesis Gen 1 11 25 And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
292 Genesis Gen 1 11 26 And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.
293 Genesis Gen 1 11 27 And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.
294 Genesis Gen 1 11 28 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
295 Genesis Gen 1 11 29 And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.
296 Genesis Gen 1 11 30 And Sarai was barren, and had no children.
297 Genesis Gen 1 11 31 And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
298 Genesis Gen 1 11 32 And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.
299 Genesis Gen 1 12 1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
300 Genesis Gen 1 12 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
301 Genesis Gen 1 12 3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
302 Genesis Gen 1 12 4 So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.
303 Genesis Gen 1 12 5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,
304 Genesis Gen 1 12 6 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
305 Genesis Gen 1 12 7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
306 Genesis Gen 1 12 8 And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
307 Genesis Gen 1 12 9 And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
308 Genesis Gen 1 12 10 And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.
309 Genesis Gen 1 12 11 And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:
310 Genesis Gen 1 12 12 And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.
311 Genesis Gen 1 12 13 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.
312 Genesis Gen 1 12 14 And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.
313 Genesis Gen 1 12 15 And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.
314 Genesis Gen 1 12 16 And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.
315 Genesis Gen 1 12 17 But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.
316 Genesis Gen 1 12 18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
317 Genesis Gen 1 12 19 For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
318 Genesis Gen 1 12 20 And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.
319 Genesis Gen 1 13 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.
320 Genesis Gen 1 13 2 And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.
321 Genesis Gen 1 13 3 And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,
322 Genesis Gen 1 13 4 In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
323 Genesis Gen 1 13 5 But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.
324 Genesis Gen 1 13 6 Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.
325 Genesis Gen 1 13 7 Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.
326 Genesis Gen 1 13 8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.
327 Genesis Gen 1 13 9 Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.
328 Genesis Gen 1 13 10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
329 Genesis Gen 1 13 11 And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.
330 Genesis Gen 1 13 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.
331 Genesis Gen 1 13 13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
332 Genesis Gen 1 13 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.
333 Genesis Gen 1 13 15 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.
334 Genesis Gen 1 13 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
335 Genesis Gen 1 13 17 Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.
336 Genesis Gen 1 13 18 So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.
337 Genesis Gen 1 14 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,
338 Genesis Gen 1 14 2 Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and against Bersa, king of Gomorrha, and against Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber, king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.
339 Genesis Gen 1 14 3 All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.
340 Genesis Gen 1 14 4 For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him.
341 Genesis Gen 1 14 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.
342 Genesis Gen 1 14 6 And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.
343 Genesis Gen 1 14 7 And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.
344 Genesis Gen 1 14 8 And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor, went out: and they set themselves against them in battle array, in the woodland vale:
345 Genesis Gen 1 14 9 To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five.
346 Genesis Gen 1 14 10 Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown there: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.
347 Genesis Gen 1 14 11 And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:
348 Genesis Gen 1 14 12 And Lot also, the son of Abram’s brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.
349 Genesis Gen 1 14 13 And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.
350 Genesis Gen 1 14 14 Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.
351 Genesis Gen 1 14 15 And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and defeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
352 Genesis Gen 1 14 16 And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also, and the people.
353 Genesis Gen 1 14 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king’s vale.
354 Genesis Gen 1 14 18 But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,
355 Genesis Gen 1 14 19 Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.
356 Genesis Gen 1 14 20 And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.
357 Genesis Gen 1 14 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.
358 Genesis Gen 1 14 22 And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,
359 Genesis Gen 1 14 23 That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram.
360 Genesis Gen 1 14 24 Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares of the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take their shares.
361 Genesis Gen 1 15 1 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.
362 Genesis Gen 1 15 2 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.
363 Genesis Gen 1 15 3 And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.
364 Genesis Gen 1 15 4 And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.
365 Genesis Gen 1 15 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
366 Genesis Gen 1 15 6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
367 Genesis Gen 1 15 7 And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
368 Genesis Gen 1 15 8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
369 Genesis Gen 1 15 9 And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
370 Genesis Gen 1 15 10 And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.
371 Genesis Gen 1 15 11 And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
372 Genesis Gen 1 15 12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
373 Genesis Gen 1 15 13 And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
374 Genesis Gen 1 15 14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
375 Genesis Gen 1 15 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
376 Genesis Gen 1 15 16 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
377 Genesis Gen 1 15 17 And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
378 Genesis Gen 1 15 18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
379 Genesis Gen 1 15 19 The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
380 Genesis Gen 1 15 20 And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
381 Genesis Gen 1 15 21 And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
382 Genesis Gen 1 16 1 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,
383 Genesis Gen 1 16 2 She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,
384 Genesis Gen 1 16 3 She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.
385 Genesis Gen 1 16 4 And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.
386 Genesis Gen 1 16 5 And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.
387 Genesis Gen 1 16 6 And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.
388 Genesis Gen 1 16 7 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
389 Genesis Gen 1 16 8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.
390 Genesis Gen 1 16 9 And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.
391 Genesis Gen 1 16 10 And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
392 Genesis Gen 1 16 11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
393 Genesis Gen 1 16 12 He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men’s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.
394 Genesis Gen 1 16 13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.
395 Genesis Gen 1 16 14 Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.
396 Genesis Gen 1 16 15 And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.
397 Genesis Gen 1 16 16 Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.
398 Genesis Gen 1 17 1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
399 Genesis Gen 1 17 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
400 Genesis Gen 1 17 3 Abram fell flat on his face.
401 Genesis Gen 1 17 4 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
402 Genesis Gen 1 17 5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
403 Genesis Gen 1 17 6 And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
404 Genesis Gen 1 17 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
405 Genesis Gen 1 17 8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
406 Genesis Gen 1 17 9 Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
407 Genesis Gen 1 17 10 This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.
408 Genesis Gen 1 17 11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.
409 Genesis Gen 1 17 12 An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:
410 Genesis Gen 1 17 13 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
411 Genesis Gen 1 17 14 The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.
412 Genesis Gen 1 17 15 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.
413 Genesis Gen 1 17 16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.
414 Genesis Gen 1 17 17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?
415 Genesis Gen 1 17 18 And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
416 Genesis Gen 1 17 19 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
417 Genesis Gen 1 17 20 And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
418 Genesis Gen 1 17 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
419 Genesis Gen 1 17 22 And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
420 Genesis Gen 1 17 23 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.
421 Genesis Gen 1 17 24 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
422 Genesis Gen 1 17 25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.
423 Genesis Gen 1 17 26 The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.
424 Genesis Gen 1 17 27 And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.
425 Genesis Gen 1 18 1 And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.
426 Genesis Gen 1 18 2 And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.
427 Genesis Gen 1 18 3 And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.
428 Genesis Gen 1 18 4 But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.
429 Genesis Gen 1 18 5 And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.
430 Genesis Gen 1 18 6 Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.
431 Genesis Gen 1 18 7 And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.
432 Genesis Gen 1 18 8 He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.
433 Genesis Gen 1 18 9 And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent.
434 Genesis Gen 1 18 10 And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.
435 Genesis Gen 1 18 11 Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.
436 Genesis Gen 1 18 12 And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?
437 Genesis Gen 1 18 13 And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?
438 Genesis Gen 1 18 14 Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.
439 Genesis Gen 1 18 15 Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.
440 Genesis Gen 1 18 16 And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.
441 Genesis Gen 1 18 17 And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
442 Genesis Gen 1 18 18 Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
443 Genesis Gen 1 18 19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham’s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
444 Genesis Gen 1 18 20 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
445 Genesis Gen 1 18 21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
446 Genesis Gen 1 18 22 And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
447 Genesis Gen 1 18 23 And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
448 Genesis Gen 1 18 24 If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?
449 Genesis Gen 1 18 25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
450 Genesis Gen 1 18 26 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
451 Genesis Gen 1 18 27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
452 Genesis Gen 1 18 28 What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.
453 Genesis Gen 1 18 29 And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.
454 Genesis Gen 1 18 30 Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
455 Genesis Gen 1 18 31 Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.
456 Genesis Gen 1 18 32 I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.
457 Genesis Gen 1 18 33 And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.
458 Genesis Gen 1 19 1 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.
459 Genesis Gen 1 19 2 And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.
460 Genesis Gen 1 19 3 He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate:
461 Genesis Gen 1 19 4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.
462 Genesis Gen 1 19 5 And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:
463 Genesis Gen 1 19 6 Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:
464 Genesis Gen 1 19 7 Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.
465 Genesis Gen 1 19 8 I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
466 Genesis Gen 1 19 9 But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.
467 Genesis Gen 1 19 10 And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door.
468 Genesis Gen 1 19 11 And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.
469 Genesis Gen 1 19 12 And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:
470 Genesis Gen 1 19 13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.
471 Genesis Gen 1 19 14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
472 Genesis Gen 1 19 15 And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
473 Genesis Gen 1 19 16 And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
474 Genesis Gen 1 19 17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
475 Genesis Gen 1 19 18 And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,
476 Genesis Gen 1 19 19 Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.
477 Genesis Gen 1 19 20 There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
478 Genesis Gen 1 19 21 And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
479 Genesis Gen 1 19 22 Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
480 Genesis Gen 1 19 23 The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
481 Genesis Gen 1 19 24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
482 Genesis Gen 1 19 25 And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
483 Genesis Gen 1 19 26 And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
484 Genesis Gen 1 19 27 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:
485 Genesis Gen 1 19 28 He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.
486 Genesis Gen 1 19 29 Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.
487 Genesis Gen 1 19 30 And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
488 Genesis Gen 1 19 31 And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.
489 Genesis Gen 1 19 32 Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
490 Genesis Gen 1 19 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.
491 Genesis Gen 1 19 34 And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.
492 Genesis Gen 1 19 35 They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
493 Genesis Gen 1 19 36 So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
494 Genesis Gen 1 19 37 And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
495 Genesis Gen 1 19 38 The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.
496 Genesis Gen 1 20 1 Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.
497 Genesis Gen 1 20 2 And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.
498 Genesis Gen 1 20 3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.
499 Genesis Gen 1 20 4 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?
500 Genesis Gen 1 20 5 Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.
501 Genesis Gen 1 20 6 And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.
502 Genesis Gen 1 20 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.
503 Genesis Gen 1 20 8 And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid.
504 Genesis Gen 1 20 9 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do.
505 Genesis Gen 1 20 10 And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?
506 Genesis Gen 1 20 11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:
507 Genesis Gen 1 20 12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.
508 Genesis Gen 1 20 13 And after God brought me out of my father’s house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.
509 Genesis Gen 1 20 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,
510 Genesis Gen 1 20 15 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.
511 Genesis Gen 1 20 16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.
512 Genesis Gen 1 20 17 And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:
513 Genesis Gen 1 20 18 For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham’s wife.
514 Genesis Gen 1 21 1 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
515 Genesis Gen 1 21 2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.
516 Genesis Gen 1 21 3 And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
517 Genesis Gen 1 21 4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
518 Genesis Gen 1 21 5 When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born.
519 Genesis Gen 1 21 6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
520 Genesis Gen 1 21 7 And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
521 Genesis Gen 1 21 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.
522 Genesis Gen 1 21 9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:
523 Genesis Gen 1 21 10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
524 Genesis Gen 1 21 11 Abraham took this grievously for his son.
525 Genesis Gen 1 21 12 And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
526 Genesis Gen 1 21 13 But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.
527 Genesis Gen 1 21 14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
528 Genesis Gen 1 21 15 And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there.
529 Genesis Gen 1 21 16 And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.
530 Genesis Gen 1 21 17 And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.
531 Genesis Gen 1 21 18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.
532 Genesis Gen 1 21 19 And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.
533 Genesis Gen 1 21 20 And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.
534 Genesis Gen 1 21 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
535 Genesis Gen 1 21 22 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.
536 Genesis Gen 1 21 23 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
537 Genesis Gen 1 21 24 And Abraham said: I will swear.
538 Genesis Gen 1 21 25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
539 Genesis Gen 1 21 26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.
540 Genesis Gen 1 21 27 Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a league.
541 Genesis Gen 1 21 28 And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.
542 Genesis Gen 1 21 29 And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?
543 Genesis Gen 1 21 30 But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.
544 Genesis Gen 1 21 31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.
545 Genesis Gen 1 21 32 And they made a league for the well of oath.
546 Genesis Gen 1 21 33 And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
547 Genesis Gen 1 21 34 And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.
548 Genesis Gen 1 22 1 After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
549 Genesis Gen 1 22 2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.
550 Genesis Gen 1 22 3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
551 Genesis Gen 1 22 4 And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
552 Genesis Gen 1 22 5 And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
553 Genesis Gen 1 22 6 And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,
554 Genesis Gen 1 22 7 Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?
555 Genesis Gen 1 22 8 And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.
556 Genesis Gen 1 22 9 And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
557 Genesis Gen 1 22 10 And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
558 Genesis Gen 1 22 11 And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
559 Genesis Gen 1 22 12 And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
560 Genesis Gen 1 22 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram, amongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
561 Genesis Gen 1 22 14 And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
562 Genesis Gen 1 22 15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:
563 Genesis Gen 1 22 16 By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:
564 Genesis Gen 1 22 17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
565 Genesis Gen 1 22 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
566 Genesis Gen 1 22 19 Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.
567 Genesis Gen 1 22 20 After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.
568 Genesis Gen 1 22 21 Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,
569 Genesis Gen 1 22 22 And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,
570 Genesis Gen 1 22 23 And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor, Abraham’s brother.
571 Genesis Gen 1 22 24 And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.
572 Genesis Gen 1 23 1 And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.
573 Genesis Gen 1 23 2 And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.
574 Genesis Gen 1 23 3 And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:
575 Genesis Gen 1 23 4 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.
576 Genesis Gen 1 23 5 The children of Heth answered, saying:
577 Genesis Gen 1 23 6 My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.
578 Genesis Gen 1 23 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:
579 Genesis Gen 1 23 8 And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.
580 Genesis Gen 1 23 9 That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.
581 Genesis Gen 1 23 10 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:
582 Genesis Gen 1 23 11 Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.
583 Genesis Gen 1 23 12 Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
584 Genesis Gen 1 23 13 And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I bury my dead in it.
585 Genesis Gen 1 23 14 And Ephron answered:
586 Genesis Gen 1 23 15 My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.
587 Genesis Gen 1 23 16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.
588 Genesis Gen 1 23 17 And the field that before was Ephron’s, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof, in all its limits round about,
589 Genesis Gen 1 23 18 Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
590 Genesis Gen 1 23 19 And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.
591 Genesis Gen 1 23 20 And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.
592 Genesis Gen 1 24 1 Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed him in all things.
593 Genesis Gen 1 24 2 And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,
594 Genesis Gen 1 24 3 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
595 Genesis Gen 1 24 4 But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
596 Genesis Gen 1 24 5 The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?
597 Genesis Gen 1 24 6 And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.
598 Genesis Gen 1 24 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father’s house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.
599 Genesis Gen 1 24 8 But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.
600 Genesis Gen 1 24 9 The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.
601 Genesis Gen 1 24 10 And he took ten camels of his master’s herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.
602 Genesis Gen 1 24 11 And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said:
603 Genesis Gen 1 24 12 O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.
604 Genesis Gen 1 24 13 Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:
605 Genesis Gen 1 24 14 Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
606 Genesis Gen 1 24 15 He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:
607 Genesis Gen 1 24 16 An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back.
608 Genesis Gen 1 24 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.
609 Genesis Gen 1 24 18 And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.
610 Genesis Gen 1 24 19 And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.
611 Genesis Gen 1 24 20 And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.
612 Genesis Gen 1 24 21 But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
613 Genesis Gen 1 24 22 And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight.
614 Genesis Gen 1 24 23 And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father’s house to lodge?
615 Genesis Gen 1 24 24 And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.
616 Genesis Gen 1 24 25 And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.
617 Genesis Gen 1 24 26 The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,
618 Genesis Gen 1 24 27 Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master’s brother.
619 Genesis Gen 1 24 28 Then the maid ran, and told in her mother’s house all that she had heard.
620 Genesis Gen 1 24 29 And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.
621 Genesis Gen 1 24 30 And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister’s hands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,
622 Genesis Gen 1 24 31 And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
623 Genesis Gen 1 24 32 And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.
624 Genesis Gen 1 24 33 And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.
625 Genesis Gen 1 24 34 And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:
626 Genesis Gen 1 24 35 And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.
627 Genesis Gen 1 24 36 And Sara, my master’s wife, hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.
628 Genesis Gen 1 24 37 And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:
629 Genesis Gen 1 24 38 But thou shalt go to my father’s house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:
630 Genesis Gen 1 24 39 But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with me?
631 Genesis Gen 1 24 40 The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father’s house.
632 Genesis Gen 1 24 41 But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.
633 Genesis Gen 1 24 42 And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,
634 Genesis Gen 1 24 43 Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher:
635 Genesis Gen 1 24 44 And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for my master’s son.
636 Genesis Gen 1 24 45 And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink.
637 Genesis Gen 1 24 46 And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels.
638 Genesis Gen 1 24 47 And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.
639 Genesis Gen 1 24 48 And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master’s brother for his son.
640 Genesis Gen 1 24 49 Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.
641 Genesis Gen 1 24 50 And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.
642 Genesis Gen 1 24 51 Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master’s son, as the Lord hath spoken.
643 Genesis Gen 1 24 52 Which when Abraham’s servant heard, falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.
644 Genesis Gen 1 24 53 And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother.
645 Genesis Gen 1 24 54 And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.
646 Genesis Gen 1 24 55 And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.
647 Genesis Gen 1 24 56 Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.
648 Genesis Gen 1 24 57 And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.
649 Genesis Gen 1 24 58 And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.
650 Genesis Gen 1 24 59 So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his company.
651 Genesis Gen 1 24 60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.
652 Genesis Gen 1 24 61 So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master.
653 Genesis Gen 1 24 62 At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:
654 Genesis Gen 1 24 63 And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.
655 Genesis Gen 1 24 64 Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,
656 Genesis Gen 1 24 65 And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.
657 Genesis Gen 1 24 66 And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
658 Genesis Gen 1 24 67 Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother’s death.
659 Genesis Gen 1 25 1 And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:
660 Genesis Gen 1 25 2 Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.
661 Genesis Gen 1 25 3 Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomim.
662 Genesis Gen 1 25 4 But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.
663 Genesis Gen 1 25 5 And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:
664 Genesis Gen 1 25 6 And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.
665 Genesis Gen 1 25 7 And the days of Abraham’s life were a hundred and seventy-five years.
666 Genesis Gen 1 25 8 And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.
667 Genesis Gen 1 25 9 And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre,
668 Genesis Gen 1 25 10 Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.
669 Genesis Gen 1 25 11 And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living and seeing.
670 Genesis Gen 1 25 12 These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara’s servant, bore unto him:
671 Genesis Gen 1 25 13 And these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,
672 Genesis Gen 1 25 14 And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,
673 Genesis Gen 1 25 15 Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.
674 Genesis Gen 1 25 16 These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.
675 Genesis Gen 1 25 17 And the years of Ismael’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.
676 Genesis Gen 1 25 18 And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.
677 Genesis Gen 1 25 19 These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:
678 Genesis Gen 1 25 20 Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.
679 Genesis Gen 1 25 21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
680 Genesis Gen 1 25 22 But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.
681 Genesis Gen 1 25 23 And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.
682 Genesis Gen 1 25 24 And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.
683 Genesis Gen 1 25 25 He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother’s foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.
684 Genesis Gen 1 25 26 Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.
685 Genesis Gen 1 25 27 And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.
686 Genesis Gen 1 25 28 Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
687 Genesis Gen 1 25 29 And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
688 Genesis Gen 1 25 30 Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
689 Genesis Gen 1 25 31 And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.
690 Genesis Gen 1 25 32 He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?
691 Genesis Gen 1 25 33 Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.
692 Genesis Gen 1 25 34 And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
693 Genesis Gen 1 26 1 And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.
694 Genesis Gen 1 26 2 And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.
695 Genesis Gen 1 26 3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
696 Genesis Gen 1 26 4 And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
697 Genesis Gen 1 26 5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
698 Genesis Gen 1 26 6 So Isaac abode in Gerara.
699 Genesis Gen 1 26 7 And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of her beauty.
700 Genesis Gen 1 26 8 And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.
701 Genesis Gen 1 26 9 And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.
702 Genesis Gen 1 26 10 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:
703 Genesis Gen 1 26 11 He that shall touch this man’s wife, shall surely be put to death.
704 Genesis Gen 1 26 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
705 Genesis Gen 1 26 13 And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great.
706 Genesis Gen 1 26 14 And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,
707 Genesis Gen 1 26 15 Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:
708 Genesis Gen 1 26 16 Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
709 Genesis Gen 1 26 17 So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:
710 Genesis Gen 1 26 18 And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.
711 Genesis Gen 1 26 19 And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:
712 Genesis Gen 1 26 20 But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
713 Genesis Gen 1 26 21 And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.
714 Genesis Gen 1 26 22 Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.
715 Genesis Gen 1 26 23 And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
716 Genesis Gen 1 26 24 Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
717 Genesis Gen 1 26 25 And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.
718 Genesis Gen 1 26 26 To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,
719 Genesis Gen 1 26 27 Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?
720 Genesis Gen 1 26 28 And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,
721 Genesis Gen 1 26 29 That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.
722 Genesis Gen 1 26 30 And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:
723 Genesis Gen 1 26 31 Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.
724 Genesis Gen 1 26 32 And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.
725 Genesis Gen 1 26 33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
726 Genesis Gen 1 26 34 And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.
727 Genesis Gen 1 26 35 And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
728 Genesis Gen 1 27 1 Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.
729 Genesis Gen 1 27 2 And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.
730 Genesis Gen 1 27 3 Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou hast taken something by hunting,
731 Genesis Gen 1 27 4 Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.
732 Genesis Gen 1 27 5 And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his father’s commandment,
733 Genesis Gen 1 27 6 She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him:
734 Genesis Gen 1 27 7 Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.
735 Genesis Gen 1 27 8 Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:
736 Genesis Gen 1 27 9 And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.
737 Genesis Gen 1 27 10 Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.
738 Genesis Gen 1 27 11 And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am smooth:
739 Genesis Gen 1 27 12 If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.
740 Genesis Gen 1 27 13 And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.
741 Genesis Gen 1 27 14 He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.
742 Genesis Gen 1 27 15 And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:
743 Genesis Gen 1 27 16 And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.
744 Genesis Gen 1 27 17 And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.
745 Genesis Gen 1 27 18 Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?
746 Genesis Gen 1 27 19 And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
747 Genesis Gen 1 27 20 And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way:
748 Genesis Gen 1 27 21 And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.
749 Genesis Gen 1 27 22 He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.
750 Genesis Gen 1 27 23 And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,
751 Genesis Gen 1 27 24 He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.
752 Genesis Gen 1 27 25 Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,
753 Genesis Gen 1 27 26 He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.
754 Genesis Gen 1 27 27 He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord hath blessed.
755 Genesis Gen 1 27 28 God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.
756 Genesis Gen 1 27 29 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother’s children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.
757 Genesis Gen 1 27 30 Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,
758 Genesis Gen 1 27 31 And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son’s venison; that thy soul may bless me.
759 Genesis Gen 1 27 32 And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son, Esau.
760 Genesis Gen 1 27 33 Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.
761 Genesis Gen 1 27 34 Esau having heard his father’s words, roared out with a great cry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.
762 Genesis Gen 1 27 35 And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.
763 Genesis Gen 1 27 36 But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?
764 Genesis Gen 1 27 37 Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?
765 Genesis Gen 1 27 38 And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,
766 Genesis Gen 1 27 39 Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,
767 Genesis Gen 1 27 40 Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.
768 Genesis Gen 1 27 41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.
769 Genesis Gen 1 27 42 These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to kill thee.
770 Genesis Gen 1 27 43 Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:
771 Genesis Gen 1 27 44 And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged,
772 Genesis Gen 1 27 45 And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast done to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?
773 Genesis Gen 1 27 46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
774 Genesis Gen 1 28 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:
775 Genesis Gen 1 28 2 But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother’s father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.
776 Genesis Gen 1 28 3 And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.
777 Genesis Gen 1 28 4 And give the blessings of Araham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.
778 Genesis Gen 1 28 5 And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother.
779 Genesis Gen 1 28 6 And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:
780 Genesis Gen 1 28 7 And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:
781 Genesis Gen 1 28 8 Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:
782 Genesis Gen 1 28 9 He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nabajoth.
783 Genesis Gen 1 28 10 But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.
784 Genesis Gen 1 28 11 And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place.
785 Genesis Gen 1 28 12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
786 Genesis Gen 1 28 13 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
787 Genesis Gen 1 28 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
788 Genesis Gen 1 28 15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.
789 Genesis Gen 1 28 16 And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
790 Genesis Gen 1 28 17 And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
791 Genesis Gen 1 28 18 And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.
792 Genesis Gen 1 28 19 And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.
793 Genesis Gen 1 28 20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
794 Genesis Gen 1 28 21 And I shall return prosperously to my father’s house: the Lord shall be my God:
795 Genesis Gen 1 28 22 And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.
796 Genesis Gen 1 29 1 Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.
797 Genesis Gen 1 29 2 And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was closed with a great stone.
798 Genesis Gen 1 29 3 And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.
799 Genesis Gen 1 29 4 And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
800 Genesis Gen 1 29 5 And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.
801 Genesis Gen 1 29 6 He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.
802 Genesis Gen 1 29 7 And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it time to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep drink, and so lead them back to feed.
803 Genesis Gen 1 29 8 They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered together, and we remove the stone from the well’s mouth, that we may water the flocks.
804 Genesis Gen 1 29 9 They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she fed the flock.
805 Genesis Gen 1 29 10 And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german, and that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone wherewith the well was closed.
806 Genesis Gen 1 29 11 And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his voice wept.
807 Genesis Gen 1 29 12 And he told her that he was her father’s brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.
808 Genesis Gen 1 29 13 Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister’s son was come, ran forth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,
809 Genesis Gen 1 29 14 He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
810 Genesis Gen 1 29 15 He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.
811 Genesis Gen 1 29 16 Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the younger was called Rachel.
812 Genesis Gen 1 29 17 But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
813 Genesis Gen 1 29 18 And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.
814 Genesis Gen 1 29 19 Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to another man; stay with me.
815 Genesis Gen 1 29 20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
816 Genesis Gen 1 29 21 And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
817 Genesis Gen 1 29 22 And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.
818 Genesis Gen 1 29 23 And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,
819 Genesis Gen 1 29 24 Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia.
820 Genesis Gen 1 29 25 And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?
821 Genesis Gen 1 29 26 Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.
822 Genesis Gen 1 29 27 Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.
823 Genesis Gen 1 29 28 He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel:
824 Genesis Gen 1 29 29 To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.
825 Genesis Gen 1 29 30 And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.
826 Genesis Gen 1 29 31 And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
827 Genesis Gen 1 29 32 And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.
828 Genesis Gen 1 29 33 And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
829 Genesis Gen 1 29 34 And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.
830 Genesis Gen 1 29 35 The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.
831 Genesis Gen 1 30 1 And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.
832 Genesis Gen 1 30 2 And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
833 Genesis Gen 1 30 3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
834 Genesis Gen 1 30 4 And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,
835 Genesis Gen 1 30 5 When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.
836 Genesis Gen 1 30 6 And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.
837 Genesis Gen 1 30 7 And again Bala conceived, and bore another,
838 Genesis Gen 1 30 8 For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.
839 Genesis Gen 1 30 9 Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.
840 Genesis Gen 1 30 10 And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,
841 Genesis Gen 1 30 11 She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.
842 Genesis Gen 1 30 12 Zelpha also bore another.
843 Genesis Gen 1 30 13 And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.
844 Genesis Gen 1 30 14 And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes.
845 Genesis Gen 1 30 15 She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son’s mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son’s mandrakes.
846 Genesis Gen 1 30 16 And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son’s mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.
847 Genesis Gen 1 30 17 And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son:
848 Genesis Gen 1 30 18 And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.
849 Genesis Gen 1 30 19 And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,
850 Genesis Gen 1 30 20 And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
851 Genesis Gen 1 30 21 After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.
852 Genesis Gen 1 30 22 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
853 Genesis Gen 1 30 23 And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away my reproach.
854 Genesis Gen 1 30 24 And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also another son.
855 Genesis Gen 1 30 25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.
856 Genesis Gen 1 30 26 Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.
857 Genesis Gen 1 30 27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.
858 Genesis Gen 1 30 28 Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.
859 Genesis Gen 1 30 29 But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how great thy possession hath been in my hands.
860 Genesis Gen 1 30 30 Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art become rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.
861 Genesis Gen 1 30 31 And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require nothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep again.
862 Genesis Gen 1 30 32 Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled; and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers colours, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall be my wages.
863 Genesis Gen 1 30 33 And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accuse me of theft.
864 Genesis Gen 1 30 34 And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.
865 Genesis Gen 1 30 35 And he separated the same day the she-goats, and the sheep, and the he-goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
866 Genesis Gen 1 30 36 And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.
867 Genesis Gen 1 30 37 And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.
868 Genesis Gen 1 30 38 And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out; that when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods before their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.
869 Genesis Gen 1 30 39 And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and speckled.
870 Genesis Gen 1 30 40 And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were Laban’s, and the rest were Jacob’s, when the flocks were separated one from the other.
871 Genesis Gen 1 30 41 So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the troughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they might conceive while they were looking upon them.
872 Genesis Gen 1 30 42 But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban’s; and they of the first time, Jacob’s.
873 Genesis Gen 1 30 43 And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.
874 Genesis Gen 1 31 1 But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great.
875 Genesis Gen 1 31 2 And perceiving also, that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.
876 Genesis Gen 1 31 3 Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.
877 Genesis Gen 1 31 4 He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
878 Genesis Gen 1 31 5 And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
879 Genesis Gen 1 31 6 And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.
880 Genesis Gen 1 31 7 Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
881 Genesis Gen 1 31 8 If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.
882 Genesis Gen 1 31 9 And God hath taken your father’s substance, and given it to me.
883 Genesis Gen 1 31 10 For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.
884 Genesis Gen 1 31 11 And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.
885 Genesis Gen 1 31 12 And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.
886 Genesis Gen 1 31 13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.
887 Genesis Gen 1 31 14 And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?
888 Genesis Gen 1 31 15 Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?
889 Genesis Gen 1 31 16 But God hath taken our father’s riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded thee.
890 Genesis Gen 1 31 17 Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.
891 Genesis Gen 1 31 18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.
892 Genesis Gen 1 31 19 At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father’s idols.
893 Genesis Gen 1 31 20 And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was flying away.
894 Genesis Gen 1 31 21 And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,
895 Genesis Gen 1 31 22 It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.
896 Genesis Gen 1 31 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
897 Genesis Gen 1 31 24 And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
898 Genesis Gen 1 31 25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
899 Genesis Gen 1 31 26 And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?
900 Genesis Gen 1 31 27 Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?
901 Genesis Gen 1 31 28 Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and now indeed,
902 Genesis Gen 1 31 29 It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
903 Genesis Gen 1 31 30 Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
904 Genesis Gen 1 31 31 Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.
905 Genesis Gen 1 31 32 But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
906 Genesis Gen 1 31 33 So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel’s tent,
907 Genesis Gen 1 31 34 She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
908 Genesis Gen 1 31 35 She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.
909 Genesis Gen 1 31 36 And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
910 Genesis Gen 1 31 37 And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.
911 Genesis Gen 1 31 38 Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:
912 Genesis Gen 1 31 39 Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:
913 Genesis Gen 1 31 40 Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
914 Genesis Gen 1 31 41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
915 Genesis Gen 1 31 42 Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
916 Genesis Gen 1 31 43 Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children, and thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do to my children, and grandchildren?
917 Genesis Gen 1 31 44 Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee.
918 Genesis Gen 1 31 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.
919 Genesis Gen 1 31 46 And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.
920 Genesis Gen 1 31 47 And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.
921 Genesis Gen 1 31 48 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.
922 Genesis Gen 1 31 49 The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.
923 Genesis Gen 1 31 50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
924 Genesis Gen 1 31 51 And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,
925 Genesis Gen 1 31 52 Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.
926 Genesis Gen 1 31 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:
927 Genesis Gen 1 31 54 And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:
928 Genesis Gen 1 31 55 But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.
929 Genesis Gen 1 32 1 Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.
930 Genesis Gen 1 32 2 And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.
931 Genesis Gen 1 32 3 And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:
932 Genesis Gen 1 32 4 And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day:
933 Genesis Gen 1 32 5 I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.
934 Genesis Gen 1 32 6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.
935 Genesis Gen 1 32 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the camels, into two companies,
936 Genesis Gen 1 32 8 Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other company that is left, shall escape.
937 Genesis Gen 1 32 9 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.
938 Genesis Gen 1 32 10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.
939 Genesis Gen 1 32 11 Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.
940 Genesis Gen 1 32 12 Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
941 Genesis Gen 1 32 13 And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau,
942 Genesis Gen 1 32 14 Two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
943 Genesis Gen 1 32 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.
944 Genesis Gen 1 32 16 And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by itself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a space between drove and drove.
945 Genesis Gen 1 32 17 And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee?
946 Genesis Gen 1 32 18 Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob’s: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.
947 Genesis Gen 1 32 19 In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him.
948 Genesis Gen 1 32 20 And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.
949 Genesis Gen 1 32 21 So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.
950 Genesis Gen 1 32 22 And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.
951 Genesis Gen 1 32 23 And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,
952 Genesis Gen 1 32 24 He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.
953 Genesis Gen 1 32 25 And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.
954 Genesis Gen 1 32 26 And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He answered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
955 Genesis Gen 1 32 27 And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
956 Genesis Gen 1 32 28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
957 Genesis Gen 1 32 29 Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.
958 Genesis Gen 1 32 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.
959 Genesis Gen 1 32 31 And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his foot.
960 Genesis Gen 1 32 32 Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob’s thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh and it shrank.
961 Genesis Gen 1 33 1 And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.
962 Genesis Gen 1 33 2 And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
963 Genesis Gen 1 33 3 And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times, until his brother came near.
964 Genesis Gen 1 33 4 Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
965 Genesis Gen 1 33 5 And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.
966 Genesis Gen 1 33 6 Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed themselves.
967 Genesis Gen 1 33 7 Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.
968 Genesis Gen 1 33 8 And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.
969 Genesis Gen 1 33 9 But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for thyself.
970 Genesis Gen 1 33 10 And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,
971 Genesis Gen 1 33 11 And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother’s earnest pressing him,
972 Genesis Gen 1 33 12 And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.
973 Genesis Gen 1 33 13 And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.
974 Genesis Gen 1 33 14 May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
975 Genesis Gen 1 33 15 Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.
976 Genesis Gen 1 33 16 So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.
977 Genesis Gen 1 33 17 And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.
978 Genesis Gen 1 33 18 And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.
979 Genesis Gen 1 33 19 And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.
980 Genesis Gen 1 33 20 And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.
981 Genesis Gen 1 34 1 And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.
982 Genesis Gen 1 34 2 And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin.
983 Genesis Gen 1 34 3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.
984 Genesis Gen 1 34 4 And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.
985 Genesis Gen 1 34 5 But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.
986 Genesis Gen 1 34 6 And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob,
987 Genesis Gen 1 34 7 Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob’s daughter.
988 Genesis Gen 1 34 8 And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:
989 Genesis Gen 1 34 9 And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.
990 Genesis Gen 1 34 10 And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.
991 Genesis Gen 1 34 11 Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:
992 Genesis Gen 1 34 12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
993 Genesis Gen 1 34 13 The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:
994 Genesis Gen 1 34 14 We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.
995 Genesis Gen 1 34 15 But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:
996 Genesis Gen 1 34 16 Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours; and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
997 Genesis Gen 1 34 17 But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.
998 Genesis Gen 1 34 18 Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son:
999 Genesis Gen 1 34 19 And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father’s house.
1000 Genesis Gen 1 34 20 And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:
1001 Genesis Gen 1 34 21 These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.
1002 Genesis Gen 1 34 22 One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.
1003 Genesis Gen 1 34 23 And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.
1004 Genesis Gen 1 34 24 And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.
1005 Genesis Gen 1 34 25 And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the men.
1006 Genesis Gen 1 34 26 And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their sister Dina out of Sichem’s house.
1007 Genesis Gen 1 34 27 And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
1008 Genesis Gen 1 34 28 And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.
1009 Genesis Gen 1 34 29 And their children and wives they took captive.
1010 Genesis Gen 1 34 30 And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.
1011 Genesis Gen 1 34 31 They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?
1012 Genesis Gen 1 35 1 In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.
1013 Genesis Gen 1 35 2 And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.
1014 Genesis Gen 1 35 3 Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.
1015 Genesis Gen 1 35 4 So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
1016 Genesis Gen 1 35 5 And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
1017 Genesis Gen 1 35 6 And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him.
1018 Genesis Gen 1 35 7 And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.
1019 Genesis Gen 1 35 8 At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.
1020 Genesis Gen 1 35 9 And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
1021 Genesis Gen 1 35 10 Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.
1022 Genesis Gen 1 35 11 And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
1023 Genesis Gen 1 35 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
1024 Genesis Gen 1 35 13 And he departed from him.
1025 Genesis Gen 1 35 14 But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had spoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:
1026 Genesis Gen 1 35 15 And calling the name of that place Bethel.
1027 Genesis Gen 1 35 16 And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
1028 Genesis Gen 1 35 17 By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
1029 Genesis Gen 1 35 18 And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.
1030 Genesis Gen 1 35 19 So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.
1031 Genesis Gen 1 35 20 And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the pillar of Rachel’s monument, to this day.
1032 Genesis Gen 1 35 21 Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.
1033 Genesis Gen 1 35 22 And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
1034 Genesis Gen 1 35 23 The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.
1035 Genesis Gen 1 35 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
1036 Genesis Gen 1 35 25 The sons of Bala, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.
1037 Genesis Gen 1 35 26 The sons of Zelpha, Lia’s handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.
1038 Genesis Gen 1 35 27 And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
1039 Genesis Gen 1 35 28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
1040 Genesis Gen 1 35 29 And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
1041 Genesis Gen 1 36 1 And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.
1042 Genesis Gen 1 36 2 Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon the Hevite:
1043 Genesis Gen 1 36 3 And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.
1044 Genesis Gen 1 36 4 And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.
1045 Genesis Gen 1 36 5 Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of Esau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.
1046 Genesis Gen 1 36 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.
1047 Genesis Gen 1 36 7 For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.
1048 Genesis Gen 1 36 8 And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.
1049 Genesis Gen 1 36 9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.
1050 Genesis Gen 1 36 10 And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the wife of Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.
1051 Genesis Gen 1 36 11 And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.
1052 Genesis Gen 1 36 12 And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.
1053 Genesis Gen 1 36 13 And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
1054 Genesis Gen 1 36 14 And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core.
1055 Genesis Gen 1 36 15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,
1056 Genesis Gen 1 36 16 Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.
1057 Genesis Gen 1 36 17 And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath, duke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in the land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
1058 Genesis Gen 1 36 18 And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus, duke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife of Esau.
1059 Genesis Gen 1 36 19 These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same is Edom.
1060 Genesis Gen 1 36 20 These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,
1061 Genesis Gen 1 36 21 And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.
1062 Genesis Gen 1 36 22 And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.
1063 Genesis Gen 1 36 23 And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Onam.
1064 Genesis Gen 1 36 24 And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon, his father:
1065 Genesis Gen 1 36 25 And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.
1066 Genesis Gen 1 36 26 And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and Jethram, and Charan.
1067 Genesis Gen 1 36 27 These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.
1068 Genesis Gen 1 36 28 And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.
1069 Genesis Gen 1 36 29 These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon, duke Ana,
1070 Genesis Gen 1 36 30 Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land of Seir.
1071 Genesis Gen 1 36 31 And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:
1072 Genesis Gen 1 36 32 Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.
1073 Genesis Gen 1 36 33 And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in his stead.
1074 Genesis Gen 1 36 34 And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites, reigned in his stead.
1075 Genesis Gen 1 36 35 And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his stead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Moab; and the name of his city was Avith.
1076 Genesis Gen 1 36 36 And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of Masreca.
1077 Genesis Gen 1 36 37 And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his stead.
1078 Genesis Gen 1 36 38 And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor, succeeded to the kingdom.
1079 Genesis Gen 1 36 39 This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.
1080 Genesis Gen 1 36 40 And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,
1081 Genesis Gen 1 36 41 Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,
1082 Genesis Gen 1 36 42 Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,
1083 Genesis Gen 1 36 43 Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
1084 Genesis Gen 1 37 1 And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.
1085 Genesis Gen 1 37 2 And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father’s wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.
1086 Genesis Gen 1 37 3 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
1087 Genesis Gen 1 37 4 And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
1088 Genesis Gen 1 37 5 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
1089 Genesis Gen 1 37 6 And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
1090 Genesis Gen 1 37 7 I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.
1091 Genesis Gen 1 37 8 His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
1092 Genesis Gen 1 37 9 He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
1093 Genesis Gen 1 37 10 And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
1094 Genesis Gen 1 37 11 His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
1095 Genesis Gen 1 37 12 And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father’s flocks,
1096 Genesis Gen 1 37 13 Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:
1097 Genesis Gen 1 37 14 I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
1098 Genesis Gen 1 37 15 And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.
1099 Genesis Gen 1 37 16 But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.
1100 Genesis Gen 1 37 17 And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.
1101 Genesis Gen 1 37 18 And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:
1102 Genesis Gen 1 37 19 And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
1103 Genesis Gen 1 37 20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:
1104 Genesis Gen 1 37 21 And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:
1105 Genesis Gen 1 37 22 Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.
1106 Genesis Gen 1 37 23 And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:
1107 Genesis Gen 1 37 24 And cast him into an old pit where there was not water.
1108 Genesis Gen 1 37 25 And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
1109 Genesis Gen 1 37 26 And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
1110 Genesis Gen 1 37 27 It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
1111 Genesis Gen 1 37 28 And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
1112 Genesis Gen 1 37 29 And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:
1113 Genesis Gen 1 37 30 And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?
1114 Genesis Gen 1 37 31 And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:
1115 Genesis Gen 1 37 32 Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son’s coat, or not.
1116 Genesis Gen 1 37 33 And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.
1117 Genesis Gen 1 37 34 And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
1118 Genesis Gen 1 37 35 And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,
1119 Genesis Gen 1 37 36 The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
1120 Genesis Gen 1 38 1 At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.
1121 Genesis Gen 1 38 2 And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he went in unto her.
1122 Genesis Gen 1 38 3 And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her.
1123 Genesis Gen 1 38 4 And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan.
1124 Genesis Gen 1 38 5 She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more.
1125 Genesis Gen 1 38 6 And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was Thamar.
1126 Genesis Gen 1 38 7 And Her, the first born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord: and was slain by him.
1127 Genesis Gen 1 38 8 Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.
1128 Genesis Gen 1 38 9 He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name.
1129 Genesis Gen 1 38 10 And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing:
1130 Genesis Gen 1 38 11 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father’s house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father’s house.
1131 Genesis Gen 1 38 12 And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of Juda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up to Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite, the shepherd of his flock.
1132 Genesis Gen 1 38 13 And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.
1133 Genesis Gen 1 38 14 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
1134 Genesis Gen 1 38 15 When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.
1135 Genesis Gen 1 38 16 And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company?
1136 Genesis Gen 1 38 17 He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she said again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till thou send what thou promisest.
1137 Genesis Gen 1 38 18 Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The woman therefore at one copulation conceived.
1138 Genesis Gen 1 38 19 And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.
1139 Genesis Gen 1 38 20 And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but he, not finding her,
1140 Genesis Gen 1 38 21 Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place,
1141 Genesis Gen 1 38 22 He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her; moreover, the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a harlot there.
1142 Genesis Gen 1 38 23 Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find her.
1143 Genesis Gen 1 38 24 And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.
1144 Genesis Gen 1 38 25 But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.
1145 Genesis Gen 1 38 26 But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.
1146 Genesis Gen 1 38 27 And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared twins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:
1147 Genesis Gen 1 38 28 This shall come forth the first.
1148 Genesis Gen 1 38 29 But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares.
1149 Genesis Gen 1 38 30 Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his name Zara.
1150 Genesis Gen 1 39 1 And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.
1151 Genesis Gen 1 39 2 And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in his master’s house:
1152 Genesis Gen 1 39 3 Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
1153 Genesis Gen 1 39 4 And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him:
1154 Genesis Gen 1 39 5 And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph’s sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.
1155 Genesis Gen 1 39 6 Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.
1156 Genesis Gen 1 39 7 And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.
1157 Genesis Gen 1 39 8 But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:
1158 Genesis Gen 1 39 9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?
1159 Genesis Gen 1 39 10 With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.
1160 Genesis Gen 1 39 11 Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house, and was doing some business, without any man with him:
1161 Genesis Gen 1 39 12 And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out.
1162 Genesis Gen 1 39 13 And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself disregarded,
1163 Genesis Gen 1 39 14 She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and when I cried out,
1164 Genesis Gen 1 39 15 And he heard my voice, he left the garment that I held, and got him out.
1165 Genesis Gen 1 39 16 For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home:
1166 Genesis Gen 1 39 17 And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me to abuse me.
1167 Genesis Gen 1 39 18 And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and fled out.
1168 Genesis Gen 1 39 19 His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife’s words, was very angry,
1169 Genesis Gen 1 39 20 And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king’s prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up.
1170 Genesis Gen 1 39 21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him favour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison:
1171 Genesis Gen 1 39 22 Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in custody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.
1172 Genesis Gen 1 39 23 Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all things to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper.
1173 Genesis Gen 1 40 1 After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.
1174 Genesis Gen 1 40 2 And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker,)
1175 Genesis Gen 1 40 3 He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner.
1176 Genesis Gen 1 40 4 But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.
1177 Genesis Gen 1 40 5 And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:
1178 Genesis Gen 1 40 6 And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,
1179 Genesis Gen 1 40 7 He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?
1180 Genesis Gen 1 40 8 They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:
1181 Genesis Gen 1 40 9 The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,
1182 Genesis Gen 1 40 10 On which were three branches, which by little and little sent out buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:
1183 Genesis Gen 1 40 11 And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.
1184 Genesis Gen 1 40 12 Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:
1185 Genesis Gen 1 40 13 After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do.
1186 Genesis Gen 1 40 14 Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:
1187 Genesis Gen 1 40 15 For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.
1188 Genesis Gen 1 40 16 The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my head:
1189 Genesis Gen 1 40 17 And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats that are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.
1190 Genesis Gen 1 40 18 Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three days:
1191 Genesis Gen 1 40 19 After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.
1192 Genesis Gen 1 40 20 The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker.
1193 Genesis Gen 1 40 21 And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:
1194 Genesis Gen 1 40 22 The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.
1195 Genesis Gen 1 40 23 But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his interpreter.
1196 Genesis Gen 1 41 1 After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,
1197 Genesis Gen 1 41 2 Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.
1198 Genesis Gen 1 41 3 Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
1199 Genesis Gen 1 41 4 And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.
1200 Genesis Gen 1 41 5 He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair:
1201 Genesis Gen 1 41 6 Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,
1202 Genesis Gen 1 41 7 And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest:
1203 Genesis Gen 1 41 8 And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.
1204 Genesis Gen 1 41 9 Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
1205 Genesis Gen 1 41 10 The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.
1206 Genesis Gen 1 41 11 Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
1207 Genesis Gen 1 41 12 There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
1208 Genesis Gen 1 41 13 And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.
1209 Genesis Gen 1 41 14 Forthwith at the king’s command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him.
1210 Genesis Gen 1 41 15 And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them:
1211 Genesis Gen 1 41 16 Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.
1212 Genesis Gen 1 41 17 So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,
1213 Genesis Gen 1 41 18 And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.
1214 Genesis Gen 1 41 19 And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:
1215 Genesis Gen 1 41 20 And they devoured and consumed the former,
1216 Genesis Gen 1 41 21 And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,
1217 Genesis Gen 1 41 22 And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.
1218 Genesis Gen 1 41 23 Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:
1219 Genesis Gen 1 41 24 And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.
1220 Genesis Gen 1 41 25 Joseph answered: The king’s dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.
1221 Genesis Gen 1 41 26 The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.
1222 Genesis Gen 1 41 27 And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:
1223 Genesis Gen 1 41 28 Which shall be fulfilled in this order.
1224 Genesis Gen 1 41 29 Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:
1225 Genesis Gen 1 41 30 After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
1226 Genesis Gen 1 41 31 And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
1227 Genesis Gen 1 41 32 And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.
1228 Genesis Gen 1 41 33 Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:
1229 Genesis Gen 1 41 34 That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,
1230 Genesis Gen 1 41 35 That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharao’s hands, and be reserved in the cities.
1231 Genesis Gen 1 41 36 And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity.
1232 Genesis Gen 1 41 37 The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.
1233 Genesis Gen 1 41 38 And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God?
1234 Genesis Gen 1 41 39 He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?
1235 Genesis Gen 1 41 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above thee.
1236 Genesis Gen 1 41 41 And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt.
1237 Genesis Gen 1 41 42 And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.
1238 Genesis Gen 1 41 43 And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.
1239 Genesis Gen 1 41 44 And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
1240 Genesis Gen 1 41 45 And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt.
1241 Genesis Gen 1 41 46 (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao), and he went round all the countries of Egypt.
1242 Genesis Gen 1 41 47 And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.
1243 Genesis Gen 1 41 48 And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
1244 Genesis Gen 1 41 49 And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.
1245 Genesis Gen 1 41 50 And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.
1246 Genesis Gen 1 41 51 And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father’s house.
1247 Genesis Gen 1 41 52 And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.
1248 Genesis Gen 1 41 53 Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were passed:
1249 Genesis Gen 1 41 54 The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
1250 Genesis Gen 1 41 55 And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.
1251 Genesis Gen 1 41 56 And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.
1252 Genesis Gen 1 41 57 And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
1253 Genesis Gen 1 42 1 And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
1254 Genesis Gen 1 42 2 I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
1255 Genesis Gen 1 42 3 So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
1256 Genesis Gen 1 42 4 Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.
1257 Genesis Gen 1 42 5 And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
1258 Genesis Gen 1 42 6 And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
1259 Genesis Gen 1 42 7 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
1260 Genesis Gen 1 42 8 And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
1261 Genesis Gen 1 42 9 And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
1262 Genesis Gen 1 42 10 But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.
1263 Genesis Gen 1 42 11 We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
1264 Genesis Gen 1 42 12 And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
1265 Genesis Gen 1 42 13 But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.
1266 Genesis Gen 1 42 14 He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.
1267 Genesis Gen 1 42 15 I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
1268 Genesis Gen 1 42 16 Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.
1269 Genesis Gen 1 42 17 So he put them in prison three days.
1270 Genesis Gen 1 42 18 And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
1271 Genesis Gen 1 42 19 If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
1272 Genesis Gen 1 42 20 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
1273 Genesis Gen 1 42 21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
1274 Genesis Gen 1 42 22 And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.
1275 Genesis Gen 1 42 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.
1276 Genesis Gen 1 42 24 And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.
1277 Genesis Gen 1 42 25 And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man’s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.
1278 Genesis Gen 1 42 26 But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.
1279 Genesis Gen 1 42 27 And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack’s mouth,
1280 Genesis Gen 1 42 28 And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it is in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one another: What is this that God hath done unto us?
1281 Genesis Gen 1 42 29 And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying:
1282 Genesis Gen 1 42 30 The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
1283 Genesis Gen 1 42 31 And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.
1284 Genesis Gen 1 42 32 We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
1285 Genesis Gen 1 42 33 And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways,
1286 Genesis Gen 1 42 34 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.
1287 Genesis Gen 1 42 35 When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,
1288 Genesis Gen 1 42 36 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
1289 Genesis Gen 1 42 37 And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.
1290 Genesis Gen 1 42 38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.
1291 Genesis Gen 1 43 1 In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.
1292 Genesis Gen 1 43 2 And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little food.
1293 Genesis Gen 1 43 3 Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.
1294 Genesis Gen 1 43 4 If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.
1295 Genesis Gen 1 43 5 But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.
1296 Genesis Gen 1 43 6 Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.
1297 Genesis Gen 1 43 7 But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?
1298 Genesis Gen 1 43 8 And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
1299 Genesis Gen 1 43 9 I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
1300 Genesis Gen 1 43 10 If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.
1301 Genesis Gen 1 43 11 Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.
1302 Genesis Gen 1 43 12 And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.
1303 Genesis Gen 1 43 13 And take also your brother, and go to the man.
1304 Genesis Gen 1 43 14 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.
1305 Genesis Gen 1 43 15 So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin: and went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
1306 Genesis Gen 1 43 16 And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded the steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at noon.
1307 Genesis Gen 1 43 17 He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.
1308 Genesis Gen 1 43 18 And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because of the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are brought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by violence make slaves of us and our asses.
1309 Genesis Gen 1 43 19 Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,
1310 Genesis Gen 1 43 20 They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. We came down once before to buy food:
1311 Genesis Gen 1 43 21 And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight.
1312 Genesis Gen 1 43 22 And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we cannot tell who put it in our bags.
1313 Genesis Gen 1 43 23 But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the money, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to them.
1314 Genesis Gen 1 43 24 And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.
1315 Genesis Gen 1 43 25 But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon: for they had heard that they should eat bread there.
1316 Genesis Gen 1 43 26 Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the presents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their face to the ground.
1317 Genesis Gen 1 43 27 But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living?
1318 Genesis Gen 1 43 28 And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.
1319 Genesis Gen 1 43 29 And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.
1320 Genesis Gen 1 43 30 And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.
1321 Genesis Gen 1 43 31 And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set bread on the table.
1322 Genesis Gen 1 43 32 And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane):
1323 Genesis Gen 1 43 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;
1324 Genesis Gen 1 43 34 Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.
1325 Genesis Gen 1 44 1 And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack.
1326 Genesis Gen 1 44 2 And in the mouth of the younger’s sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.
1327 Genesis Gen 1 44 3 And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.
1328 Genesis Gen 1 44 4 And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?
1329 Genesis Gen 1 44 5 The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.
1330 Genesis Gen 1 44 6 He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.
1331 Genesis Gen 1 44 7 And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?
1332 Genesis Gen 1 44 8 The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord’s house, gold or silver?
1333 Genesis Gen 1 44 9 With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.
1334 Genesis Gen 1 44 10 And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless.
1335 Genesis Gen 1 44 11 Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
1336 Genesis Gen 1 44 12 Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin’s sack.
1337 Genesis Gen 1 44 13 Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.
1338 Genesis Gen 1 44 14 And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down before him on the ground.
1339 Genesis Gen 1 44 15 And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.
1340 Genesis Gen 1 44 16 And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.
1341 Genesis Gen 1 44 17 Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.
1342 Genesis Gen 1 44 18 Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art.
1343 Genesis Gen 1 44 19 My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.
1344 Genesis Gen 1 44 20 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.
1345 Genesis Gen 1 44 21 And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.
1346 Genesis Gen 1 44 22 We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.
1347 Genesis Gen 1 44 23 And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more.
1348 Genesis Gen 1 44 24 Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
1349 Genesis Gen 1 44 25 And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.
1350 Genesis Gen 1 44 26 And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man’s face.
1351 Genesis Gen 1 44 27 Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.
1352 Genesis Gen 1 44 28 One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.
1353 Genesis Gen 1 44 29 If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
1354 Genesis Gen 1 44 30 Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)
1355 Genesis Gen 1 44 31 And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
1356 Genesis Gen 1 44 32 Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.
1357 Genesis Gen 1 44 33 Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.
1358 Genesis Gen 1 44 34 For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
1359 Genesis Gen 1 45 1 Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another.
1360 Genesis Gen 1 45 2 And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and all the house of Pharao heard.
1361 Genesis Gen 1 45 3 And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet living? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.
1362 Genesis Gen 1 45 4 And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
1363 Genesis Gen 1 45 5 Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.
1364 Genesis Gen 1 45 6 For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
1365 Genesis Gen 1 45 7 And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
1366 Genesis Gen 1 45 8 Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.
1367 Genesis Gen 1 45 9 Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come down to me, linger not.
1368 Genesis Gen 1 45 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons’ sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast.
1369 Genesis Gen 1 45 11 And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.
1370 Genesis Gen 1 45 12 Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you.
1371 Genesis Gen 1 45 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.
1372 Genesis Gen 1 45 14 And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.
1373 Genesis Gen 1 45 15 And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.
1374 Genesis Gen 1 45 16 And it was heard, and the fame was spread abroad in the king’s court: The brethren of Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family was glad.
1375 Genesis Gen 1 45 17 And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,
1376 Genesis Gen 1 45 18 And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.
1377 Genesis Gen 1 45 19 Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:
1378 Genesis Gen 1 45 20 And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.
1379 Genesis Gen 1 45 21 And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao’s commandment: and provisions for the way.
1380 Genesis Gen 1 45 22 He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with five robes of the best:
1381 Genesis Gen 1 45 23 Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides, ten he-asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.
1382 Genesis Gen 1 45 24 So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.
1383 Genesis Gen 1 45 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.
1384 Genesis Gen 1 45 26 And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.
1385 Genesis Gen 1 45 27 They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,
1386 Genesis Gen 1 45 28 And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet living: I will go and see him before I die.
1387 Genesis Gen 1 46 1 And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
1388 Genesis Gen 1 46 2 He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.
1389 Genesis Gen 1 46 3 God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.
1390 Genesis Gen 1 46 4 I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.
1391 Genesis Gen 1 46 5 And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took him up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry the old man,
1392 Genesis Gen 1 46 6 And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into Egypt with all his seed;
1393 Genesis Gen 1 46 7 His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring together.
1394 Genesis Gen 1 46 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,
1395 Genesis Gen 1 46 9 The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.
1396 Genesis Gen 1 46 10 The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan.
1397 Genesis Gen 1 46 11 The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.
1398 Genesis Gen 1 46 12 The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.
1399 Genesis Gen 1 46 13 The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron.
1400 Genesis Gen 1 46 14 The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel.
1401 Genesis Gen 1 46 15 These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-three.
1402 Genesis Gen 1 46 16 The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and Heri and Arodi, and Areli.
1403 Genesis Gen 1 46 17 The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.
1404 Genesis Gen 1 46 18 These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his daughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.
1405 Genesis Gen 1 46 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
1406 Genesis Gen 1 46 20 And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Manasses and Ephraim.
1407 Genesis Gen 1 46 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and Naaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.
1408 Genesis Gen 1 46 22 These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen.
1409 Genesis Gen 1 46 23 The sons of Dan: Husim.
1410 Genesis Gen 1 46 24 The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.
1411 Genesis Gen 1 46 25 These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.
1412 Genesis Gen 1 46 26 All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons’ wives, sixty-six.
1413 Genesis Gen 1 46 27 And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were seventy.
1414 Genesis Gen 1 46 28 And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he should meet him in Gessen.
1415 Genesis Gen 1 46 29 And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him, wept.
1416 Genesis Gen 1 46 30 And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.
1417 Genesis Gen 1 46 31 And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father’s house: I will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren, and my father’s house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me:
1418 Genesis Gen 1 46 32 And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed cattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought with them.
1419 Genesis Gen 1 46 33 And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation?
1420 Genesis Gen 1 46 34 You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.
1421 Genesis Gen 1 47 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.
1422 Genesis Gen 1 47 2 Five men also, the last of his brethren, he presented before the king:
1423 Genesis Gen 1 47 3 And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.
1424 Genesis Gen 1 47 4 We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for the flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.
1425 Genesis Gen 1 47 5 The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.
1426 Genesis Gen 1 47 6 The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.
1427 Genesis Gen 1 47 7 After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and presented him before him: and he blessed him.
1428 Genesis Gen 1 47 8 And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?
1429 Genesis Gen 1 47 9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
1430 Genesis Gen 1 47 10 And blessing the king, he went out.
1431 Genesis Gen 1 47 11 But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded.
1432 Genesis Gen 1 47 12 And he nourished them, and all his father’s house, allowing food to every one.
1433 Genesis Gen 1 47 13 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;
1434 Genesis Gen 1 47 14 Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which they bought, and brought it in to the king’s treasure.
1435 Genesis Gen 1 47 15 And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money?
1436 Genesis Gen 1 47 16 And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.
1437 Genesis Gen 1 47 17 And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.
1438 Genesis Gen 1 47 18 And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.
1439 Genesis Gen 1 47 19 Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king’s servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.
1440 Genesis Gen 1 47 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his possessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it into Pharao’s hands:
1441 Genesis Gen 1 47 21 And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,
1442 Genesis Gen 1 47 22 Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.
1443 Genesis Gen 1 47 23 Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,
1444 Genesis Gen 1 47 24 That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.
1445 Genesis Gen 1 47 25 And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.
1446 Genesis Gen 1 47 26 From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the land of the priests, which was free from this covenant.
1447 Genesis Gen 1 47 27 So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.
1448 Genesis Gen 1 47 28 And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
1449 Genesis Gen 1 47 29 And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt.
1450 Genesis Gen 1 47 30 But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.
1451 Genesis Gen 1 47 31 And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed’s head.
1452 Genesis Gen 1 48 1 After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick; and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.
1453 Genesis Gen 1 48 2 And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.
1454 Genesis Gen 1 48 3 And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty appeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed me,
1455 Genesis Gen 1 48 4 And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
1456 Genesis Gen 1 48 5 So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.
1457 Genesis Gen 1 48 6 But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.
1458 Genesis Gen 1 48 7 For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.
1459 Genesis Gen 1 48 8 Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?
1460 Genesis Gen 1 48 9 He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.
1461 Genesis Gen 1 48 10 For Israel’s eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he could not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and embraced them,
1462 Genesis Gen 1 48 11 And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover God hath shewn me thy seed.
1463 Genesis Gen 1 48 12 And when Joseph had taken them from his father’s lap, he bowed down with his face to the ground.
1464 Genesis Gen 1 48 13 And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, towards the left hand of Israel; but Manasses on his left hand, to wit, towards his father’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
1465 Genesis Gen 1 48 14 But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of Ephraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses, who was the elder, changing his hands.
1466 Genesis Gen 1 48 15 And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this day:
1467 Genesis Gen 1 48 16 The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.
1468 Genesis Gen 1 48 17 And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father’s hand, he tried to lift it from Ephraim’s head, and to remove it to the head of Manasses.
1469 Genesis Gen 1 48 18 And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father; for this is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.
1470 Genesis Gen 1 48 19 But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.
1471 Genesis Gen 1 48 20 And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.
1472 Genesis Gen 1 48 21 And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.
1473 Genesis Gen 1 48 22 I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.
1474 Genesis Gen 1 49 1 And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
1475 Genesis Gen 1 49 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:
1476 Genesis Gen 1 49 3 Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.
1477 Genesis Gen 1 49 4 Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed, and didst defile his couch.
1478 Genesis Gen 1 49 5 Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.
1479 Genesis Gen 1 49 6 Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.
1480 Genesis Gen 1 49 7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
1481 Genesis Gen 1 49 8 Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.
1482 Genesis Gen 1 49 9 Juda is a lion’s whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?
1483 Genesis Gen 1 49 10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
1484 Genesis Gen 1 49 11 Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.
1485 Genesis Gen 1 49 12 His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
1486 Genesis Gen 1 49 13 Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.
1487 Genesis Gen 1 49 14 Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.
1488 Genesis Gen 1 49 15 He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.
1489 Genesis Gen 1 49 16 Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.
1490 Genesis Gen 1 49 17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse’s heels, that his rider may fall backward.
1491 Genesis Gen 1 49 18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.
1492 Genesis Gen 1 49 19 Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
1493 Genesis Gen 1 49 20 Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
1494 Genesis Gen 1 49 21 Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.
1495 Genesis Gen 1 49 22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;
1496 Genesis Gen 1 49 23 But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
1497 Genesis Gen 1 49 24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
1498 Genesis Gen 1 49 25 The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
1499 Genesis Gen 1 49 26 The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
1500 Genesis Gen 1 49 27 Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
1501 Genesis Gen 1 49 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper blessings.
1502 Genesis Gen 1 49 29 And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
1503 Genesis Gen 1 49 30 Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury in.
1504 Genesis Gen 1 49 31 There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.
1505 Genesis Gen 1 49 32 And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people.
1506 Genesis Gen 1 50 1 And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.
1507 Genesis Gen 1 50 2 And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.
1508 Genesis Gen 1 50 3 And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
1509 Genesis Gen 1 50 4 And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:
1510 Genesis Gen 1 50 5 For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.
1511 Genesis Gen 1 50 6 And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
1512 Genesis Gen 1 50 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
1513 Genesis Gen 1 50 8 And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.
1514 Genesis Gen 1 50 9 He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.
1515 Genesis Gen 1 50 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.
1516 Genesis Gen 1 50 11 And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.
1517 Genesis Gen 1 50 12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
1518 Genesis Gen 1 50 13 And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.
1519 Genesis Gen 1 50 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.
1520 Genesis Gen 1 50 15 Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.
1521 Genesis Gen 1 50 16 And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
1522 Genesis Gen 1 50 17 That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.
1523 Genesis Gen 1 50 18 And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.
1524 Genesis Gen 1 50 19 And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
1525 Genesis Gen 1 50 20 You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
1526 Genesis Gen 1 50 21 Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
1527 Genesis Gen 1 50 22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father’s house; and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born on Joseph’s knees.
1528 Genesis Gen 1 50 23 After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
1529 Genesis Gen 1 50 24 And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:
1530 Genesis Gen 1 50 25 And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
1531 Exodus Exo 2 1 1 These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:
1532 Exodus Exo 2 1 2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
1533 Exodus Exo 2 1 3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
1534 Exodus Exo 2 1 4 Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.
1535 Exodus Exo 2 1 5 And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
1536 Exodus Exo 2 1 6 After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
1537 Exodus Exo 2 1 7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
1538 Exodus Exo 2 1 8 In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
1539 Exodus Exo 2 1 9 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
1540 Exodus Exo 2 1 10 Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.
1541 Exodus Exo 2 1 11 Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.
1542 Exodus Exo 2 1 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.
1543 Exodus Exo 2 1 13 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
1544 Exodus Exo 2 1 14 And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
1545 Exodus Exo 2 1 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
1546 Exodus Exo 2 1 16 Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
1547 Exodus Exo 2 1 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
1548 Exodus Exo 2 1 18 And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
1549 Exodus Exo 2 1 19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
1550 Exodus Exo 2 1 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
1551 Exodus Exo 2 1 21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
1552 Exodus Exo 2 1 22 Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
1553 Exodus Exo 2 2 1 After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
1554 Exodus Exo 2 2 2 And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.
1555 Exodus Exo 2 2 3 And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river’s brink,
1556 Exodus Exo 2 2 4 His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
1557 Exodus Exo 2 2 5 And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river’s brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,
1558 Exodus Exo 2 2 6 She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.
1559 Exodus Exo 2 2 7 And the child’s sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
1560 Exodus Exo 2 2 8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
1561 Exodus Exo 2 2 9 And Pharao’s daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao’s daughter.
1562 Exodus Exo 2 2 10 And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.
1563 Exodus Exo 2 2 11 In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his brethren.
1564 Exodus Exo 2 2 12 And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
1565 Exodus Exo 2 2 13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?
1566 Exodus Exo 2 2 14 But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?
1567 Exodus Exo 2 2 15 And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.
1568 Exodus Exo 2 2 16 And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father’s flocks.
1569 Exodus Exo 2 2 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.
1570 Exodus Exo 2 2 18 And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?
1571 Exodus Exo 2 2 19 They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.
1572 Exodus Exo 2 2 20 But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.
1573 Exodus Exo 2 2 21 And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:
1574 Exodus Exo 2 2 22 And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.
1575 Exodus Exo 2 2 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.
1576 Exodus Exo 2 2 24 And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
1577 Exodus Exo 2 2 25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.
1578 Exodus Exo 2 3 1 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
1579 Exodus Exo 2 3 2 And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.
1580 Exodus Exo 2 3 3 And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
1581 Exodus Exo 2 3 4 And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.
1582 Exodus Exo 2 3 5 And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.
1583 Exodus Exo 2 3 6 And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.
1584 Exodus Exo 2 3 7 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;
1585 Exodus Exo 2 3 8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.
1586 Exodus Exo 2 3 9 For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.
1587 Exodus Exo 2 3 10 But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
1588 Exodus Exo 2 3 11 And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
1589 Exodus Exo 2 3 12 And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.
1590 Exodus Exo 2 3 13 Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?
1591 Exodus Exo 2 3 14 God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.
1592 Exodus Exo 2 3 15 And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
1593 Exodus Exo 2 3 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.
1594 Exodus Exo 2 3 17 And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.
1595 Exodus Exo 2 3 18 And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
1596 Exodus Exo 2 3 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.
1597 Exodus Exo 2 3 20 For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.
1598 Exodus Exo 2 3 21 And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:
1599 Exodus Exo 2 3 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt.
1600 Exodus Exo 2 4 1 Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.
1601 Exodus Exo 2 4 2 Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.
1602 Exodus Exo 2 4 3 And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.
1603 Exodus Exo 2 4 4 And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.
1604 Exodus Exo 2 4 5 That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.
1605 Exodus Exo 2 4 6 And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.
1606 Exodus Exo 2 4 7 And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.
1607 Exodus Exo 2 4 8 If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.
1608 Exodus Exo 2 4 9 But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and whatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood.
1609 Exodus Exo 2 4 10 Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.
1610 Exodus Exo 2 4 11 The Lord said to him: Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?
1611 Exodus Exo 2 4 12 Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
1612 Exodus Exo 2 4 13 But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.
1613 Exodus Exo 2 4 14 The Lord being angry at Moses, said: Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee, and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart.
1614 Exodus Exo 2 4 15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do.
1615 Exodus Exo 2 4 16 He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.
1616 Exodus Exo 2 4 17 And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
1617 Exodus Exo 2 4 18 Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
1618 Exodus Exo 2 4 19 And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt; for they are all dead that sought thy life.
1619 Exodus Exo 2 4 20 Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
1620 Exodus Exo 2 4 21 And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
1621 Exodus Exo 2 4 22 And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
1622 Exodus Exo 2 4 23 I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
1623 Exodus Exo 2 4 24 And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
1624 Exodus Exo 2 4 25 Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.
1625 Exodus Exo 2 4 26 And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
1626 Exodus Exo 2 4 27 And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
1627 Exodus Exo 2 4 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
1628 Exodus Exo 2 4 29 And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
1629 Exodus Exo 2 4 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people.
1630 Exodus Exo 2 4 31 And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.
1631 Exodus Exo 2 5 1 After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrifice to me in the desert.
1632 Exodus Exo 2 5 2 But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
1633 Exodus Exo 2 5 3 And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.
1634 Exodus Exo 2 5 4 The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.
1635 Exodus Exo 2 5 5 And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from their works?
1636 Exodus Exo 2 5 6 Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:
1637 Exodus Exo 2 5 7 You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.
1638 Exodus Exo 2 5 8 And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
1639 Exodus Exo 2 5 9 Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.
1640 Exodus Exo 2 5 10 And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;
1641 Exodus Exo 2 5 11 Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
1642 Exodus Exo 2 5 12 And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.
1643 Exodus Exo 2 5 13 And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.
1644 Exodus Exo 2 5 14 And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao’s taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?
1645 Exodus Exo 2 5 15 And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?
1646 Exodus Exo 2 5 16 Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.
1647 Exodus Exo 2 5 17 And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
1648 Exodus Exo 2 5 18 Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.
1649 Exodus Exo 2 5 19 And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.
1650 Exodus Exo 2 5 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:
1651 Exodus Exo 2 5 21 And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.
1652 Exodus Exo 2 5 22 And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?
1653 Exodus Exo 2 5 23 For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.
1654 Exodus Exo 6;1. And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.
1655 Exodus Exo 2 6 2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord
1656 Exodus Exo 2 6 3 That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.
1657 Exodus Exo 2 6 4 And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.
1658 Exodus Exo 2 6 5 I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.
1659 Exodus Exo 2 6 6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.
1660 Exodus Exo 2 6 7 And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians:
1661 Exodus Exo 2 6 8 And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to possess: I am the Lord.
1662 Exodus Exo 2 6 9 And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but they did not hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work.
1663 Exodus Exo 2 6 10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1664 Exodus Exo 2 6 11 Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1665 Exodus Exo 2 6 12 Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do not hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of uncircumcised lips?
1666 Exodus Exo 2 6 13 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that they should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
1667 Exodus Exo 2 6 14 These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.
1668 Exodus Exo 2 6 15 These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon, Jamuel and Jamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a Chanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.
1669 Exodus Exo 2 6 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven.
1670 Exodus Exo 2 6 17 The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds.
1671 Exodus Exo 2 6 18 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. And the years of Caath’s life, were a hundred and thirty-three.
1672 Exodus Exo 2 6 19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi by their families.
1673 Exodus Exo 2 6 20 And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father’s side: and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram’s life, were a hundred and thirty-seven.
1674 Exodus Exo 2 6 21 The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri.
1675 Exodus Exo 2 6 22 The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri.
1676 Exodus Exo 2 6 23 And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1677 Exodus Exo 2 6 24 The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are the kindreds of the Corites.
1678 Exodus Exo 2 6 25 But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds.
1679 Exodus Exo 2 6 26 These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
1680 Exodus Exo 2 6 27 These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron,
1681 Exodus Exo 2 6 28 In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.
1682 Exodus Exo 2 6 29 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak thou to Pharao, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee.
1683 Exodus Exo 2 6 30 And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips, how will Pharao hear me?
1684 Exodus Exo 2 7 1 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god of Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.
1685 Exodus Exo 2 7 2 Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall speak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1686 Exodus Exo 2 7 3 But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
1687 Exodus Exo 2 7 4 And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and will bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by very great judgments.
1688 Exodus Exo 2 7 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them.
1689 Exodus Exo 2 7 6 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded; so did they.
1690 Exodus Exo 2 7 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.
1691 Exodus Exo 2 7 8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
1692 Exodus Exo 2 7 9 When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent.
1693 Exodus Exo 2 7 10 So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the Lord had commanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, and it was turned into a serpent.
1694 Exodus Exo 2 7 11 And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner.
1695 Exodus Exo 2 7 12 And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron’s rod devoured their rods.
1696 Exodus Exo 2 7 13 And Pharao’s heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had commanded.
1697 Exodus Exo 2 7 14 And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao’s heart is hardened, he will not let the people go.
1698 Exodus Exo 2 7 15 Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters: and thou shalt stand to meet him on the bank of the river: and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.
1699 Exodus Exo 2 7 16 And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and hitherto thou wouldst not hear.
1700 Exodus Exo 2 7 17 Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the water of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.
1701 Exodus Exo 2 7 18 And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters shall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they drink the water of the river.
1702 Exodus Exo 2 7 19 The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and stretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers, and streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be turned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.
1703 Exodus Exo 2 7 20 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up the rod, he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his servants: and it was turned into blood.
1704 Exodus Exo 2 7 21 And the fishes that were in the river died; and the river corrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river, and there was blood in all the land of Egypt.
1705 Exodus Exo 2 7 22 And the magicians of the Egyptians with their enchantments did in like manner; and Pharao’s heart was hardened, neither did he hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
1706 Exodus Exo 2 7 23 And he turned himself away, and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to it this time also.
1707 Exodus Exo 2 7 24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
1708 Exodus Exo 2 7 25 And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the river.
1709 Exodus Exo 2 8 1 And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1710 Exodus Exo 2 8 2 But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs.
1711 Exodus Exo 2 8 3 And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall come up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats:
1712 Exodus Exo 2 8 4 And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to thy people, and to all thy servants.
1713 Exodus Exo 2 8 5 And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.
1714 Exodus Exo 2 8 6 And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
1715 Exodus Exo 2 8 7 And the magicians also, by their enchantments, did in like manner, and they brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.
1716 Exodus Exo 2 8 8 But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
1717 Exodus Exo 2 8 9 And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and may remain only in the river.
1718 Exodus Exo 2 8 10 And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our God.
1719 Exodus Exo 2 8 11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the river.
1720 Exodus Exo 2 8 12 And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to the Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the frogs.
1721 Exodus Exo 2 8 13 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:
1722 Exodus Exo 2 8 14 And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted.
1723 Exodus Exo 2 8 15 And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
1724 Exodus Exo 2 8 16 And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.
1725 Exodus Exo 2 8 17 And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the rod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.
1726 Exodus Exo 2 8 18 And the magicians with their enchantments practised in like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not: and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts.
1727 Exodus Exo 2 8 19 And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And Pharao’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.
1728 Exodus Exo 2 8 20 The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before Pharao; for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1729 Exodus Exo 2 8 21 But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.
1730 Exodus Exo 2 8 22 And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is, wonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
1731 Exodus Exo 2 8 23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
1732 Exodus Exo 2 8 24 And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.
1733 Exodus Exo 2 8 25 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and sacrifice to your God in this land.
1734 Exodus Exo 2 8 26 And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone us.
1735 Exodus Exo 2 8 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness; and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
1736 Exodus Exo 2 8 28 And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.
1737 Exodus Exo 2 8 29 And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the Lord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
1738 Exodus Exo 2 8 30 So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.
1739 Exodus Exo 2 8 31 And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left so much as one.
1740 Exodus Exo 2 8 32 And Pharao’s heart was hardened, so that neither this time would he let the people go.
1741 Exodus Exo 2 9 1 And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1742 Exodus Exo 2 9 2 But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
1743 Exodus Exo 2 9 3 Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.
1744 Exodus Exo 2 9 4 And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.
1745 Exodus Exo 2 9 5 And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.
1746 Exodus Exo 2 9 6 The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.
1747 Exodus Exo 2 9 7 And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
1748 Exodus Exo 2 9 8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence of Pharao.
1749 Exodus Exo 2 9 9 And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of Egypt.
1750 Exodus Exo 2 9 10 And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling blains in men and beasts.
1751 Exodus Exo 2 9 11 Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.
1752 Exodus Exo 2 9 12 And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
1753 Exodus Exo 2 9 13 And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.
1754 Exodus Exo 2 9 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.
1755 Exodus Exo 2 9 15 For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.
1756 Exodus Exo 2 9 16 And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.
1757 Exodus Exo 2 9 17 Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?
1758 Exodus Exo 2 9 18 Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.
1759 Exodus Exo 2 9 19 Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields which the hail shall fall upon, shall die.
1760 Exodus Exo 2 9 20 He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao’s servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses:
1761 Exodus Exo 2 9 21 But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the fields.
1762 Exodus Exo 2 9 22 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.
1763 Exodus Exo 2 9 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
1764 Exodus Exo 2 9 24 And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.
1765 Exodus Exo 2 9 25 And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.
1766 Exodus Exo 2 9 26 Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.
1767 Exodus Exo 2 9 27 And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are wicked.
1768 Exodus Exo 2 9 28 Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.
1769 Exodus Exo 2 9 29 Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord’s:
1770 Exodus Exo 2 9 30 But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.
1771 Exodus Exo 2 9 31 The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;
1772 Exodus Exo 2 9 32 But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.
1773 Exodus Exo 2 9 33 And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.
1774 Exodus Exo 2 9 34 And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin:
1775 Exodus Exo 2 9 35 And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
1776 Exodus Exo 2 10 1 And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my signs in him,
1777 Exodus Exo 2 10 2 And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord.
1778 Exodus Exo 2 10 3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.
1779 Exodus Exo 2 10 4 But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;
1780 Exodus Exo 2 10 5 To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields.
1781 Exodus Exo 2 10 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from Pharao.
1782 Exodus Exo 2 10 7 And Pharao’s servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?
1783 Exodus Exo 2 10 8 And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?
1784 Exodus Exo 2 10 9 Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our God.
1785 Exodus Exo 2 10 10 And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil?
1786 Exodus Exo 2 10 11 It shall not be so. but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast out from Pharao’s presence.
1787 Exodus Exo 2 10 12 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail.
1788 Exodus Exo 2 10 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts.
1789 Exodus Exo 2 10 14 And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be hereafter.
1790 Exodus Exo 2 10 15 And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were on the trees, which the hail had left; and there remained not any thing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all Egypt.
1791 Exodus Exo 2 10 16 Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
1792 Exodus Exo 2 10 17 But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death.
1793 Exodus Exo 2 10 18 And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the Lord:
1794 Exodus Exo 2 10 19 And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
1795 Exodus Exo 2 10 20 And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go.
1796 Exodus Exo 2 10 21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.
1797 Exodus Exo 2 10 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
1798 Exodus Exo 2 10 23 No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.
1799 Exodus Exo 2 10 24 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your children go with you.
1800 Exodus Exo 2 10 25 Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings, to the Lord our God.
1801 Exodus Exo 2 10 26 All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God: especially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the very place.
1802 Exodus Exo 2 10 27 And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart, and he would not let them go.
1803 Exodus Exo 2 10 28 And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight, thou shalt die.
1804 Exodus Exo 2 10 29 Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not see thy face anymore.
1805 Exodus Exo 2 11 1 And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.
1806 Exodus Exo 2 11 2 Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of his friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of gold.
1807 Exodus Exo 2 11 3 And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight of the Egyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharao’s servants, and of all the people.
1808 Exodus Exo 2 11 4 And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into Egypt:
1809 Exodus Exo 2 11 5 And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the firstborn of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.
1810 Exodus Exo 2 11 6 And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.
1811 Exodus Exo 2 11 7 But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel.
1812 Exodus Exo 2 11 8 And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under thee: after that we will go out.
1813 Exodus Exo 2 11 9 And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the land of Egypt.
1814 Exodus Exo 2 11 10 And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao’s heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
1815 Exodus Exo 2 12 1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
1816 Exodus Exo 2 12 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.
1817 Exodus Exo 2 12 3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.
1818 Exodus Exo 2 12 4 But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.
1819 Exodus Exo 2 12 5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
1820 Exodus Exo 2 12 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.
1821 Exodus Exo 2 12 7 And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
1822 Exodus Exo 2 12 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
1823 Exodus Exo 2 12 9 You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof.
1824 Exodus Exo 2 12 10 Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
1825 Exodus Exo 2 12 11 And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.
1826 Exodus Exo 2 12 12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.
1827 Exodus Exo 2 12 13 And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt.
1828 Exodus Exo 2 12 14 And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.
1829 Exodus Exo 2 12 15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
1830 Exodus Exo 2 12 16 The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.
1831 Exodus Exo 2 12 17 And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.
1832 Exodus Exo 2 12 18 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the same month, in the evening.
1833 Exodus Exo 2 12 19 Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
1834 Exodus Exo 2 12 20 You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
1835 Exodus Exo 2 12 21 And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.
1836 Exodus Exo 2 12 22 And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.
1837 Exodus Exo 2 12 23 For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.
1838 Exodus Exo 2 12 24 Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.
1839 Exodus Exo 2 12 25 And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.
1840 Exodus Exo 2 12 26 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
1841 Exodus Exo 2 12 27 You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored.
1842 Exodus Exo 2 12 28 And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
1843 Exodus Exo 2 12 29 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.
1844 Exodus Exo 2 12 30 And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.
1845 Exodus Exo 2 12 31 And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise and go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.
1846 Exodus Exo 2 12 32 Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing bless me.
1847 Exodus Exo 2 12 33 And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.
1848 Exodus Exo 2 12 34 The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
1849 Exodus Exo 2 12 35 And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.
1850 Exodus Exo 2 12 36 And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians.
1851 Exodus Exo 2 12 37 And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
1852 Exodus Exo 2 12 38 And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.
1853 Exodus Exo 2 12 39 And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.
1854 Exodus Exo 2 12 40 And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
1855 Exodus Exo 2 12 41 Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt.
1856 Exodus Exo 2 12 42 This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.
1857 Exodus Exo 2 12 43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it.
1858 Exodus Exo 2 12 44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.
1859 Exodus Exo 2 12 45 The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.
1860 Exodus Exo 2 12 46 In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.
1861 Exodus Exo 2 12 47 All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.
1862 Exodus Exo 2 12 48 And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.
1863 Exodus Exo 2 12 49 The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.
1864 Exodus Exo 2 12 50 And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
1865 Exodus Exo 2 12 51 And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
1866 Exodus Exo 2 13 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1867 Exodus Exo 2 13 2 Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.
1868 Exodus Exo 2 13 3 And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came forth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place: that you eat no leavened bread.
1869 Exodus Exo 2 13 4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.
1870 Exodus Exo 2 13 5 And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.
1871 Exodus Exo 2 13 6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.
1872 Exodus Exo 2 13 7 Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.
1873 Exodus Exo 2 13 8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
1874 Exodus Exo 2 13 9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
1875 Exodus Exo 2 13 10 Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to days.
1876 Exodus Exo 2 13 11 And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee:
1877 Exodus Exo 2 13 12 Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.
1878 Exodus Exo 2 13 13 The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn of men thou shalt redeem with a price.
1879 Exodus Exo 2 13 14 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
1880 Exodus Exo 2 13 15 For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.
1881 Exodus Exo 2 13 16 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.
1882 Exodus Exo 2 13 17 And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt.
1883 Exodus Exo 2 13 18 But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
1884 Exodus Exo 2 13 19 And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.
1885 Exodus Exo 2 13 20 And marching from Socoth, they encamped in Etham, in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.
1886 Exodus Exo 2 13 21 And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.
1887 Exodus Exo 2 13 22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.
1888 Exodus Exo 2 14 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1889 Exodus Exo 2 14 2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.
1890 Exodus Exo 2 14 3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.
1891 Exodus Exo 2 14 4 And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
1892 Exodus Exo 2 14 5 And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us?
1893 Exodus Exo 2 14 6 So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.
1894 Exodus Exo 2 14 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.
1895 Exodus Exo 2 14 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.
1896 Exodus Exo 2 14 9 And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao’s horse and chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon.
1897 Exodus Exo 2 14 10 And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to the Lord.
1898 Exodus Exo 2 14 11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?
1899 Exodus Exo 2 14 12 Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness.
1900 Exodus Exo 2 14 13 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.
1901 Exodus Exo 2 14 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
1902 Exodus Exo 2 14 15 And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward.
1903 Exodus Exo 2 14 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground.
1904 Exodus Exo 2 14 17 And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots and in his horsemen.
1905 Exodus Exo 2 14 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.
1906 Exodus Exo 2 14 19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forepart,
1907 Exodus Exo 2 14 20 Stood behind, between the Egyptians’ camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night.
1908 Exodus Exo 2 14 21 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.
1909 Exodus Exo 2 14 22 And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left.
1910 Exodus Exo 2 14 23 And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao’s horses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea.
1911 Exodus Exo 2 14 24 And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host.
1912 Exodus Exo 2 14 25 And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against us.
1913 Exodus Exo 2 14 26 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen.
1914 Exodus Exo 2 14 27 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.
1915 Exodus Exo 2 14 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain.
1916 Exodus Exo 2 14 29 But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:
1917 Exodus Exo 2 14 30 And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of the Egyptians.
1918 Exodus Exo 2 14 31 And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.
1919 Exodus Exo 2 15 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.
1920 Exodus Exo 2 15 2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.
1921 Exodus Exo 2 15 3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.
1922 Exodus Exo 2 15 4 Pharao’s chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.
1923 Exodus Exo 2 15 5 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
1924 Exodus Exo 2 15 6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.
1925 Exodus Exo 2 15 7 And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.
1926 Exodus Exo 2 15 8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.
1927 Exodus Exo 2 15 9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.
1928 Exodus Exo 2 15 10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.
1929 Exodus Exo 2 15 11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?
1930 Exodus Exo 2 15 12 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.
1931 Exodus Exo 2 15 13 In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.
1932 Exodus Exo 2 15 14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.
1933 Exodus Exo 2 15 15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.
1934 Exodus Exo 2 15 16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.
1935 Exodus Exo 2 15 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
1936 Exodus Exo 2 15 18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
1937 Exodus Exo 2 15 19 For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.
1938 Exodus Exo 2 15 20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.
1939 Exodus Exo 2 15 21 And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea.
1940 Exodus Exo 2 15 22 And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.
1941 Exodus Exo 2 15 23 And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.
1942 Exodus Exo 2 15 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?
1943 Exodus Exo 2 15 25 But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,
1944 Exodus Exo 2 15 26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.
1945 Exodus Exo 2 15 27 And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters.
1946 Exodus Exo 2 16 1 And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.
1947 Exodus Exo 2 16 2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
1948 Exodus Exo 2 16 3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
1949 Exodus Exo 2 16 4 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.
1950 Exodus Exo 2 16 5 But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.
1951 Exodus Exo 2 16 6 And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:
1952 Exodus Exo 2 16 7 And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?
1953 Exodus Exo 2 16 8 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.
1954 Exodus Exo 2 16 9 Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your murmuring.
1955 Exodus Exo 2 16 10 And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
1956 Exodus Exo 2 16 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
1957 Exodus Exo 2 16 12 I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.
1958 Exodus Exo 2 16 13 So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.
1959 Exodus Exo 2 16 14 And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
1960 Exodus Exo 2 16 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
1961 Exodus Exo 2 16 16 This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.
1962 Exodus Exo 2 16 17 And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.
1963 Exodus Exo 2 16 18 And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.
1964 Exodus Exo 2 16 19 And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.
1965 Exodus Exo 2 16 20 And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses was angry with them.
1966 Exodus Exo 2 16 21 Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
1967 Exodus Exo 2 16 22 But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.
1968 Exodus Exo 2 16 23 And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.
1969 Exodus Exo 2 16 24 And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify, neither was there worm found in it.
1970 Exodus Exo 2 16 25 And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
1971 Exodus Exo 2 16 26 Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
1972 Exodus Exo 2 16 27 And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
1973 Exodus Exo 2 16 28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?
1974 Exodus Exo 2 16 29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.
1975 Exodus Exo 2 16 30 And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
1976 Exodus Exo 2 16 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.
1977 Exodus Exo 2 16 32 And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
1978 Exodus Exo 2 16 33 And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto your generations,
1979 Exodus Exo 2 16 34 As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.
1980 Exodus Exo 2 16 35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
1981 Exodus Exo 2 16 36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
1982 Exodus Exo 2 17 1 Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
1983 Exodus Exo 2 17 2 And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?
1984 Exodus Exo 2 17 3 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
1985 Exodus Exo 2 17 4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
1986 Exodus Exo 2 17 5 And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
1987 Exodus Exo 2 17 6 Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
1988 Exodus Exo 2 17 7 And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
1989 Exodus Exo 2 17 8 And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.
1990 Exodus Exo 2 17 9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand.
1991 Exodus Exo 2 17 10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill.
1992 Exodus Exo 2 17 11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.
1993 Exodus Exo 2 17 12 And Moses’s hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until sunset.
1994 Exodus Exo 2 17 13 And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.
1995 Exodus Exo 2 17 14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.
1996 Exodus Exo 2 17 15 And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:
1997 Exodus Exo 2 17 16 Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.
1998 Exodus Exo 2 18 1 And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt:
1999 Exodus Exo 2 18 2 He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:
2000 Exodus Exo 2 18 3 And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country.
2001 Exodus Exo 2 18 4 And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.
2002 Exodus Exo 2 18 5 And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God.
2003 Exodus Exo 2 18 6 And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.
2004 Exodus Exo 2 18 7 And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,
2005 Exodus Exo 2 18 8 Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.
2006 Exodus Exo 2 18 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.
2007 Exodus Exo 2 18 10 And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of the Egyptians, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.
2008 Exodus Exo 2 18 11 Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.
2009 Exodus Exo 2 18 12 So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.
2010 Exodus Exo 2 18 13 And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.
2011 Exodus Exo 2 18 14 And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?
2012 Exodus Exo 2 18 15 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God?
2013 Exodus Exo 2 18 16 And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.
2014 Exodus Exo 2 18 17 But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
2015 Exodus Exo 2 18 18 Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.
2016 Exodus Exo 2 18 19 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:
2017 Exodus Exo 2 18 20 And to shew the people the ceremonies, and the manner of worshipping; and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that they ought to do.
2018 Exodus Exo 2 18 21 And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,
2019 Exodus Exo 2 18 22 Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter soever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge the lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden being shared out unto others.
2020 Exodus Exo 2 18 23 If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace.
2021 Exodus Exo 2 18 24 And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had suggested unto him.
2022 Exodus Exo 2 18 25 And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.
2023 Exodus Exo 2 18 26 And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.
2024 Exodus Exo 2 18 27 And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.
2025 Exodus Exo 2 19 1 In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:
2026 Exodus Exo 2 19 2 For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.
2027 Exodus Exo 2 19 3 And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
2028 Exodus Exo 2 19 4 You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.
2029 Exodus Exo 2 19 5 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
2030 Exodus Exo 2 19 6 And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.
2031 Exodus Exo 2 19 7 Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.
2032 Exodus Exo 2 19 8 And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people’s words to the Lord,
2033 Exodus Exo 2 19 9 The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
2034 Exodus Exo 2 19 10 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.
2035 Exodus Exo 2 19 11 And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.
2036 Exodus Exo 2 19 12 And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount, dying he shall die.
2037 Exodus Exo 2 19 13 No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.
2038 Exodus Exo 2 19 14 And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,
2039 Exodus Exo 2 19 15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
2040 Exodus Exo 2 19 16 And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared.
2041 Exodus Exo 2 19 17 And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.
2042 Exodus Exo 2 19 18 And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
2043 Exodus Exo 2 19 19 And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.
2044 Exodus Exo 2 19 20 And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,
2045 Exodus Exo 2 19 21 He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.
2046 Exodus Exo 2 19 22 The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.
2047 Exodus Exo 2 19 23 And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount, and sanctify it.
2048 Exodus Exo 2 19 24 And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.
2049 Exodus Exo 2 19 25 And Moses went down to the people and told them all.
2050 Exodus Exo 2 20 1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
2051 Exodus Exo 2 20 2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
2052 Exodus Exo 2 20 3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
2053 Exodus Exo 2 20 4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
2054 Exodus Exo 2 20 5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
2055 Exodus Exo 2 20 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
2056 Exodus Exo 2 20 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
2057 Exodus Exo 2 20 8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
2058 Exodus Exo 2 20 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
2059 Exodus Exo 2 20 10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
2060 Exodus Exo 2 20 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
2061 Exodus Exo 2 20 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
2062 Exodus Exo 2 20 13 Thou shalt not kill.
2063 Exodus Exo 2 20 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
2064 Exodus Exo 2 20 15 Thou shalt not steal.
2065 Exodus Exo 2 20 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
2066 Exodus Exo 2 20 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
2067 Exodus Exo 2 20 18 And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,
2068 Exodus Exo 2 20 19 Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.
2069 Exodus Exo 2 20 20 And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.
2070 Exodus Exo 2 20 21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.
2071 Exodus Exo 2 20 22 And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
2072 Exodus Exo 2 20 23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.
2073 Exodus Exo 2 20 24 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.
2074 Exodus Exo 2 20 25 And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.
2075 Exodus Exo 2 20 26 Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.
2076 Exodus Exo 2 21 1 These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2077 Exodus Exo 2 21 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
2078 Exodus Exo 2 21 3 With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.
2079 Exodus Exo 2 21 4 But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master’s: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.
2080 Exodus Exo 2 21 5 And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:
2081 Exodus Exo 2 21 6 His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.
2082 Exodus Exo 2 21 7 If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.
2083 Exodus Exo 2 21 8 If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.
2084 Exodus Exo 2 21 9 But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
2085 Exodus Exo 2 21 10 And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.
2086 Exodus Exo 2 21 11 If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.
2087 Exodus Exo 2 21 12 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.
2088 Exodus Exo 2 21 13 But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.
2089 Exodus Exo 2 21 14 If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.
2090 Exodus Exo 2 21 15 He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.
2091 Exodus Exo 2 21 16 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.
2092 Exodus Exo 2 21 17 He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.
2093 Exodus Exo 2 21 18 If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
2094 Exodus Exo 2 21 19 If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.
2095 Exodus Exo 2 21 20 He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.
2096 Exodus Exo 2 21 21 But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.
2097 Exodus Exo 2 21 22 If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman’s husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.
2098 Exodus Exo 2 21 23 But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,
2099 Exodus Exo 2 21 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
2100 Exodus Exo 2 21 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
2101 Exodus Exo 2 21 26 If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he put out.
2102 Exodus Exo 2 21 27 Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he shall in like manner make them free.
2103 Exodus Exo 2 21 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
2104 Exodus Exo 2 21 29 But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
2105 Exodus Exo 2 21 30 And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
2106 Exodus Exo 2 21 31 If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.
2107 Exodus Exo 2 21 32 If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
2108 Exodus Exo 2 21 33 If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
2109 Exodus Exo 2 21 34 The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
2110 Exodus Exo 2 21 35 If one man’s ox gore another man’s ox, and he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that which died they shall part between them:
2111 Exodus Exo 2 21 36 But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the day before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass.
2112 Exodus Exo 2 22 1 If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
2113 Exodus Exo 2 22 2 If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.
2114 Exodus Exo 2 22 3 But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.
2115 Exodus Exo 2 22 4 If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.
2116 Exodus Exo 2 22 5 If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men’s: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.
2117 Exodus Exo 2 22 6 If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.
2118 Exodus Exo 2 22 7 If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found, he shall restore double:
2119 Exodus Exo 2 22 8 If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour’s goods,
2120 Exodus Exo 2 22 9 To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.
2121 Exodus Exo 2 22 10 If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour’s custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it:
2122 Exodus Exo 2 22 11 There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour’s goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.
2123 Exodus Exo 2 22 12 But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good to the owner.
2124 Exodus Exo 2 22 13 If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.
2125 Exodus Exo 2 22 14 If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.
2126 Exodus Exo 2 22 15 But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.
2127 Exodus Exo 2 22 16 If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.
2128 Exodus Exo 2 22 17 If the maid’s father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.
2129 Exodus Exo 2 22 18 Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.
2130 Exodus Exo 2 22 19 Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.
2131 Exodus Exo 2 22 20 He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.
2132 Exodus Exo 2 22 21 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
2133 Exodus Exo 2 22 22 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.
2134 Exodus Exo 2 22 23 If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:
2135 Exodus Exo 2 22 24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
2136 Exodus Exo 2 22 25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.
2137 Exodus Exo 2 22 26 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.
2138 Exodus Exo 2 22 27 For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.
2139 Exodus Exo 2 22 28 Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.
2140 Exodus Exo 2 22 29 Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.
2141 Exodus Exo 2 22 30 Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and sheep: seven days let it be with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.
2142 Exodus Exo 2 22 31 You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.
2143 Exodus Exo 2 23 1 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.
2144 Exodus Exo 2 23 2 Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.
2145 Exodus Exo 2 23 3 Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
2146 Exodus Exo 2 23 4 If thou meet thy enemy’s ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
2147 Exodus Exo 2 23 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.
2148 Exodus Exo 2 23 6 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man’s judgment.
2149 Exodus Exo 2 23 7 Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.
2150 Exodus Exo 2 23 8 Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
2151 Exodus Exo 2 23 9 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
2152 Exodus Exo 2 23 10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
2153 Exodus Exo 2 23 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.
2154 Exodus Exo 2 23 12 Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
2155 Exodus Exo 2 23 13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.
2156 Exodus Exo 2 23 14 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
2157 Exodus Exo 2 23 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.
2158 Exodus Exo 2 23 16 And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.
2159 Exodus Exo 2 23 17 Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.
2160 Exodus Exo 2 23 18 Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.
2161 Exodus Exo 2 23 19 Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
2162 Exodus Exo 2 23 20 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.
2163 Exodus Exo 2 23 21 Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.
2164 Exodus Exo 2 23 22 But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.
2165 Exodus Exo 2 23 23 And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.
2166 Exodus Exo 2 23 24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.
2167 Exodus Exo 2 23 25 And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.
2168 Exodus Exo 2 23 26 There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.
2169 Exodus Exo 2 23 27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee:
2170 Exodus Exo 2 23 28 Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.
2171 Exodus Exo 2 23 29 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.
2172 Exodus Exo 2 23 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
2173 Exodus Exo 2 23 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
2174 Exodus Exo 2 23 32 Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
2175 Exodus Exo 2 23 33 Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee.
2176 Exodus Exo 2 24 1 And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
2177 Exodus Exo 2 24 2 And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.
2178 Exodus Exo 2 24 3 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.
2179 Exodus Exo 2 24 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
2180 Exodus Exo 2 24 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
2181 Exodus Exo 2 24 6 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.
2182 Exodus Exo 2 24 7 And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.
2183 Exodus Exo 2 24 8 And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
2184 Exodus Exo 2 24 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:
2185 Exodus Exo 2 24 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.
2186 Exodus Exo 2 24 11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.
2187 Exodus Exo 2 24 12 And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
2188 Exodus Exo 2 24 13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,
2189 Exodus Exo 2 24 14 Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.
2190 Exodus Exo 2 24 15 And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.
2191 Exodus Exo 2 24 16 And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.
2192 Exodus Exo 2 24 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.
2193 Exodus Exo 2 24 18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.
2194 Exodus Exo 2 25 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2195 Exodus Exo 2 25 2 Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.
2196 Exodus Exo 2 25 3 And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and brass,
2197 Exodus Exo 2 25 4 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
2198 Exodus Exo 2 25 5 And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:
2199 Exodus Exo 2 25 6 Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling incense:
2200 Exodus Exo 2 25 7 Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.
2201 Exodus Exo 2 25 8 And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:
2202 Exodus Exo 2 25 9 According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it:
2203 Exodus Exo 2 25 10 Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.
2204 Exodus Exo 2 25 11 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and without; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:
2205 Exodus Exo 2 25 12 And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.
2206 Exodus Exo 2 25 13 Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
2207 Exodus Exo 2 25 14 And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:
2208 Exodus Exo 2 25 15 And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.
2209 Exodus Exo 2 25 16 And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.
2210 Exodus Exo 2 25 17 Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.
2211 Exodus Exo 2 25 18 Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.
2212 Exodus Exo 2 25 19 Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.
2213 Exodus Exo 2 25 20 Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.
2214 Exodus Exo 2 25 21 In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.
2215 Exodus Exo 2 25 22 Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.
2216 Exodus Exo 2 25 23 Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.
2217 Exodus Exo 2 25 24 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.
2218 Exodus Exo 2 25 25 And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and over the same another little golden crown.
2219 Exodus Exo 2 25 26 Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.
2220 Exodus Exo 2 25 27 Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried.
2221 Exodus Exo 2 25 28 The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.
2222 Exodus Exo 2 25 29 Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.
2223 Exodus Exo 2 25 30 And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.
2224 Exodus Exo 2 25 31 Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest gold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and the lilies going forth from it.
2225 Exodus Exo 2 25 32 Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side, and three out of the other.
2226 Exodus Exo 2 25 33 Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:
2227 Exodus Exo 2 25 34 And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.
2228 Exodus Exo 2 25 35 Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make six, coming forth out of one shaft.
2229 Exodus Exo 2 25 36 And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten work of the purest gold.
2230 Exodus Exo 2 25 37 Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.
2231 Exodus Exo 2 25 38 The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.
2232 Exodus Exo 2 25 39 The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.
2233 Exodus Exo 2 25 40 Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.
2234 Exodus Exo 2 26 1 And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.
2235 Exodus Exo 2 26 2 The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the breadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.
2236 Exodus Exo 2 26 3 Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five shall be coupled together in like manner.
2237 Exodus Exo 2 26 4 Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the curtains, that they may be joined one to another.
2238 Exodus Exo 2 26 5 Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on, that one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the other.
2239 Exodus Exo 2 26 6 Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.
2240 Exodus Exo 2 26 7 Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats’ hair, to cover the top of the tabernacle.
2241 Exodus Exo 2 26 8 The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the breadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.
2242 Exodus Exo 2 26 9 Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others thou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in the front of the roof.
2243 Exodus Exo 2 26 10 Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, that it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of the other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.
2244 Exodus Exo 2 26 11 Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops may be joined, that of all there may be made one covering.
2245 Exodus Exo 2 26 12 And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.
2246 Exodus Exo 2 26 13 And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on the other side, which is over and above in the length of the curtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.
2247 Exodus Exo 2 26 14 Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams’ skins dyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins.
2248 Exodus Exo 2 26 15 Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing upright of setim wood.
2249 Exodus Exo 2 26 16 Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth one cubit and a half.
2250 Exodus Exo 2 26 17 In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby one board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall all the boards be prepared.
2251 Exodus Exo 2 26 18 Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.
2252 Exodus Exo 2 26 19 For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.
2253 Exodus Exo 2 26 20 In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the north, there shall be twenty boards,
2254 Exodus Exo 2 26 21 Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under each board.
2255 Exodus Exo 2 26 22 But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six boards.
2256 Exodus Exo 2 26 23 And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the back of the tabernacle.
2257 Exodus Exo 2 26 24 And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and one joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for the two boards also that are to be put in the corners.
2258 Exodus Exo 2 26 25 And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver sockets sixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board.
2259 Exodus Exo 2 26 26 Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold together the boards on one side of the tabernacle.
2260 Exodus Exo 2 26 27 And five others on the other side, and as many at the west side:
2261 Exodus Exo 2 26 28 And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards, from one end to the other.
2262 Exodus Exo 2 26 29 The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and shalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars to hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates of gold.
2263 Exodus Exo 2 26 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.
2264 Exodus Exo 2 26 31 Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:
2265 Exodus Exo 2 26 32 And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver.
2266 Exodus Exo 2 26 33 And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of the holies shall be divided with it.
2267 Exodus Exo 2 26 34 And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.
2268 Exodus Exo 2 26 35 And the table without the veil, and over against the table the candlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall stand in the north side.
2269 Exodus Exo 2 26 36 Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entrance of the tabernacle of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen with embroidered work.
2270 Exodus Exo 2 26 37 And thou shalt overlay with gold five pillars of setim wood, before which the hanging shall be drawn: their heads shall be of gold, and the sockets of brass.
2271 Exodus Exo 2 27 1 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.
2272 Exodus Exo 2 27 2 And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.
2273 Exodus Exo 2 27 3 And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.
2274 Exodus Exo 2 27 4 And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of which, shall be four rings of brass,
2275 Exodus Exo 2 27 5 Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.
2276 Exodus Exo 2 27 6 Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:
2277 Exodus Exo 2 27 7 And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar to carry it.
2278 Exodus Exo 2 27 8 Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
2279 Exodus Exo 2 27 9 Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits long for one side.
2280 Exodus Exo 2 27 10 And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of which, with their engraving, shall be of silver.
2281 Exodus Exo 2 27 11 In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and their heads with their engraving of silver.
2282 Exodus Exo 2 27 12 But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sockets.
2283 Exodus Exo 2 27 13 In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east, there shall be fifty cubits.
2284 Exodus Exo 2 27 14 In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen cubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets.
2285 Exodus Exo 2 27 15 And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars, and as many sockets.
2286 Exodus Exo 2 27 16 And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging of twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with as many sockets.
2287 Exodus Exo 2 27 17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with plates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass.
2288 Exodus Exo 2 27 18 In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth fifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine twisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass.
2289 Exodus Exo 2 27 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, and the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass.
2290 Exodus Exo 2 27 20 Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,
2291 Exodus Exo 2 27 21 In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.
2292 Exodus Exo 2 28 1 Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2293 Exodus Exo 2 28 2 And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for glory and for beauty.
2294 Exodus Exo 2 28 3 And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s vestments, in which he being consecrated, may minister to me.
2295 Exodus Exo 2 28 4 And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2296 Exodus Exo 2 28 5 And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.
2297 Exodus Exo 2 28 6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers colours.
2298 Exodus Exo 2 28 7 It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that they may be closed together.
2299 Exodus Exo 2 28 8 The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall be of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
2300 Exodus Exo 2 28 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
2301 Exodus Exo 2 28 10 Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other, according to the order of their birth.
2302 Exodus Exo 2 28 11 With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:
2303 Exodus Exo 2 28 12 And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.
2304 Exodus Exo 2 28 13 Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.
2305 Exodus Exo 2 28 14 And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks.
2306 Exodus Exo 2 28 15 And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
2307 Exodus Exo 2 28 16 It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.
2308 Exodus Exo 2 28 17 And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:
2309 Exodus Exo 2 28 18 In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:
2310 Exodus Exo 2 28 19 In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:
2311 Exodus Exo 2 28 20 In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.
2312 Exodus Exo 2 28 21 And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.
2313 Exodus Exo 2 28 22 And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:
2314 Exodus Exo 2 28 23 And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at the top of the rational.
2315 Exodus Exo 2 28 24 And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the ends thereof.
2316 Exodus Exo 2 28 25 And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together with two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.
2317 Exodus Exo 2 28 26 Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.
2318 Exodus Exo 2 28 27 Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,
2319 Exodus Exo 2 28 28 And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.
2320 Exodus Exo 2 28 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the rational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.
2321 Exodus Exo 2 28 30 And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on Aaron’s breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.
2322 Exodus Exo 2 28 31 And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet,
2323 Exodus Exo 2 28 32 In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of garments, that it may not easily be broken.
2324 Exodus Exo 2 28 33 And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:
2325 Exodus Exo 2 28 34 So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.
2326 Exodus Exo 2 28 35 And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.
2327 Exodus Exo 2 28 36 Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver’s work, Holy to the Lord.
2328 Exodus Exo 2 28 37 And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon the mitre,
2329 Exodus Exo 2 28 38 Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them.
2330 Exodus Exo 2 28 39 And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.
2331 Exodus Exo 2 28 40 Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:
2332 Exodus Exo 2 28 41 And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2333 Exodus Exo 2 28 42 Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the reins to the thighs:
2334 Exodus Exo 2 28 43 And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.
2335 Exodus Exo 2 29 1 And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish,
2336 Exodus Exo 2 29 2 And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all of wheaten flour.
2337 Exodus Exo 2 29 3 And thou shalt put them in a basket, and offer them: and the calf and the two rams.
2338 Exodus Exo 2 29 4 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and his sons with water,
2339 Exodus Exo 2 29 5 Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.
2340 Exodus Exo 2 29 6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate upon the mitre,
2341 Exodus Exo 2 29 7 And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.
2342 Exodus Exo 2 29 8 Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen tunics, and gird them with a girdle:
2343 Exodus Exo 2 29 9 To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After thou shalt have consecrated their hands,
2344 Exodus Exo 2 29 10 Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,
2345 Exodus Exo 2 29 11 And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
2346 Exodus Exo 2 29 12 And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.
2347 Exodus Exo 2 29 13 Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt offer a burnt offering upon the altar:
2348 Exodus Exo 2 29 14 But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.
2349 Exodus Exo 2 29 15 Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands.
2350 Exodus Exo 2 29 16 And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and pour round about the altar.
2351 Exodus Exo 2 29 17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his entrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in pieces, and upon his head.
2352 Exodus Exo 2 29 18 And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord.
2353 Exodus Exo 2 29 19 Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands.
2354 Exodus Exo 2 29 20 And when thou hast sacrificed him, thou shalt take of his blood, and put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou shalt pour the blood upon the altar round about.
2355 Exodus Exo 2 29 21 And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are consecrated,
2356 Exodus Exo 2 29 22 Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the ram of consecration:
2357 Exodus Exo 2 29 23 And one roll of bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord:
2358 Exodus Exo 2 29 24 And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord.
2359 Exodus Exo 2 29 25 And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation.
2360 Exodus Exo 2 29 26 Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to thy share.
2361 Exodus Exo 2 29 27 And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,
2362 Exodus Exo 2 29 28 Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aaron’s share, and his sons’, by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord.
2363 Exodus Exo 2 29 29 And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it.
2364 Exodus Exo 2 29 30 He of his sons that shall be appointed high priest in his stead, and that shall enter into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister in the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days.
2365 Exodus Exo 2 29 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil the flesh thereof in the holy place:
2366 Exodus Exo 2 29 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are in the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
2367 Exodus Exo 2 29 33 That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
2368 Exodus Exo 2 29 34 And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread, till the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall not be eaten, because they are sanctified.
2369 Exodus Exo 2 29 35 All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands:
2370 Exodus Exo 2 29 36 And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.
2371 Exodus Exo 2 29 37 Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.
2372 Exodus Exo 2 29 38 This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a year old every day continually,
2373 Exodus Exo 2 29 39 One lamb in the morning, and another in the evening.
2374 Exodus Exo 2 29 40 With one lamb a tenth part of flour tempered with beaten oil, of the fourth part of a hin, and wine for libation of the same measure.
2375 Exodus Exo 2 29 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to the rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said, for a savour of sweetness:
2376 Exodus Exo 2 29 42 It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee.
2377 Exodus Exo 2 29 43 And there will I command the children of Israel, and the altar shall be sanctified by my glory.
2378 Exodus Exo 2 29 44 I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the altar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me.
2379 Exodus Exo 2 29 45 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God:
2380 Exodus Exo 2 29 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I the Lord their God.
2381 Exodus Exo 2 30 1 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
2382 Exodus Exo 2 30 2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
2383 Exodus Exo 2 30 3 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
2384 Exodus Exo 2 30 4 And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
2385 Exodus Exo 2 30 5 And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
2386 Exodus Exo 2 30 6 And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
2387 Exodus Exo 2 30 7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
2388 Exodus Exo 2 30 8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
2389 Exodus Exo 2 30 9 You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
2390 Exodus Exo 2 30 10 And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.
2391 Exodus Exo 2 30 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2392 Exodus Exo 2 30 12 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.
2393 Exodus Exo 2 30 13 And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.
2394 Exodus Exo 2 30 14 He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.
2395 Exodus Exo 2 30 15 The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.
2396 Exodus Exo 2 30 16 And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.
2397 Exodus Exo 2 30 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2398 Exodus Exo 2 30 18 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it:
2399 Exodus Exo 2 30 19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:
2400 Exodus Exo 2 30 20 When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,
2401 Exodus Exo 2 30 21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.
2402 Exodus Exo 2 30 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
2403 Exodus Exo 2 30 23 Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,
2404 Exodus Exo 2 30 24 And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:
2405 Exodus Exo 2 30 25 And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer,
2406 Exodus Exo 2 30 26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,
2407 Exodus Exo 2 30 27 And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,
2408 Exodus Exo 2 30 28 And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the service of them.
2409 Exodus Exo 2 30 29 And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.
2410 Exodus Exo 2 30 30 Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
2411 Exodus Exo 2 30 31 And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
2412 Exodus Exo 2 30 32 The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.
2413 Exodus Exo 2 30 33 What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
2414 Exodus Exo 2 30 34 And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.
2415 Exodus Exo 2 30 35 And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.
2416 Exodus Exo 2 30 36 And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.
2417 Exodus Exo 2 30 37 You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.
2418 Exodus Exo 2 30 38 What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.
2419 Exodus Exo 2 31 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2420 Exodus Exo 2 31 2 Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,
2421 Exodus Exo 2 31 3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work,
2422 Exodus Exo 2 31 4 To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and silver, and brass,
2423 Exodus Exo 2 31 5 Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.
2424 Exodus Exo 2 31 6 And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,
2425 Exodus Exo 2 31 7 The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,
2426 Exodus Exo 2 31 8 And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,
2427 Exodus Exo 2 31 9 And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,
2428 Exodus Exo 2 31 10 The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for his sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:
2429 Exodus Exo 2 31 11 The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary, all things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.
2430 Exodus Exo 2 31 12 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2431 Exodus Exo 2 31 13 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.
2432 Exodus Exo 2 31 14 keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.
2433 Exodus Exo 2 31 15 Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.
2434 Exodus Exo 2 31 16 Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant
2435 Exodus Exo 2 31 17 Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.
2436 Exodus Exo 2 31 18 And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.
2437 Exodus Exo 2 32 1 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.
2438 Exodus Exo 2 32 2 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.
2439 Exodus Exo 2 32 3 And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.
2440 Exodus Exo 2 32 4 And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders’ work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2441 Exodus Exo 2 32 5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier’s voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.
2442 Exodus Exo 2 32 6 And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
2443 Exodus Exo 2 32 7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.
2444 Exodus Exo 2 32 8 They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2445 Exodus Exo 2 32 9 And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is stiffnecked:
2446 Exodus Exo 2 32 10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.
2447 Exodus Exo 2 32 11 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?
2448 Exodus Exo 2 32 12 Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.
2449 Exodus Exo 2 32 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:
2450 Exodus Exo 2 32 14 And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.
2451 Exodus Exo 2 32 15 And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,
2452 Exodus Exo 2 32 16 And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven in the tables.
2453 Exodus Exo 2 32 17 And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.
2454 Exodus Exo 2 32 18 But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of singers.
2455 Exodus Exo 2 32 19 And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:
2456 Exodus Exo 2 32 20 And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.
2457 Exodus Exo 2 32 21 And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?
2458 Exodus Exo 2 32 22 And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.
2459 Exodus Exo 2 32 23 They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.
2460 Exodus Exo 2 32 24 And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.
2461 Exodus Exo 2 32 25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies)
2462 Exodus Exo 2 32 26 Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord’s side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:
2463 Exodus Exo 2 32 27 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.
2464 Exodus Exo 2 32 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.
2465 Exodus Exo 2 32 29 And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.
2466 Exodus Exo 2 32 30 And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.
2467 Exodus Exo 2 32 31 And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,
2468 Exodus Exo 2 32 32 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.
2469 Exodus Exo 2 32 33 And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:
2470 Exodus Exo 2 32 34 But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.
2471 Exodus Exo 2 32 35 The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.
2472 Exodus Exo 2 33 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:
2473 Exodus Exo 2 33 2 And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,
2474 Exodus Exo 2 33 3 That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way.
2475 Exodus Exo 2 33 4 And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.
2476 Exodus Exo 2 33 5 And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee.
2477 Exodus Exo 2 33 6 So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.
2478 Exodus Exo 2 33 7 Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp.
2479 Exodus Exo 2 33 8 And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld the back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.
2480 Exodus Exo 2 33 9 And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with Moses.
2481 Exodus Exo 2 33 10 And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle. And they stood and worshipped at the doors of their tent.
2482 Exodus Exo 2 33 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.
2483 Exodus Exo 2 33 12 And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight.
2484 Exodus Exo 2 33 13 If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation.
2485 Exodus Exo 2 33 14 And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give thee rest.
2486 Exodus Exo 2 33 15 And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not out of this place.
2487 Exodus Exo 2 33 16 For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?
2488 Exodus Exo 2 33 17 And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do; for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have known by name.
2489 Exodus Exo 2 33 18 And he said: Shew me thy glory.
2490 Exodus Exo 2 33 19 He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.
2491 Exodus Exo 2 33 20 And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live.
2492 Exodus Exo 2 33 21 And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.
2493 Exodus Exo 2 33 22 And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with my right hand till I pass:
2494 Exodus Exo 2 33 23 And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst not see.
2495 Exodus Exo 2 34 1 And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the tables, which thou brokest.
2496 Exodus Exo 2 34 2 Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into Mount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount.
2497 Exodus Exo 2 34 3 Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over against it.
2498 Exodus Exo 2 34 4 Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and rising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.
2499 Exodus Exo 2 34 5 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.
2500 Exodus Exo 2 34 6 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,
2501 Exodus Exo 2 34 7 Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.
2502 Exodus Exo 2 34 8 And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring,
2503 Exodus Exo 2 34 9 Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take away our iniquities and sin, and possess us.
2504 Exodus Exo 2 34 10 The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do.
2505 Exodus Exo 2 34 11 Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.
2506 Exodus Exo 2 34 12 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:
2507 Exodus Exo 2 34 13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:
2508 Exodus Exo 2 34 14 Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a jealous God.
2509 Exodus Exo 2 34 15 Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.
2510 Exodus Exo 2 34 16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.
2511 Exodus Exo 2 34 17 Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.
2512 Exodus Exo 2 34 18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.
2513 Exodus Exo 2 34 19 All of the male kind that openeth the womb, shall be mine. Of all beasts; both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine.
2514 Exodus Exo 2 34 20 The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before me empty.
2515 Exodus Exo 2 34 21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.
2516 Exodus Exo 2 34 22 Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.
2517 Exodus Exo 2 34 23 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.
2518 Exodus Exo 2 34 24 For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
2519 Exodus Exo 2 34 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven; neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase.
2520 Exodus Exo 2 34 26 The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
2521 Exodus Exo 2 34 27 And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I have made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.
2522 Exodus Exo 2 34 28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.
2523 Exodus Exo 2 34 29 And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.
2524 Exodus Exo 2 34 30 And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
2525 Exodus Exo 2 34 31 And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them,
2526 Exodus Exo 2 34 32 And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.
2527 Exodus Exo 2 34 33 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.
2528 Exodus Exo 2 34 34 But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.
2529 Exodus Exo 2 34 35 And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.
2530 Exodus Exo 2 35 1 And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered together, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done:
2531 Exodus Exo 2 35 2 Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.
2532 Exodus Exo 2 35 3 You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.
2533 Exodus Exo 2 35 4 And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:
2534 Exodus Exo 2 35 5 Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass,
2535 Exodus Exo 2 35 6 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats’ hair,
2536 Exodus Exo 2 35 7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,
2537 Exodus Exo 2 35 8 And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet incense,
2538 Exodus Exo 2 35 9 Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational.
2539 Exodus Exo 2 35 10 Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the Lord hath commanded:
2540 Exodus Exo 2 35 11 To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:
2541 Exodus Exo 2 35 12 The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is drawn before it:
2542 Exodus Exo 2 35 13 The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of proposition:
2543 Exodus Exo 2 35 14 The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:
2544 Exodus Exo 2 35 15 The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and the incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:
2545 Exodus Exo 2 35 16 The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:
2546 Exodus Exo 2 35 17 The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the entry.
2547 Exodus Exo 2 35 18 The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little cords:
2548 Exodus Exo 2 35 19 The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.
2549 Exodus Exo 2 35 20 And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from the presence of Moses,
2550 Exodus Exo 2 35 21 Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was necessary to the service and to the holy vestments,
2551 Exodus Exo 2 35 22 Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.
2552 Exodus Exo 2 35 23 If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and goats’ hair, ramskins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,
2553 Exodus Exo 2 35 24 Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and setim wood for divers uses.
2554 Exodus Exo 2 35 25 The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
2555 Exodus Exo 2 35 26 And goats’ hair, giving all of their own accord.
2556 Exodus Exo 2 35 27 But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,
2557 Exodus Exo 2 35 28 And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of ointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.
2558 Exodus Exo 2 35 29 All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that the works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord.
2559 Exodus Exo 2 35 30 And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath called by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,
2560 Exodus Exo 2 35 31 And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge, and all learning,
2561 Exodus Exo 2 35 32 To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,
2562 Exodus Exo 2 35 33 And in engraving stones, and in carpenters’ work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,
2563 Exodus Exo 2 35 34 He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan:
2564 Exodus Exo 2 35 35 Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters’ work, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all new things.
2565 Exodus Exo 2 36 1 Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.
2566 Exodus Exo 2 36 2 And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom the Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered themselves to the making of the work,
2567 Exodus Exo 2 36 3 He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.
2568 Exodus Exo 2 36 4 Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,
2569 Exodus Exo 2 36 5 Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.
2570 Exodus Exo 2 36 6 Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier’s voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,
2571 Exodus Exo 2 36 7 Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too much.
2572 Exodus Exo 2 36 8 And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:
2573 Exodus Exo 2 36 9 The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.
2574 Exodus Exo 2 36 10 And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled one to another.
2575 Exodus Exo 2 36 11 He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,
2576 Exodus Exo 2 36 12 That the loops might meet one against another, and might be joined each with the other.
2577 Exodus Exo 2 36 13 Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.
2578 Exodus Exo 2 36 14 He made also eleven curtains of goats’ hair, to cover the roof of the tabernacle:
2579 Exodus Exo 2 36 15 One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all the curtains were of one measure.
2580 Exodus Exo 2 36 16 Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.
2581 Exodus Exo 2 36 17 And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.
2582 Exodus Exo 2 36 18 And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.
2583 Exodus Exo 2 36 19 He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams’ skins dyed red; and another cover over that of violet skins.
2584 Exodus Exo 2 36 20 He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing.
2585 Exodus Exo 2 36 21 The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one cubit and a half.
2586 Exodus Exo 2 36 22 There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.
2587 Exodus Exo 2 36 23 Of which twenty were at the south side southward,
2588 Exodus Exo 2 36 24 With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners.
2589 Exodus Exo 2 36 25 At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the north, he made twenty boards,
2590 Exodus Exo 2 36 26 With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.
2591 Exodus Exo 2 36 27 But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,
2592 Exodus Exo 2 36 28 And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:
2593 Exodus Exo 2 36 29 Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:
2594 Exodus Exo 2 36 30 So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.
2595 Exodus Exo 2 36 31 He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle,
2596 Exodus Exo 2 36 32 And five others to join together the boards of the other side; and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards the sea.
2597 Exodus Exo 2 36 33 He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner to corner.
2598 Exodus Exo 2 36 34 And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold.
2599 Exodus Exo 2 36 35 He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:
2600 Exodus Exo 2 36 36 And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.
2601 Exodus Exo 2 36 37 He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer.
2602 Exodus Exo 2 36 38 And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.
2603 Exodus Exo 2 37 1 And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold within and without.
2604 Exodus Exo 2 37 2 And he made to it a crown of gold round about,
2605 Exodus Exo 2 37 3 Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the other.
2606 Exodus Exo 2 37 4 And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with gold,
2607 Exodus Exo 2 37 5 And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark to carry it.
2608 Exodus Exo 2 37 6 He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
2609 Exodus Exo 2 37 7 Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides of the propitiatory:
2610 Exodus Exo 2 37 8 One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the top of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the propitiatory,
2611 Exodus Exo 2 37 9 Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and towards it.
2612 Exodus Exo 2 37 10 He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half.
2613 Exodus Exo 2 37 11 And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a golden ledge round about,
2614 Exodus Exo 2 37 12 And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of four fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown.
2615 Exodus Exo 2 37 13 And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners at each foot of the table,
2616 Exodus Exo 2 37 14 Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.
2617 Exodus Exo 2 37 15 The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
2618 Exodus Exo 2 37 16 And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls, and cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be offered.
2619 Exodus Exo 2 37 17 He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold. from the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came out:
2620 Exodus Exo 2 37 18 Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on the other.
2621 Exodus Exo 2 37 19 Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal and lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch, and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went out from the shaft of the candlestick was equal.
2622 Exodus Exo 2 37 20 And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:
2623 Exodus Exo 2 37 21 And bowls under two branches in three places, which together made six branches going out from one shaft.
2624 Exodus Exo 2 37 22 So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten work of the purest gold.
2625 Exodus Exo 2 37 23 He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the vessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.
2626 Exodus Exo 2 37 24 The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a talent of gold.
2627 Exodus Exo 2 37 25 He made also the altar of incense of setim wood, being a cubit on every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of which went out horns.
2628 Exodus Exo 2 37 26 And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate, and the sides, and the horns.
2629 Exodus Exo 2 37 27 And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden rings under the crown at each side, that the bars might be put into them, and the altar be carried.
2630 Exodus Exo 2 37 28 And the bars themselves he made also of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates of gold.
2631 Exodus Exo 2 37 29 He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer.
2632 Exodus Exo 2 38 1 He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:
2633 Exodus Exo 2 38 2 The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.
2634 Exodus Exo 2 38 3 And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass, cauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans.
2635 Exodus Exo 2 38 4 And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and under it in the midst of the altar a hearth,
2636 Exodus Exo 2 38 5 Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put in bars to carry it:
2637 Exodus Exo 2 38 6 And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates of brass:
2638 Exodus Exo 2 38 7 And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards, and empty within.
2639 Exodus Exo 2 38 8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.
2640 Exodus Exo 2 38 9 He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits.
2641 Exodus Exo 2 38 10 Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the heads of the pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver.
2642 Exodus Exo 2 38 11 In like manner at the north side the hangings, the pillars, and the sockets and heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work and metal.
2643 Exodus Exo 2 38 12 But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads of the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.
2644 Exodus Exo 2 38 13 Moreover, towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits:
2645 Exodus Exo 2 38 14 Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars, and their sockets:
2646 Exodus Exo 2 38 15 And on the other side (for between the two he made the entry of the tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets.
2647 Exodus Exo 2 38 16 All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted linen.
2648 Exodus Exo 2 38 17 The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with all their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court also with silver.
2649 Exodus Exo 2 38 18 And he made in the entry thereof an embroidered hanging of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that was twenty cubits long, and five cubits high, according to the measure of all the hangings of the court.
2650 Exodus Exo 2 38 19 And the pillars in the entry were four, with sockets of brass, and their heads and gravings of silver.
2651 Exodus Exo 2 38 20 The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he made of brass.
2652 Exodus Exo 2 38 21 These are the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony, which were counted according to the commandment of Moses, in the ceremonies of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest:
2653 Exodus Exo 2 38 22 Which Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of Juda, had made, as the Lord commanded by Moses.
2654 Exodus Exo 2 38 23 Having for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in wood, and worker in tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.
2655 Exodus Exo 2 38 24 All the gold that was spent in the work of the sanctuary, and that was offered in gifts, was nine and twenty talents, and seven hundred and thirty sicles according to the standard of the sanctuary.
2656 Exodus Exo 2 38 25 And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms.
2657 Exodus Exo 2 38 26 There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.
2658 Exodus Exo 2 38 27 A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent being reckoned for every socket.
2659 Exodus Exo 2 38 28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.
2660 Exodus Exo 2 38 29 And there were offered of brass also seventy-two thousand talents, and four hundred sicles besides,
2661 Exodus Exo 2 38 30 Of which were cast the sockets in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and also the vessels that belong to the use thereof.
2662 Exodus Exo 2 38 31 And the sockets of the court as well round about as in the entry thereof, and the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about.
2663 Exodus Exo 2 39 1 And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses.
2664 Exodus Exo 2 39 2 So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,
2665 Exodus Exo 2 39 3 With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours,
2666 Exodus Exo 2 39 4 And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,
2667 Exodus Exo 2 39 5 And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2668 Exodus Exo 2 39 6 He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:
2669 Exodus Exo 2 39 7 And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2670 Exodus Exo 2 39 8 He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen:
2671 Exodus Exo 2 39 9 Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.
2672 Exodus Exo 2 39 10 And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.
2673 Exodus Exo 2 39 11 In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
2674 Exodus Exo 2 39 12 In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.
2675 Exodus Exo 2 39 13 In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.
2676 Exodus Exo 2 39 14 And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.
2677 Exodus Exo 2 39 15 They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold,
2678 Exodus Exo 2 39 16 And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings on either side of the rational,
2679 Exodus Exo 2 39 17 On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put into the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.
2680 Exodus Exo 2 39 18 These both before and behind so answered one another, that the ephod and the rational were bound together,
2681 Exodus Exo 2 39 19 Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.
2682 Exodus Exo 2 39 20 They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet,
2683 Exodus Exo 2 39 21 And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole:
2684 Exodus Exo 2 39 22 And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen:
2685 Exodus Exo 2 39 23 And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:
2686 Exodus Exo 2 39 24 To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2687 Exodus Exo 2 39 25 They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and his sons:
2688 Exodus Exo 2 39 26 And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:
2689 Exodus Exo 2 39 27 And linen breeches of fine linen:
2690 Exodus Exo 2 39 28 And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2691 Exodus Exo 2 39 29 They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest gold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy of the Lord:
2692 Exodus Exo 2 39 30 And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2693 Exodus Exo 2 39 31 So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.
2694 Exodus Exo 2 39 32 And they offered the tabernacle, and the roof, and the whole furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars and their sockets,
2695 Exodus Exo 2 39 33 The cover of rams’ skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet skins,
2696 Exodus Exo 2 39 34 The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,
2697 Exodus Exo 2 39 35 The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of proposition:
2698 Exodus Exo 2 39 36 The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them, with the oil:
2699 Exodus Exo 2 39 37 The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:
2700 Exodus Exo 2 39 38 And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:
2701 Exodus Exo 2 39 39 The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels thereof: the laver, with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court, and the pillars, with their sockets:
2702 Exodus Exo 2 39 40 The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and the pins thereof. Nothing was wanting of the vessels, that were commanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the roof of the covenant.
2703 Exodus Exo 2 39 41 The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and his sons, use in the sanctuary,
2704 Exodus Exo 2 39 42 The children of Israel offered, as the Lord had commanded.
2705 Exodus Exo 2 39 43 And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.
2706 Exodus Exo 2 40 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2707 Exodus Exo 2 40 2 The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,
2708 Exodus Exo 2 40 3 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:
2709 Exodus Exo 2 40 4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things that are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with its lamps,
2710 Exodus Exo 2 40 5 And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the ark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle,
2711 Exodus Exo 2 40 6 And before it the altar of holocaust.
2712 Exodus Exo 2 40 7 The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with water.
2713 Exodus Exo 2 40 8 And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry thereof.
2714 Exodus Exo 2 40 9 And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified:
2715 Exodus Exo 2 40 10 The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:
2716 Exodus Exo 2 40 11 The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.
2717 Exodus Exo 2 40 12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,
2718 Exodus Exo 2 40 13 Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may minister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an everlasting priesthood.
2719 Exodus Exo 2 40 14 And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.
2720 Exodus Exo 2 40 15 So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the month, the tabernacle was set up.
2721 Exodus Exo 2 40 16 And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up the pillars,
2722 Exodus Exo 2 40 17 And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.
2723 Exodus Exo 2 40 18 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.
2724 Exodus Exo 2 40 19 And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.
2725 Exodus Exo 2 40 20 And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the north side, without the veil,
2726 Exodus Exo 2 40 21 Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2727 Exodus Exo 2 40 22 He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table on the south side,
2728 Exodus Exo 2 40 23 Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.
2729 Exodus Exo 2 40 24 He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, over against the veil,
2730 Exodus Exo 2 40 25 And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2731 Exodus Exo 2 40 26 And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
2732 Exodus Exo 2 40 27 And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.
2733 Exodus Exo 2 40 28 And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.
2734 Exodus Exo 2 40 29 And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,
2735 Exodus Exo 2 40 30 When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2736 Exodus Exo 2 40 31 He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,
2737 Exodus Exo 2 40 32 The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.
2738 Exodus Exo 2 40 33 Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.
2739 Exodus Exo 2 40 34 If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:
2740 Exodus Exo 2 40 35 If it hung over, they remained in the same place.
2741 Exodus Exo 2 40 36 For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.
2742 Leviticus Lev 3 1 1 And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:
2743 Leviticus Lev 3 1 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle, that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:
2744 Leviticus Lev 3 1 3 If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him.
2745 Leviticus Lev 3 1 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.
2746 Leviticus Lev 3 1 5 And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.
2747 Leviticus Lev 3 1 6 And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints into pieces:
2748 Leviticus Lev 3 1 7 And shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a pile of wood.
2749 Leviticus Lev 3 1 8 And they shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon: to wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;
2750 Leviticus Lev 3 1 9 The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the Lord.
2751 Leviticus Lev 3 1 10 And if the offering be of the flocks, a holocaust of sheep or of goats, he shall offer a male without blemish.
2752 Leviticus Lev 3 1 11 And he shall immolate it at the side of the altar that looketh to the north, before the Lord: but the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
2753 Leviticus Lev 3 1 12 And they shall divide the joints, the head, and all that cleave to the liver: and shall lay them upon the wood, under which the fire is to be put.
2754 Leviticus Lev 3 1 13 But the entrails and the feet they shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar for a holocaust, and most sweet savour to the Lord.
2755 Leviticus Lev 3 1 14 But if the oblation of a holocaust to the Lord be of birds, of turtles, or of young pigeons:
2756 Leviticus Lev 3 1 15 The priest shall offer it at the altar: and twisting back the neck, and breaking the place of the wound, he shall make the blood run down upon the brim of the altar.
2757 Leviticus Lev 3 1 16 But the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast beside the altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be poured out.
2758 Leviticus Lev 3 1 17 And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.
2759 Leviticus Lev 3 2 1 When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,
2760 Leviticus Lev 3 2 2 And shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests. And one of them shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and all the frankincense; and shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most sweet savour to the Lord.
2761 Leviticus Lev 3 2 3 And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron’s, and his sons’, holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.
2762 Leviticus Lev 3 2 4 But when thou offerest a sacrifice baked in the oven of flour, to wit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers, anointed with oil:
2763 Leviticus Lev 3 2 5 If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven:
2764 Leviticus Lev 3 2 6 Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and shalt pour oil upon it.
2765 Leviticus Lev 3 2 7 And if the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the flour shall be tempered with oil.
2766 Leviticus Lev 3 2 8 And when thou offerest it to the Lord, thou shalt deliver it to the hands of the priest.
2767 Leviticus Lev 3 2 9 And when he hath offered it, he shall take a memorial out of the sacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour to the Lord.
2768 Leviticus Lev 3 2 10 And whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron’s, and his sons’: holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.
2769 Leviticus Lev 3 2 11 Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.
2770 Leviticus Lev 3 2 12 You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.
2771 Leviticus Lev 3 2 13 Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with salt: neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.
2772 Leviticus Lev 3 2 14 But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the Lord:
2773 Leviticus Lev 3 2 15 Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of the Lord.
2774 Leviticus Lev 3 2 16 Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of the corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.
2775 Leviticus Lev 3 3 1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, and he will offer of the herd, whether male or female: he shall offer them without blemish before the Lord.
2776 Leviticus Lev 3 3 2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar.
2777 Leviticus Lev 3 3 3 And they shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an oblation to the Lord: the fat that covereth the entrails, and all the fat that is within,
2778 Leviticus Lev 3 3 4 The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.
2779 Leviticus Lev 3 3 5 And they shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting fire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.
2780 Leviticus Lev 3 3 6 But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the flock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.
2781 Leviticus Lev 3 3 7 If he offer a lamb before the Lord:
2782 Leviticus Lev 3 3 8 He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim. And it shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
2783 Leviticus Lev 3 3 9 And they shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,
2784 Leviticus Lev 3 3 10 With the kidneys, and the fat that covereth the belly and all the vitals and both the little kidneys, with the fat that is about the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.
2785 Leviticus Lev 3 3 11 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.
2786 Leviticus Lev 3 3 12 If his offering be a goat, and he offer it to the Lord:
2787 Leviticus Lev 3 3 13 He shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and shall immolate it in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
2788 Leviticus Lev 3 3 14 And they shall take of it for the food of the Lord’s fire, the fat that covereth the belly, and that covereth all the vital parts:
2789 Leviticus Lev 3 3 15 The two little kidneys with the caul that is upon them which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.
2790 Leviticus Lev 3 3 16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord’s.
2791 Leviticus Lev 3 3 17 By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.
2792 Leviticus Lev 3 4 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2793 Leviticus Lev 3 4 2 Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:
2794 Leviticus Lev 3 4 3 If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.
2795 Leviticus Lev 3 4 4 And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord.
2796 Leviticus Lev 3 4 5 He shall take also of the blood of the calf: and carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony.
2797 Leviticus Lev 3 4 6 And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.
2798 Leviticus Lev 3 4 7 And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.
2799 Leviticus Lev 3 4 8 And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as well that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards:
2800 Leviticus Lev 3 4 9 The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys:
2801 Leviticus Lev 3 4 10 As it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.
2802 Leviticus Lev 3 4 11 But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet and the bowels and the dung:
2803 Leviticus Lev 3 4 12 And the rest of the body, he shall carry forth without the camp into a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he shall burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be burnt in the place where the ashes are poured out.
2804 Leviticus Lev 3 4 13 And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,
2805 Leviticus Lev 3 4 14 And afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer for their sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.
2806 Leviticus Lev 3 4 15 And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord:
2807 Leviticus Lev 3 4 16 The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.
2808 Leviticus Lev 3 4 17 And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.
2809 Leviticus Lev 3 4 18 And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
2810 Leviticus Lev 3 4 19 And all the fat thereof he shall take off, and shall burn it upon the altar:
2811 Leviticus Lev 3 4 20 Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.
2812 Leviticus Lev 3 4 21 But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of the multitude.
2813 Leviticus Lev 3 4 22 If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance do any one of the things that the law of the Lord forbiddeth,
2814 Leviticus Lev 3 4 23 And afterwards shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a buck goat without blemish, a sacrifice to the Lord.
2815 Leviticus Lev 3 4 24 And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath immolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain before the Lord, because it is for sin,
2816 Leviticus Lev 3 4 25 The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for sin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and pouring out the rest at the foot thereof.
2817 Leviticus Lev 3 4 26 But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the victims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin: and it shall be forgiven him.
2818 Leviticus Lev 3 4 27 And if any one of the people of the land shall sin through ignorance, doing any of those things that by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and offending,
2819 Leviticus Lev 3 4 28 And shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a she goat without blemish.
2820 Leviticus Lev 3 4 29 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.
2821 Leviticus Lev 3 4 30 And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest at the foot thereof.
2822 Leviticus Lev 3 4 31 But taking off all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the victims of peace offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a sweet savour to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
2823 Leviticus Lev 3 4 32 But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe without blemish:
2824 Leviticus Lev 3 4 33 He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.
2825 Leviticus Lev 3 4 34 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he shall pour out at the foot thereof.
2826 Leviticus Lev 3 4 35 All the fat also he shall take off, as the fat of the ram that is offered for peace offerings is wont to be taken away: and shall burn it upon the altar, for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord. And he shall pray for him and his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
2827 Leviticus Lev 3 5 1 If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.
2828 Leviticus Lev 3 5 2 Whosoever toucheth any unclean thing, either that which hath been killed by a beast, or died of itself, or any other creeping thing: and forgetteth his uncleanness, he is guilty, and hath offended.
2829 Leviticus Lev 3 5 3 And if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to any uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled: and having forgotten it, come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of an offence.
2830 Leviticus Lev 3 5 4 The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,
2831 Leviticus Lev 3 5 5 Let him do penance for his sin:
2832 Leviticus Lev 3 5 6 And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.
2833 Leviticus Lev 3 5 7 But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles, or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,
2834 Leviticus Lev 3 5 8 And he shall give them to the priest: who shall offer the first for sin, and twist back the head of it to the little pinions, so that it stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off.
2835 Leviticus Lev 3 5 9 And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and whatever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because it is for sin.
2836 Leviticus Lev 3 5 10 And the other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be done. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
2837 Leviticus Lev 3 5 11 And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles, or two young pigeons, he shall offer for his sin the tenth part of an ephi of flour. He shall not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereon, because it is for sin.
2838 Leviticus Lev 3 5 12 And he shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that offered it:
2839 Leviticus Lev 3 5 13 Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left, he himself shall have for a gift.
2840 Leviticus Lev 3 5 14 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2841 Leviticus Lev 3 5 15 If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary.
2842 Leviticus Lev 3 5 16 And he shall make good the damage itself which he hath done, and shall add the fifth part besides, delivering it to the priest, who shall pray for him, offering the ram: and it shall be forgiven him.
2843 Leviticus Lev 3 5 17 If any one sin through ignorance, and do one of those things which by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and being guilty of sin, understand his iniquity:
2844 Leviticus Lev 3 5 18 He shall offer of the flocks a ram without blemish to the priest, according to the measure and estimation of the sin. And the priest shall pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And it shall be forgiven him,
2845 Leviticus Lev 3 5 19 Because by mistake he trespassed against the Lord.
2846 Leviticus Lev 3 6 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2847 Leviticus Lev 3 6 2 Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;
2848 Leviticus Lev 3 6 3 Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:
2849 Leviticus Lev 3 6 4 Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore
2850 Leviticus Lev 3 6 5 All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.
2851 Leviticus Lev 3 6 6 Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence.
2852 Leviticus Lev 3 6 7 And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.
2853 Leviticus Lev 3 6 8 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2854 Leviticus Lev 3 6 9 Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust. It shall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall be of the same altar.
2855 Leviticus Lev 3 6 10 The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen breeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire hath burnt: and putting them beside the altar,
2856 Leviticus Lev 3 6 11 Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place.
2857 Leviticus Lev 3 6 12 And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.
2858 Leviticus Lev 3 6 13 This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.
2859 Leviticus Lev 3 6 14 This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the children of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.
2860 Leviticus Lev 3 6 15 The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered with oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he shall burn on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odour to the Lord.
2861 Leviticus Lev 3 6 16 And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle.
2862 Leviticus Lev 3 6 17 And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.
2863 Leviticus Lev 3 6 18 The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.
2864 Leviticus Lev 3 6 19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2865 Leviticus Lev 3 6 20 This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must offer to the Lord, in the day of their anointing. They shall offer the tenth part of an ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
2866 Leviticus Lev 3 6 21 It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be fried in a fryingpan.
2867 Leviticus Lev 3 6 22 And the priest that rightfully succeedeth his father, shall offer it hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord: and it shall be wholly burnt on the altar.
2868 Leviticus Lev 3 6 23 For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire: neither shall any man eat thereof.
2869 Leviticus Lev 3 6 24 And the Lord spoke to Moses. saying:
2870 Leviticus Lev 3 6 25 Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin. In the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated before the Lord. It is holy of holies.
2871 Leviticus Lev 3 6 26 The priest that offereth it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle.
2872 Leviticus Lev 3 6 27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If a garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a holy place.
2873 Leviticus Lev 3 6 28 And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken: but if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with water.
2874 Leviticus Lev 3 6 29 Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy of holies.
2875 Leviticus Lev 3 6 30 For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is carried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.
2876 Leviticus Lev 3 7 1 This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass: it is most holy.
2877 Leviticus Lev 3 7 2 Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a trespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about the altar.
2878 Leviticus Lev 3 7 3 They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the entrails:
2879 Leviticus Lev 3 7 4 The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.
2880 Leviticus Lev 3 7 5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.
2881 Leviticus Lev 3 7 6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.
2882 Leviticus Lev 3 7 7 As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest that offereth it.
2883 Leviticus Lev 3 7 8 The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof.
2884 Leviticus Lev 3 7 9 And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and whatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.
2885 Leviticus Lev 3 7 10 Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as another.
2886 Leviticus Lev 3 7 11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.
2887 Leviticus Lev 3 7 12 If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer loaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil.
2888 Leviticus Lev 3 7 13 Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is offered for peace offerings:
2889 Leviticus Lev 3 7 14 Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest’s that shall pour out the blood of the victim.
2890 Leviticus Lev 3 7 15 And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall any of it remain until the morning.
2891 Leviticus Lev 3 7 16 If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like manner be eaten the same day. And if any of it remain until the morrow, it is lawful to eat it.
2892 Leviticus Lev 3 7 17 But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed with fire.
2893 Leviticus Lev 3 7 18 If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it profit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.
2894 Leviticus Lev 3 7 19 The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be eaten: but shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean shall eat of it.
2895 Leviticus Lev 3 7 20 If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be cut off from his people.
2896 Leviticus Lev 3 7 21 And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh: shall be cut off from his people.
2897 Leviticus Lev 3 7 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2898 Leviticus Lev 3 7 23 Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not eat.
2899 Leviticus Lev 3 7 24 The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast that was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.
2900 Leviticus Lev 3 7 25 If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.
2901 Leviticus Lev 3 7 26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.
2902 Leviticus Lev 3 7 27 Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.
2903 Leviticus Lev 3 7 28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2904 Leviticus Lev 3 7 29 Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof.
2905 Leviticus Lev 3 7 30 He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,
2906 Leviticus Lev 3 7 31 Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
2907 Leviticus Lev 3 7 32 The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits.
2908 Leviticus Lev 3 7 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat: he shall have the right shoulder also for his portion.
2909 Leviticus Lev 3 7 34 For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.
2910 Leviticus Lev 3 7 35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the office of priesthood,
2911 Leviticus Lev 3 7 36 And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the children of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.
2912 Leviticus Lev 3 7 37 This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and for consecration, and the victims of peace offerings:
2913 Leviticus Lev 3 7 38 Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.
2914 Leviticus Lev 3 8 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2915 Leviticus Lev 3 8 2 Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction: a calf for sin, two rams, a basket with unleavened bread.
2916 Leviticus Lev 3 8 3 And thou shalt gather together all the congregation to the door of the tabernacle.
2917 Leviticus Lev 3 8 4 And Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And all the multitude being gathered together before the door of the tabernacle:
2918 Leviticus Lev 3 8 5 He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done.
2919 Leviticus Lev 3 8 6 And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had washed them,
2920 Leviticus Lev 3 8 7 He vested the high priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tunick: and over it he put the ephod.
2921 Leviticus Lev 3 8 8 And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth.
2922 Leviticus Lev 3 8 9 He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the forehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctification, as the Lord had commanded him.
2923 Leviticus Lev 3 8 10 He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.
2924 Leviticus Lev 3 8 11 And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the foot thereof, he sanctified with the oil.
2925 Leviticus Lev 3 8 12 And he poured it upon Aaron’s head: and he anointed and consecrated him.
2926 Leviticus Lev 3 8 13 And after he had offered his sons, he vested them with linen tunicks, and girded them with girdles: and put mitres on them as the Lord had commanded.
2927 Leviticus Lev 3 8 14 He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon the head thereof,
2928 Leviticus Lev 3 8 15 He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.
2929 Leviticus Lev 3 8 16 But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the altar.
2930 Leviticus Lev 3 8 17 And the calf with the skin, and the flesh and the dung, he burnt without the camp, as the Lord had commanded.
2931 Leviticus Lev 3 8 18 He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head:
2932 Leviticus Lev 3 8 19 He immolated it, and poured the blood thereof round about the altar.
2933 Leviticus Lev 3 8 20 And cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt in the fire.
2934 Leviticus Lev 3 8 21 Having first washed the entrails, and the feet, and the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar: because it was a holocaust of most sweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded him.
2935 Leviticus Lev 3 8 22 He offered also the second ram, in the consecration of priests: and Aaron, and his sons put their hands upon the head thereof.
2936 Leviticus Lev 3 8 23 And when Moses had immolated it, he took of the blood thereof, and touched the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and the thumb of his right hand, and in like manner also the great toe of his right foot.
2937 Leviticus Lev 3 8 24 He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when with the blood of the ram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about.
2938 Leviticus Lev 3 8 25 But the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and with the right shoulder, he separated.
2939 Leviticus Lev 3 8 26 And taking out of the basket of unleavened bread, which was before the Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake tempered with oil and a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:
2940 Leviticus Lev 3 8 27 Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons. Who having lifted them up before the Lord,
2941 Leviticus Lev 3 8 28 He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust: because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odour of sacrifice to the Lord.
2942 Leviticus Lev 3 8 29 And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.
2943 Leviticus Lev 3 8 30 And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar, he sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and his sons, and their vestments with it.
2944 Leviticus Lev 3 8 31 And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded them, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in the basket, as the Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat them.
2945 Leviticus Lev 3 8 32 And whatsoever shall be left of the flesh and the loaves, shall be consumed with fire.
2946 Leviticus Lev 3 8 33 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:
2947 Leviticus Lev 3 8 34 As at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished.
2948 Leviticus Lev 3 8 35 Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the watches of the Lord, lest you die. For so it hath been commanded me.
2949 Leviticus Lev 3 8 36 And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
2950 Leviticus Lev 3 9 1 And when the eighth day was come, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron:
2951 Leviticus Lev 3 9 2 Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
2952 Leviticus Lev 3 9 3 And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust.
2953 Leviticus Lev 3 9 4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings. And immolate them before the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour tempered with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.
2954 Leviticus Lev 3 9 5 They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before the door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,
2955 Leviticus Lev 3 9 6 Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded. Do it, and his glory will appear to you.
2956 Leviticus Lev 3 9 7 And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice for thy sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the people: and when thou hast slain the people’s victim, pray for them, as the Lord hath commanded.
2957 Leviticus Lev 3 9 8 And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf for his sin.
2958 Leviticus Lev 3 9 9 And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger therein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the foot thereof.
2959 Leviticus Lev 3 9 10 And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
2960 Leviticus Lev 3 9 11 But the flesh and skins thereof he burnt with fire without the camp.
2961 Leviticus Lev 3 9 12 He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought him the blood thereof, which he poured round about on the altar.
2962 Leviticus Lev 3 9 13 And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the head and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.
2963 Leviticus Lev 3 9 14 Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water.
2964 Leviticus Lev 3 9 15 Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he goat: and expiating the altar,
2965 Leviticus Lev 3 9 16 He offered the holocaust.
2966 Leviticus Lev 3 9 17 Adding in the sacrifice the libations, which are offered withal, and burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning holocaust.
2967 Leviticus Lev 3 9 18 He immolated also the bullock and the ram, and peace offerings of the people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon the altar round about.
2968 Leviticus Lev 3 9 19 The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,
2969 Leviticus Lev 3 9 20 They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the altar,
2970 Leviticus Lev 3 9 21 Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.
2971 Leviticus Lev 3 9 22 And stretching forth his hands to the people, he blessed them. And so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings being finished, he came down.
2972 Leviticus Lev 3 9 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the multitude.
2973 Leviticus Lev 3 9 24 And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.
2974 Leviticus Lev 3 10 1 And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.
2975 Leviticus Lev 3 10 2 And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.
2976 Leviticus Lev 3 10 3 And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.
2977 Leviticus Lev 3 10 4 And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from before the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.
2978 Leviticus Lev 3 10 5 And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.
2979 Leviticus Lev 3 10 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.
2980 Leviticus Lev 3 10 7 But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise you shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did all things according to the precept of Moses.
2981 Leviticus Lev 3 10 8 The Lord also said to Aaron:
2982 Leviticus Lev 3 10 9 You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:
2983 Leviticus Lev 3 10 10 And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean:
2984 Leviticus Lev 3 10 11 And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.
2985 Leviticus Lev 3 10 12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies.
2986 Leviticus Lev 3 10 13 And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.
2987 Leviticus Lev 3 10 14 The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
2988 Leviticus Lev 3 10 15 Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.
2989 Leviticus Lev 3 10 16 While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck goat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:
2990 Leviticus Lev 3 10 17 Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.
2991 Leviticus Lev 3 10 18 Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried within the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me?
2992 Leviticus Lev 3 10 19 Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has happened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?
2993 Leviticus Lev 3 10 20 Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.
2994 Leviticus Lev 3 11 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2995 Leviticus Lev 3 11 2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth.
2996 Leviticus Lev 3 11 3 Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.
2997 Leviticus Lev 3 11 4 But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but shall reckon it among the unclean.
2998 Leviticus Lev 3 11 5 The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean.
2999 Leviticus Lev 3 11 6 The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.
3000 Leviticus Lev 3 11 7 And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.
3001 Leviticus Lev 3 11 8 The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.
3002 Leviticus Lev 3 11 9 These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.
3003 Leviticus Lev 3 11 10 But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,
3004 Leviticus Lev 3 11 11 And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.
3005 Leviticus Lev 3 11 12 All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.
3006 Leviticus Lev 3 11 13 Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.
3007 Leviticus Lev 3 11 14 And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.
3008 Leviticus Lev 3 11 15 And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.
3009 Leviticus Lev 3 11 16 The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.
3010 Leviticus Lev 3 11 17 The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.
3011 Leviticus Lev 3 11 18 And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.
3012 Leviticus Lev 3 11 19 The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.
3013 Leviticus Lev 3 11 20 Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be abominable to you.
3014 Leviticus Lev 3 11 21 But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,
3015 Leviticus Lev 3 11 22 That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the locust, every, one according to their kind.
3016 Leviticus Lev 3 11 23 But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an abomination to you.
3017 Leviticus Lev 3 11 24 And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be defiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:
3018 Leviticus Lev 3 11 25 And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.
3019 Leviticus Lev 3 11 26 Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.
3020 Leviticus Lev 3 11 27 That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be defiled until evening.
3021 Leviticus Lev 3 11 28 And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are unclean to you.
3022 Leviticus Lev 3 11 29 These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that move upon the earth. The weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile, every one according to their kind:
3023 Leviticus Lev 3 11 30 The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the lizard, and the mole.
3024 Leviticus Lev 3 11 31 All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.
3025 Leviticus Lev 3 11 32 And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done. They shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so afterwards shall be clean.
3026 Leviticus Lev 3 11 33 But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall be defiled: and therefore is to be broken.
3027 Leviticus Lev 3 11 34 Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be unclean.
3028 Leviticus Lev 3 11 35 And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall be destroyed, and shall be unclean.
3029 Leviticus Lev 3 11 36 But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of waters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be defiled.
3030 Leviticus Lev 3 11 37 If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.
3031 Leviticus Lev 3 11 38 But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.
3032 Leviticus Lev 3 11 39 If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.
3033 Leviticus Lev 3 11 40 And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.
3034 Leviticus Lev 3 11 41 All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable: neither shall it be taken for meat.
3035 Leviticus Lev 3 11 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable.
3036 Leviticus Lev 3 11 43 Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be unclean,
3037 Leviticus Lev 3 11 44 For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.
3038 Leviticus Lev 3 11 45 For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.
3039 Leviticus Lev 3 11 46 You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth on the earth:
3040 Leviticus Lev 3 11 47 That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.
3041 Leviticus Lev 3 12 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3042 Leviticus Lev 3 12 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.
3043 Leviticus Lev 3 12 3 And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:
3044 Leviticus Lev 3 12 4 But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her purification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.
3045 Leviticus Lev 3 12 5 But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.
3046 Leviticus Lev 3 12 6 And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.
3047 Leviticus Lev 3 12 7 Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth a man child or a maid child.
3048 Leviticus Lev 3 12 8 And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed.
3049 Leviticus Lev 3 13 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
3050 Leviticus Lev 3 13 2 The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different colour or a blister, or as it were something shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any one of his sons.
3051 Leviticus Lev 3 13 3 And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white and the place where the leprosy appears lower than the skin and the rest of the flesh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his judgment he shall be separated.
3052 Leviticus Lev 3 13 4 But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the hair be of the former colour, the priest shall shut him up seven days.
3053 Leviticus Lev 3 13 5 And the seventh day he shall look on him: and if the leprosy be grown no farther, and hath not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut him up again other seven days.
3054 Leviticus Lev 3 13 6 And on the seventh day, he shall look on him. If the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean, because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash his clothes, and shall be clean.
3055 Leviticus Lev 3 13 7 But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest and restored to cleanness, he shall be brought to him:
3056 Leviticus Lev 3 13 8 And shall be condemned of uncleanness.
3057 Leviticus Lev 3 13 9 If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to the priest:
3058 Leviticus Lev 3 13 10 And he shall view him. And when there shall be a white colour in the skin, and it shall have changed the look of the hair, and the living flesh itself shall appear:
3059 Leviticus Lev 3 13 11 It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the skin. The priest therefore shall declare him unclean: and shall not shut him up, because he is evidently unclean.
3060 Leviticus Lev 3 13 12 But if the leprosy spring out running about in the skin, and cover all the skin from the head to the feet, whatsoever falleth under the sight of the eyes:
3061 Leviticus Lev 3 13 13 The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy which he has is very clean: because it is all turned into whiteness, and therefore the man shall be clean.
3062 Leviticus Lev 3 13 14 But when the live flesh shall appear in him:
3063 Leviticus Lev 3 13 15 Then by the judgment of the priest he shall be defiled, and shall be reckoned among the unclean. For live flesh, if it be spotted with leprosy, is unclean.
3064 Leviticus Lev 3 13 16 And if again it be turned into whiteness, and cover all the man:
3065 Leviticus Lev 3 13 17 The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean.
3066 Leviticus Lev 3 13 18 When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:
3067 Leviticus Lev 3 13 19 And in the place of the ulcer, there appeareth a white scar, or somewhat red, the man shall be brought to the priest.
3068 Leviticus Lev 3 13 20 And when he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the other flesh, and the hair turned white: he shall declare him unclean, for the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.
3069 Leviticus Lev 3 13 21 But if the hair be of the former colour, and the scar somewhat obscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it: he shall shut him up seven days.
3070 Leviticus Lev 3 13 22 And if it spread, he shall judge him to have the leprosy:
3071 Leviticus Lev 3 13 23 But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar of an ulcer: and the man shall be clean.
3072 Leviticus Lev 3 13 24 The flesh also and skin that hath been burnt, and after it is healed hath a white or a red scar:
3073 Leviticus Lev 3 13 25 The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the place thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him unclean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar.
3074 Leviticus Lev 3 13 26 But if the colour of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish lower than the other flesh, and the appearance of the leprosy be somewhat obscure: he shall shut him up seven days,
3075 Leviticus Lev 3 13 27 And on the seventh day he shall view him. If the leprosy be grown farther in the skin, he shall declare him unclean.
3076 Leviticus Lev 3 13 28 But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear, it is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is only the scar of a burning.
3077 Leviticus Lev 3 13 29 If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall see them,
3078 Leviticus Lev 3 13 30 And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard;
3079 Leviticus Lev 3 13 31 But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh that is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,
3080 Leviticus Lev 3 13 32 And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be even with the other flesh:
3081 Leviticus Lev 3 13 33 The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he shall be shut up other seven days.
3082 Leviticus Lev 3 13 34 If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his clothes being washed he shall be clean.
3083 Leviticus Lev 3 13 35 But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin:
3084 Leviticus Lev 3 13 36 He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean.
3085 Leviticus Lev 3 13 37 But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.
3086 Leviticus Lev 3 13 38 If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,
3087 Leviticus Lev 3 13 39 The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness shineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blemish, and that the man is clean.
3088 Leviticus Lev 3 13 40 The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and clean:
3089 Leviticus Lev 3 13 41 And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.
3090 Leviticus Lev 3 13 42 But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a white or reddish colour:
3091 Leviticus Lev 3 13 43 And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen in the bald part.
3092 Leviticus Lev 3 13 44 Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest:
3093 Leviticus Lev 3 13 45 Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.
3094 Leviticus Lev 3 13 46 All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp.
3095 Leviticus Lev 3 13 47 A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy
3096 Leviticus Lev 3 13 48 In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or whatsoever is made of a skin:
3097 Leviticus Lev 3 13 49 If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be accounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest.
3098 Leviticus Lev 3 13 50 And he shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days.
3099 Leviticus Lev 3 13 51 And on the seventh day when he looketh on it again, if he find that it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy. He shall judge the garment unclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found.
3100 Leviticus Lev 3 13 52 And therefore it shall be burnt with fire.
3101 Leviticus Lev 3 13 53 But if he see that it is not grown,
3102 Leviticus Lev 3 13 54 He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the leprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.
3103 Leviticus Lev 3 13 55 And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole.
3104 Leviticus Lev 3 13 56 But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which is sound.
3105 Leviticus Lev 3 13 57 And if after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire.
3106 Leviticus Lev 3 13 58 If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time: and they shall be clean.
3107 Leviticus Lev 3 13 59 This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.
3108 Leviticus Lev 3 14 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3109 Leviticus Lev 3 14 2 This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:
3110 Leviticus Lev 3 14 3 Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,
3111 Leviticus Lev 3 14 4 Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
3112 Leviticus Lev 3 14 5 And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.
3113 Leviticus Lev 3 14 6 But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:
3114 Leviticus Lev 3 14 7 Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.
3115 Leviticus Lev 3 14 8 And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.
3116 Leviticus Lev 3 14 9 And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,
3117 Leviticus Lev 3 14 10 On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.
3118 Leviticus Lev 3 14 11 And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:
3119 Leviticus Lev 3 14 12 He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,
3120 Leviticus Lev 3 14 13 He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.
3121 Leviticus Lev 3 14 14 And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot.
3122 Leviticus Lev 3 14 15 And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,
3123 Leviticus Lev 3 14 16 And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.
3124 Leviticus Lev 3 14 17 And the rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass:
3125 Leviticus Lev 3 14 18 And upon his head.
3126 Leviticus Lev 3 14 19 And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.
3127 Leviticus Lev 3 14 20 And put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man shall be rightly cleansed.
3128 Leviticus Lev 3 14 21 But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:
3129 Leviticus Lev 3 14 22 And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.
3130 Leviticus Lev 3 14 23 And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.
3131 Leviticus Lev 3 14 24 And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.
3132 Leviticus Lev 3 14 25 And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.
3133 Leviticus Lev 3 14 26 But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,
3134 Leviticus Lev 3 14 27 And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.
3135 Leviticus Lev 3 14 28 And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.
3136 Leviticus Lev 3 14 29 And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord for him.
3137 Leviticus Lev 3 14 30 And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon:
3138 Leviticus Lev 3 14 31 One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.
3139 Leviticus Lev 3 14 32 This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things that appertain to his cleansing.
3140 Leviticus Lev 3 14 33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
3141 Leviticus Lev 3 14 34 When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house:
3142 Leviticus Lev 3 14 35 He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,
3143 Leviticus Lev 3 14 36 And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, let all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house.
3144 Leviticus Lev 3 14 37 And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:
3145 Leviticus Lev 3 14 38 He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,
3146 Leviticus Lev 3 14 39 And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,
3147 Leviticus Lev 3 14 40 He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:
3148 Leviticus Lev 3 14 41 And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:
3149 Leviticus Lev 3 14 42 And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.
3150 Leviticus Lev 3 14 43 But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth.
3151 Leviticus Lev 3 14 44 The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.
3152 Leviticus Lev 3 14 45 And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.
3153 Leviticus Lev 3 14 46 He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,
3154 Leviticus Lev 3 14 47 And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his clothes.
3155 Leviticus Lev 3 14 48 But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured.
3156 Leviticus Lev 3 14 49 And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
3157 Leviticus Lev 3 14 50 And having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over living waters,
3158 Leviticus Lev 3 14 51 He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
3159 Leviticus Lev 3 14 52 And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.
3160 Leviticus Lev 3 14 53 And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.
3161 Leviticus Lev 3 14 54 This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.
3162 Leviticus Lev 3 14 55 Of the leprosy of garments and houses,
3163 Leviticus Lev 3 14 56 Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a shining spot, and when the colours are diversely changed:
3164 Leviticus Lev 3 14 57 That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.
3165 Leviticus Lev 3 15 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
3166 Leviticus Lev 3 15 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.
3167 Leviticus Lev 3 15 3 And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.
3168 Leviticus Lev 3 15 4 Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall be unclean, and every place on which he sitteth.
3169 Leviticus Lev 3 15 5 If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
3170 Leviticus Lev 3 15 6 If a man sit where that man hath sitten, he also shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
3171 Leviticus Lev 3 15 7 He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water shall be unclean until the evening.
3172 Leviticus Lev 3 15 8 If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
3173 Leviticus Lev 3 15 9 The saddle on which he hath sitten shall be unclean.
3174 Leviticus Lev 3 15 10 And whatsoever has been under him that hath the issue of seed, shall be unclean until the evening. He that carrieth any of these things, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
3175 Leviticus Lev 3 15 11 Every person whom such a one shall touch, not having washed his hands before, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
3176 Leviticus Lev 3 15 12 If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: but if a vessel of wood, it shall be washed with water.
3177 Leviticus Lev 3 15 13 If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean.
3178 Leviticus Lev 3 15 14 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.
3179 Leviticus Lev 3 15 15 Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue of his seed.
3180 Leviticus Lev 3 15 16 The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.
3181 Leviticus Lev 3 15 17 The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.
3182 Leviticus Lev 3 15 18 The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.
3183 Leviticus Lev 3 15 19 The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.
3184 Leviticus Lev 3 15 20 Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.
3185 Leviticus Lev 3 15 21 And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.
3186 Leviticus Lev 3 15 22 He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
3187 Leviticus Lev 3 15 23 Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.
3188 Leviticus Lev 3 15 24 If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be defiled.
3189 Leviticus Lev 3 15 25 The woman that hath still issue of blood many days out of her ordinary time, or that ceaseth not to flow after the monthly courses, as long as she is subject to this disease, shall be unclean, in the same manner as if she were in her flowers.
3190 Leviticus Lev 3 15 26 Every bed on which she sleepeth, and every vessel on which she sitteth, shall be defiled.
3191 Leviticus Lev 3 15 27 Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
3192 Leviticus Lev 3 15 28 If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall count seven days of her purification:
3193 Leviticus Lev 3 15 29 And on the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest, two turtles, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:
3194 Leviticus Lev 3 15 30 And he shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and he shall pray for her before the Lord, and for the issue of her uncleanness.
3195 Leviticus Lev 3 15 31 You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have defiled my tabernacle that is among them.
3196 Leviticus Lev 3 15 32 This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation.
3197 Leviticus Lev 3 15 33 And of the woman that is separated in her monthly times, or that hath a continual issue of blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her.
3198 Leviticus Lev 3 16 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:
3199 Leviticus Lev 3 16 2 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),
3200 Leviticus Lev 3 16 3 Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.
3201 Leviticus Lev 3 16 4 He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.
3202 Leviticus Lev 3 16 5 And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.
3203 Leviticus Lev 3 16 6 And when he hath offered the cattle and prayed for himself and for his own house:
3204 Leviticus Lev 3 16 7 He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
3205 Leviticus Lev 3 16 8 And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:
3206 Leviticus Lev 3 16 9 That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin.
3207 Leviticus Lev 3 16 10 But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.
3208 Leviticus Lev 3 16 11 After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf: and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it.
3209 Leviticus Lev 3 16 12 And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:
3210 Leviticus Lev 3 16 13 That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.
3211 Leviticus Lev 3 16 14 He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.
3212 Leviticus Lev 3 16 15 And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was commanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it over against the oracle:
3213 Leviticus Lev 3 16 16 And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.
3214 Leviticus Lev 3 16 17 Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into the sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole congregation of Israel, until he come out.
3215 Leviticus Lev 3 16 18 And when he is come out to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for himself: and taking the blood of the calf, and of the buck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about.
3216 Leviticus Lev 3 16 19 And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
3217 Leviticus Lev 3 16 20 After he hath cleaned the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat.
3218 Leviticus Lev 3 16 21 And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.
3219 Leviticus Lev 3 16 22 And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert:
3220 Leviticus Lev 3 16 23 Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and putting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered into the sanctuary, and leaving them there,
3221 Leviticus Lev 3 16 24 He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments. And after that he is come out and hath offered his own holocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and for the people.
3222 Leviticus Lev 3 16 25 And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the altar.
3223 Leviticus Lev 3 16 26 But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.
3224 Leviticus Lev 3 16 27 But the calf and the buck goat, that were sacrificed for sin, and whose blood was carried into the sanctuary, to accomplish the atonement, they shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn with fire: their skins and their flesh, and their dung.
3225 Leviticus Lev 3 16 28 And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh with water: and so shall enter into the camp.
3226 Leviticus Lev 3 16 29 And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The seventh month, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you.
3227 Leviticus Lev 3 16 30 Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins. You shall be cleansed before the Lord.
3228 Leviticus Lev 3 16 31 For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.
3229 Leviticus Lev 3 16 32 And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father’s stead, shall make atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.
3230 Leviticus Lev 3 16 33 And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.
3231 Leviticus Lev 3 16 34 And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. He did therefore as the Lord had commanded Moses.
3232 Leviticus Lev 3 17 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3233 Leviticus Lev 3 17 2 Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, saying to them: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded, saying:
3234 Leviticus Lev 3 17 3 Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp,
3235 Leviticus Lev 3 17 4 And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood. As if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from the midst of his people.
3236 Leviticus Lev 3 17 5 Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they may sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.
3237 Leviticus Lev 3 17 6 And the priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and shall burn the fat for a sweet odour to the Lord.
3238 Leviticus Lev 3 17 7 And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with whom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to them and to their posterity.
3239 Leviticus Lev 3 17 8 And thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among you, that offereth a holocaust or a victim,
3240 Leviticus Lev 3 17 9 And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, shall perish from among his people.
3241 Leviticus Lev 3 17 10 If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
3242 Leviticus Lev 3 17 11 Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.
3243 Leviticus Lev 3 17 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.
3244 Leviticus Lev 3 17 13 Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a wild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood, and cover it with earth.
3245 Leviticus Lev 3 17 14 For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to the children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.
3246 Leviticus Lev 3 17 15 The soul that eateth that which died of itself, or has been caught by a beast, whether he be one of your own country or a stranger, shall wash his clothes and himself with water, and shall be defiled until the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean.
3247 Leviticus Lev 3 17 16 But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.
3248 Leviticus Lev 3 18 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3249 Leviticus Lev 3 18 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
3250 Leviticus Lev 3 18 3 You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
3251 Leviticus Lev 3 18 4 You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
3252 Leviticus Lev 3 18 5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.
3253 Leviticus Lev 3 18 6 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.
3254 Leviticus Lev 3 18 7 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
3255 Leviticus Lev 3 18 8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.
3256 Leviticus Lev 3 18 9 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.
3257 Leviticus Lev 3 18 10 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or thy daughter’s daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.
3258 Leviticus Lev 3 18 11 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.
3259 Leviticus Lev 3 18 12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.
3260 Leviticus Lev 3 18 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: because she is thy mother’s flesh.
3261 Leviticus Lev 3 18 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.
3262 Leviticus Lev 3 18 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son’s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.
3263 Leviticus Lev 3 18 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
3264 Leviticus Lev 3 18 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.
3265 Leviticus Lev 3 18 18 Thou shalt not take thy wife’s sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.
3266 Leviticus Lev 3 18 19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.
3267 Leviticus Lev 3 18 20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour’s wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.
3268 Leviticus Lev 3 18 21 Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.
3269 Leviticus Lev 3 18 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.
3270 Leviticus Lev 3 18 23 Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.
3271 Leviticus Lev 3 18 24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
3272 Leviticus Lev 3 18 25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
3273 Leviticus Lev 3 18 26 Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
3274 Leviticus Lev 3 18 27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.
3275 Leviticus Lev 3 18 28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
3276 Leviticus Lev 3 18 29 Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.
3277 Leviticus Lev 3 18 30 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
3278 Leviticus Lev 3 19 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3279 Leviticus Lev 3 19 2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.
3280 Leviticus Lev 3 19 3 Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
3281 Leviticus Lev 3 19 4 Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.
3282 Leviticus Lev 3 19 5 If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he may be favourable:
3283 Leviticus Lev 3 19 6 You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next day. And whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire.
3284 Leviticus Lev 3 19 7 If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety:
3285 Leviticus Lev 3 19 8 And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.
3286 Leviticus Lev 3 19 9 When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain.
3287 Leviticus Lev 3 19 10 Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and grapes that fall down in thy vineyard: but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God.
3288 Leviticus Lev 3 19 11 You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.
3289 Leviticus Lev 3 19 12 Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.
3290 Leviticus Lev 3 19 13 Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.
3291 Leviticus Lev 3 19 14 Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.
3292 Leviticus Lev 3 19 15 Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Respect not the person of the poor: nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.
3293 Leviticus Lev 3 19 16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.
3294 Leviticus Lev 3 19 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.
3295 Leviticus Lev 3 19 18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.
3296 Leviticus Lev 3 19 19 Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.
3297 Leviticus Lev 3 19 20 If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.
3298 Leviticus Lev 3 19 21 And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
3299 Leviticus Lev 3 19 22 And the priest shall pray for him: and for his sin before the Lord: and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.
3300 Leviticus Lev 3 19 23 When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them. The fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall you eat of them.
3301 Leviticus Lev 3 19 24 But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to the praise of the Lord.
3302 Leviticus Lev 3 19 25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof, gathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.
3303 Leviticus Lev 3 19 26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.
3304 Leviticus Lev 3 19 27 Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.
3305 Leviticus Lev 3 19 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.
3306 Leviticus Lev 3 19 29 Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.
3307 Leviticus Lev 3 19 30 Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3308 Leviticus Lev 3 19 31 Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.
3309 Leviticus Lev 3 19 32 Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.
3310 Leviticus Lev 3 19 33 If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him:
3311 Leviticus Lev 3 19 34 But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
3312 Leviticus Lev 3 19 35 Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.
3313 Leviticus Lev 3 19 36 Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
3314 Leviticus Lev 3 19 37 Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.
3315 Leviticus Lev 3 20 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3316 Leviticus Lev 3 20 2 Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land shall stone him.
3317 Leviticus Lev 3 20 3 And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.
3318 Leviticus Lev 3 20 4 And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:
3319 Leviticus Lev 3 20 5 I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.
3320 Leviticus Lev 3 20 6 The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.
3321 Leviticus Lev 3 20 7 Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.
3322 Leviticus Lev 3 20 8 Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
3323 Leviticus Lev 3 20 9 He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.
3324 Leviticus Lev 3 20 10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour’s wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
3325 Leviticus Lev 3 20 11 If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.
3326 Leviticus Lev 3 20 12 If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.
3327 Leviticus Lev 3 20 13 If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination: let them be put to death. Their blood be upon them.
3328 Leviticus Lev 3 20 14 If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.
3329 Leviticus Lev 3 20 15 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill.
3330 Leviticus Lev 3 20 16 The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same. Their blood be upon them.
3331 Leviticus Lev 3 20 17 If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother’s shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another’s nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.
3332 Leviticus Lev 3 20 18 If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.
3333 Leviticus Lev 3 20 19 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity.
3334 Leviticus Lev 3 20 20 If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.
3335 Leviticus Lev 3 20 21 He that marrieth his brother’s wife, doth an unlawful thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be without children.
3336 Leviticus Lev 3 20 22 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.
3337 Leviticus Lev 3 20 23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them.
3338 Leviticus Lev 3 20 24 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.
3339 Leviticus Lev 3 20 25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:
3340 Leviticus Lev 3 20 26 You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
3341 Leviticus Lev 3 20 27 A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon them.
3342 Leviticus Lev 3 21 1 The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.
3343 Leviticus Lev 3 21 2 But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also:
3344 Leviticus Lev 3 21 3 And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband.
3345 Leviticus Lev 3 21 4 But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.
3346 Leviticus Lev 3 21 5 Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.
3347 Leviticus Lev 3 21 6 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.
3348 Leviticus Lev 3 21 7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,
3349 Leviticus Lev 3 21 8 And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.
3350 Leviticus Lev 3 21 9 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.
3351 Leviticus Lev 3 21 10 The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.
3352 Leviticus Lev 3 21 11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.
3353 Leviticus Lev 3 21 12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.
3354 Leviticus Lev 3 21 13 He shall take a virgin unto his wife.
3355 Leviticus Lev 3 21 14 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.
3356 Leviticus Lev 3 21 15 He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.
3357 Leviticus Lev 3 21 16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3358 Leviticus Lev 3 21 17 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.
3359 Leviticus Lev 3 21 18 Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;
3360 Leviticus Lev 3 21 19 If his foot, or if his hand be broken;
3361 Leviticus Lev 3 21 20 If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.
3362 Leviticus Lev 3 21 21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.
3363 Leviticus Lev 3 21 22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.
3364 Leviticus Lev 3 21 23 Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
3365 Leviticus Lev 3 21 24 Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.
3366 Leviticus Lev 3 22 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses saying:
3367 Leviticus Lev 3 22 2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.
3368 Leviticus Lev 3 22 3 Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.
3369 Leviticus Lev 3 22 4 The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:
3370 Leviticus Lev 3 22 5 And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the touching of which is defiling:
3371 Leviticus Lev 3 22 6 Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with water,
3372 Leviticus Lev 3 22 7 And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.
3373 Leviticus Lev 3 22 8 That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.
3374 Leviticus Lev 3 22 9 Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
3375 Leviticus Lev 3 22 10 No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.
3376 Leviticus Lev 3 22 11 But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.
3377 Leviticus Lev 3 22 12 If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she shall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the firstfruits.
3378 Leviticus Lev 3 22 13 But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children return to her father’s house, she shall eat of her father’s meats, as she was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger hath leave to eat of them.
3379 Leviticus Lev 3 22 14 He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall add the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest into the sanctuary.
3380 Leviticus Lev 3 22 15 And they shall not profane the sanctified things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:
3381 Leviticus Lev 3 22 16 Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
3382 Leviticus Lev 3 22 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3383 Leviticus Lev 3 22 18 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,
3384 Leviticus Lev 3 22 19 To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
3385 Leviticus Lev 3 22 20 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.
3386 Leviticus Lev 3 22 21 The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.
3387 Leviticus Lev 3 22 22 If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord’s altar.
3388 Leviticus Lev 3 22 23 An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.
3389 Leviticus Lev 3 22 24 you shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you do any such things in your land.
3390 Leviticus Lev 3 22 25 you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.
3391 Leviticus Lev 3 22 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3392 Leviticus Lev 3 22 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, they shall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day, and thenceforth, they may be offered to the Lord.
3393 Leviticus Lev 3 22 28 Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed the same day with their young ones.
3394 Leviticus Lev 3 22 29 If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord, that he may be favourable,
3395 Leviticus Lev 3 22 30 You shall eat it the same day. There shall not any of it remain until the morning of the next day. I am the Lord.
3396 Leviticus Lev 3 22 31 Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.
3397 Leviticus Lev 3 22 32 Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctify you:
3398 Leviticus Lev 3 22 33 And who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.
3399 Leviticus Lev 3 23 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3400 Leviticus Lev 3 23 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.
3401 Leviticus Lev 3 23 3 Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.
3402 Leviticus Lev 3 23 4 These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their seasons.
3403 Leviticus Lev 3 23 5 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.
3404 Leviticus Lev 3 23 6 And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.
3405 Leviticus Lev 3 23 7 The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.
3406 Leviticus Lev 3 23 8 But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And the seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do no servile work therein.
3407 Leviticus Lev 3 23 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3408 Leviticus Lev 3 23 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
3409 Leviticus Lev 3 23 11 Who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, the next day after the sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.
3410 Leviticus Lev 3 23 12 And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.
3411 Leviticus Lev 3 23 13 And the libations shall be offered with it: two tenths of flour tempered with oil, for a burnt offering of the Lord, and a most sweet odour. Libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
3412 Leviticus Lev 3 23 14 You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.
3413 Leviticus Lev 3 23 15 You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of firstfruits, seven full weeks.
3414 Leviticus Lev 3 23 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.
3415 Leviticus Lev 3 23 17 Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord.
3416 Leviticus Lev 3 23 18 And you shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and they shall be for a holocaust with their libations for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
3417 Leviticus Lev 3 23 19 You shall offer also a buck goat for sin, and two lambs of the first year for sacrifices of peace offerings.
3418 Leviticus Lev 3 23 20 And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.
3419 Leviticus Lev 3 23 21 And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You shall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in all your dwellings and generations.
3420 Leviticus Lev 3 23 22 And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to the very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain. But you shall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your God.
3421 Leviticus Lev 3 23 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3422 Leviticus Lev 3 23 24 Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy.
3423 Leviticus Lev 3 23 25 You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.
3424 Leviticus Lev 3 23 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3425 Leviticus Lev 3 23 27 Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall afflict your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.
3426 Leviticus Lev 3 23 28 You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you.
3427 Leviticus Lev 3 23 29 Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people.
3428 Leviticus Lev 3 23 30 And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people.
3429 Leviticus Lev 3 23 31 You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.
3430 Leviticus Lev 3 23 32 It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.
3431 Leviticus Lev 3 23 33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3432 Leviticus Lev 3 23 34 Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the Lord.
3433 Leviticus Lev 3 23 35 The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you shall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord.
3434 Leviticus Lev 3 23 36 The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.
3435 Leviticus Lev 3 23 37 These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord: holocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.
3436 Leviticus Lev 3 23 38 Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those things that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily.
3437 Leviticus Lev 3 23 39 So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall have gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day and the eighth shall be a sabbath: that is a day of rest.
3438 Leviticus Lev 3 23 40 And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.
3439 Leviticus Lev 3 23 41 And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the seventh month shall you celebrate this feast.
3440 Leviticus Lev 3 23 42 And you shall dwell in bowers seven days. Every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:
3441 Leviticus Lev 3 23 43 That your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
3442 Leviticus Lev 3 23 44 And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel.
3443 Leviticus Lev 3 24 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3444 Leviticus Lev 3 24 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the finest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,
3445 Leviticus Lev 3 24 3 Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before the Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.
3446 Leviticus Lev 3 24 4 They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.
3447 Leviticus Lev 3 24 5 Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.
3448 Leviticus Lev 3 24 6 And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.
3449 Leviticus Lev 3 24 7 And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.
3450 Leviticus Lev 3 24 8 Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
3451 Leviticus Lev 3 24 9 And they shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.
3452 Leviticus Lev 3 24 10 And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in the camp with a man of Israel.
3453 Leviticus Lev 3 24 11 And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)
3454 Leviticus Lev 3 24 12 And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.
3455 Leviticus Lev 3 24 13 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
3456 Leviticus Lev 3 24 14 Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the people stone him.
3457 Leviticus Lev 3 24 15 And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:
3458 Leviticus Lev 3 24 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.
3459 Leviticus Lev 3 24 17 He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.
3460 Leviticus Lev 3 24 18 He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.
3461 Leviticus Lev 3 24 19 He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
3462 Leviticus Lev 3 24 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to suffer.
3463 Leviticus Lev 3 24 21 He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh a man shall be punished.
3464 Leviticus Lev 3 24 22 Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger, or a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.
3465 Leviticus Lev 3 24 23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel. And they brought forth him that had blasphemed, without the camp: and they stoned him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
3466 Leviticus Lev 3 25 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
3467 Leviticus Lev 3 25 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord.
3468 Leviticus Lev 3 25 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.
3469 Leviticus Lev 3 25 4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
3470 Leviticus Lev 3 25 5 What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.
3471 Leviticus Lev 3 25 6 But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee.
3472 Leviticus Lev 3 25 7 All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.
3473 Leviticus Lev 3 25 8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years: that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years.
3474 Leviticus Lev 3 25 9 And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.
3475 Leviticus Lev 3 25 10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:
3476 Leviticus Lev 3 25 11 Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,
3477 Leviticus Lev 3 25 12 Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow you shall presently eat them.
3478 Leviticus Lev 3 25 13 In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.
3479 Leviticus Lev 3 25 14 When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him: grieve not thy brother. But thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.
3480 Leviticus Lev 3 25 15 And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.
3481 Leviticus Lev 3 25 16 The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.
3482 Leviticus Lev 3 25 17 Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.
3483 Leviticus Lev 3 25 18 Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear.
3484 Leviticus Lev 3 25 19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no man’s invasion.
3485 Leviticus Lev 3 25 20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
3486 Leviticus Lev 3 25 21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.
3487 Leviticus Lev 3 25 22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.
3488 Leviticus Lev 3 25 23 The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
3489 Leviticus Lev 3 25 24 For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.
3490 Leviticus Lev 3 25 25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.
3491 Leviticus Lev 3 25 26 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
3492 Leviticus Lev 3 25 27 The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.
3493 Leviticus Lev 3 25 28 But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.
3494 Leviticus Lev 3 25 29 He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.
3495 Leviticus Lev 3 25 30 If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.
3496 Leviticus Lev 3 25 31 But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.
3497 Leviticus Lev 3 25 32 The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.
3498 Leviticus Lev 3 25 33 If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.
3499 Leviticus Lev 3 25 34 But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.
3500 Leviticus Lev 3 25 35 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee:
3501 Leviticus Lev 3 25 36 Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
3502 Leviticus Lev 3 25 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.
3503 Leviticus Lev 3 25 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.
3504 Leviticus Lev 3 25 39 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.
3505 Leviticus Lev 3 25 40 But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.
3506 Leviticus Lev 3 25 41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.
3507 Leviticus Lev 3 25 42 For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.
3508 Leviticus Lev 3 25 43 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.
3509 Leviticus Lev 3 25 44 Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:
3510 Leviticus Lev 3 25 45 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:
3511 Leviticus Lev 3 25 46 And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
3512 Leviticus Lev 3 25 47 If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:
3513 Leviticus Lev 3 25 48 After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:
3514 Leviticus Lev 3 25 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:
3515 Leviticus Lev 3 25 50 Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.
3516 Leviticus Lev 3 25 51 If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
3517 Leviticus Lev 3 25 52 If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.
3518 Leviticus Lev 3 25 53 His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
3519 Leviticus Lev 3 25 54 And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
3520 Leviticus Lev 3 25 55 For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
3521 Leviticus Lev 3 26 1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.
3522 Leviticus Lev 3 26 2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3523 Leviticus Lev 3 26 3 If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rain in due seasons.
3524 Leviticus Lev 3 26 4 And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees shall be filled with fruit.
3525 Leviticus Lev 3 26 5 The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
3526 Leviticus Lev 3 26 6 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
3527 Leviticus Lev 3 26 7 You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.
3528 Leviticus Lev 3 26 8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
3529 Leviticus Lev 3 26 9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.
3530 Leviticus Lev 3 26 10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
3531 Leviticus Lev 3 26 11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off.
3532 Leviticus Lev 3 26 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God: and you shall be my people.
3533 Leviticus Lev 3 26 13 I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.
3534 Leviticus Lev 3 26 14 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:
3535 Leviticus Lev 3 26 15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:
3536 Leviticus Lev 3 26 16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.
3537 Leviticus Lev 3 26 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.
3538 Leviticus Lev 3 26 18 But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
3539 Leviticus Lev 3 26 19 And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.
3540 Leviticus Lev 3 26 20 Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.
3541 Leviticus Lev 3 26 21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.
3542 Leviticus Lev 3 26 22 And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate.
3543 Leviticus Lev 3 26 23 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:
3544 Leviticus Lev 3 26 24 I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.
3545 Leviticus Lev 3 26 25 And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,
3546 Leviticus Lev 3 26 26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,
3547 Leviticus Lev 3 26 27 But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me
3548 Leviticus Lev 3 26 28 I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,
3549 Leviticus Lev 3 26 29 So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
3550 Leviticus Lev 3 26 30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
3551 Leviticus Lev 3 26 31 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.
3552 Leviticus Lev 3 26 32 And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.
3553 Leviticus Lev 3 26 33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.
3554 Leviticus Lev 3 26 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be
3555 Leviticus Lev 3 26 35 In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein.
3556 Leviticus Lev 3 26 36 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.
3557 Leviticus Lev 3 26 37 And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.
3558 Leviticus Lev 3 26 38 You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy’s land shall consume you.
3559 Leviticus Lev 3 26 39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.
3560 Leviticus Lev 3 26 40 Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.
3561 Leviticus Lev 3 26 41 Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies’ land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins.
3562 Leviticus Lev 3 26 42 And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:
3563 Leviticus Lev 3 26 43 Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.
3564 Leviticus Lev 3 26 44 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.
3565 Leviticus Lev 3 26 45 And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
3566 Leviticus Lev 3 27 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3567 Leviticus Lev 3 27 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation.
3568 Leviticus Lev 3 27 3 If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he shall give fifty sicles of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary:
3569 Leviticus Lev 3 27 4 If a woman, thirty.
3570 Leviticus Lev 3 27 5 But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten.
3571 Leviticus Lev 3 27 6 From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given five sicles: for a female three.
3572 Leviticus Lev 3 27 7 A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen sicles: a woman ten.
3573 Leviticus Lev 3 27 8 If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give.
3574 Leviticus Lev 3 27 9 But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy,
3575 Leviticus Lev 3 27 10 And cannot be changed: that is to say, neither a better for a worse, nor a worse for a better. And if he shall change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord.
3576 Leviticus Lev 3 27 11 An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:
3577 Leviticus Lev 3 27 12 Who judging whether it be good or bad, shall set the price.
3578 Leviticus Lev 3 27 13 Which, if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part.
3579 Leviticus Lev 3 27 14 If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint.
3580 Leviticus Lev 3 27 15 But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation over and above: and shall have the house.
3581 Leviticus Lev 3 27 16 And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.
3582 Leviticus Lev 3 27 17 If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.
3583 Leviticus Lev 3 27 18 But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money according to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated.
3584 Leviticus Lev 3 27 19 And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.
3585 Leviticus Lev 3 27 20 And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.
3586 Leviticus Lev 3 27 21 For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of the priest.
3587 Leviticus Lev 3 27 22 If a field that was bought, and not of a man’s ancestors’ possession, be sanctified to the Lord:
3588 Leviticus Lev 3 27 23 The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of years, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord.
3589 Leviticus Lev 3 27 24 But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.
3590 Leviticus Lev 3 27 25 All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
3591 Leviticus Lev 3 27 26 The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord’s.
3592 Leviticus Lev 3 27 27 And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem it, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was estimated by thee.
3593 Leviticus Lev 3 27 28 Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.
3594 Leviticus Lev 3 27 29 And any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die.
3595 Leviticus Lev 3 27 30 All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord’s, and are sanctified to him.
3596 Leviticus Lev 3 27 31 And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth part of them.
3597 Leviticus Lev 3 27 32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd’s rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord.
3598 Leviticus Lev 3 27 33 It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be changed for another. If any man change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.
3599 Leviticus Lev 3 27 34 These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
3600 Numbers Num 4 1 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying:
3601 Numbers Num 4 1 2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,
3602 Numbers Num 4 1 3 From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.
3603 Numbers Num 4 1 4 And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,
3604 Numbers Num 4 1 5 Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.
3605 Numbers Num 4 1 6 Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.
3606 Numbers Num 4 1 7 Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.
3607 Numbers Num 4 1 8 Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.
3608 Numbers Num 4 1 9 Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.
3609 Numbers Num 4 1 10 And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud: of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
3610 Numbers Num 4 1 11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.
3611 Numbers Num 4 1 12 Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.
3612 Numbers Num 4 1 13 Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.
3613 Numbers Num 4 1 14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel.
3614 Numbers Num 4 1 15 Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan.
3615 Numbers Num 4 1 16 These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:
3616 Numbers Num 4 1 17 Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:
3617 Numbers Num 4 1 18 And assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from twenty years old and upward,
3618 Numbers Num 4 1 19 As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.
3619 Numbers Num 4 1 20 Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and families and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
3620 Numbers Num 4 1 21 Were forty-six thousand five hundred.
3621 Numbers Num 4 1 22 Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of every one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
3622 Numbers Num 4 1 23 Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
3623 Numbers Num 4 1 24 Of the sons of Gad, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3624 Numbers Num 4 1 25 Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
3625 Numbers Num 4 1 26 Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3626 Numbers Num 4 1 27 Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand six hundred.
3627 Numbers Num 4 1 28 Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,
3628 Numbers Num 4 1 29 Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred.
3629 Numbers Num 4 1 30 Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3630 Numbers Num 4 1 31 Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
3631 Numbers Num 4 1 32 Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3632 Numbers Num 4 1 33 Forty thousand five hundred.
3633 Numbers Num 4 1 34 Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,
3634 Numbers Num 4 1 35 Thirty-two thousand two hundred.
3635 Numbers Num 4 1 36 Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3636 Numbers Num 4 1 37 Thirty-five thousand four hundred.
3637 Numbers Num 4 1 38 Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3638 Numbers Num 4 1 39 Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
3639 Numbers Num 4 1 40 Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,
3640 Numbers Num 4 1 41 Forty-one thousand and five hundred.
3641 Numbers Num 4 1 42 Of the sons of Nephtali, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, were able to go forth to war,
3642 Numbers Num 4 1 43 Fifty-three thousand four hundred.
3643 Numbers Num 4 1 44 These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.
3644 Numbers Num 4 1 45 And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to war,
3645 Numbers Num 4 1 46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
3646 Numbers Num 4 1 47 But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
3647 Numbers Num 4 1 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3648 Numbers Num 4 1 49 Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:
3649 Numbers Num 4 1 50 But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
3650 Numbers Num 4 1 51 When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.
3651 Numbers Num 4 1 52 And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and army.
3652 Numbers Num 4 1 53 But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the children of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle of the testimony.
3653 Numbers Num 4 1 54 And the children of Israel did according to all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.
3654 Numbers Num 4 2 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
3655 Numbers Num 4 2 2 All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle of the covenant.
3656 Numbers Num 4 2 3 On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.
3657 Numbers Num 4 2 4 And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
3658 Numbers Num 4 2 5 Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son of Suar.
3659 Numbers Num 4 2 6 And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
3660 Numbers Num 4 2 7 In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.
3661 Numbers Num 4 2 8 And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
3662 Numbers Num 4 2 9 All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first.
3663 Numbers Num 4 2 10 In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:
3664 Numbers Num 4 2 11 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
3665 Numbers Num 4 2 12 Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.
3666 Numbers Num 4 2 13 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
3667 Numbers Num 4 2 14 In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.
3668 Numbers Num 4 2 15 And the whole army of his fighting men that were numbered, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
3669 Numbers Num 4 2 16 All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall march in the second place.
3670 Numbers Num 4 2 17 And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the officers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so shall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their places, and ranks.
3671 Numbers Num 4 2 18 On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.
3672 Numbers Num 4 2 19 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty thousand five hundred.
3673 Numbers Num 4 2 20 And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whose prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
3674 Numbers Num 4 2 21 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
3675 Numbers Num 4 2 22 In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.
3676 Numbers Num 4 2 23 And the whole army of fighting men, that were reckoned up, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
3677 Numbers Num 4 2 24 All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and eight-thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the third place.
3678 Numbers Num 4 2 25 On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisaddai.
3679 Numbers Num 4 2 26 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
3680 Numbers Num 4 2 27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.
3681 Numbers Num 4 2 28 The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
3682 Numbers Num 4 2 29 Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.
3683 Numbers Num 4 2 30 The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
3684 Numbers Num 4 2 31 All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last.
3685 Numbers Num 4 2 32 This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
3686 Numbers Num 4 2 33 And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel: for so the Lord had commanded Moses.
3687 Numbers Num 4 2 34 And the children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the families and houses of their fathers.
3688 Numbers Num 4 3 1 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.
3689 Numbers Num 4 3 2 And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3690 Numbers Num 4 3 3 These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the functions of priesthood.
3691 Numbers Num 4 3 4 Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father.
3692 Numbers Num 4 3 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3693 Numbers Num 4 3 6 Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to minister to him, and let them watch,
3694 Numbers Num 4 3 7 And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the multitude before the tabernacle of the testimony,
3695 Numbers Num 4 3 8 And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the ministry thereof.
3696 Numbers Num 4 3 9 And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,
3697 Numbers Num 4 3 10 To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death.
3698 Numbers Num 4 3 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3699 Numbers Num 4 3 12 I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
3700 Numbers Num 4 3 13 For every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in Israel both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord.
3701 Numbers Num 4 3 14 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:
3702 Numbers Num 4 3 15 Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.
3703 Numbers Num 4 3 16 Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.
3704 Numbers Num 4 3 17 And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath Merari.
3705 Numbers Num 4 3 18 The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.
3706 Numbers Num 4 3 19 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel:
3707 Numbers Num 4 3 20 The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi.
3708 Numbers Num 4 3 21 Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites:
3709 Numbers Num 4 3 22 Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred.
3710 Numbers Num 4 3 23 These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,
3711 Numbers Num 4 3 24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.
3712 Numbers Num 4 3 25 And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:
3713 Numbers Num 4 3 26 The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.
3714 Numbers Num 4 3 27 Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:
3715 Numbers Num 4 3 28 All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,
3716 Numbers Num 4 3 29 And shall camp on the south side.
3717 Numbers Num 4 3 30 And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:
3718 Numbers Num 4 3 31 And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.
3719 Numbers Num 4 3 32 And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary.
3720 Numbers Num 4 3 33 And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names:
3721 Numbers Num 4 3 34 All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two hundred.
3722 Numbers Num 4 3 35 Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: their shall camp on the north side.
3723 Numbers Num 4 3 36 Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:
3724 Numbers Num 4 3 37 And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords.
3725 Numbers Num 4 3 38 Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.
3726 Numbers Num 4 3 39 All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
3727 Numbers Num 4 3 40 And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them.
3728 Numbers Num 4 3 41 And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:
3729 Numbers Num 4 3 42 Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:
3730 Numbers Num 4 3 43 And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
3731 Numbers Num 4 3 44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3732 Numbers Num 4 3 45 Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.
3733 Numbers Num 4 3 46 But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,
3734 Numbers Num 4 3 47 Thou shalt take five sicles for every head, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
3735 Numbers Num 4 3 48 And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.
3736 Numbers Num 4 3 49 Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom they had redeemed from the Levites,
3737 Numbers Num 4 3 50 For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary,
3738 Numbers Num 4 3 51 And gave it to Aaron and his sons according to the word that the Lord had commanded him.
3739 Numbers Num 4 4 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:
3740 Numbers Num 4 4 2 Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families.
3741 Numbers Num 4 4 3 From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
3742 Numbers Num 4 4 4 This is the service of the sons of Caath:
3743 Numbers Num 4 4 5 When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it,
3744 Numbers Num 4 4 6 And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.
3745 Numbers Num 4 4 7 They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:
3746 Numbers Num 4 4 8 And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.
3747 Numbers Num 4 4 9 They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:
3748 Numbers Num 4 4 10 And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars.
3749 Numbers Num 4 4 11 And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.
3750 Numbers Num 4 4 12 All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.
3751 Numbers Num 4 4 13 They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,
3752 Numbers Num 4 4 14 And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, pothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar together with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.
3753 Numbers Num 4 4 15 And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:
3754 Numbers Num 4 4 16 And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet incense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle, and of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary.
3755 Numbers Num 4 4 17 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
3756 Numbers Num 4 4 18 Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:
3757 Numbers Num 4 4 19 But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man is to carry.
3758 Numbers Num 4 4 20 Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.
3759 Numbers Num 4 4 21 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3760 Numbers Num 4 4 22 Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and families and kindreds.
3761 Numbers Num 4 4 23 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
3762 Numbers Num 4 4 24 This is the office of the family of the Gersonites:
3763 Numbers Num 4 4 25 To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the covenant, the other covering, and the violet covering over all, and the hanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant,
3764 Numbers Num 4 4 26 The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is before tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords and the vessels of the ministry,
3765 Numbers Num 4 4 27 The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of Aaron and his sons: and each man shall know to what burden he must be assigned.
3766 Numbers Num 4 4 28 This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
3767 Numbers Num 4 4 29 Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and houses of their fathers,
3768 Numbers Num 4 4 30 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of the covenant of the testimony.
3769 Numbers Num 4 4 31 These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets,
3770 Numbers Num 4 4 32 The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and pins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and furniture, and so shall carry them.
3771 Numbers Num 4 4 33 This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and their ministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
3772 Numbers Num 4 4 34 So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,
3773 Numbers Num 4 4 35 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant:
3774 Numbers Num 4 4 36 And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
3775 Numbers Num 4 4 37 This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the tabernacle of the covenant: these did Moses and Aaron number according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
3776 Numbers Num 4 4 38 The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,
3777 Numbers Num 4 4 39 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant:
3778 Numbers Num 4 4 40 And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty.
3779 Numbers Num 4 4 41 This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
3780 Numbers Num 4 4 42 The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,
3781 Numbers Num 4 4 43 From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that go in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant:
3782 Numbers Num 4 4 44 And they were found three thousand two hundred.
3783 Numbers Num 4 4 45 This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
3784 Numbers Num 4 4 46 All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,
3785 Numbers Num 4 4 47 From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go into the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens,
3786 Numbers Num 4 4 48 Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
3787 Numbers Num 4 4 49 Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him.
3788 Numbers Num 4 5 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3789 Numbers Num 4 5 2 Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:
3790 Numbers Num 4 5 3 Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you,
3791 Numbers Num 4 5 4 And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
3792 Numbers Num 4 5 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3793 Numbers Num 4 5 6 Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended,
3794 Numbers Num 4 5 7 They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself, and the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have sinned.
3795 Numbers Num 4 5 8 But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.
3796 Numbers Num 4 5 9 All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:
3797 Numbers Num 4 5 10 And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.
3798 Numbers Num 4 5 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3799 Numbers Num 4 5 12 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,
3800 Numbers Num 4 5 13 Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:
3801 Numbers Num 4 5 14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,
3802 Numbers Num 4 5 15 He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.
3803 Numbers Num 4 5 16 The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.
3804 Numbers Num 4 5 17 And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.
3805 Numbers Num 4 5 18 And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.
3806 Numbers Num 4 5 19 And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband’s bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.
3807 Numbers Num 4 5 20 But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled, and hast lain with another man:
3808 Numbers Num 4 5 21 These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.
3809 Numbers Num 4 5 22 Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.
3810 Numbers Num 4 5 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses,
3811 Numbers Num 4 5 24 And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them up,
3812 Numbers Num 4 5 25 The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first,
3813 Numbers Num 4 5 26 To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink.
3814 Numbers Num 4 5 27 And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people.
3815 Numbers Num 4 5 28 But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.
3816 Numbers Num 4 5 29 This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,
3817 Numbers Num 4 5 30 And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written:
3818 Numbers Num 4 5 31 The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.
3819 Numbers Num 4 6 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3820 Numbers Num 4 6 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate themselves to the Lord:
3821 Numbers Num 4 6 3 They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried.
3822 Numbers Num 4 6 4 All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow: they shall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to the kernel.
3823 Numbers Num 4 6 5 All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.
3824 Numbers Num 4 6 6 All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,
3825 Numbers Num 4 6 7 Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
3826 Numbers Num 4 6 8 All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.
3827 Numbers Num 4 6 9 But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his consecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the same day of his purification, and again on the seventh day.
3828 Numbers Num 4 6 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.
3829 Numbers Num 4 6 11 And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead: and he shall sanctify his head that day:
3830 Numbers Num 4 6 12 And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned.
3831 Numbers Num 4 6 13 This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,
3832 Numbers Num 4 6 14 And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year old without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a victim of peace offering,
3833 Numbers Num 4 6 15 A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:
3834 Numbers Num 4 6 16 And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.
3835 Numbers Num 4 6 17 But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread, and the libations that are due by custom.
3836 Numbers Num 4 6 18 Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be shaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
3837 Numbers Num 4 6 19 And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver them into the hands of the Nazarite, after his head is shaven.
3838 Numbers Num 4 6 20 And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.
3839 Numbers Num 4 6 21 This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation to the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which his hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind, so shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification.
3840 Numbers Num 4 6 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3841 Numbers Num 4 6 23 Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to them:
3842 Numbers Num 4 6 24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.
3843 Numbers Num 4 6 25 The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.
3844 Numbers Num 4 6 26 The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.
3845 Numbers Num 4 6 27 And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
3846 Numbers Num 4 7 1 And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,
3847 Numbers Num 4 7 2 The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered
3848 Numbers Num 4 7 3 Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.
3849 Numbers Num 4 7 4 And the Lord said to Moses:
3850 Numbers Num 4 7 5 Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of their ministry.
3851 Numbers Num 4 7 6 Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites.
3852 Numbers Num 4 7 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to their necessity.
3853 Numbers Num 4 7 8 The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
3854 Numbers Num 4 7 9 But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.
3855 Numbers Num 4 7 10 And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.
3856 Numbers Num 4 7 11 And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.
3857 Numbers Num 4 7 12 The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering:
3858 Numbers Num 4 7 13 And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3859 Numbers Num 4 7 14 A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense:
3860 Numbers Num 4 7 15 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3861 Numbers Num 4 7 16 And a buck goat for sin:
3862 Numbers Num 4 7 17 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nahasson the son of Aminadab.
3863 Numbers Num 4 7 18 The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar, made his offering,
3864 Numbers Num 4 7 19 A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3865 Numbers Num 4 7 20 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3866 Numbers Num 4 7 21 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3867 Numbers Num 4 7 22 And a buck goat for sin:
3868 Numbers Num 4 7 23 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nathanael the son of Suar.
3869 Numbers Num 4 7 24 The third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon,
3870 Numbers Num 4 7 25 Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3871 Numbers Num 4 7 26 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3872 Numbers Num 4 7 27 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3873 Numbers Num 4 7 28 And a buck goat for sin:
3874 Numbers Num 4 7 29 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Eliab the son of Helon.
3875 Numbers Num 4 7 30 The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,
3876 Numbers Num 4 7 31 Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3877 Numbers Num 4 7 32 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3878 Numbers Num 4 7 33 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a holocaust:
3879 Numbers Num 4 7 34 And a buck goat for sin:
3880 Numbers Num 4 7 35 And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.
3881 Numbers Num 4 7 36 The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,
3882 Numbers Num 4 7 37 Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3883 Numbers Num 4 7 38 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3884 Numbers Num 4 7 39 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3885 Numbers Num 4 7 40 And a buck goat for sin:
3886 Numbers Num 4 7 41 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.
3887 Numbers Num 4 7 42 The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel,
3888 Numbers Num 4 7 43 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3889 Numbers Num 4 7 44 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3890 Numbers Num 4 7 45 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3891 Numbers Num 4 7 46 And a buck goat for sin:
3892 Numbers Num 4 7 47 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Duel.
3893 Numbers Num 4 7 48 The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud,
3894 Numbers Num 4 7 49 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3895 Numbers Num 4 7 50 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3896 Numbers Num 4 7 51 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3897 Numbers Num 4 7 52 And a buck goat for sin:
3898 Numbers Num 4 7 53 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisama the son of Ammiud.
3899 Numbers Num 4 7 54 The eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur,
3900 Numbers Num 4 7 55 Offered a silver dish, weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3901 Numbers Num 4 7 56 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3902 Numbers Num 4 7 57 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3903 Numbers Num 4 7 58 And a buck goat for sin:
3904 Numbers Num 4 7 59 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
3905 Numbers Num 4 7 60 The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon,
3906 Numbers Num 4 7 61 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3907 Numbers Num 4 7 62 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3908 Numbers Num 4 7 63 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3909 Numbers Num 4 7 64 And a buck goat for sin:
3910 Numbers Num 4 7 65 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gedeon.
3911 Numbers Num 4 7 66 The tenth day the princes of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai,
3912 Numbers Num 4 7 67 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3913 Numbers Num 4 7 68 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3914 Numbers Num 4 7 69 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3915 Numbers Num 4 7 70 And a buck goat for sin:
3916 Numbers Num 4 7 71 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.
3917 Numbers Num 4 7 72 The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran,
3918 Numbers Num 4 7 73 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3919 Numbers Num 4 7 74 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3920 Numbers Num 4 7 75 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3921 Numbers Num 4 7 76 And a buck goat for sin:
3922 Numbers Num 4 7 77 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Phegiel the son of Ochran.
3923 Numbers Num 4 7 78 The twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan,
3924 Numbers Num 4 7 79 Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
3925 Numbers Num 4 7 80 A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:
3926 Numbers Num 4 7 81 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
3927 Numbers Num 4 7 82 And a buck goat for sin:
3928 Numbers Num 4 7 83 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
3929 Numbers Num 4 7 84 These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve dishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold:
3930 Numbers Num 4 7 85 Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and each bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the sanctuary.
3931 Numbers Num 4 7 86 Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sicles apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and twenty sicles of gold.
3932 Numbers Num 4 7 87 Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust, twelve rams, twelve lambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck goats for sin.
3933 Numbers Num 4 7 88 And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen twenty-four, rams sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.
3934 Numbers Num 4 7 89 And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.
3935 Numbers Num 4 8 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3936 Numbers Num 4 8 2 Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.
3937 Numbers Num 4 8 3 And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
3938 Numbers Num 4 8 4 Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of the branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the candlestick.
3939 Numbers Num 4 8 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3940 Numbers Num 4 8 6 Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,
3941 Numbers Num 4 8 7 According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of purification, and let them shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when they shall have washed their garments, and are cleansed,
3942 Numbers Num 4 8 8 They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof fine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take another ox of the herd for a sin offering:
3943 Numbers Num 4 8 9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the covenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel:
3944 Numbers Num 4 8 10 And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them:
3945 Numbers Num 4 8 11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.
3946 Numbers Num 4 8 12 The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a holocaust to the Lord, to pray for them.
3947 Numbers Num 4 8 13 And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his, and shalt consecrate them being offered to the Lord,
3948 Numbers Num 4 8 14 And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel, to be mine.
3949 Numbers Num 4 8 15 And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.
3950 Numbers Num 4 8 16 I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb in Israel,
3951 Numbers Num 4 8 17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and of beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself:
3952 Numbers Num 4 8 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel:
3953 Numbers Num 4 8 19 And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of the covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among the people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary.
3954 Numbers Num 4 8 20 And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of Israel did with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses
3955 Numbers Num 4 8 21 And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them,
3956 Numbers Num 4 8 22 That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the covenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done.
3957 Numbers Num 4 8 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3958 Numbers Num 4 8 24 This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
3959 Numbers Num 4 8 25 And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
3960 Numbers Num 4 8 26 And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to their care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites touching their charge.
3961 Numbers Num 4 9 1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:
3962 Numbers Num 4 9 2 Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
3963 Numbers Num 4 9 3 The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof.
3964 Numbers Num 4 9 4 And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase.
3965 Numbers Num 4 9 5 And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded Moses.
3966 Numbers Num 4 9 6 But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,
3967 Numbers Num 4 9 7 Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel?
3968 Numbers Num 4 9 8 And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning you.
3969 Numbers Num 4 9 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3970 Numbers Num 4 9 10 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord.
3971 Numbers Num 4 9 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:
3972 Numbers Num 4 9 12 They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.
3973 Numbers Num 4 9 13 But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not make the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, because he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall bear his sin.
3974 Numbers Num 4 9 14 The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall make the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and justifications thereof. The same ordinances shall be with you both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
3975 Numbers Num 4 9 15 Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning.
3976 Numbers Num 4 9 16 So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.
3977 Numbers Num 4 9 17 And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then the children of Israel marched forward: and in the place where the cloud stood still, there they camped.
3978 Numbers Num 4 9 18 At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud abode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:
3979 Numbers Num 4 9 19 And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the children of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not,
3980 Numbers Num 4 9 20 For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. At the commandment of the Lord they pitched their tents, and at his commandment they took them down.
3981 Numbers Num 4 9 21 If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately at break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it departed after a day and a night, they took down their tents.
3982 Numbers Num 4 9 22 But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a longer time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and marched not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the camp.
3983 Numbers Num 4 9 23 By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word they marched: and kept the watches of the Lord according to his commandment by the hand of Moses.
3984 Numbers Num 4 10 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
3985 Numbers Num 4 10 2 Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.
3986 Numbers Num 4 10 3 And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.
3987 Numbers Num 4 10 4 If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.
3988 Numbers Num 4 10 5 But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.
3989 Numbers Num 4 10 6 And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.
3990 Numbers Num 4 10 7 But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.
3991 Numbers Num 4 10 8 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.
3992 Numbers Num 4 10 9 If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies.
3993 Numbers Num 4 10 10 If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.
3994 Numbers Num 4 10 11 The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant.
3995 Numbers Num 4 10 12 And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.
3996 Numbers Num 4 10 13 And the first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
3997 Numbers Num 4 10 14 The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab.
3998 Numbers Num 4 10 15 In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael the son of Suar.
3999 Numbers Num 4 10 16 In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.
4000 Numbers Num 4 10 17 And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.
4001 Numbers Num 4 10 18 And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.
4002 Numbers Num 4 10 19 And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.
4003 Numbers Num 4 10 20 And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.
4004 Numbers Num 4 10 21 Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.
4005 Numbers Num 4 10 22 The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.
4006 Numbers Num 4 10 23 And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.
4007 Numbers Num 4 10 24 And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.
4008 Numbers Num 4 10 25 The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.
4009 Numbers Num 4 10 26 And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.
4010 Numbers Num 4 10 27 And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.
4011 Numbers Num 4 10 28 This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of Israel by their troops, when they set forward.
4012 Numbers Num 4 10 29 And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.
4013 Numbers Num 4 10 30 But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.
4014 Numbers Num 4 10 31 And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.
4015 Numbers Num 4 10 32 And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.
4016 Numbers Num 4 10 33 So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the camp.
4017 Numbers Num 4 10 34 The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they marched.
4018 Numbers Num 4 10 35 And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.
4019 Numbers Num 4 10 36 And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.
4020 Numbers Num 4 11 1 In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.
4021 Numbers Num 4 11 2 And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.
4022 Numbers Num 4 11 3 And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.
4023 Numbers Num 4 11 4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?
4024 Numbers Num 4 11 5 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
4025 Numbers Num 4 11 6 Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.
4026 Numbers Num 4 11 7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.
4027 Numbers Num 4 11 8 And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof of the taste of bread tempered with oil.
4028 Numbers Num 4 11 9 And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.
4029 Numbers Num 4 11 10 Now Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one at the door of his tent. And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable.
4030 Numbers Num 4 11 11 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me?
4031 Numbers Num 4 11 12 Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers?
4032 Numbers Num 4 11 13 Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
4033 Numbers Num 4 11 14 I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
4034 Numbers Num 4 11 15 But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
4035 Numbers Num 4 11 16 And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,
4036 Numbers Num 4 11 17 That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
4037 Numbers Num 4 11 18 And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh to eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat:
4038 Numbers Num 4 11 19 Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.
4039 Numbers Num 4 11 20 But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?
4040 Numbers Num 4 11 21 And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?
4041 Numbers Num 4 11 22 Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered together to fill them?
4042 Numbers Num 4 11 23 And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.
4043 Numbers Num 4 11 24 Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord, and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to stand about the tabernacle.
4044 Numbers Num 4 11 25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards.
4045 Numbers Num 4 11 26 Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for they also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.
4046 Numbers Num 4 11 27 And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.
4047 Numbers Num 4 11 28 Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.
4048 Numbers Num 4 11 29 But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!
4049 Numbers Num 4 11 30 And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.
4050 Numbers Num 4 11 31 And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day’s journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.
4051 Numbers Num 4 11 32 The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round about the camp.
4052 Numbers Num 4 11 33 As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.
4053 Numbers Num 4 11 34 And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.
4054 Numbers Num 4 12 1 And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,
4055 Numbers Num 4 12 2 And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,
4056 Numbers Num 4 12 3 (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)
4057 Numbers Num 4 12 4 Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,
4058 Numbers Num 4 12 5 The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,
4059 Numbers Num 4 12 6 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.
4060 Numbers Num 4 12 7 But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:
4061 Numbers Num 4 12 8 For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?
4062 Numbers Num 4 12 9 And being angry with them he went away:
4063 Numbers Num 4 12 10 The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,
4064 Numbers Num 4 12 11 He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:
4065 Numbers Num 4 12 12 Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother’s womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.
4066 Numbers Num 4 12 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.
4067 Numbers Num 4 12 14 And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.
4068 Numbers Num 4 12 15 Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days: and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called again.
4069 Numbers Num 4 13 1 And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.
4070 Numbers Num 4 13 2 And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
4071 Numbers Num 4 13 3 Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.
4072 Numbers Num 4 13 4 Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:
4073 Numbers Num 4 13 5 Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.
4074 Numbers Num 4 13 6 Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri.
4075 Numbers Num 4 13 7 Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.
4076 Numbers Num 4 13 8 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
4077 Numbers Num 4 13 9 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.
4078 Numbers Num 4 13 10 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.
4079 Numbers Num 4 13 11 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.
4080 Numbers Num 4 13 12 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.
4081 Numbers Num 4 13 13 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
4082 Numbers Num 4 13 14 Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.
4083 Numbers Num 4 13 15 Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.
4084 Numbers Num 4 13 16 Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.
4085 Numbers Num 4 13 17 These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.
4086 Numbers Num 4 13 18 And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,
4087 Numbers Num 4 13 19 View the land, of what sort it is, and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:
4088 Numbers Num 4 13 20 The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of cities, walled or without walls:
4089 Numbers Num 4 13 21 The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten.
4090 Numbers Num 4 13 22 And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.
4091 Numbers Num 4 13 23 And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.
4092 Numbers Num 4 13 24 And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:
4093 Numbers Num 4 13 25 Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.
4094 Numbers Num 4 13 26 And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
4095 Numbers Num 4 13 27 And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:
4096 Numbers Num 4 13 28 And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:
4097 Numbers Num 4 13 29 But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.
4098 Numbers Num 4 13 30 Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.
4099 Numbers Num 4 13 31 In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
4100 Numbers Num 4 13 32 But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
4101 Numbers Num 4 13 33 And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature.
4102 Numbers Num 4 13 34 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
4103 Numbers Num 4 14 1 Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
4104 Numbers Num 4 14 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:
4105 Numbers Num 4 14 3 Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?
4106 Numbers Num 4 14 4 And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
4107 Numbers Num 4 14 5 And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
4108 Numbers Num 4 14 6 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,
4109 Numbers Num 4 14 7 And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
4110 Numbers Num 4 14 8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
4111 Numbers Num 4 14 9 Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.
4112 Numbers Num 4 14 10 And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.
4113 Numbers Num 4 14 11 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?
4114 Numbers Num 4 14 12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
4115 Numbers Num 4 14 13 And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,
4116 Numbers Num 4 14 14 And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)
4117 Numbers Num 4 14 15 May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
4118 Numbers Num 4 14 16 He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.
4119 Numbers Num 4 14 17 Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:
4120 Numbers Num 4 14 18 The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
4121 Numbers Num 4 14 19 Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.
4122 Numbers Num 4 14 20 And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.
4123 Numbers Num 4 14 21 As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
4124 Numbers Num 4 14 22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,
4125 Numbers Num 4 14 23 Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
4126 Numbers Num 4 14 24 My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.
4127 Numbers Num 4 14 25 For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
4128 Numbers Num 4 14 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
4129 Numbers Num 4 14 27 How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
4130 Numbers Num 4 14 28 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
4131 Numbers Num 4 14 29 In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
4132 Numbers Num 4 14 30 Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
4133 Numbers Num 4 14 31 But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
4134 Numbers Num 4 14 32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
4135 Numbers Num 4 14 33 Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,
4136 Numbers Num 4 14 34 According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
4137 Numbers Num 4 14 35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
4138 Numbers Num 4 14 36 Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,
4139 Numbers Num 4 14 37 Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
4140 Numbers Num 4 14 38 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.
4141 Numbers Num 4 14 39 And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.
4142 Numbers Num 4 14 40 And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.
4143 Numbers Num 4 14 41 And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?
4144 Numbers Num 4 14 42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
4145 Numbers Num 4 14 43 The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.
4146 Numbers Num 4 14 44 But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the camp.
4147 Numbers Num 4 14 45 And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma.
4148 Numbers Num 4 15 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4149 Numbers Num 4 15 2 Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When you shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give you,
4150 Numbers Num 4 15 3 And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your solemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:
4151 Numbers Num 4 15 4 Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
4152 Numbers Num 4 15 5 And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,
4153 Numbers Num 4 15 6 And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil:
4154 Numbers Num 4 15 7 And he shall offer the third part the same measure of wine for the libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord.
4155 Numbers Num 4 15 8 But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,
4156 Numbers Num 4 15 9 Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with half a hin of oil,
4157 Numbers Num 4 15 10 And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of most sweet savour to the Lord.
4158 Numbers Num 4 15 11 Thus shalt thou do
4159 Numbers Num 4 15 12 For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.
4160 Numbers Num 4 15 13 Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers
4161 Numbers Num 4 15 14 Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite.
4162 Numbers Num 4 15 15 There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land.
4163 Numbers Num 4 15 16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4164 Numbers Num 4 15 17 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:
4165 Numbers Num 4 15 18 When you are come into the land which I will give you,
4166 Numbers Num 4 15 19 And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,
4167 Numbers Num 4 15 20 Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:
4168 Numbers Num 4 15 21 So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.
4169 Numbers Num 4 15 22 And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to Moses,
4170 Numbers Num 4 15 23 And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to command and thenceforward,
4171 Numbers Num 4 15 24 And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin:
4172 Numbers Num 4 15 25 And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:
4173 Numbers Num 4 15 26 And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the fault of all the people through ignorance.
4174 Numbers Num 4 15 27 But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat of a year old for his sin.
4175 Numbers Num 4 15 28 And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven him.
4176 Numbers Num 4 15 29 The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether they be natives or strangers.
4177 Numbers Num 4 15 30 But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:
4178 Numbers Num 4 15 31 For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.
4179 Numbers Num 4 15 32 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,
4180 Numbers Num 4 15 33 That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.
4181 Numbers Num 4 15 34 And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do with him.
4182 Numbers Num 4 15 35 And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.
4183 Numbers Num 4 15 36 And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died as the Lord had commanded.
4184 Numbers Num 4 15 37 The Lord also said to Moses:
4185 Numbers Num 4 15 38 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue:
4186 Numbers Num 4 15 39 That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,
4187 Numbers Num 4 15 40 But rather being mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them and be holy to their God.
4188 Numbers Num 4 15 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.
4189 Numbers Num 4 16 1 And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,
4190 Numbers Num 4 16 2 Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
4191 Numbers Num 4 16 3 And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord?
4192 Numbers Num 4 16 4 When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:
4193 Numbers Num 4 16 5 And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him.
4194 Numbers Num 4 16 6 Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
4195 Numbers Num 4 16 7 And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
4196 Numbers Num 4 16 8 And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.
4197 Numbers Num 4 16 9 Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and should minister to him?
4198 Numbers Num 4 16 10 Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,
4199 Numbers Num 4 16 11 And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?
4200 Numbers Num 4 16 12 Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will not come.
4201 Numbers Num 4 16 13 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?
4202 Numbers Num 4 16 14 Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.
4203 Numbers Num 4 16 15 Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
4204 Numbers Num 4 16 16 And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.
4205 Numbers Num 4 16 17 Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer.
4206 Numbers Num 4 16 18 When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,
4207 Numbers Num 4 16 19 And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.
4208 Numbers Num 4 16 20 And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:
4209 Numbers Num 4 16 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.
4210 Numbers Num 4 16 22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man’s sin shall thy wrath rage against all?
4211 Numbers Num 4 16 23 And the Lord said to Moses:
4212 Numbers Num 4 16 24 Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.
4213 Numbers Num 4 16 25 And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,
4214 Numbers Num 4 16 26 He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.
4215 Numbers Num 4 16 27 And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the people.
4216 Numbers Num 4 16 28 And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head:
4217 Numbers Num 4 16 29 If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.
4218 Numbers Num 4 16 30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.
4219 Numbers Num 4 16 31 And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:
4220 Numbers Num 4 16 32 And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.
4221 Numbers Num 4 16 33 And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.
4222 Numbers Num 4 16 34 But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.
4223 Numbers Num 4 16 35 And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
4224 Numbers Num 4 16 36 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4225 Numbers Num 4 16 37 Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified
4226 Numbers Num 4 16 38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.
4227 Numbers Num 4 16 39 Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar:
4228 Numbers Num 4 16 40 That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses.
4229 Numbers Num 4 16 41 The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.
4230 Numbers Num 4 16 42 And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,
4231 Numbers Num 4 16 43 Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
4232 Numbers Num 4 16 44 And the Lord said to Moses:
4233 Numbers Num 4 16 45 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
4234 Numbers Num 4 16 46 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.
4235 Numbers Num 4 16 47 When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:
4236 Numbers Num 4 16 48 And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
4237 Numbers Num 4 16 49 And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.
4238 Numbers Num 4 16 50 And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.
4239 Numbers Num 4 17 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4240 Numbers Num 4 17 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, and write the name of every man upon his rod.
4241 Numbers Num 4 17 3 And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their families:
4242 Numbers Num 4 17 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant before the testimony, where I will speak to thee.
4243 Numbers Num 4 17 5 Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, wherewith they murmur against you.
4244 Numbers Num 4 17 6 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes gave him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides the rod of Aaron.
4245 Numbers Num 4 17 7 And when Moses had Laid them up before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony:
4246 Numbers Num 4 17 8 He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it had bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.
4247 Numbers Num 4 17 9 Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their rods.
4248 Numbers Num 4 17 10 And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die.
4249 Numbers Num 4 17 11 And Moses did as the Lord had commanded.
4250 Numbers Num 4 17 12 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish.
4251 Numbers Num 4 17 13 Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth. Are we all to a man to be utterly destroyed?
4252 Numbers Num 4 18 1 And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.
4253 Numbers Num 4 18 2 And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.
4254 Numbers Num 4 18 3 And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the works of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish with them.
4255 Numbers Num 4 18 4 But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join himself with you.
4256 Numbers Num 4 18 5 Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.
4257 Numbers Num 4 18 6 I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of the tabernacle.
4258 Numbers Num 4 18 7 But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain.
4259 Numbers Num 4 18 8 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances.
4260 Numbers Num 4 18 9 These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.
4261 Numbers Num 4 18 10 Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.
4262 Numbers Num 4 18 11 But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.
4263 Numbers Num 4 18 12 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.
4264 Numbers Num 4 18 13 All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth, and which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.
4265 Numbers Num 4 18 14 Every thing that the children of Israel shall give by vow, shall be thine.
4266 Numbers Num 4 18 15 Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only for the firstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and every beast that is unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed,
4267 Numbers Num 4 18 16 And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five sicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
4268 Numbers Num 4 18 17 But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
4269 Numbers Num 4 18 18 But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.
4270 Numbers Num 4 18 19 All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.
4271 Numbers Num 4 18 20 And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.
4272 Numbers Num 4 18 21 And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:
4273 Numbers Num 4 18 22 That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,
4274 Numbers Num 4 18 23 But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing,
4275 Numbers Num 4 18 24 But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.
4276 Numbers Num 4 18 25 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4277 Numbers Num 4 18 26 Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall receive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, offer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth part of the tenth:
4278 Numbers Num 4 18 27 That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:
4279 Numbers Num 4 18 28 And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.
4280 Numbers Num 4 18 29 All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest things.
4281 Numbers Num 4 18 30 And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress:
4282 Numbers Num 4 18 31 And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.
4283 Numbers Num 4 18 32 And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest and fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the children of Israel, and die.
4284 Numbers Num 4 19 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
4285 Numbers Num 4 19 2 This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath ordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a red cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not carried the yoke:
4286 Numbers Num 4 19 3 And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring her forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:
4287 Numbers Num 4 19 4 And dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle it over against the door of the tabernacle seven times,
4288 Numbers Num 4 19 5 And shall burn her in the sight of all delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.
4289 Numbers Num 4 19 6 The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.
4290 Numbers Num 4 19 7 And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.
4291 Numbers Num 4 19 8 He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean until the evening.
4292 Numbers Num 4 19 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they may be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.
4293 Numbers Num 4 19 10 And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of Israel, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.
4294 Numbers Num 4 19 11 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,
4295 Numbers Num 4 19 12 Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day, and on the seventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the third day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh.
4296 Numbers Num 4 19 13 Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.
4297 Numbers Num 4 19 14 This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven days.
4298 Numbers Num 4 19 15 The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be unclean.
4299 Numbers Num 4 19 16 If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.
4300 Numbers Num 4 19 17 And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of the sin offering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel.
4301 Numbers Num 4 19 18 And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men that are defiled with touching any such thing:
4302 Numbers Num 4 19 19 And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on the third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the evening.
4303 Numbers Num 4 19 20 If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification.
4304 Numbers Num 4 19 21 This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall touch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.
4305 Numbers Num 4 19 22 Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it unclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be unclean until the evening.
4306 Numbers Num 4 20 1 And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place.
4307 Numbers Num 4 20 2 And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:
4308 Numbers Num 4 20 3 And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.
4309 Numbers Num 4 20 4 Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?
4310 Numbers Num 4 20 5 Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?
4311 Numbers Num 4 20 6 And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said. O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.
4312 Numbers Num 4 20 7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4313 Numbers Num 4 20 8 Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink.
4314 Numbers Num 4 20 9 Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he had commanded him,
4315 Numbers Num 4 20 10 And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock?
4316 Numbers Num 4 20 11 And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank,
4317 Numbers Num 4 20 12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them.
4318 Numbers Num 4 20 13 This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
4319 Numbers Num 4 20 14 In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us:
4320 Numbers Num 4 20 15 In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
4321 Numbers Num 4 20 16 And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,
4322 Numbers Num 4 20 17 And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.
4323 Numbers Num 4 20 18 And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.
4324 Numbers Num 4 20 19 And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is just: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass speedily.
4325 Numbers Num 4 20 20 But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,
4326 Numbers Num 4 20 21 Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.
4327 Numbers Num 4 20 22 And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Hor, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:
4328 Numbers Num 4 20 23 Where the Lord spoke to Moses:
4329 Numbers Num 4 20 24 Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.
4330 Numbers Num 4 20 25 Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor:
4331 Numbers Num 4 20 26 And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and die there.
4332 Numbers Num 4 20 27 Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude.
4333 Numbers Num 4 20 28 And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.
4334 Numbers Num 4 20 29 And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.
4335 Numbers Num 4 20 30 And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their families.
4336 Numbers Num 4 21 1 And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils.
4337 Numbers Num 4 21 2 But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.
4338 Numbers Num 4 21 3 And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.
4339 Numbers Num 4 21 4 And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour:
4340 Numbers Num 4 21 5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.
4341 Numbers Num 4 21 6 Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
4342 Numbers Num 4 21 7 Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
4343 Numbers Num 4 21 8 And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.
4344 Numbers Num 4 21 9 Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.
4345 Numbers Num 4 21 10 And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
4346 Numbers Num 4 21 11 And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.
4347 Numbers Num 4 21 12 And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:
4348 Numbers Num 4 21 13 Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.
4349 Numbers Num 4 21 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.
4350 Numbers Num 4 21 15 The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.
4351 Numbers Num 4 21 16 When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
4352 Numbers Num 4 21 17 Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:
4353 Numbers Num 4 21 18 The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.
4354 Numbers Num 4 21 19 From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
4355 Numbers Num 4 21 20 From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
4356 Numbers Num 4 21 21 And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
4357 Numbers Num 4 21 22 I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king’s highway, till we be past thy borders.
4358 Numbers Num 4 21 23 And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa and fought against them.
4359 Numbers Num 4 21 24 And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.
4360 Numbers Num 4 21 25 So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.
4361 Numbers Num 4 21 26 Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominion, as far as the Arnon.
4362 Numbers Num 4 21 27 Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:
4363 Numbers Num 4 21 28 A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.
4364 Numbers Num 4 21 29 Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites.
4365 Numbers Num 4 21 30 Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.
4366 Numbers Num 4 21 31 So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.
4367 Numbers Num 4 21 32 And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.
4368 Numbers Num 4 21 33 And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.
4369 Numbers Num 4 21 34 And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the inhabitant of Hesebon.
4370 Numbers Num 4 21 35 So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one escape, and they possessed his land.
4371 Numbers Num 4 22 1 And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan.
4372 Numbers Num 4 22 2 And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite,
4373 Numbers Num 4 22 3 And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to sustain his assault,
4374 Numbers Num 4 22 4 He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.
4375 Numbers Num 4 22 5 He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, a soothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.
4376 Numbers Num 4 22 6 Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed.
4377 Numbers Num 4 22 7 And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac:
4378 Numbers Num 4 22 8 He answered: Tarry here this night and I will answer whatsoever the Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said to him:
4379 Numbers Num 4 22 9 What mean these men that are with thee?
4380 Numbers Num 4 22 10 He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,
4381 Numbers Num 4 22 11 Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.
4382 Numbers Num 4 22 12 And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.
4383 Numbers Num 4 22 13 And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.
4384 Numbers Num 4 22 14 The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with us.
4385 Numbers Num 4 22 15 Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before:
4386 Numbers Num 4 22 16 Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the son of Sephor, Delay not to come to me:
4387 Numbers Num 4 22 17 For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.
4388 Numbers Num 4 22 18 Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less.
4389 Numbers Num 4 22 19 I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.
4390 Numbers Num 4 22 20 God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.
4391 Numbers Num 4 22 21 Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them.
4392 Numbers Num 4 22 22 And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way against Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him.
4393 Numbers Num 4 22 23 The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when Balaam beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way,
4394 Numbers Num 4 22 24 The angel stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith the vineyards were enclosed.
4395 Numbers Num 4 22 25 And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the wall, and bruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again:
4396 Numbers Num 4 22 26 And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where there was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left, stood to meet him.
4397 Numbers Num 4 22 27 And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet of the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a staff.
4398 Numbers Num 4 22 28 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time?
4399 Numbers Num 4 22 29 Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.
4400 Numbers Num 4 22 30 The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the like thing to thee. But he said: Never.
4401 Numbers Num 4 22 31 Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him falling flat on the ground.
4402 Numbers Num 4 22 32 And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:
4403 Numbers Num 4 22 33 And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me who stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived.
4404 Numbers Num 4 22 34 Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand against me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return.
4405 Numbers Num 4 22 35 The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.
4406 Numbers Num 4 22 36 And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of the Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.
4407 Numbers Num 4 22 37 And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?
4408 Numbers Num 4 22 38 He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?
4409 Numbers Num 4 22 39 So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his kingdom.
4410 Numbers Num 4 22 40 And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
4411 Numbers Num 4 22 41 And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.
4412 Numbers Num 4 23 1 And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
4413 Numbers Num 4 23 2 And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.
4414 Numbers Num 4 23 3 And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.
4415 Numbers Num 4 23 4 And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.
4416 Numbers Num 4 23 5 And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
4417 Numbers Num 4 23 6 Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
4418 Numbers Num 4 23 7 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
4419 Numbers Num 4 23 8 How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
4420 Numbers Num 4 23 9 I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
4421 Numbers Num 4 23 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.
4422 Numbers Num 4 23 11 And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
4423 Numbers Num 4 23 12 He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
4424 Numbers Num 4 23 13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.
4425 Numbers Num 4 23 14 And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,
4426 Numbers Num 4 23 15 He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.
4427 Numbers Num 4 23 16 And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.
4428 Numbers Num 4 23 17 Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?
4429 Numbers Num 4 23 18 But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
4430 Numbers Num 4 23 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
4431 Numbers Num 4 23 20 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
4432 Numbers Num 4 23 21 There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.
4433 Numbers Num 4 23 22 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
4434 Numbers Num 4 23 23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.
4435 Numbers Num 4 23 24 Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
4436 Numbers Num 4 23 25 And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.
4437 Numbers Num 4 23 26 And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?
4438 Numbers Num 4 23 27 And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.
4439 Numbers Num 4 23 28 And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
4440 Numbers Num 4 23 29 Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
4441 Numbers Num 4 23 30 Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.
4442 Numbers Num 4 24 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,
4443 Numbers Num 4 24 2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,
4444 Numbers Num 4 24 3 He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:
4445 Numbers Num 4 24 4 The hearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:
4446 Numbers Num 4 24 5 How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!
4447 Numbers Num 4 24 6 As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.
4448 Numbers Num 4 24 7 Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many waters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be taken away.
4449 Numbers Num 4 24 8 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.
4450 Numbers Num 4 24 9 Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.
4451 Numbers Num 4 24 10 And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary hast blessed them three times.
4452 Numbers Num 4 24 11 Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.
4453 Numbers Num 4 24 12 Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, whom thou sentest to me:
4454 Numbers Num 4 24 13 If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I will speak?
4455 Numbers Num 4 24 14 But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
4456 Numbers Num 4 24 15 Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said:
4457 Numbers Num 4 24 16 The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who falling hath his eyes opened:
4458 Numbers Num 4 24 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth
4459 Numbers Num 4 24 18 And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.
4460 Numbers Num 4 24 19 Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city.
4461 Numbers Num 4 24 20 And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.
4462 Numbers Num 4 24 21 He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,
4463 Numbers Num 4 24 22 And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.
4464 Numbers Num 4 24 23 And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?
4465 Numbers Num 4 24 24 They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.
4466 Numbers Num 4 24 25 And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.
4467 Numbers Num 4 25 1 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
4468 Numbers Num 4 25 2 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.
4469 Numbers Num 4 25 3 And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,
4470 Numbers Num 4 25 4 Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.
4471 Numbers Num 4 25 5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
4472 Numbers Num 4 25 6 And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.
4473 Numbers Num 4 25 7 And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger,
4474 Numbers Num 4 25 8 Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.
4475 Numbers Num 4 25 9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
4476 Numbers Num 4 25 10 And the Lord said to Moses:
4477 Numbers Num 4 25 11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.
4478 Numbers Num 4 25 12 Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,
4479 Numbers Num 4 25 13 And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.
4480 Numbers Num 4 25 14 And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon.
4481 Numbers Num 4 25 15 And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.
4482 Numbers Num 4 25 16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4483 Numbers Num 4 25 17 Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:
4484 Numbers Num 4 25 18 Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
4485 Numbers Num 4 26 1 After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:
4486 Numbers Num 4 26 2 Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.
4487 Numbers Num 4 26 3 Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were
4488 Numbers Num 4 26 4 From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:
4489 Numbers Num 4 26 5 Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:
4490 Numbers Num 4 26 6 And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.
4491 Numbers Num 4 26 7 These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
4492 Numbers Num 4 26 8 The son of Phallu was Eliab.
4493 Numbers Num 4 26 9 His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:
4494 Numbers Num 4 26 10 And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,
4495 Numbers Num 4 26 11 That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.
4496 Numbers Num 4 26 12 The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the family of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites: Jachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:
4497 Numbers Num 4 26 13 Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites.
4498 Numbers Num 4 26 14 These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.
4499 Numbers Num 4 26 15 The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family of the Sunites:
4500 Numbers Num 4 26 16 Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the family of the Herites:
4501 Numbers Num 4 26 17 Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the family of the Arielites.
4502 Numbers Num 4 26 18 These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was forty thousand five hundred.
4503 Numbers Num 4 26 19 The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of Chanaan.
4504 Numbers Num 4 26 20 And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.
4505 Numbers Num 4 26 21 Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.
4506 Numbers Num 4 26 22 These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was seventy-six thousand five hundred.
4507 Numbers Num 4 26 23 The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds: Thola of whom is the family of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites:
4508 Numbers Num 4 26 24 Jasub, of whom is the family of the Jasubites: Semran, of whom is the family of the Semranites.
4509 Numbers Num 4 26 25 These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four thousand three hundred.
4510 Numbers Num 4 26 26 The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the family of the Saredites: Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites: Jalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites.
4511 Numbers Num 4 26 27 These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty thousand five hundred.
4512 Numbers Num 4 26 28 The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim.
4513 Numbers Num 4 26 29 Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the Machirites. Machir begot Galaad, of whom is the family of the Galaadites.
4514 Numbers Num 4 26 30 Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites: and Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites:
4515 Numbers Num 4 26 31 And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem, of whom is the family of the Sechemites:
4516 Numbers Num 4 26 32 And Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher, of whom is the family of the Hepherites.
4517 Numbers Num 4 26 33 And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.
4518 Numbers Num 4 26 34 These are the families of Manasses, and the number of them fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
4519 Numbers Num 4 26 35 And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala, of whom is the family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family of the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites.
4520 Numbers Num 4 26 36 Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the Heranites.
4521 Numbers Num 4 26 37 These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was thirty-two thousand five hundred.
4522 Numbers Num 4 26 38 These are the sons of Joseph by their families. The sons of Benjamin in their kindreds: Bela, of whom is the family of the Belaites: Asbel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahiram, of whom is the family of the Ahiramites:
4523 Numbers Num 4 26 39 Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom is the family of the Huphamites.
4524 Numbers Num 4 26 40 The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of Hered, is the family of the Heredites: of Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.
4525 Numbers Num 4 26 41 These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number was forty-five thousand six hundred.
4526 Numbers Num 4 26 42 The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family of the Suhamites: These are the kindreds of Dan by their families.
4527 Numbers Num 4 26 43 All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four hundred.
4528 Numbers Num 4 26 44 The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family of the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie, of whom is the family of the Brieites.
4529 Numbers Num 4 26 45 The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites: and Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites.
4530 Numbers Num 4 26 46 And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara.
4531 Numbers Num 4 26 47 These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number fifty-three thousand four hundred.
4532 Numbers Num 4 26 48 The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the family of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites:
4533 Numbers Num 4 26 49 Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom is the family of the Sellemites.
4534 Numbers Num 4 26 50 These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their families: whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred.
4535 Numbers Num 4 26 51 This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
4536 Numbers Num 4 26 52 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4537 Numbers Num 4 26 53 To these shall the land be divided for their possessions according to the number of names.
4538 Numbers Num 4 26 54 To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to the fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall a possession be delivered:
4539 Numbers Num 4 26 55 Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.
4540 Numbers Num 4 26 56 Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or the fewer.
4541 Numbers Num 4 26 57 This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families: Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites.
4542 Numbers Num 4 26 58 These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family of Hebroni, the family of Moholi, the family of Musi, the family of Core. Now Caath begot Amram:
4543 Numbers Num 4 26 59 Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister.
4544 Numbers Num 4 26 60 Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:
4545 Numbers Num 4 26 61 Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before the Lord.
4546 Numbers Num 4 26 62 And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.
4547 Numbers Num 4 26 63 This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan, over against Jericho.
4548 Numbers Num 4 26 64 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.
4549 Numbers Num 4 26 65 For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
4550 Numbers Num 4 27 1 Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.
4551 Numbers Num 4 27 2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and said:
4552 Numbers Num 4 27 3 Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.
4553 Numbers Num 4 27 4 And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.
4554 Numbers Num 4 27 5 And the Lord said to him:
4555 Numbers Num 4 27 6 The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father’s kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.
4556 Numbers Num 4 27 7 And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:
4557 Numbers Num 4 27 8 When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.
4558 Numbers Num 4 27 9 If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.
4559 Numbers Num 4 27 10 And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father’s brethren.
4560 Numbers Num 4 27 11 But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.
4561 Numbers Num 4 27 12 The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.
4562 Numbers Num 4 27 13 And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:
4563 Numbers Num 4 27 14 Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin.
4564 Numbers Num 4 27 15 And Moses answered him:
4565 Numbers Num 4 27 16 May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:
4566 Numbers Num 4 27 17 And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.
4567 Numbers Num 4 27 18 And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.
4568 Numbers Num 4 27 19 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the multitude:
4569 Numbers Num 4 27 20 And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hear him.
4570 Numbers Num 4 27 21 If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.
4571 Numbers Num 4 27 22 Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And, when he had taken Josue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the people,
4572 Numbers Num 4 27 23 And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had commanded.
4573 Numbers Num 4 28 1 The Lord also said to Moses:
4574 Numbers Num 4 28 2 Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons.
4575 Numbers Num 4 28 3 These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:
4576 Numbers Num 4 28 4 One you shall offer in the mornings, and the other in the evening:
4577 Numbers Num 4 28 5 And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the, purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin.
4578 Numbers Num 4 28 6 It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai for a most sweet odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.
4579 Numbers Num 4 28 7 And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a hin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord.
4580 Numbers Num 4 28 8 And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord.
4581 Numbers Num 4 28 9 And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice, and the libations,
4582 Numbers Num 4 28 10 Which regularly are poured out every sabbath for the perpetual holocaust.
4583 Numbers Num 4 28 11 And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish,
4584 Numbers Num 4 28 12 And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram:
4585 Numbers Num 4 28 13 And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and an offering by fire to the Lord.
4586 Numbers Num 4 28 14 And these shall be the libations of wine that are to be poured out for every victim: Half a hin for every calf, a third for a ram, and a fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust for every month, as they succeed one another in the course of the year.
4587 Numbers Num 4 28 15 A buck goat also shall be offered to the Lord for a sin offering over and above the perpetual holocaust with its libations.
4588 Numbers Num 4 28 16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,
4589 Numbers Num 4 28 17 And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they eat unleavened bread.
4590 Numbers Num 4 28 18 And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein.
4591 Numbers Num 4 28 19 And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4592 Numbers Num 4 28 20 And for the sacrifice of every one three tenths of flour which shall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths to every ram,
4593 Numbers Num 4 28 21 And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb, that is to say, to all the seven lambs:
4594 Numbers Num 4 28 22 And one buck goat for sin, to make atonement for you,
4595 Numbers Num 4 28 23 Besides the morning holocaust which you shall always offer.
4596 Numbers Num 4 28 24 So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the fire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the holocaust, and from the libations of each.
4597 Numbers Num 4 28 25 The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you, you shall do no servile work therein.
4598 Numbers Num 4 28 26 The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are accomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be venerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.
4599 Numbers Num 4 28 27 And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4600 Numbers Num 4 28 28 And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two to every ram,
4601 Numbers Num 4 28 29 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which in all are seven lambs: a buck goat also,
4602 Numbers Num 4 28 30 Which is slain for expiation: besides the perpetual holocaust and the libations thereof.
4603 Numbers Num 4 28 31 You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.
4604 Numbers Num 4 29 1 The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the day of the sounding and of trumpets.
4605 Numbers Num 4 29 2 And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish.
4606 Numbers Num 4 29 3 And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a ram,
4607 Numbers Num 4 29 4 One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs:
4608 Numbers Num 4 29 5 And a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of the people,
4609 Numbers Num 4 29 6 Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the sacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed libations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
4610 Numbers Num 4 29 7 The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no servile work therein.
4611 Numbers Num 4 29 8 And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4612 Numbers Num 4 29 9 And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a ram,
4613 Numbers Num 4 29 10 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven lambs:
4614 Numbers Num 4 29 11 And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be offered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with their sacrifice and libations.
4615 Numbers Num 4 29 12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be unto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.
4616 Numbers Num 4 29 13 And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4617 Numbers Num 4 29 14 And for their libations three tenths of flour tempered with oil to every calf, being in all thirteen calves: and two tenths to each ram, being two rams,
4618 Numbers Num 4 29 15 And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen lambs:
4619 Numbers Num 4 29 16 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4620 Numbers Num 4 29 17 On the second day you shall offer twelve calves of the herd, two rams and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4621 Numbers Num 4 29 18 And the sacrifices and the libations for every one, for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall duly celebrate:
4622 Numbers Num 4 29 19 And a buck goat for a sin offering besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4623 Numbers Num 4 29 20 The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4624 Numbers Num 4 29 21 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the rite:
4625 Numbers Num 4 29 22 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the libation thereof.
4626 Numbers Num 4 29 23 The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4627 Numbers Num 4 29 24 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate in right manner:
4628 Numbers Num 4 29 25 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4629 Numbers Num 4 29 26 The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4630 Numbers Num 4 29 27 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:
4631 Numbers Num 4 29 28 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4632 Numbers Num 4 29 29 The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4633 Numbers Num 4 29 30 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:
4634 Numbers Num 4 29 31 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4635 Numbers Num 4 29 32 The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4636 Numbers Num 4 29 33 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:
4637 Numbers Num 4 29 34 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4638 Numbers Num 4 29 35 On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile work:
4639 Numbers Num 4 29 36 But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
4640 Numbers Num 4 29 37 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:
4641 Numbers Num 4 29 38 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.
4642 Numbers Num 4 29 39 These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: besides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice, for libation, and for victims of peace offerings.
4643 Numbers Num 4 30 1 And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him:
4644 Numbers Num 4 30 2 And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:
4645 Numbers Num 4 30 3 If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.
4646 Numbers Num 4 30 4 If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father’s house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:
4647 Numbers Num 4 30 5 Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.
4648 Numbers Num 4 30 6 But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.
4649 Numbers Num 4 30 7 If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,
4650 Numbers Num 4 30 8 The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.
4651 Numbers Num 4 30 9 But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her.
4652 Numbers Num 4 30 10 The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.
4653 Numbers Num 4 30 11 If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath,
4654 Numbers Num 4 30 12 If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.
4655 Numbers Num 4 30 13 But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her.
4656 Numbers Num 4 30 14 If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.
4657 Numbers Num 4 30 15 But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.
4658 Numbers Num 4 30 16 But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.
4659 Numbers Num 4 30 17 These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father’s house.
4660 Numbers Num 4 31 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4661 Numbers Num 4 31 2 Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
4662 Numbers Num 4 31 3 And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.
4663 Numbers Num 4 31 4 Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.
4664 Numbers Num 4 31 5 And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.
4665 Numbers Num 4 31 6 And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound.
4666 Numbers Num 4 31 7 And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.
4667 Numbers Num 4 31 8 And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
4668 Numbers Num 4 31 9 And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they plundered:
4669 Numbers Num 4 31 10 And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.
4670 Numbers Num 4 31 11 And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.
4671 Numbers Num 4 31 12 And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.
4672 Numbers Num 4 31 13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.
4673 Numbers Num 4 31 14 And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,
4674 Numbers Num 4 31 15 Said: Why have you saved the women?
4675 Numbers Num 4 31 16 Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?
4676 Numbers Num 4 31 17 Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.
4677 Numbers Num 4 31 18 But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
4678 Numbers Num 4 31 19 And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.
4679 Numbers Num 4 31 20 And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified.
4680 Numbers Num 4 31 21 Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord hath commanded Moses:
4681 Numbers Num 4 31 22 Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,
4682 Numbers Num 4 31 23 And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with the water of expiation:
4683 Numbers Num 4 31 24 And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.
4684 Numbers Num 4 31 25 And the Lord said to Moses:
4685 Numbers Num 4 31 26 Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:
4686 Numbers Num 4 31 27 And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.
4687 Numbers Num 4 31 28 And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep.
4688 Numbers Num 4 31 29 And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
4689 Numbers Num 4 31 30 Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.
4690 Numbers Num 4 31 31 And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.
4691 Numbers Num 4 31 32 And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
4692 Numbers Num 4 31 33 Seventy-two thousand oxen,
4693 Numbers Num 4 31 34 Sixty-one thousand asses:
4694 Numbers Num 4 31 35 And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.
4695 Numbers Num 4 31 36 And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
4696 Numbers Num 4 31 37 Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy five sheep.
4697 Numbers Num 4 31 38 And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:
4698 Numbers Num 4 31 39 Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:
4699 Numbers Num 4 31 40 Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.
4700 Numbers Num 4 31 41 And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,
4701 Numbers Num 4 31 42 Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.
4702 Numbers Num 4 31 43 But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
4703 Numbers Num 4 31 44 And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,
4704 Numbers Num 4 31 45 And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
4705 Numbers Num 4 31 46 And out of the sixteen thousand persons,
4706 Numbers Num 4 31 47 Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.
4707 Numbers Num 4 31 48 And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said:
4708 Numbers Num 4 31 49 We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.
4709 Numbers Num 4 31 50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.
4710 Numbers Num 4 31 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,
4711 Numbers Num 4 31 52 In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.
4712 Numbers Num 4 31 53 For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.
4713 Numbers Num 4 31 54 And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
4714 Numbers Num 4 32 1 And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,
4715 Numbers Num 4 32 2 They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said:
4716 Numbers Num 4 32 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,
4717 Numbers Num 4 32 4 The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:
4718 Numbers Num 4 32 5 And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.
4719 Numbers Num 4 32 6 And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?
4720 Numbers Num 4 32 7 Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?
4721 Numbers Num 4 32 8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
4722 Numbers Num 4 32 9 And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them.
4723 Numbers Num 4 32 10 And he swore in his anger, saying:
4724 Numbers Num 4 32 11 If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,
4725 Numbers Num 4 32 12 Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will.
4726 Numbers Num 4 32 13 And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
4727 Numbers Num 4 32 14 And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.
4728 Numbers Num 4 32 15 For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.
4729 Numbers Num 4 32 16 But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:
4730 Numbers Num 4 32 17 And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants.
4731 Numbers Num 4 32 18 We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance:
4732 Numbers Num 4 32 19 Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,
4733 Numbers Num 4 32 20 And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
4734 Numbers Num 4 32 21 And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies:
4735 Numbers Num 4 32 22 And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the countries that you desire, before the Lord.
4736 Numbers Num 4 32 23 But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.
4737 Numbers Num 4 32 24 Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.
4738 Numbers Num 4 32 25 And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.
4739 Numbers Num 4 32 26 We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad:
4740 Numbers Num 4 32 27 And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest.
4741 Numbers Num 4 32 28 Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and said to them:
4742 Numbers Num 4 32 29 If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.
4743 Numbers Num 4 32 30 But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.
4744 Numbers Num 4 32 31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:
4745 Numbers Num 4 32 32 We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan.
4746 Numbers Num 4 32 33 Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about.
4747 Numbers Num 4 32 34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
4748 Numbers Num 4 32 35 And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,
4749 Numbers Num 4 32 36 And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their cattle.
4750 Numbers Num 4 32 37 But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,
4751 Numbers Num 4 32 38 And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built.
4752 Numbers Num 4 32 39 Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof.
4753 Numbers Num 4 32 40 And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it.
4754 Numbers Num 4 32 41 And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.
4755 Numbers Num 4 32 42 Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.
4756 Numbers Num 4 33 1 These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,
4757 Numbers Num 4 33 2 Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.
4758 Numbers Num 4 33 3 Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,
4759 Numbers Num 4 33 4 Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,)
4760 Numbers Num 4 33 5 And they camped in Soccoth.
4761 Numbers Num 4 33 6 And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness.
4762 Numbers Num 4 33 7 Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which looketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.
4763 Numbers Num 4 33 8 And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara.
4764 Numbers Num 4 33 9 And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they camped.
4765 Numbers Num 4 33 10 But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,
4766 Numbers Num 4 33 11 They camped in the desert of Sin.
4767 Numbers Num 4 33 12 And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca.
4768 Numbers Num 4 33 13 And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.
4769 Numbers Num 4 33 14 And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink.
4770 Numbers Num 4 33 15 And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.
4771 Numbers Num 4 33 16 But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust.
4772 Numbers Num 4 33 17 And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth.
4773 Numbers Num 4 33 18 And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.
4774 Numbers Num 4 33 19 And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.
4775 Numbers Num 4 33 20 And they departed from thence and came to Lebna.
4776 Numbers Num 4 33 21 Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa.
4777 Numbers Num 4 33 22 And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha.
4778 Numbers Num 4 33 23 And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher.
4779 Numbers Num 4 33 24 Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came to Arada,
4780 Numbers Num 4 33 25 From thence they went and camped in Maceloth.
4781 Numbers Num 4 33 26 And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath.
4782 Numbers Num 4 33 27 Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare.
4783 Numbers Num 4 33 28 And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in Methca.
4784 Numbers Num 4 33 29 And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona.
4785 Numbers Num 4 33 30 And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth.
4786 Numbers Num 4 33 31 And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan.
4787 Numbers Num 4 33 32 And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad.
4788 Numbers Num 4 33 33 From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha.
4789 Numbers Num 4 33 34 And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona.
4790 Numbers Num 4 33 35 And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.
4791 Numbers Num 4 33 36 They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which is Cades.
4792 Numbers Num 4 33 37 And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Hor, in the uttermost borders of the land of Edom.
4793 Numbers Num 4 33 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day of the month,
4794 Numbers Num 4 33 39 When he was a hundred and twenty-three years old.
4795 Numbers Num 4 33 40 And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard that the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan.
4796 Numbers Num 4 33 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and camped in Salmona.
4797 Numbers Num 4 33 42 From whence they removed and came to Phunon.
4798 Numbers Num 4 33 43 And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth.
4799 Numbers Num 4 33 44 And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which is in the borders of the Moabites.
4800 Numbers Num 4 33 45 And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in Dibongab.
4801 Numbers Num 4 33 46 From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim.
4802 Numbers Num 4 33 47 And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim over against Nabo.
4803 Numbers Num 4 33 48 And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.
4804 Numbers Num 4 33 49 And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites,
4805 Numbers Num 4 33 50 Where the Lord said to Moses:
4806 Numbers Num 4 33 51 Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,
4807 Numbers Num 4 33 52 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,
4808 Numbers Num 4 33 53 Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.
4809 Numbers Num 4 33 54 And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be divided by the tribes and the families.
4810 Numbers Num 4 33 55 But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation.
4811 Numbers Num 4 33 56 And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you.
4812 Numbers Num 4 34 1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
4813 Numbers Num 4 34 2 Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:
4814 Numbers Num 4 34 3 The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:
4815 Numbers Num 4 34 4 Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.
4816 Numbers Num 4 34 5 And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.
4817 Numbers Num 4 34 6 And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.
4818 Numbers Num 4 34 7 But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain,
4819 Numbers Num 4 34 8 From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:
4820 Numbers Num 4 34 9 And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of Enan. These shall be the borders on the north side.
4821 Numbers Num 4 34 10 From thence they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side from the village of Enan unto Sephama.
4822 Numbers Num 4 34 11 And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against the fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the sea of Cenereth,
4823 Numbers Num 4 34 12 And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its borders round about.
4824 Numbers Num 4 34 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.
4825 Numbers Num 4 34 14 For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,
4826 Numbers Num 4 34 15 That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion beyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.
4827 Numbers Num 4 34 16 And the Lord said to Moses:
4828 Numbers Num 4 34 17 These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,
4829 Numbers Num 4 34 18 And one prince of every tribe,
4830 Numbers Num 4 34 19 Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.
4831 Numbers Num 4 34 20 Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud.
4832 Numbers Num 4 34 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon.
4833 Numbers Num 4 34 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli.
4834 Numbers Num 4 34 23 Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
4835 Numbers Num 4 34 24 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan.
4836 Numbers Num 4 34 25 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach.
4837 Numbers Num 4 34 26 Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.
4838 Numbers Num 4 34 27 Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi.
4839 Numbers Num 4 34 28 Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud.
4840 Numbers Num 4 34 29 These are they Whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel.
4841 Numbers Num 4 35 1 And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:
4842 Numbers Num 4 35 2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,
4843 Numbers Num 4 35 3 Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts:
4844 Numbers Num 4 35 4 Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:
4845 Numbers Num 4 35 5 Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.
4846 Numbers Num 4 35 6 And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,
4847 Numbers Num 4 35 7 That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
4848 Numbers Num 4 35 8 And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.
4849 Numbers Num 4 35 9 The Lord said to Moses:
4850 Numbers Num 4 35 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,
4851 Numbers Num 4 35 11 Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.
4852 Numbers Num 4 35 12 And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.
4853 Numbers Num 4 35 13 And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
4854 Numbers Num 4 35 14 Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,
4855 Numbers Num 4 35 15 As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.
4856 Numbers Num 4 35 16 If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
4857 Numbers Num 4 35 17 If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.
4858 Numbers Num 4 35 18 If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him.
4859 Numbers Num 4 35 19 The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.
4860 Numbers Num 4 35 20 If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design:
4861 Numbers Num 4 35 21 Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.
4862 Numbers Num 4 35 22 But if by chance medley, and without hatred,
4863 Numbers Num 4 35 23 And enmity, he do any of these things,
4864 Numbers Num 4 35 24 And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:
4865 Numbers Num 4 35 25 The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.
4866 Numbers Num 4 35 26 If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,
4867 Numbers Num 4 35 27 And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.
4868 Numbers Num 4 35 28 For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.
4869 Numbers Num 4 35 29 These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.
4870 Numbers Num 4 35 30 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
4871 Numbers Num 4 35 31 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.
4872 Numbers Num 4 35 32 The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.
4873 Numbers Num 4 35 33 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.
4874 Numbers Num 4 35 34 And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.
4875 Numbers Num 4 36 1 And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said:
4876 Numbers Num 4 36 2 The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their father:
4877 Numbers Num 4 36 3 Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession will follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a diminishing of our inheritance.
4878 Numbers Num 4 36 4 And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, that is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the others.
4879 Numbers Num 4 36 5 Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of the Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly.
4880 Numbers Num 4 36 6 And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe.
4881 Numbers Num 4 36 7 Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:
4882 Numbers Num 4 36 8 And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in the families.
4883 Numbers Num 4 36 9 And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain so
4884 Numbers Num 4 36 10 As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of Salphaad did as was commanded:
4885 Numbers Num 4 36 11 And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of their uncle by their father
4886 Numbers Num 4 36 12 Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the possession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and family of their father.
4887 Numbers Num 4 36 13 These are the commandments and judgment, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.
4888 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 1 These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold.
4889 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 2 Eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.
4890 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 3 In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them:
4891 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 4 After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,
4892 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 5 Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound the law, and to say:
4893 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 6 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough in this mountain:
4894 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 7 Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.
4895 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 8 Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.
4896 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 9 And I said to you at that time:
4897 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 10 I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.
4898 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 11 (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)
4899 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 12 I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
4900 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 13 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.
4901 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 14 Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
4902 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 15 And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.
4903 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 16 And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.
4904 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 17 There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man’s person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.
4905 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 18 And I commanded you all things that you were to do.
4906 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 19 And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,
4907 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 20 I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us.
4908 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 21 See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged.
4909 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 22 And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall go.
4910 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 23 And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:
4911 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 24 Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains, came as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,
4912 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 25 Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give us.
4913 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 26 And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,
4914 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 27 You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.
4915 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 28 Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.
4916 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 29 And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:
4917 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 30 The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
4918 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 31 And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.
4919 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 32 And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,
4920 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 33 Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.
4921 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 34 And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said:
4922 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 35 Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:
4923 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 36 Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord.
4924 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 37 Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither.
4925 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 38 But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.
4926 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 39 Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.
4927 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 40 But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
4928 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 41 And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain,
4929 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 42 The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
4930 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 43 I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.
4931 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 44 And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.
4932 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 45 And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to your voice.
4933 Deuteronomy Deu 5 1 46 So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.
4934 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 1 And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount Seir a long time.
4935 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 2 And the Lord said to me:
4936 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
4937 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 4 And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.
4938 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
4939 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 6 You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.
4940 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.
4941 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 8 And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.
4942 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 9 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.
4943 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
4944 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
4945 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 12 The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the Lord gave him.
4946 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 13 Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.
4947 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 14 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:
4948 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.
4949 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 16 And after all the fighting men were dead,
4950 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 17 The Lord spoke to me, saying:
4951 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 18 Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:
4952 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 19 And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
4953 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 20 It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
4954 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 21 A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in their stead,
4955 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 22 As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day.
4956 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed them and dwelt in their stead.
4957 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him.
4958 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 25 This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.
4959 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 26 So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:
4960 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 27 We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
4961 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 28 Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,
4962 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 29 As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.
4963 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.
4964 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 31 And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.
4965 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 32 And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.
4966 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 33 And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.
4967 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:
4968 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 35 Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
4969 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
4970 Deuteronomy Deu 5 2 37 Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.
4971 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 1 Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.
4972 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 2 And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.
4973 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,
4974 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 4 Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.
4975 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 5 All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.
4976 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
4977 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 7 But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.
4978 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 8 And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mount Hermon,
4979 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 9 Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:
4980 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 10 All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.
4981 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 11 For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
4982 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 12 And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.
4983 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 13 And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants.
4984 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 14 Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.
4985 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 15 To Machir also I gave Galaad.
4986 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 16 And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:
4987 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 17 And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
4988 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.
4989 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 19 Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have much cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered to you.
4990 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 20 Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to you: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have given you.
4991 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 21 I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.
4992 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 22 Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.
4993 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 23 And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:
4994 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 24 Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.
4995 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 25 I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.
4996 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 26 And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.
4997 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 27 Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold it, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.
4998 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 28 Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt see.
4999 Deuteronomy Deu 5 3 29 And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
5000 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 1 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.
5001 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 2 You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
5002 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 3 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.
5003 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 4 But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.
5004 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:
5005 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.
5006 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 7 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.
5007 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 8 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?
5008 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,
5009 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 10 From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.
5010 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 11 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.
5011 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 12 And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.
5012 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 13 And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.
5013 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 14 And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall possess.
5014 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 15 Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire:
5015 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 16 Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,
5016 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 17 The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,
5017 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 18 Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the waters under the earth:
5018 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.
5019 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 20 But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.
5020 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 21 And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land, which he will give you.
5021 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 22 Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.
5022 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 23 Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:
5023 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 24 Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
5024 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 25 If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:
5025 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 26 I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,
5026 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 27 And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.
5027 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 28 And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men’s hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
5028 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 29 And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.
5029 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 30 After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.
5030 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 31 Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers.
5031 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 32 Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,
5032 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 33 That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:
5033 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 34 If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.
5034 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 35 That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.
5035 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 36 From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,
5036 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 37 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,
5037 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 38 To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.
5038 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 39 Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.
5039 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
5040 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 41 Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side,
5041 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 42 That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:
5042 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 43 Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.
5043 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 44 This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,
5044 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 45 And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
5045 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 46 Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt,
5046 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 47 Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun:
5047 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 48 From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,
5048 Deuteronomy Deu 5 4 49 All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.
5049 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.
5050 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
5051 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 3 He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now present and living.
5052 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 4 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.
5053 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 5 I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up into the mountain, and he said:
5054 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 6 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5055 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 7 Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.
5056 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 8 Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth.
5057 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 9 Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,
5058 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 10 And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
5059 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.
5060 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
5061 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
5062 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 14 The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.
5063 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 15 Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.
5064 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 16 Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
5065 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 17 Thou shalt not kill.
5066 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
5067 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 19 And thou shalt not steal.
5068 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
5069 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 21 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife: nor his house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
5070 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 22 These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me.
5071 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 23 But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:
5072 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 24 Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and have proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.
5073 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 25 Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great fire comsume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.
5074 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 26 What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and be able to live?
5075 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 27 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will do them.
5076 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 28 And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well.
5077 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 29 Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?
5078 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 30 Go and say to them: Return into your tents.
5079 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 31 But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my commandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a possession.
5080 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 32 Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
5081 Deuteronomy Deu 5 5 33 But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.
5082 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 1 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:
5083 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.
5084 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 3 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.
5085 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
5086 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
5087 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:
5088 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.
5089 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.
5090 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.
5091 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,
5092 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 11 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,
5093 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 12 And thou shalt have eaten and be full:
5094 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.
5095 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 14 You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:
5096 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 15 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of the earth.
5097 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.
5098 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 17 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
5099 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 18 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,
5100 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 19 That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.
5101 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 20 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?
5102 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 21 Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
5103 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 22 And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,
5104 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.
5105 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 24 And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.
5106 Deuteronomy Deu 5 6 25 And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
5107 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 1 When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:
5108 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 2 And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:
5109 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
5110 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 4 For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.
5111 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.
5112 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
5113 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 7 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:
5114 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 8 But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.
5115 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 9 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:
5116 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 10 And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
5117 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 11 Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.
5118 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 12 If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:
5119 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 13 And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.
5120 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 14 Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.
5121 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 15 The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee, but upon thy enemies.
5122 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 16 Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.
5123 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 17 If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?
5124 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 18 Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,
5125 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 19 The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.
5126 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.
5127 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 21 Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:
5128 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 22 He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.
5129 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.
5130 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them.
5131 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 25 Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
5132 Deuteronomy Deu 5 7 26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.
5133 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 1 All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.
5134 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.
5135 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
5136 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 4 Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,
5137 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 5 That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.
5138 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 6 That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.
5139 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 7 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out:
5140 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.
5141 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 9 Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass:
5142 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 10 That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.
5143 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 11 Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:
5144 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 12 Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,
5145 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 13 And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things,
5146 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 14 Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
5147 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 15 And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,
5148 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 16 And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,
5149 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.
5150 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.
5151 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 19 But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish.
5152 Deuteronomy Deu 5 8 20 As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
5153 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 1 Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky,
5154 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.
5155 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 3 Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.
5156 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.
5157 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 5 For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
5158 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 6 Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people.
5159 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 7 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.
5160 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 8 For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,
5161 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 9 When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
5162 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 10 And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.
5163 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 11 And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
5164 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 12 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol.
5165 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 13 And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:
5166 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 14 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.
5167 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 15 And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,
5168 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 16 And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:
5169 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 17 I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.
5170 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 18 And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
5171 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 19 For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also.
5172 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 20 And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.
5173 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 21 And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.
5174 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 22 At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord:
5175 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 23 And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:
5176 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 24 But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.
5177 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 25 And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:
5178 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 26 And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.
5179 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 27 Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:
5180 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 28 Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness,
5181 Deuteronomy Deu 5 9 29 Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.
5182 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 1 At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark of wood,
5183 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which thou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
5184 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 3 And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables of stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my hands.
5185 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 4 And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.
5186 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 5 And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.
5187 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 6 And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.
5188 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 7 From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed, and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.
5189 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 8 At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this present day.
5190 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.
5191 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 10 And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.
5192 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 11 And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them.
5193 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
5194 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 13 And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?
5195 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 14 Behold heaven is the Lord’s thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.
5196 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 15 And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.
5197 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
5198 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 17 Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.
5199 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
5200 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 19 And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
5201 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.
5202 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 21 He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.
5203 Deuteronomy Deu 5 10 22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
5204 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.
5205 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 2 Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,
5206 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 3 The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his land,
5207 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 4 And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:
5208 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 5 And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, til you came to this place:
5209 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.
5210 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 7 Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath done,
5211 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 8 That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,
5212 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 9 And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
5213 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 10 For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
5214 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 11 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.
5215 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
5216 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 13 If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:
5217 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 14 He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,
5218 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 15 And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.
5219 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
5220 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.
5221 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 18 Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.
5222 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 19 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.
5223 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:
5224 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 21 That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.
5225 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 22 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,
5226 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
5227 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 24 Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders.
5228 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 25 None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
5229 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 26 Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:
5230 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 27 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
5231 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 28 A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not.
5232 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 29 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
5233 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 30 Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the plain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that reacheth and entereth far.
5234 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 31 For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.
5235 Deuteronomy Deu 5 11 32 See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which I shall set this day before you.
5236 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 1 These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.
5237 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:
5238 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 3 Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.
5239 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God:
5240 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:
5241 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 6 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.
5242 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 7 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.
5243 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 8 You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself.
5244 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 9 For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.
5245 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 10 You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,
5246 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 11 In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
5247 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 12 There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you.
5248 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 13 Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:
5249 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 14 But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.
5250 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 15 But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it:
5251 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
5252 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 17 Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands:
5253 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 18 But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.
5254 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 19 Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.
5255 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 20 When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:
5256 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 21 And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.
5257 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 22 Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
5258 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 23 Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:
5259 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 24 But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,
5260 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 25 That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
5261 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 26 But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall choose:
5262 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 27 And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.
5263 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 28 Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
5264 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 29 When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:
5265 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 30 Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.
5266 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
5267 Deuteronomy Deu 5 12 32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.
5268 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 1 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,
5269 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 2 And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:
5270 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 3 Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.
5271 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 4 Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.
5272 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 5 And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
5273 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 6 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,
5274 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 7 Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,
5275 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 8 Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,
5276 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 9 But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
5277 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 10 With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:
5278 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 11 That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.
5279 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 12 If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:
5280 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 13 Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:
5281 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 14 Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,
5282 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 15 Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.
5283 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 16 And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.
5284 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 17 And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,
5285 Deuteronomy Deu 5 13 18 When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
5286 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;
5287 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.
5288 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 3 Eat not the things that are unclean.
5289 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 4 These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,
5290 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 5 The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
5291 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 6 Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.
5292 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 7 But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
5293 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 8 The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
5294 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 9 These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
5295 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 10 Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
5296 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.
5297 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 12 The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,
5298 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 13 The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:
5299 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 14 And all of the raven’s kind:
5300 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 15 And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
5301 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 16 The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
5302 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 17 And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
5303 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 18 The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.
5304 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 19 Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.
5305 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 20 All that is clean, you shall eat.
5306 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 21 But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
5307 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 22 Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,
5308 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.
5309 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 24 But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,
5310 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 25 Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
5311 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 26 And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:
5312 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
5313 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 28 The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.
5314 Deuteronomy Deu 5 14 29 And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
5315 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 1 In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,
5316 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 2 Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.
5317 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 3 Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.
5318 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 4 And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.
5319 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 5 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.
5320 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 6 Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have dominion over thee.
5321 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 7 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,
5322 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 8 But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.
5323 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.
5324 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 10 But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.
5325 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 11 There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.
5326 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 12 When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:
5327 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 13 And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
5328 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 14 But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless thee.
5329 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 15 Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.
5330 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 16 But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:
5331 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 17 Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.
5332 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 18 Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free: because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou dost.
5333 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 19 Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy sheep.
5334 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 20 In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.
5335 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 21 But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.
5336 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 22 But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.
5337 Deuteronomy Deu 5 15 23 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.
5338 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.
5339 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.
5340 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 3 Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.
5341 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 4 No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.
5342 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 5 Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:
5343 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 6 But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.
5344 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 7 And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy dwellings.
5345 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 8 Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.
5346 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 9 Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.
5347 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 10 And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.
5348 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:
5349 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.
5350 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 13 Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.
5351 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 14 And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates.
5352 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 15 Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy.
5353 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:
5354 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 17 But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.
5355 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
5356 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 19 And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.
5357 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 20 Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
5358 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:
5359 Deuteronomy Deu 5 16 22 Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.
5360 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
5361 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 2 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,
5362 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 3 So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:
5363 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 4 And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:
5364 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 5 Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned.
5365 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 6 By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.
5366 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
5367 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.
5368 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 9 And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.
5369 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 10 And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,
5370 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 11 According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.
5371 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 12 But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel:
5372 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 13 And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards swell with pride.
5373 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 14 When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about:
5374 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 15 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy brother.
5375 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 16 And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way.
5376 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 17 He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.
5377 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 18 But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,
5378 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 19 And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;
5379 Deuteronomy Deu 5 17 20 And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign a long time over Israel.
5380 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 1 The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,
5381 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 2 And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.
5382 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 3 This shall be the priest’s due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:
5383 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 4 The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.
5384 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
5385 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 6 If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which the Lord shall choose,
5386 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 7 He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.
5387 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 8 He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers.
5388 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.
5389 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 10 Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,
5390 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 11 Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
5391 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 12 For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
5392 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.
5393 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 14 These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God.
5394 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 15 The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:
5395 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 16 As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die.
5396 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 17 And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.
5397 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 18 I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
5398 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 19 And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.
5399 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 20 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.
5400 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 21 And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?
5401 Deuteronomy Deu 5 18 22 Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.
5402 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 1 When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof:
5403 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 2 Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession,
5404 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 3 Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole province of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to flee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.
5405 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 4 This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to be saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:
5406 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 5 But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:
5407 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 6 Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.
5408 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 7 Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal distance one from another.
5409 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 8 And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he swore to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised them,
5410 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 9 (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of the three cities aforesaid:
5411 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood.
5412 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 11 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,
5413 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 12 The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.
5414 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.
5415 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.
5416 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 15 One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.
5417 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 16 If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,
5418 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 17 Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.
5419 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 18 And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that the false witness hath told a lie against his brother:
5420 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 19 They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:
5421 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 20 That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.
5422 Deuteronomy Deu 5 19 21 Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
5423 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 1 If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of the enemy’s army greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
5424 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 2 And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before the army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:
5425 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 3 Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye them not:
5426 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 4 Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.
5427 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 5 And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing of the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
5428 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 6 What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute his office.
5429 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 7 What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.
5430 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 8 After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and shall speak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint hearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts of his brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear.
5431 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 9 And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and have made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to fight.
5432 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 10 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace.
5433 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 11 If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.
5434 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 12 But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it.
5435 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 13 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword,
5436 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 14 Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
5437 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 15 So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.
5438 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 16 But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:
5439 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 17 But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
5440 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 18 Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.
5441 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 19 When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed it with bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes: for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of them that fight against thee.
5442 Deuteronomy Deu 5 20 20 But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and fit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the city, which fighteth against thee.
5443 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 1 When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder,
5444 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 2 Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:
5445 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 3 And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,
5446 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 4 And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head of the heifer:
5447 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or unclean should be judged.
5448 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 6 And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,
5449 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 7 And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
5450 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:
5451 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 9 And thou shalt be free from the innocent’s blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.
5452 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 10 If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,
5453 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 11 And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,
5454 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 12 Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,
5455 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 13 And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.
5456 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.
5457 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,
5458 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 16 And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated.
5459 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.
5460 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
5461 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,
5462 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 20 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
5463 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 21 The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.
5464 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 22 When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:
5465 Deuteronomy Deu 5 21 23 His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.
5466 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 1 Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother’s ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.
5467 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 2 And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.
5468 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 3 Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing that is thy brother’s, which is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another.
5469 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 4 If thou see thy brother’s ass or his ox to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.
5470 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 5 A woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel, neither shall a man use woman’s apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable before God.
5471 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 6 If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird’s nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young:
5472 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 7 But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.
5473 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 8 When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.
5474 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together.
5475 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
5476 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together.
5477 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 12 Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.
5478 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 13 If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
5479 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 14 And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:
5480 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 15 Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:
5481 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 16 And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,
5482 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 17 He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:
5483 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 18 And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,
5484 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 19 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel’s father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.
5485 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 20 But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:
5486 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 21 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father’s house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
5487 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 22 If a man lie with another man’s wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.
5488 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 23 If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,
5489 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 24 Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.
5490 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 25 But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:
5491 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 26 The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:
5492 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 27 She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.
5493 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:
5494 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 29 He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
5495 Deuteronomy Deu 5 22 30 No man shall take his father’s wife, nor remove his covering.
5496 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 1 An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
5497 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 2 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
5498 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 3 The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:
5499 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 4 Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
5500 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 5 And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
5501 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 6 Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
5502 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 7 Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
5503 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 8 They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.
5504 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 9 When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.
5505 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 10 If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp,
5506 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 11 And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.
5507 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 12 Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,
5508 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 13 Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover
5509 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 14 That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee5 and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.
5510 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 15 Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to thee.
5511 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 16 He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.
5512 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
5513 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
5514 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 19 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:
5515 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 20 But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
5516 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 21 When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.
5517 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 22 If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.
5518 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 23 But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.
5519 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 24 Going into thy neighbour’s vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:
5520 Deuteronomy Deu 5 23 25 If thou go into thy friend’s corn, thou mayst break the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.
5521 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 1 If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
5522 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 2 And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,
5523 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 3 And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:
5524 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 4 The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.
5525 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 5 When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
5526 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 6 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.
5527 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 7 If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.
5528 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 8 Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.
5529 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.
5530 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 10 When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:
5531 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 11 But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what he hath.
5532 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 12 But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,
5533 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 13 But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.
5534 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 14 Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:
5535 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.
5536 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,
5537 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow’s raiment for a pledge.
5538 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 18 Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.
5539 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 19 When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
5540 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 20 If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.
5541 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 21 If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
5542 Deuteronomy Deu 5 24 22 Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I command thee to do this thing.
5543 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
5544 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 2 And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
5545 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 3 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
5546 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.
5547 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:
5548 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 6 And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
5549 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 7 But if he will not take his brother’s wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up his brother’s name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.
5550 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 8 And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
5551 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother’s house:
5552 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.
5553 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other’s wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,
5554 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 12 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.
5555 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 13 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
5556 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 14 Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.
5557 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 15 Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
5558 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 16 For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.
5559 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 17 Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:
5560 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 18 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.
5561 Deuteronomy Deu 5 25 19 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.
5562 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 1 And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:
5563 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 2 Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:
5564 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 3 And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come into the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it us.
5565 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 4 And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
5566 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 5 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.
5567 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 6 And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens:
5568 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 7 And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:
5569 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 8 And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:
5570 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 9 And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.
5571 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 10 And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.
5572 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 11 And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.
5573 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:
5574 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 13 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I have taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments nor forgotten thy precepts.
5575 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 14 I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for any uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast commanded me.
5576 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 15 Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
5577 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 16 This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
5578 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 17 Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey his command.
5579 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 18 And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:
5580 Deuteronomy Deu 5 26 19 And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
5581 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 1 And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people, saying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.
5582 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 2 And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt plaster them over with plaster,
5583 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 3 That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as he swore to thy fathers.
5584 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 4 Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster:
5585 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 5 And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,
5586 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 6 And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:
5587 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 7 And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before the Lord thy God.
5588 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law plainly and clearly.
5589 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 9 And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God:
5590 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 10 Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.
5591 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 11 And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:
5592 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 12 These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
5593 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 13 And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.
5594 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 14 And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
5595 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.
5596 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5597 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5598 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5599 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5600 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, and uncovereth his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5601 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5602 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5603 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5604 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 24 Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5605 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 25 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5606 Deuteronomy Deu 5 27 26 Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.
5607 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 1 Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.
5608 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.
5609 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.
5610 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.
5611 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 5 Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.
5612 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 6 Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.
5613 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 7 The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to fall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee, and seven ways shall they flee before thee.
5614 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 8 The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou shalt receive.
5615 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 9 The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he swore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
5616 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 10 And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.
5617 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 11 The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.
5618 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 12 The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.
5619 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 13 And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the commandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep and do them,
5620 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 14 And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
5621 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
5622 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.
5623 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 17 Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.
5624 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5625 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 19 Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.
5626 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 20 The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me.
5627 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 21 May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
5628 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 22 May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.
5629 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 23 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.
5630 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 24 The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.
5631 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 25 The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
5632 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 26 And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.
5633 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 27 The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.
5634 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 28 The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.
5635 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 29 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.
5636 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 30 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.
5637 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 31 May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May thy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy sheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee.
5638 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 32 May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
5639 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 33 May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.
5640 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 34 And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes shall see:
5641 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 35 May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.
5642 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.
5643 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
5644 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 38 Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
5645 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.
5646 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 40 Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.
5647 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.
5648 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 42 The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground.
5649 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.
5650 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
5651 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee.
5652 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 46 And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.
5653 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
5654 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.
5655 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,
5656 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 50 A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,
5657 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 51 And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.
5658 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 52 And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee:
5659 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.
5660 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 54 The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,
5661 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 55 So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.
5662 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 56 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,
5663 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 57 And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.
5664 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 58 If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name: that is, The Lord thy God:
5665 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 59 The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.
5666 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 60 And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.
5667 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 61 Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume thee:
5668 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 62 And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God.
5669 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 63 And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess.
5670 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.
5671 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 65 Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness:
5672 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 66 And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.
5673 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.
5674 Deuteronomy Deu 5 28 68 The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
5675 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
5676 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land.
5677 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 3 The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,
5678 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.
5679 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.
5680 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
5681 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 7 And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.
5682 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 8 And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.
5683 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that you may understand all that you do.
5684 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 10 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,
5685 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
5686 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.
5687 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 13 That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
5688 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,
5689 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 15 But with all that are present and that are absent.
5690 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,
5691 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
5692 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
5693 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,
5694 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,
5695 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 21 And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:
5696 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 22 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,
5697 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
5698 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 24 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
5699 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 25 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
5700 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 26 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
5701 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:
5702 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
5703 Deuteronomy Deu 5 29 29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
5704 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 1 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,
5705 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
5706 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.
5707 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 4 If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from hence,
5708 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 5 And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.
5709 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.
5710 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.
5711 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 8 But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:
5712 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 9 And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers:
5713 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
5714 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 11 This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee:
5715 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?
5716 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 13 Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may hear, and do that which is commanded?
5717 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.
5718 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 15 Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:
5719 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 16 That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.
5720 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 17 But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:
5721 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 18 I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.
5722 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
5723 Deuteronomy Deu 5 30 20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.
5724 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 1 And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,
5725 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 2 And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.
5726 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 3 The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
5727 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 4 And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.
5728 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 5 Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you.
5729 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 6 Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee.
5730 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 7 And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot.
5731 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 8 And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
5732 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel.
5733 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 10 And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of remission, in the feast of tabernacles,
5734 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 11 When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.
5735 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 12 And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law:
5736 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 13 That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
5737 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:
5738 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 15 And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entry of the tabernacle.
5739 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,
5740 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 17 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me.
5741 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 18 But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.
5742 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 19 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.
5743 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.
5744 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 21 And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the land which I have promised them.
5745 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 22 Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children of Israel.
5746 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 23 And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.
5747 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 24 Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a volume, and finished it:
5748 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 25 He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying:
5749 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 26 Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.
5750 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?
5751 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 28 Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.
5752 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 29 For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside from the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.
5753 Deuteronomy Deu 5 31 30 Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end.
5754 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 1 Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
5755 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
5756 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
5757 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
5758 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 5 They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
5759 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
5760 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 7 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
5761 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
5762 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 9 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
5763 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
5764 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 11 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
5765 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 12 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
5766 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 13 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
5767 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
5768 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
5769 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 16 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
5770 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
5771 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 18 Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
5772 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
5773 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
5774 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
5775 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
5776 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 23 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
5777 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
5778 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
5779 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 26 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
5780 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
5781 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 28 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
5782 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
5783 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
5784 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 31 For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
5785 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
5786 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
5787 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
5788 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
5789 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
5790 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
5791 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 38 Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
5792 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
5793 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.
5794 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.
5795 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.
5796 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.
5797 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 44 So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.
5798 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 45 And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
5799 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:
5800 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
5801 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
5802 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
5803 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 50 When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
5804 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 51 Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.
5805 Deuteronomy Deu 5 32 52 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
5806 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 1 This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his death.
5807 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery law.
5808 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 3 He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.
5809 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 4 Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.
5810 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 5 He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.
5811 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.
5812 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 7 This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda, and bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his enemies.
5813 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 8 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction:
5814 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,
5815 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.
5816 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 11 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.
5817 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 12 And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.
5818 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 13 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath.
5819 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 14 Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.
5820 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the everlasting hills:
5821 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 16 And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The blessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
5822 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.
5823 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 18 And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.
5824 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 19 They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.
5825 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 20 And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.
5826 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 21 And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.
5827 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 22 To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.
5828 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 23 And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.
5829 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 24 To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
5830 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.
5831 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 26 There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.
5832 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 27 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.
5833 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 28 Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.
5834 Deuteronomy Deu 5 33 29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.
5835 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad as far as Dan.
5836 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 2 And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all the land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,
5837 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 3 And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho the city of palm trees as far as Segor.
5838 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 4 And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou hast seen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.
5839 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 5 And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the commandment of the Lord:
5840 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 6 And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against Phogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.
5841 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.
5842 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 8 And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab thirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses were ended.
5843 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 9 And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.
5844 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 10 And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
5845 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 11 In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land,
5846 Deuteronomy Deu 5 34 12 And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses did before all Israel.
5847 Josue Josh 6 1 1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him:
5848 Josue Josh 6 1 2 Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou and thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the children of Israel.
5849 Josue Josh 6 1 3 I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, as I have said to Moses.
5850 Josue Josh 6 1 4 From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
5851 Josue Josh 6 1 5 No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.
5852 Josue Josh 6 1 6 Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them.
5853 Josue Josh 6 1 7 Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.
5854 Josue Josh 6 1 8 Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.
5855 Josue Josh 6 1 9 Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.
5856 Josue Josh 6 1 10 And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:
5857 Josue Josh 6 1 11 Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you.
5858 Josue Josh 6 1 12 And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses:
5859 Josue Josh 6 1 13 Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this land.
5860 Josue Josh 6 1 14 Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed before your brethren all of you that are strong of hand, and fight for them,
5861 Josue Josh 6 1 15 Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.
5862 Josue Josh 6 1 16 And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou hast commanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will go.
5863 Josue Josh 6 1 17 As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.
5864 Josue Josh 6 1 18 He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that thou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do manfully.
5865 Josue Josh 6 2 1 And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.
5866 Josue Josh 6 2 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there are men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the land.
5867 Josue Josh 6 2 3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies, and are come to view all the land.
5868 Josue Josh 6 2 4 And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:
5869 Josue Josh 6 2 5 And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them quickly, and you will overtake them.
5870 Josue Josh 6 2 6 But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.
5871 Josue Josh 6 2 7 Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out, the gate was presently shut.
5872 Josue Josh 6 2 8 The men that were hid were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said:
5873 Josue Josh 6 2 9 I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength.
5874 Josue Josh 6 2 10 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you slew.
5875 Josue Josh 6 2 11 And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.
5876 Josue Josh 6 2 12 Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father’s house: and give me a true token.
5877 Josue Josh 6 2 13 That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.
5878 Josue Josh 6 2 14 They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.
5879 Josue Josh 6 2 15 Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.
5880 Josue Josh 6 2 16 And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.
5881 Josue Josh 6 2 17 And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear,
5882 Josue Josh 6 2 18 If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into thy house.
5883 Josue Josh 6 2 19 Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.
5884 Josue Josh 6 2 20 But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath, which thou hast made us swear.
5885 Josue Josh 6 2 21 And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.
5886 Josue Josh 6 2 22 But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three days, till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them through all the way, they found them not.
5887 Josue Josh 6 2 23 And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came to Josue, the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them,
5888 Josue Josh 6 2 24 And said: the Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.
5889 Josue Josh 6 3 1 And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.
5890 Josue Josh 6 3 2 After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
5891 Josue Josh 6 3 3 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:
5892 Josue Josh 6 3 4 And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark.
5893 Josue Josh 6 3 5 And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
5894 Josue Josh 6 3 6 And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and walked before them.
5895 Josue Josh 6 3 7 And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.
5896 Josue Josh 6 3 8 And do thou command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it.
5897 Josue Josh 6 3 9 And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the word of the Lord your God.
5898 Josue Josh 6 3 10 And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before your sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
5899 Josue Josh 6 3 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.
5900 Josue Josh 6 3 12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
5901 Josue Josh 6 3 13 And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
5902 Josue Josh 6 3 14 So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.
5903 Josue Josh 6 3 15 And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,)
5904 Josue Josh 6 3 16 The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
5905 Josue Josh 6 3 17 And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over, through the channel that was dried up.
5906 Josue Josh 6 4 1 And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:
5907 Josue Josh 6 4 2 Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:
5908 Josue Josh 6 4 3 And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.
5909 Josue Josh 6 4 4 And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,
5910 Josue Josh 6 4 5 And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,
5911 Josue Josh 6 4 6 That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?
5912 Josue Josh 6 4 7 You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.
5913 Josue Josh 6 4 8 The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.
5914 Josue Josh 6 4 9 And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.
5915 Josue Josh 6 4 10 Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst of the Jordan, till all things were accomplished, which the Lord had commanded Josue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him. And the people made haste, and passed over.
5916 Josue Josh 6 4 11 And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the Lord passed over, and the priests went before the people.
5917 Josue Josh 6 4 12 The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had commanded them.
5918 Josue Josh 6 4 13 And forty thousand fighting men by their troops and bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.
5919 Josue Josh 6 4 14 In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.
5920 Josue Josh 6 4 15 And he said to him:
5921 Josue Josh 6 4 16 Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, to come up out of the Jordan.
5922 Josue Josh 6 4 17 And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.
5923 Josue Josh 6 4 18 And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into their channel, and ran as they were wont before.
5924 Josue Josh 6 4 19 And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the city of Jericho.
5925 Josue Josh 6 4 20 And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,
5926 Josue Josh 6 4 21 And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?
5927 Josue Josh 6 4 22 You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel,
5928 Josue Josh 6 4 23 The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over:
5929 Josue Josh 6 4 24 As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through:
5930 Josue Josh 6 4 25 That all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.
5931 Josue Josh 6 5 1 Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.
5932 Josue Josh 6 5 2 At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.
5933 Josue Josh 6 5 3 He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.
5934 Josue Josh 6 5 4 Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:
5935 Josue Josh 6 5 6 Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,
5936 Josue Josh 6 5 6 During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and honey.
5937 Josue Josh 6 5 7 The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they were born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.
5938 Josue Josh 6 5 8 Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same place of the camp, until they were healed.
5939 Josue Josh 6 5 9 And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away from you the reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal, until this present day.
5940 Josue Josh 6 5 10 And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:
5941 Josue Josh 6 5 11 And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the land, and frumenty of the same year.
5942 Josue Josh 6 5 12 And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.
5943 Josue Josh 6 5 13 And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him, holding a drawn sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one of ours, or of our adversaries?
5944 Josue Josh 6 5 14 And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of the Lord, and now I am come.
5945 Josue Josh 6 5 15 Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping, said: What saith my lord to his servant?
5946 Josue Josh 6 5 16 Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded him.
5947 Josue Josh 6 6 1 Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.
5948 Josue Josh 6 6 2 And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy hands Jericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant men.
5949 Josue Josh 6 6 3 Go round about the city all ye fighting men once a day: so shall ye do for six days.
5950 Josue Josh 6 6 4 And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests shall sound the trumpets.
5951 Josue Josh 6 6 5 And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.
5952 Josue Josh 6 6 6 Then Josue, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.
5953 Josue Josh 6 6 7 And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed, marching before the ark of the Lord.
5954 Josue Josh 6 6 8 And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
5955 Josue Josh 6 6 9 And all the armed men went before, the rest of the common people followed the ark, and the sound of the trumpets was heard on all sides.
5956 Josue Josh 6 6 10 But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not shout, nor shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth: until the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout.
5957 Josue Josh 6 6 11 So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and returning into the camp, abode there.
5958 Josue Josh 6 6 12 And Josue rising before day, the priests took the ark of the Lord,
5959 Josue Josh 6 6 13 And seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee: and they went before the ark of the Lord, walking and sounding the trumpets: and the armed men went before them, and the rest of the common people followed the ark, and they blew the trumpets.
5960 Josue Josh 6 6 14 And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
5961 Josue Josh 6 6 15 But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city, as it was ordered, seven times.
5962 Josue Josh 6 6 16 And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded with the trumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered the city to you:
5963 Josue Josh 6 6 17 And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
5964 Josue Josh 6 6 18 But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.
5965 Josue Josh 6 6 19 But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels of brass and iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures.
5966 Josue Josh 6 6 20 So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city,
5967 Josue Josh 6 6 21 And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The oxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the sword.
5968 Josue Josh 6 6 22 But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go into the harlot’s house, and bring her out, and all things that are hers, as you assured her by oath.
5969 Josue Josh 6 6 23 And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and made them to stay without the camp.
5970 Josue Josh 6 6 24 But they burned the city, and all things that were therein; except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated unto the treasury of the Lord. _
5971 Josue Josh 6 6 25 But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father’s house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:
5972 Josue Josh 6 6 26 Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.
5973 Josue Josh 6 6 27 And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised throughout all the land
5974 Josue Josh 6 7 1 But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.
5975 Josue Josh 6 7 2 And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.
5976 Josue Josh 6 7 3 And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?
5977 Josue Josh 6 7 4 There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,
5978 Josue Josh 6 7 5 And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
5979 Josue Josh 6 7 6 But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.
5980 Josue Josh 6 7 7 And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began.
5981 Josue Josh 6 7 8 My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?
5982 Josue Josh 6 7 9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
5983 Josue Josh 6 7 10 And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?
5984 Josue Josh 6 7 11 Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among their goods.
5985 Josue Josh 6 7 12 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.
5986 Josue Josh 6 7 13 Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.
5987 Josue Josh 6 7 14 And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds, and the kindred by its houses and the house by the men.
5988 Josue Josh 6 7 15 And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
5989 Josue Josh 6 7 16 Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found.
5990 Josue Josh 6 7 17 Which being brought by in families, it was found to be the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:
5991 Josue Josh 6 7 18 And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.
5992 Josue Josh 6 7 19 And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.
5993 Josue Josh 6 7 20 And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
5994 Josue Josh 6 7 21 For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.
5995 Josue Josh 6 7 22 Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all hid in the same place, together with the silver.
5996 Josue Josh 6 7 23 And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.
5997 Josue Josh 6 7 24 Then Josue, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare, and the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also, and his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:
5998 Josue Josh 6 7 25 Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.
5999 Josue Josh 6 7 26 And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.
6000 Josue Josh 6 8 1 And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take with thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise, and go up to the town of Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof, and the people, and the city, and the land.
6001 Josue Josh 6 8 2 And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.
6002 Josue Josh 6 8 3 And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to go up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night,
6003 Josue Josh 6 8 4 And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.
6004 Josue Josh 6 8 5 But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before:
6005 Josue Josh 6 8 6 Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.
6006 Josue Josh 6 8 7 And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands.
6007 Josue Josh 6 8 8 And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.
6008 Josue Josh 6 8 9 And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people,
6009 Josue Josh 6 8 10 And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the aid of the fighting men.
6010 Josue Josh 6 8 11 And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city, they stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there was a valley in the midst.
6011 Josue Josh 6 8 12 And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:
6012 Josue Josh 6 8 13 But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.
6013 Josue Josh 6 8 14 And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.
6014 Josue Josh 6 8 15 But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.
6015 Josue Josh 6 8 16 But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,
6016 Josue Josh 6 8 17 And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,
6017 Josue Josh 6 8 18 The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand, towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.
6018 Josue Josh 6 8 19 And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush, that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it, and set it on fire.
6019 Josue Josh 6 8 20 And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back, and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited flight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly against them that pursued.
6020 Josue Josh 6 8 21 So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and that the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.
6021 Josue Josh 6 8 22 And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.
6022 Josue Josh 6 8 23 And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him to Josue.
6023 Josue Josh 6 8 24 So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight to the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city.
6024 Josue Josh 6 8 25 And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.
6025 Josue Josh 6 8 26 But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.
6026 Josue Josh 6 8 27 And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.
6027 Josue Josh 6 8 28 And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:
6028 Josue Josh 6 8 29 And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.
6029 Josue Josh 6 8 30 Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,
6030 Josue Josh 6 8 31 As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.
6031 Josue Josh 6 8 32 And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.
6032 Josue Josh 6 8 33 And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was born among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount Hebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he blessed the people of Israel.
6033 Josue Josh 6 8 34 After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the book of the law.
6034 Josue Josh 6 8 35 He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded, but he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and children, and strangers, that dwelt among them.
6035 Josue Josh 6 9 1 Now when these things were heard of, all the kings beyond the Jordan, that dwelt in the mountains, and in the plains, in the places near the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also that dwell by Libanus, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,
6036 Josue Josh 6 9 2 Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel with one mind, and one resolution.
6037 Josue Josh 6 9 3 But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had done to Jericho and Hai:
6038 Josue Josh 6 9 4 Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,
6039 Josue Josh 6 9 5 And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with patches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they carried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces:
6040 Josue Josh 6 9 6 And they went to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far country, desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel answered them, and said:
6041 Josue Josh 6 9 7 Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.
6042 Josue Josh 6 9 8 But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them: Who are you? and whence came you?
6043 Josue Josh 6 9 9 They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in the name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power, all the things that he did in Egypt.
6044 Josue Josh 6 9 10 And to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon, king of Hesebon, and Og, king of Basan, that was in Astaroth:
6045 Josue Josh 6 9 11 And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to us: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say: We are your servants, make ye a league with us.
6046 Josue Josh 6 9 12 Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being exceeding old.
6047 Josue Josh 6 9 13 These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our feet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost consumed.
6048 Josue Josh 6 9 14 They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the mouth of the Lord.
6049 Josue Josh 6 9 15 And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.
6050 Josue Josh 6 9 16 Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.
6051 Josue Josh 6 9 17 And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.
6052 Josue Josh 6 9 18 And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had sworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common people murmured against the princes.
6053 Josue Josh 6 9 19 And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.
6054 Josue Josh 6 9 20 But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:
6055 Josue Josh 6 9 21 But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,
6056 Josue Josh 9;22. Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you impose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are in the midst of us?
6057 Josue Josh 6 9 23 Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.
6058 Josue Josh 6 9 24 They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel.
6059 Josue Josh 6 9 25 And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.
6060 Josue Josh 6 9 26 So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.
6061 Josue Josh 6 9 27 And he gave orders in that day, that they should be in the service of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood, and carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord hath chosen.
6062 Josue Josh 6 10 1 When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,
6063 Josue Josh 6 10 2 He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting men were most valiant.
6064 Josue Josh 6 10 3 Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, sent to Oham, king of Hebron, and to Pharam, king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis, and to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:
6065 Josue Josh 6 10 4 Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.
6066 Josue Josh 6 10 5 So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together, went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.
6067 Josue Josh 6 10 6 But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged, sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him: Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.
6068 Josue Josh 6 10 7 And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the warriors with him, most valiant men.
6069 Josue Josh 6 10 8 But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand against thee.
6070 Josue Josh 6 10 9 So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.
6071 Josue Josh 6 10 10 And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of Israel: and he slew them with a great slaughter, in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent to Bethoron, and cut them off all the way to Azeca and Maceda.
6072 Josue Josh 6 10 11 And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,
6073 Josue Josh 6 10 12 Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the valley of Ajalon.
6074 Josue Josh 6 10 13 And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down the space of one day.
6075 Josue Josh 6 10 14 There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.
6076 Josue Josh 6 10 15 And Josue returned, with all Israel, into the camp of Galgal.
6077 Josue Josh 6 10 16 For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.
6078 Josue Josh 6 10 17 And it was told Josue, that the five kings were found hid in a cave of the city of Maceda.
6079 Josue Josh 6 10 18 And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men to keep them shut up:
6080 Josue Josh 6 10 19 And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill all the hindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them whom the Lord God hath delivered into your hands, to shelter themselves in their cities.
6081 Josue Josh 6 10 20 So the enemies being slain with a great slaughter, and almost utterly consumed, they that were able to escape from Israel, entered into fenced cities.
6082 Josue Josh 6 10 21 And all the army returned to Josue, in Maceda, where the camp then was, in good health, and without the loss of any one: and no man durst move his tongue against the children of Israel.
6083 Josue Josh 6 10 22 And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.
6084 Josue Josh 6 10 23 And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they brought out to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon.
6085 Josue Josh 6 10 24 And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and put their feet upon the necks of them lying under them,
6086 Josue Josh 6 10 25 He said again to them: Fear not, neither be ye dismayed, take courage, and be strong: for so will the Lord do to all your enemies, against whom you fight.
6087 Josue Josh 6 10 26 And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five gibbets; and they hung until the evening.
6088 Josue Josh 6 10 27 And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take them down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast them into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at the mouth thereof, which remain until this day.
6089 Josue Josh 6 10 28 The same day Josue took Maceda, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he left not in it the least remains. And he did to the king of Maceda, as he had done to the king of Jericho.
6090 Josue Josh 6 10 29 And he passed from Maceda with all Israel to Lebna, and fought against it:
6091 Josue Josh 6 10 30 And the Lord delivered it with the king thereof into the hands of Israel: and they destroyed the city with the edge of the sword, and all the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any remains. And they did to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the king of Jericho.
6092 Josue Josh 6 10 31 From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing it with his army, besieged it.
6093 Josue Josh 6 10 32 And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he took it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that was in it, as he had done to Lebna.
6094 Josue Josh 6 10 33 At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.
6095 Josue Josh 6 10 34 And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,
6096 Josue Josh 6 10 35 And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.
6097 Josue Josh 6 10 36 He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought against it:
6098 Josue Josh 6 10 37 Took it, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword: the king also thereof, and all the towns of that country, and all the souls that dwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had done to Eglon, so did he also to Hebron, putting to the sword all that he found in it.
6099 Josue Josh 6 10 38 Returning from thence to Dabir,
6100 Josue Josh 6 10 39 He took it, and destroyed it: the king also thereof, and all the towns round about, he destroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna, and to their kings, so did he to Dabir, and to the king thereof.
6101 Josue Josh 6 10 40 So Josue conquered all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not any remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
6102 Josue Josh 6 10 41 From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the land of Gosen even to Gabaon,
6103 Josue Josh 6 10 42 And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.
6104 Josue Josh 6 10 43 And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp in Galgal.
6105 Josue Josh 6 11 1 And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these things, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the king of Achsaph:
6106 Josue Josh 6 11 2 And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the mountains and in the plains over against the south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels and the countries of Dor by the sea side:
6107 Josue Josh 6 11 3 To the Chanaanites also on the east and on the west, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite in the mountains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot of Hermon in the land of Maspha.
6108 Josue Josh 6 11 4 And they all came out with their troops, a people exceeding numerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their horses also and chariots a very great multitude,
6109 Josue Josh 6 11 5 And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
6110 Josue Josh 6 11 6 And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow at this same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots with fire.
6111 Josue Josh 6 11 7 And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them to the waters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.
6112 Josue Josh 6 11 8 And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof. He slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them:
6113 Josue Josh 6 11 9 And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their horses and burned their chariots.
6114 Josue Josh 6 11 10 And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the king thereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all these kingdoms.
6115 Josue Josh 6 11 11 And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with fire.
6116 Josue Josh 6 11 12 And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities round about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded him.
6117 Josue Josh 6 11 13 Except the cities that were on hills and high places, the rest Israel burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with fire.
6118 Josue Josh 6 11 14 And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.
6119 Josue Josh 6 11 15 As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Josue, and he accomplished all: he left not one thing undone of all the commandments which the Lord had commanded Moses.
6120 Josue Josh 6 11 16 So Josue took all the country of the hills, and of the south, and the land of Gosen, and the plains and the west country, and the mountain of Israel, and the plains thereof:
6121 Josue Josh 6 11 17 And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as Baalgad, by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he took, smote and slew.
6122 Josue Josh 6 11 18 Josue made war a long time against these kings.
6123 Josue Josh 6 11 19 There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of Israel, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by fight.
6124 Josue Josh 6 11 20 For it was the sentence of the Lord, that their hearts should be hardened, and they should fight against Israel, and fall, and should not deserve any clemency, and should be destroyed as the Lord had commanded Moses.
6125 Josue Josh 6 11 21 At that time Josue came and cut off the Enacims from the mountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.
6126 Josue Josh 6 11 22 He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in which alone they were left.
6127 Josue Josh 6 11 23 So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.
6128 Josue Josh 6 12 1 These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness.
6129 Josue Josh 6 12 2 Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.
6130 Josue Josh 6 12 3 And from the wilderness, to the sea of Ceneroth towards the east, and to the sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the east side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth: and on the south side that lieth under Asedoth, Phasga.
6131 Josue Josh 6 12 4 The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the Raphaims who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount Hermon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders
6132 Josue Josh 6 12 5 Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon.
6133 Josue Josh 6 12 6 Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel slew them, and Moses delivered their land in possession to the Rubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses.
6134 Josue Josh 6 12 7 These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of Israel slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the field of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and Josue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their divisions,
6135 Josue Josh 6 12 8 As well in the mountains as in the plains and the champaign countries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the south was the Hethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite, the Hevite and the Jebusite.
6136 Josue Josh 6 12 9 The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of Bethel, one:
6137 Josue Josh 6 12 10 The king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one,
6138 Josue Josh 6 12 11 The king of Jerimoth one, the king of Lachis one,
6139 Josue Josh 6 12 12 The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one,
6140 Josue Josh 6 12 13 The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one,
6141 Josue Josh 6 12 14 The king of Herma one, the king of Hered one,
6142 Josue Josh 6 12 15 The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one,
6143 Josue Josh 6 12 16 The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one,
6144 Josue Josh 6 12 17 The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one,
6145 Josue Josh 6 12 18 The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one,
6146 Josue Josh 6 12 19 The king of Madon one, the king of Asor one,
6147 Josue Josh 6 12 20 The king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one,
6148 Josue Josh 6 12 21 The king of Thenac one, the king of Mageddo one,
6149 Josue Josh 6 12 22 The king of Cades one, the king of Jachanan of Carmel one,
6150 Josue Josh 6 12 23 The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the nations of Galgal one,
6151 Josue Josh 6 12 24 The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.
6152 Josue Josh 6 13 1 Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to him: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot:
6153 Josue Josh 6 13 2 To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.
6154 Josue Josh 6 13 3 From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.
6155 Josue Josh 6 13 4 And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,
6156 Josue Josh 6 13 5 And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.
6157 Josue Josh 6 13 6 Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from before the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as a part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.
6158 Josue Josh 6 13 7 And now divide the land in possession to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasses,
6159 Josue Josh 6 13 8 With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side.
6160 Josue Josh 6 13 9 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley and all the plains of Medaba, as far as Dibon:
6161 Josue Josh 6 13 10 And all the cities of Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who reigned in Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon.
6162 Josue Josh 6 13 11 And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,
6163 Josue Josh 6 13 12 All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and destroyed them.
6164 Josue Josh 6 13 13 And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.
6165 Josue Josh 6 13 14 But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of the Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
6166 Josue Josh 6 13 15 And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds.
6167 Josue Josh 6 13 16 And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all the plain, that leadeth to Medaba,
6168 Josue Josh 6 13 17 And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,
6169 Josue Josh 6 13 18 And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,
6170 Josue Josh 6 13 19 And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.
6171 Josue Josh 6 13 20 Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,
6172 Josue Josh 6 13 21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with the princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe, dukes of Sehon inhabitants of the land.
6173 Josue Josh 6 13 22 Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.
6174 Josue Josh 6 13 23 And the river Jordan was the border of the children of Ruben. This is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities and villages.
6175 Josue Josh 6 13 24 And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and to his children by their kindreds a possession, of which this is the division.
6176 Josue Josh 6 13 25 The border of Jaser, and all the cities of Galaad, and half the land of the children of Ammon: as far as Aroer which is over against Rabba:
6177 Josue Josh 6 13 26 And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from Manaim unto the borders of Dabir.
6178 Josue Josh 6 13 27 And in the valley Betharan and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon the other part of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the limit of this also is the Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of the sea of Cenereth beyond the Jordan on the east side,
6179 Josue Josh 6 13 28 This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families, their cities, and villages.
6180 Josue Josh 6 13 29 He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses and his children possession according to their kindreds,
6181 Josue Josh 6 13 30 The beginning whereof is this: from Manaim all Basan, and all the kingdoms of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Basan, threescore towns.
6182 Josue Josh 6 13 31 And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one half of the children of Machir according to their kindreds.
6183 Josue Josh 6 13 32 This possession Moses divided in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan, over against Jericho on the east side,
6184 Josue Josh 6 13 33 But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them.
6185 Josue Josh 6 14 1 This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.
6186 Josue Josh 6 14 2 Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.
6187 Josue Josh 6 14 3 For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond the Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their brethren:
6188 Josue Josh 6 14 4 But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and flocks.
6189 Josue Josh 6 14 5 As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.
6190 Josue Josh 6 14 6 Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.
6191 Josue Josh 6 14 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to me seemed true,
6192 Josue Josh 6 14 8 But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.
6193 Josue Josh 6 14 9 And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath trodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast followed the Lord my God.
6194 Josue Josh 6 14 10 The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until this present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I am eighty-five years old,
6195 Josue Josh 6 14 11 As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to march.
6196 Josue Josh 6 14 12 Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if so be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised me.
6197 Josue Josh 6 14 13 And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.
6198 Josue Josh 6 14 14 And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the God of Israel.
6199 Josue Josh 6 14 15 The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.
6200 Josue Josh 6 15 1 Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this: From the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the uttermost part of the south coast.
6201 Josue Josh 6 15 2 Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the bay thereof, that looketh to the south.
6202 Josue Josh 6 15 3 And it goeth out towards the ascent of the Scorpion, and passeth on to Sina: and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron, going up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.
6203 Josue Josh 6 15 4 And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the torrent of Egypt: and the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this shall be the limit of the south coast.
6204 Josue Josh 6 15 5 But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea even to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of the sea unto the same river Jordan.
6205 Josue Josh 6 15 6 And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla, and passeth by the north into Beth-Araba: going up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.
6206 Josue Josh 6 15 7 And reaching as far as the borders of Debara from the valley of Achor, and so northward looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to the ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the torrent, and the border passeth the waters that are called the fountain of the sun: and the goings out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.
6207 Josue Josh 6 15 8 And it goeth up by the valley of the son of Ennom on the side of the Jebusite towards the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence ascending to the top of the mountain, which is over against Geennom to the west in the end of the valley of Raphaim, northward.
6208 Josue Josh 6 15 9 And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it bendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city of the woods.
6209 Josue Josh 6 15 10 And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.
6210 Josue Josh 6 15 11 And reacheth northward to a part of Accaron at the side: and bendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel, and is bounded westward with the great sea.
6211 Josue Josh 6 15 12 These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in their kindreds.
6212 Josue Josh 6 15 13 But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac, which is Hebron.
6213 Josue Josh 6 15 14 And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.
6214 Josue Josh 6 15 15 And going up from thence he came to the inhabitants of Dabir, which before was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of letters.
6215 Josue Josh 6 15 16 And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it, I will give him Axa my daughter to wife.
6216 Josue Josh 6 15 17 And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.
6217 Josue Josh 6 15 18 And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?
6218 Josue Josh 6 15 19 But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a southern and dry land, give me also a land that is watered. And Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground.
6219 Josue Josh 6 15 20 This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by their kindreds.
6220 Josue Josh 6 15 21 And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Juda by the borders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,
6221 Josue Josh 6 15 22 And Cina and Dimona and Adada,
6222 Josue Josh 6 15 23 And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,
6223 Josue Josh 6 15 24 Ziph and Telem and Baloth,
6224 Josue Josh 6 15 25 New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is Asor.
6225 Josue Josh 6 15 26 Amam, Sama and Molada,
6226 Josue Josh 6 15 27 And Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,
6227 Josue Josh 6 15 28 And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,
6228 Josue Josh 6 15 29 And Baala and Jim and Esem,
6229 Josue Josh 6 15 30 And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,
6230 Josue Josh 6 15 31 And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,
6231 Josue Josh 6 15 32 Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.
6232 Josue Josh 6 15 33 But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,
6233 Josue Josh 6 15 34 And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,
6234 Josue Josh 6 15 35 And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,
6235 Josue Josh 6 15 36 And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen cities, and their villages.
6236 Josue Josh 6 15 37 Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,
6237 Josue Josh 6 15 38 Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,
6238 Josue Josh 6 15 39 Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,
6239 Josue Josh 6 15 40 Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,
6240 Josue Josh 6 15 41 And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages.
6241 Josue Josh 6 15 42 Labana and Ether and Asan,
6242 Josue Josh 6 15 43 Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,
6243 Josue Josh 6 15 44 And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine cities, and their villages.
6244 Josue Josh 6 15 45 Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.
6245 Josue Josh 6 15 46 From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus and the villages thereof.
6246 Josue Josh 6 15 47 Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border thereof.
6247 Josue Josh 6 15 48 And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,
6248 Josue Josh 6 15 49 And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is Dabir:
6249 Josue Josh 6 15 50 Anab and Istemo and Anim,
6250 Josue Josh 6 15 51 Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.
6251 Josue Josh 6 15 52 Arab and Ruma and Esaan,
6252 Josue Josh 6 15 53 And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,
6253 Josue Josh 6 15 54 Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities and their villages.
6254 Josue Josh 6 15 55 Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,
6255 Josue Josh 6 15 56 Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,
6256 Josue Josh 6 15 57 Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages.
6257 Josue Josh 6 15 58 Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,
6258 Josue Josh 6 15 59 Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their villages.
6259 Josue Josh 6 15 60 Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and Arebba: two cities and their villages.
6260 Josue Josh 6 15 61 In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha,
6261 Josue Josh 6 15 62 And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and their villages.
6262 Josue Josh 6 15 63 But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day.
6263 Josue Josh 6 16 1 And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan over against Jericho and the waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness which goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:
6264 Josue Josh 6 16 2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of Archi, to Ataroth,
6265 Josue Josh 6 16 3 And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the borders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it are ended by the great sea:
6266 Josue Josh 6 16 4 And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.
6267 Josue Josh 6 16 5 And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their kindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto Beth-horon the upper.
6268 Josue Josh 6 16 6 And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to the north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo: and passeth along on the east side to Janoe.
6269 Josue Josh 6 16 7 And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it cometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.
6270 Josue Josh 6 16 8 From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of reeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
6271 Josue Josh 6 16 9 And there were cities with their villages separated for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of Manasses.
6272 Josue Josh 6 16 10 And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.
6273 Josue Josh 6 17 1 And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the firstborn of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of Galaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan.
6274 Josue Josh 6 17 2 And to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their families: to the children of Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and to the children of Esriel, and to the children of Sechem, and to the children of Hepher, and to the children of Semida: these are the male children of Manasses the son of Joseph, by their kindreds.
6275 Josue Josh 6 17 3 But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names are these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa.
6276 Josue Josh 6 17 4 And they came in the presence of Eleazar the priest and of Josue the son of Nun, and of the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our brethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of the Lord a possession amongst the brethren of their father.
6277 Josue Josh 6 17 5 And there fell ten portions to Manasses, beside the land of Galaad and Basan beyond the Jordan.
6278 Josue Josh 6 17 6 For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst of his sons. And the land of Galaad fell to the lot of the rest of the children of Manasses.
6279 Josue Josh 6 17 7 And the border of Manasses was from Aser, Machmethath which looketh towards Sichem: and it goeth out on the right hand by the inhabitants of the fountain of Taphua.
6280 Josue Josh 6 17 8 For the lot of Manasses took in the land of Taphua, which is on the borders of Manasses, and belongs to the children of Ephraim.
6281 Josue Josh 6 17 9 And the border goeth down to the valley of the reeds, to the south of the torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which are in the midst of the cities of Manasses: the border of Manasses is on the north side of the torrent, and the outgoings of it are at the sea:
6282 Josue Josh 6 17 10 So that the possession of Ephraim is on the south, and on the north that of Manasses, and the sea is the border of both, and they are joined together in the tribe of Aser on the north, and in the tribe of Issachar on the east.
6283 Josue Josh 6 17 11 And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser, was Bethsan and its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhabitants also of Endor with the villages thereof: and in like manner the inhabitants of Thenac with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of Mageddo with their villages, and the third part of the city of Nopheth.
6284 Josue Josh 6 17 12 Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.
6285 Josue Josh 6 17 13 But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did not kill them.
6286 Josue Josh 6 17 14 And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?
6287 Josue Josh 6 17 15 And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into the woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is too narrow for thee.
6288 Josue Josh 6 17 16 And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the mountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley, have chariots of iron.
6289 Josue Josh 6 17 17 And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot only:
6290 Josue Josh 6 17 18 But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the wood, and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron chariots, and are very strong.
6291 Josue Josh 6 18 1 And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued before them.
6292 Josue Josh 6 18 2 But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which as yet had not received their possessions.
6293 Josue Josh 6 18 3 And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?
6294 Josue Josh 6 18 4 Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.
6295 Josue Josh 6 18 5 Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.
6296 Josue Josh 6 18 6 The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the Lord your God.
6297 Josue Josh 6 18 7 For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
6298 Josue Josh 6 18 8 And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue commanded them saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to me: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.
6299 Josue Josh 6 18 9 So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in Silo.
6300 Josue Josh 6 18 10 And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.
6301 Josue Josh 6 18 11 And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph.
6302 Josue Josh 6 18 12 And their border northward was from the Jordan: going along by the side of Jericho on the north side, and thence going up westward to the mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of Bethaven,
6303 Josue Josh 6 18 13 And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel, and it goeth down into Ataroth-addar to the mountain, that is on the south of the nether Beth-horon.
6304 Josue Josh 6 18 14 And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the mountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast towards the sea, westward.
6305 Josue Josh 6 18 15 But on the south side the border goeth out from part of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoa.
6306 Josue Josh 6 18 16 And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on the valley of the children of Ennom: and is over against the north quarter in the furthermost part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth down into Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the Jebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain of Rogel,
6307 Josue Josh 6 18 17 Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is to say, the fountain of the sun:
6308 Josue Josh 6 18 18 And it passeth along to the hills that are over against the ascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of Boen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the north side to the champaign countries; and goeth down into the plain,
6309 Josue Josh 6 18 19 And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings thereof are towards the north of the most salt sea at the south end of the Jordan.
6310 Josue Josh 6 18 20 Which is the border of it on the east side. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their borders round about, and their families.
6311 Josue Josh 6 18 21 And their cities were, Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis,
6312 Josue Josh 6 18 22 Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,
6313 Josue Josh 6 18 23 And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,
6314 Josue Josh 6 18 24 The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their villages.
6315 Josue Josh 6 18 25 Gabam and Rama and Beroth,
6316 Josue Josh 6 18 26 And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,
6317 Josue Josh 6 18 27 And Recem, Jarephel, and Tharela,
6318 Josue Josh 6 18 28 And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their families.
6319 Josue Josh 6 19 1 And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their kindreds: and their inheritance was
6320 Josue Josh 6 19 2 In the midst of the possession of the children of Juda: Bersabee and Sabee and Molada
6321 Josue Josh 6 19 3 And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,
6322 Josue Josh 6 19 4 And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,
6323 Josue Josh 6 19 5 And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and Hasersusa,
6324 Josue Josh 6 19 6 And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.
6325 Josue Josh 6 19 7 And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.
6326 Josue Josh 6 19 8 And all the villages round about these cities to Baalath Beer Ramath to the south quarter. This is the inheritance of the children of Simeon according to their kindreds,
6327 Josue Josh 6 19 9 In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was too great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in the midst of their inheritance.
6328 Josue Josh 6 19 10 And the third lot fell to the children of Zabulon by their kindreds: and the border of their possession was unto Sarid.
6329 Josue Josh 6 19 11 And it went up from the sea and from Merala, and came to Debbaseth: as far as the torrent, which is over against Jeconam.
6330 Josue Josh 6 19 12 And it returneth from Sarid eastward to the borders of Ceseleththabor: and it goeth out to Dabereth and ascendeth towards Japhie.
6331 Josue Josh 6 19 13 And it passeth along from thence to the east side of Gethhepher and Thacasin: and goeth out to Remmon, Amthar and Noa.
6332 Josue Josh 6 19 14 And it turneth about to the north of Hanathon: and the outgoings thereof are the valley of Jephtahel,
6333 Josue Josh 6 19 15 And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their villages.
6334 Josue Josh 6 19 16 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Zabulon by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
6335 Josue Josh 6 19 17 The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their kindreds.
6336 Josue Josh 6 19 18 And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,
6337 Josue Josh 6 19 19 And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,
6338 Josue Josh 6 19 20 And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,
6339 Josue Josh 6 19 21 And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.
6340 Josue Josh 6 19 22 And the border thereof cometh to Thabor and Sehesima and Bethsames: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen cities, and their villages.
6341 Josue Josh 6 19 23 This is the possession of the sons of Issachar by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
6342 Josue Josh 6 19 24 And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the children of Aser by their kindreds:
6343 Josue Josh 6 19 25 And their border was Halcath and Chali and Beten and Axaph,
6344 Josue Josh 6 19 26 And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel by the sea and Sihor and Labanath,
6345 Josue Josh 6 19 27 And it returneth towards the east to Bethdagon: and passeth along to Zabulon and to the valley of Jephthael towards the north to Bethemec and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,
6346 Josue Josh 6 19 28 And to Abaran and Rohob and Hamon and Cana, as far as the great Sidon.
6347 Josue Josh 6 19 29 And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of Achziba:
6348 Josue Josh 6 19 30 And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their villages.
6349 Josue Josh 6 19 31 This is the possession of the children of Aser by their kindreds, and the cities and their villages.
6350 Josue Josh 6 19 32 The sixth lot came out to the sons of Nephtali by their families:
6351 Josue Josh 6 19 33 And the border began from Heleph and Elon to Saananim, and Adami, which is Neceb, and Jebnael even to Lecum: and their outgoings unto the Jordan:
6352 Josue Josh 6 19 34 And the border returneth westward to Azanotthabor, and goeth out from thence to Hucuca, and passeth along to Zabulon southward, and to Aser westward, and to Juda upon the Jordan towards the rising of the sun.
6353 Josue Josh 6 19 35 And the strong cities are Assedim, Ser, and Emath, and Reccath and Cenereth,
6354 Josue Josh 6 19 36 And Edema and Arama, Asor,
6355 Josue Josh 6 19 37 And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,
6356 Josue Josh 6 19 38 And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and Bethanath and Bethsames: nineteen cities, and their villages.
6357 Josue Josh 6 19 39 This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Nephtali by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
6358 Josue Josh 6 19 40 The seventh lot came out to the tribe of the children of Dan by their families
6359 Josue Josh 6 19 41 And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,
6360 Josue Josh 6 19 42 Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,
6361 Josue Josh 6 19 43 Elon and Themna and Acron,
6362 Josue Josh 6 19 44 Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,
6363 Josue Josh 6 19 45 And Juda and Bane and Barach and Gethremmon:
6364 Josue Josh 6 19 46 And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border that looketh towards Joppe,
6365 Josue Josh 6 19 47 And is terminated there. And the children of Dan went up and fought against Lesem, and took it: and they put it to the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the name of Dan their father.
6366 Josue Josh 6 19 48 This is the possession of the tribe of the sons of Dan, by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
6367 Josue Josh 6 19 49 And when he had made an end of dividing the land by lot to each one by their tribes, the children of Israel gave a possession to Josue the son of Nun in the midst of them,
6368 Josue Josh 6 19 50 According to the commandment of the Lord, the city which he asked for, Thamnath Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and he built up the city, and dwelt in it.
6369 Josue Josh 6 19 51 These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families, and of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they divided the land.
6370 Josue Josh 6 20 1 And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them:
6371 Josue Josh 6 20 2 Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:
6372 Josue Josh 6 20 3 That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.
6373 Josue Josh 6 20 4 And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.
6374 Josue Josh 6 20 5 And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before,
6375 Josue Josh 6 20 6 And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his own city and house from whence he fled.
6376 Josue Josh 6 20 7 And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem in mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain of Juda.
6377 Josue Josh 6 20 8 And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jericho, they appointed Bosor, which is upon the plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses.
6378 Josue Josh 6 20 9 These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the strangers, that dwelt among them, that whosoever had killed a person unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should stand before the people to lay open his cause.
6379 Josue Josh 6 21 1 Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and to Josue the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds of all the tribes of the children of Israel
6380 Josue Josh 6 21 2 And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.
6381 Josue Josh 6 21 3 And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.
6382 Josue Josh 6 21 4 And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
6383 Josue Josh 6 21 5 And to the rest of the children of Caath, that is, to the Levites, who remained, out of the tribes of Ephraim, and of Dan, and the half tribe of Manasses, ten cities.
6384 Josue Josh 6 21 6 And the lot came out to the children of Gerson, that they should take of the tribes of Issachar and of Aser and of Nephtali, and of the half tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.
6385 Josue Josh 6 21 7 And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of Ruben and of Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.
6386 Josue Josh 6 21 8 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to every one by lot.
6387 Josue Josh 6 21 9 Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave cities: whose names are these,
6388 Josue Josh 6 21 10 To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of Levi (for the first lot came out for them)
6389 Josue Josh 6 21 11 The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.
6390 Josue Josh 6 21 12 But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb the son of Jephone for his possession.
6391 Josue Josh 6 21 13 He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron a city of refuge, and the suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs thereof,
6392 Josue Josh 6 21 14 And Jether and Estemo,
6393 Josue Josh 6 21 15 And Holon, and Dabir,
6394 Josue Josh 6 21 16 And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.
6395 Josue Josh 6 21 17 And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,
6396 Josue Josh 6 21 18 And Anathoth and Almon, with, their suburbs: four cities.
6397 Josue Josh 6 21 19 All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs,
6398 Josue Josh 6 21 20 And to the rest of the families of the children of Caath of the race of Levi was given this possession.
6399 Josue Josh 6 21 21 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge, with the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer,
6400 Josue Josh 6 21 22 And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities.
6401 Josue Josh 6 21 23 And of he tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon,
6402 Josue Josh 6 21 24 And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, four cities.
6403 Josue Josh 6 21 25 And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, two cities.
6404 Josue Josh 6 21 26 All the cities were ten, with their suburbs, which were given to the children of Caath, of the inferior degree.
6405 Josue Josh 6 21 27 To the children of Gerson also of the race of Levi out of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon in Basan, one of the cities of refuge, and Bosra, with their suburbs, two cities.
6406 Josue Josh 6 21 28 And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and Dabereth,
6407 Josue Josh 6 21 29 And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities.
6408 Josue Josh 6 21 30 And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,
6409 Josue Josh 6 21 31 And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.
6410 Josue Josh 6 21 32 Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee, one of the cities of refuge: and Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs, three cities.
6411 Josue Josh 6 21 33 All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with their suburbs.
6412 Josue Josh 6 21 34 And to the children of Merari, Levites of the inferior degree, by their families were given of the tribe of Zabulon, Jecnam and Cartha,
6413 Josue Josh 6 21 35 And Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs.
6414 Josue Josh 6 21 36 Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan over against Jericho, Bosor in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jaser and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.
6415 Josue Josh 6 21 37 Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one of the cities of refuge, and Manaim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their suburbs,
6416 Josue Josh 6 21 38 All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, were twelve.
6417 Josue Josh 6 21 39 So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight,
6418 Josue Josh 6 21 40 With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.
6419 Josue Josh 6 21 41 And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.
6420 Josue Josh 6 21 42 And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of their enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their dominion.
6421 Josue Josh 6 21 43 Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto them, was made void, but all came to pass.
6422 Josue Josh 6 22 1 At the same time Josue called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses,
6423 Josue Josh 6 22 2 And said to them: You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: you have also obeyed me in all things,
6424 Josue Josh 6 22 3 Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this present day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.
6425 Josue Josh 6 22 4 Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and peace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan:
6426 Josue Josh 6 22 5 Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.
6427 Josue Josh 6 22 6 And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to their dwellings.
6428 Josue Josh 6 22 7 Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses had given a possession in Basan: and therefore to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot among the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west. And when he sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them,
6429 Josue Josh 6 22 8 He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.
6430 Josue Josh 6 22 9 So the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses returned, and parted from the children of Israel in Silo, which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
6431 Josue Josh 6 22 10 And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.
6432 Josue Josh 6 22 11 And when the children of Israel had heard of it, and certain messengers brought them an account that the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of Chanaan, upon the banks of the Jordan, over against the children of Israel:
6433 Josue Josh 6 22 12 They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them.
6434 Josue Josh 6 22 13 And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad, Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest,
6435 Josue Josh 6 22 14 And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.
6436 Josue Josh 6 22 15 Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them:
6437 Josue Josh 6 22 16 Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?
6438 Josue Josh 6 22 17 Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.
6439 Josue Josh 6 22 18 And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel.
6440 Josue Josh 6 22 19 But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass over to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among us: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.
6441 Josue Josh 6 22 20 Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but one man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.
6442 Josue Josh 6 22 21 And the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses answered the princes of the embassage of Israel:
6443 Josue Josh 6 22 22 The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:
6444 Josue Josh 6 22 23 And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him require and judge:
6445 Josue Josh 6 22 24 And not rather with this thought and design, that we should say: To morrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do with the Lord the God of Israel?
6446 Josue Josh 6 22 25 The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and you, O ye children of Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore you have no part in the Lord. And by this occasion your children shall turn away our children from the fear of the Lord. We therefore thought it best,
6447 Josue Josh 6 22 26 And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,
6448 Josue Josh 6 22 27 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.
6449 Josue Josh 6 22 28 And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.
6450 Josue Josh 6 22 29 God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from the Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the Lord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.
6451 Josue Josh 6 22 30 And when Phinees the priest, and the princes of the embassage, who were with him, had heard this, they were satisfied: and they admitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben, and Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses,
6452 Josue Josh 6 22 31 And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we know that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this revolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of the Lord.
6453 Josue Josh 6 22 32 And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and Gad, out of the land of Galaad, into the land of Chanaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
6454 Josue Josh 6 22 33 And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of Israel praised God, and they no longer said that they would go up against them, and fight, and destroy the land of their possession.
6455 Josue Josh 6 22 34 And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the altar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God,
6456 Josue Josh 6 23 1 And when a long time was passed, after that the Lord had given peace to Israel, all the nations round about being subdued. and Josue being now old, and far advanced in years:
6457 Josue Josh 6 23 2 Josue called for all Israel, and for the elders, and for the princes, and for the judges, and for the masters, and said to them: I am old, and far advanced in years,
6458 Josue Josh 6 23 3 And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the nations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:
6459 Josue Josh 6 23 4 And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, and many nations yet remain:
6460 Josue Josh 6 23 5 The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you.
6461 Josue Josh 6 23 6 Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are written in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them neither to the right hand nor to the left:
6462 Josue Josh 6 23 7 Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:
6463 Josue Josh 6 23 8 But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.
6464 Josue Josh 6 23 9 And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.
6465 Josue Josh 6 23 10 One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.
6466 Josue Josh 6 23 11 This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.
6467 Josue Josh 6 23 12 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:
6468 Josue Josh 6 23 13 Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.
6469 Josue Josh 6 23 14 Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and you shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord promised to perform for you, not one hath failed,
6470 Josue Josh 6 23 15 Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you,
6471 Josue Josh 6 23 16 When you shall have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and shall have served strange gods, and adored them: then shall the indignation of the Lord rise up quickly and speedily against you, and you shall be taken away from this excellent land, which he hath delivered to you.
6472 Josue Josh 6 24 1 And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord:
6473 Josue Josh 6 24 2 And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.
6474 Josue Josh 6 24 3 And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,
6475 Josue Josh 6 24 4 And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
6476 Josue Josh 6 24 5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with many signs and wonders.
6477 Josue Josh 6 24 6 And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen, as far as the Red Sea.
6478 Josue Josh 6 24 7 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
6479 Josue Josh 6 24 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorrhite, who dwelt beyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them into your hands, and you possessed their land, and slew them.
6480 Josue Josh 6 24 9 And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:
6481 Josue Josh 6 24 10 And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by him, and I delivered you out of his hand.
6482 Josue Josh 6 24 11 And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.
6483 Josue Josh 6 24 12 And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,
6484 Josue Josh 6 24 13 And I gave you a land, in which you had not laboured, and cities to dwell in which you built not, vineyards and oliveyards, which you planted not.
6485 Josue Josh 6 24 14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
6486 Josue Josh 6 24 15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord,
6487 Josue Josh 6 24 16 And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.
6488 Josue Josh 6 24 17 The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed.
6489 Josue Josh 6 24 18 And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.
6490 Josue Josh 6 24 19 And Josue said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins.
6491 Josue Josh 6 24 20 If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.
6492 Josue Josh 6 24 21 And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord.
6493 Josue Josh 6 24 22 And Josue said to the people, You are witnesses, that you yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We are witnesses.
6494 Josue Josh 6 24 23 Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.
6495 Josue Josh 6 24 24 And the people said to Josue: We will serve the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his commandments.
6496 Josue Josh 6 24 25 Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.
6497 Josue Josh 6 24 26 And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the Lord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.
6498 Josue Josh 6 24 27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.
6499 Josue Josh 6 24 28 And he sent the people away every one to their own possession,
6500 Josue Josh 6 24 29 And after these things Josue the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:
6501 Josue Josh 6 24 30 And they buried him in the border of his possession in Thamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.
6502 Josue Josh 6 24 31 And Israel served the Lord all the days of Josue, and of the ancients that lived a long time after Josue, and that had known all the works of the Lord which he had done in Israel.
6503 Josue Josh 6 24 32 And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken out of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a hundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.
6504 Josue Josh 6 24 33 Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in Gabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
6505 Judges Jdgs 7 1 1 After the death of Josue, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?
6506 Judges Jdgs 7 1 2 And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the land into his hands.
6507 Judges Jdgs 7 1 3 And Juda said to Simeon, his brother: Come up with me into my lot, and fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go along with thee into thy lot. And Simeon went with him.
6508 Judges Jdgs 7 1 4 And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand men.
6509 Judges Jdgs 7 1 5 And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.
6510 Judges Jdgs 7 1 6 And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and cut off his fingers and toes.
6511 Judges Jdgs 7 1 7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
6512 Judges Jdgs 7 1 8 And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put it to the sword, and set the whole city on fire.
6513 Judges Jdgs 7 1 9 And afterwards they went down and fought against the Chanaanite, who dwelt in the mountains, and in the south, and in the plains.
6514 Judges Jdgs 7 1 10 And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt in Hebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai, and Ahiman, and Tholmai:
6515 Judges Jdgs 7 1 11 And departing from thence, he went to the inhabitants of Dabir, the ancient name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that is, the city of letters.
6516 Judges Jdgs 7 1 12 And Caleb said: He that shall take Cariath-Sepher, and lay it waste, to him will I give my daughter Axa to wife.
6517 Judges Jdgs 7 1 13 And Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb, having taken it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.
6518 Judges Jdgs 7 1 14 And as she was going on her way, her husband admonished her to ask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?
6519 Judges Jdgs 7 1 15 But she answered: Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a dry land: give me also a watery land So Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground.
6520 Judges Jdgs 7 1 16 And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of Moses, went up from the city of palms, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness of his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with him.
6521 Judges Jdgs 7 1 17 And Juda went with Simeon, his brother, and they together defeated the Chanaanites that dwelt in Sephaath, and slew them. And the name of the city was called Horma, that is, Anathema.
6522 Judges Jdgs 7 1 18 And Juda took Gaza, with its confines, and Ascalon, and Accaron, with their confines.
6523 Judges Jdgs 7 1 19 And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country: but was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they had many chariots armed with scythes.
6524 Judges Jdgs 7 1 20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac.
6525 Judges Jdgs 7 1 21 But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem: and the Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this present day.
6526 Judges Jdgs 7 1 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
6527 Judges Jdgs 7 1 23 For when they were besieging the city, which before was called Luza,
6528 Judges Jdgs 7 1 24 They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him: Shew us the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
6529 Judges Jdgs 7 1 25 And when he had shewed them, they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but that man, and all his kindred, they let go:
6530 Judges Jdgs 7 1 26 Who being sent away, went into the land of Hetthim, and built there a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.
6531 Judges Jdgs 7 1 27 Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.
6532 Judges Jdgs 7 1 28 But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them.
6533 Judges Jdgs 7 1 29 Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt in Gazer, but dwelt with him.
6534 Judges Jdgs 7 1 30 Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary.
6535 Judges Jdgs 7 1 31 Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:
6536 Judges Jdgs 7 1 32 And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them.
6537 Judges Jdgs 7 1 33 Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to him.
6538 Judges Jdgs 7 1 34 And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a place to go down to the plain:
6539 Judges Jdgs 7 1 35 And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of potsherds, in Aialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon him, and he became tributary to him.
6540 Judges Jdgs 7 1 36 And the border of the Amorrhite was from the ascent of the scorpion, the rock, and the higher places.
6541 Judges Jdgs 7 2 1 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:
6542 Judges Jdgs 7 2 2 On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?
6543 Judges Jdgs 7 2 3 Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.
6544 Judges Jdgs 7 2 4 And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.
6545 Judges Jdgs 7 2 5 And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.
6546 Judges Jdgs 7 2 6 And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:
6547 Judges Jdgs 7 2 7 And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.
6548 Judges Jdgs 7 2 8 And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old;
6549 Judges Jdgs 7 2 9 And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaas.
6550 Judges Jdgs 7 2 10 And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel.
6551 Judges Jdgs 7 2 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim
6552 Judges Jdgs 7 2 12 And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger,
6553 Judges Jdgs 7 2 13 Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth
6554 Judges Jdgs 7 2 14 And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:
6555 Judges Jdgs 7 2 15 But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.
6556 Judges Jdgs 7 2 16 And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,
6557 Judges Jdgs 7 2 17 Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.
6558 Judges Jdgs 7 2 18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.
6559 Judges Jdgs 7 2 19 But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them, and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.
6560 Judges Jdgs 7 2 20 And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:
6561 Judges Jdgs 7 2 21 I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:
6562 Judges Jdgs 7 2 22 That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
6563 Judges Jdgs 7 2 23 The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly destroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.
6564 Judges Jdgs 7 3 1 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:
6565 Judges Jdgs 7 3 2 That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
6566 Judges Jdgs 7 3 3 The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.
6567 Judges Jdgs 7 3 4 And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers, by the hand of Moses, or not.
6568 Judges Jdgs 7 3 5 So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite:
6569 Judges Jdgs 7 3 6 And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
6570 Judges Jdgs 7 3 7 And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.
6571 Judges Jdgs 7 3 8 And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.
6572 Judges Jdgs 7 3 9 And they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, and delivered them; to wit, Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb:
6573 Judges Jdgs 7 3 10 And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to fight, and the Lord delivered into his hands Chusan Rasathaim, king of Syria, and he overthrew him:
6574 Judges Jdgs 7 3 11 And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez, died.
6575 Judges Jdgs 7 3 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil in his sight.
6576 Judges Jdgs 7 3 13 And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
6577 Judges Jdgs 7 3 14 And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen years.
6578 Judges Jdgs 7 3 15 And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.
6579 Judges Jdgs 7 3 16 And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst of the length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith, under his garment, on the right thigh.
6580 Judges Jdgs 7 3 17 And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king of Moab Now Eglon was exceeding fat.
6581 Judges Jdgs 7 3 18 And when he had presented the gifts unto him he followed his companions that came along with him.
6582 Judges Jdgs 7 3 19 Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded silence: and all being gone out that were about him,
6583 Judges Jdgs 7 3 20 Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne.
6584 Judges Jdgs 7 3 21 And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,
6585 Judges Jdgs 7 3 22 With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the wound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the belly came out.
6586 Judges Jdgs 7 3 23 And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking them,
6587 Judges Jdgs 7 3 24 Went out by a postern door. And the king’s servants going in, saw the doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing nature in his summer parlour.
6588 Judges Jdgs 7 3 25 And waiting a long time, till they were ashamed, and seeing that no man opened the door, they took a key: and opening, they found their lord lying dead on the ground.
6589 Judges Jdgs 7 3 26 But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the place of the idols from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:
6590 Judges Jdgs 7 3 27 And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went down with him, he himself going in the front.
6591 Judges Jdgs 7 3 28 And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our enemies, the Moabites, into our hands. And they went down after him, and seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which are in the way to Moab: and they suffered no man to pass over:
6592 Judges Jdgs 7 3 29 But they slew of the Moabites at that time, about ten thousand, all strong and valiant men: none of them could escape.
6593 Judges Jdgs 7 3 30 And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel: and the land rested eighty years.
6594 Judges Jdgs 7 3 31 After him was Samgar, the son of Anath, who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with a ploughshare: and he also defended Israel.
6595 Judges Jdgs 7 4 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod:
6596 Judges Jdgs 7 4 2 And the Lord delivered them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Chanaan, who reigned in Asor: and he had a general of his army named Sisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles.
6597 Judges Jdgs 7 4 3 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them.
6598 Judges Jdgs 7 4 4 And there was at that time Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, who judged the people.
6599 Judges Jdgs 7 4 5 And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name, between Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for all judgment.
6600 Judges Jdgs 7 4 6 And she sent and called Barac, the Son of Abinoem, out of Cedes, in Nephthali: and she said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath commanded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount Thabor, and thou shalt take with thee ten thousand fighting men of the children of Nephthali, and of the children of Zabulon:
6601 Judges Jdgs 7 4 7 And I will bring unto thee in the place of the torrent Cison, Sisara, the general of Jabin’s army, and his chariots, and all his multitude, and will deliver them into thy hand.
6602 Judges Jdgs 7 4 8 And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come with me, I will go: if thou wilt not come with me, I will not go.
6603 Judges Jdgs 7 4 9 She said to him: I will go, indeed, with thee, but at this time the victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be delivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went with Barac to Cedes.
6604 Judges Jdgs 7 4 10 And he called unto him Zabulon and Nephthali, and went up with ten thousand fighting men, having Debbora in his company.
6605 Judges Jdgs 7 4 11 Now Haber, the Cinite, had some time before departed from the rest of the Cinites, his brethren, the sons of Hobab, the kinsman of Moses: and had pitched his tents unto the valley, which is called Sennim, and was near Cedes.
6606 Judges Jdgs 7 4 12 And it was told Sisara, that Barac, the son of Abinoem, was gone up to Mount Thabor:
6607 Judges Jdgs 7 4 13 And he gathered together his nine hundred chariots armed with scythes, and all his army, from Haroseth of the Gentiles, to the torrent Cison.
6608 Judges Jdgs 7 4 14 And Debbora said to Barac: Arise, for this is the day wherein the Lord hath delivered Sisara into thy hands: behold, he is thy leader. And Barac went down from Mount Thabor, and ten thousand fighting men with him.
6609 Judges Jdgs 7 4 15 And the Lord struck a terror into Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his multitude, with the edge of the sword, at the sight of Barac; insomuch, that Sisara leaping down from off his chariot, fled away on foot,
6610 Judges Jdgs 7 4 16 And Barac pursued after the fleeing chariots, and the army, unto Haroseth of the Gentiles; and all the multitude of the enemies was utterly destroyed.
6611 Judges Jdgs 7 4 17 But Sisara fleeing, came to the tent of Jahel, the wife of Haber, the Cinite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and the house of Haber, the Cinite.
6612 Judges Jdgs 7 4 18 And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and said to him: Come in to me, my lord; come in, fear not. He went into her tent, and being covered by her with a cloak,
6613 Judges Jdgs 7 4 19 Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am very thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.
6614 Judges Jdgs 7 4 20 And Sisara said to her: Stand before the door of the tent, and when any shall come and inquire of thee, saying: Is there any man here? thou shalt say: There is none.
6615 Judges Jdgs 7 4 21 So Jahel, Haber’s wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.
6616 Judges Jdgs 7 4 22 And behold, Barac came pursuing after Sisara: and Jahel went out to meet him, and said to him: Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, he saw Sisara lying dead, and the nail fastened in his temples.
6617 Judges Jdgs 7 4 23 So God that day humbled Jabin, the king of Chanaan, before the children of Israel:
6618 Judges Jdgs 7 4 24 Who grew daily stronger, and with a mighty hand overpowered Jabin, king of Chanaan, till they quite destroyed him.
6619 Judges Jdgs 7 5 1 In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:
6620 Judges Jdgs 7 5 2 O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.
6621 Judges Jdgs 7 5 3 Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel.
6622 Judges Jdgs 7 5 4 O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water.
6623 Judges Jdgs 7 5 5 The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the God of Israel.
6624 Judges Jdgs 7 5 6 In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel, the paths rested: and they that went by them, walked through bye-ways.
6625 Judges Jdgs 7 5 7 The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose, a mother arose in Israel.
6626 Judges Jdgs 7 5 8 The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel.
6627 Judges Jdgs 7 5 9 My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.
6628 Judges Jdgs 7 5 10 Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in judgment, and walk in the way.
6629 Judges Jdgs 7 5 11 Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.
6630 Judges Jdgs 7 5 12 Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise, and utter a canticle. Arise, Barac, and take hold of thy captives, O son of Abinoem.
6631 Judges Jdgs 7 5 13 The remnants of the people are saved, the Lord hath fought among the valiant ones.
6632 Judges Jdgs 7 5 14 Out of Ephraim he destroyed them into Amalec, and after him out of Benjamin into thy people, O Amalec: Out of Machir there came down princes, and out of Zabulon they that led the army to fight.
6633 Judges Jdgs 7 5 15 The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the steps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong, and into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.
6634 Judges Jdgs 7 5 16 Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.
6635 Judges Jdgs 7 5 17 Galaad rested beyond the Jordan, and Dan applied himself to ships: Aser dwelt on the sea shore, and abode in the havens.
6636 Judges Jdgs 7 5 18 But Zabulon and Nephthali offered their lives to death in the region of Merome.
6637 Judges Jdgs 7 5 19 The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac, by the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.
6638 Judges Jdgs 7 5 20 There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining in their order and courses, fought against Sisara.
6639 Judges Jdgs 7 5 21 The torrent of Cison dragged their carcasses, the torrent of Cadumim, the torrent of Cison: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong ones.
6640 Judges Jdgs 7 5 22 The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.
6641 Judges Jdgs 7 5 23 Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men.
6642 Judges Jdgs 7 5 24 Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her tent.
6643 Judges Jdgs 7 5 25 He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.
6644 Judges Jdgs 7 5 26 She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman’s hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.
6645 Judges Jdgs 7 5 27 Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.
6646 Judges Jdgs 7 5 28 His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow?
6647 Judges Jdgs 7 5 29 One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law:
6648 Judges Jdgs 7 5 30 Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn necks.
6649 Judges Jdgs 7 5 31 So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.
6650 Judges Jdgs 7 5 32 And the land rested for forty years.
6651 Judges Jdgs 7 6 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years,
6652 Judges Jdgs 7 6 2 And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made themselves dens and caves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.
6653 Judges Jdgs 7 6 3 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up:
6654 Judges Jdgs 7 6 4 And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they were in the blade, even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor asses.
6655 Judges Jdgs 7 6 5 For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.
6656 Judges Jdgs 7 6 6 And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the sight of Madian.
6657 Judges Jdgs 7 6 7 And he cried to the Lord, desiring help against the Madianites.
6658 Judges Jdgs 7 6 8 And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage,
6659 Judges Jdgs 7 6 9 And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians, and of all the enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming in, and gave you their land.
6660 Judges Jdgs 7 6 10 And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my voice.
6661 Judges Jdgs 7 6 11 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian,
6662 Judges Jdgs 7 6 12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men.
6663 Judges Jdgs 7 6 13 And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian.
6664 Judges Jdgs 7 6 14 And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I have sent thee.
6665 Judges Jdgs 7 6 15 He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my lord wherewith shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the meanest in Manasses, and I am the least in my father’s house.
6666 Judges Jdgs 7 6 16 And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.
6667 Judges Jdgs 7 6 17 And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me:
6668 Judges Jdgs 7 6 18 And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.
6669 Judges Jdgs 7 6 19 So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.
6670 Judges Jdgs 7 6 20 And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the unleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth thereon. And when he had done so,
6671 Judges Jdgs 7 6 21 The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.
6672 Judges Jdgs 7 6 22 And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord, said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
6673 Judges Jdgs 7 6 23 And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou shalt not die.
6674 Judges Jdgs 7 6 24 And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the Lord’s peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra, which is of the family of Ezri,
6675 Judges Jdgs 7 6 25 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father’s, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father’s: and cut down the grove that is about the altar:
6676 Judges Jdgs 7 6 26 And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.
6677 Judges Jdgs 7 6 27 Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his servants, did as the Lord had commanded him. But fearing his father’s house, and the men of that city, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.
6678 Judges Jdgs 7 6 28 And when the men of that town were risen in the morning, they saw the altar of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut down, and the second bullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.
6679 Judges Jdgs 7 6 29 And they said one to another: Who hath done this? And when they inquired for the author of the fact, it was said: Gedeon, the son of Joas, did all this.
6680 Judges Jdgs 7 6 30 And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither, that he may die: because he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his grove.
6681 Judges Jdgs 7 6 31 He answered them: Are you the avengers of Baal, that you fight for him? he that is his adversary, let him die before to morrow light appear: if he be a god, let him revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar.
6682 Judges Jdgs 7 6 32 From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal, because Joas had said: Let Baal revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar.
6683 Judges Jdgs 7 6 33 Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people, were gathered together, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.
6684 Judges Jdgs 7 6 34 But the spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and he sounded the trumpet, and called together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.
6685 Judges Jdgs 7 6 35 And he sent messengers into all Manasses, and they also followed him : and other messengers into Aser and Zabulon, and Nephthali, and they came to meet him.
6686 Judges Jdgs 7 6 36 And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,
6687 Judges Jdgs 7 6 37 I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I shall know that by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.
6688 Judges Jdgs 7 6 38 And it was so. And rising before day, wringing the fleece, he filled a vessel with the dew.
6689 Judges Jdgs 7 6 39 And he said again to God: Let not thy wrath be kindled against me, if I try once more, seeking a sign in the fleece. I pray that the fleece only may be dry, and all the ground wet with dew.
6690 Judges Jdgs 7 6 40 And God did that night as he had requested: and it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
6691 Judges Jdgs 7 7 1 Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early, and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley, on the north side of the high hill.
6692 Judges Jdgs 7 7 2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.
6693 Judges Jdgs 7 7 3 Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all: Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men went away from Mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand remained.
6694 Judges Jdgs 7 7 4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.
6695 Judges Jdgs 7 7 5 And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.
6696 Judges Jdgs 7 7 6 And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.
6697 Judges Jdgs 7 7 7 And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.
6698 Judges Jdgs 7 7 8 So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he with the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of Madia was beneath him in the valley.
6699 Judges Jdgs 7 7 9 The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.
6700 Judges Jdgs 7 7 10 But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara, thy servant, go down with thee.
6701 Judges Jdgs 7 7 11 And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the enemies’ camp. And he went down with Phara his servant, into part of the camp, where was the watch of men in arms.
6702 Judges Jdgs 7 7 12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.
6703 Judges Jdgs 7 7 13 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground.
6704 Judges Jdgs 7 7 14 He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon, the son of Joas, a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.
6705 Judges Jdgs 7 7 15 And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.
6706 Judges Jdgs 7 7 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
6707 Judges Jdgs 7 7 17 And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.
6708 Judges Jdgs 7 7 18 When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and to Gedeon.
6709 Judges Jdgs 7 7 19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.
6710 Judges Jdgs 7 7 20 And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:
6711 Judges Jdgs 7 7 21 Standing every man in his place round about the enemies’ camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:
6712 Judges Jdgs 7 7 22 And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,
6713 Judges Jdgs 7 7 23 Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula, in Tebbath. But the men of Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and from all Manasses, pursued after Madian.
6714 Judges Jdgs 7 7 24 And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.
6715 Judges Jdgs 7 7 25 And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters of the Jordan.
6716 Judges Jdgs 7 8 1 And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest to do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight against Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost offered violence.
6717 Judges Jdgs 7 8 2 And he answered them: What could I have done like to that which you have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the vintages of Abiezer?
6718 Judges Jdgs 7 8 3 The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And when he had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they swelled against him.
6719 Judges Jdgs 7 8 4 And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled.
6720 Judges Jdgs 7 8 5 And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.
6721 Judges Jdgs 7 8 6 The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to thy army.
6722 Judges Jdgs 7 8 7 And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.
6723 Judges Jdgs 7 8 8 And going up from thence, he came to Phanuel: and he spoke the like things to the men of that place. And they also answered him, as the men of Soccoth had answered.
6724 Judges Jdgs 7 8 9 He said, therefore, to them also: When I shall return a conqueror in peace, I will destroy this tower.
6725 Judges Jdgs 7 8 10 But Zebee and Salmana were resting with all their army. For fifteen thousand men were left of all the troops of the eastern people, and one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword were slain.
6726 Judges Jdgs 7 8 11 And Gedeon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the east of Nobe and Jegbaa, and smote the camp of the enemies, who were secure, and suspected no hurt.
6727 Judges Jdgs 7 8 12 And Zebee and Salmana fled, and Gedeon pursued and took them, all their host being put in confusion.
6728 Judges Jdgs 7 8 13 And returning from the battle before the sun rising,
6729 Judges Jdgs 7 8 14 He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: and he asked him the names of the princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he described unto him seventy-seven men.
6730 Judges Jdgs 7 8 15 And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and faint.
6731 Judges Jdgs 7 8 16 So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.
6732 Judges Jdgs 7 8 17 And he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of the city.
6733 Judges Jdgs 7 8 18 And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they, whom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of them as the son of a king.
6734 Judges Jdgs 7 8 19 He answered them: They were my brethren, the sons of my mother. As the Lord liveth, if you had saved them, I would not kill you.
6735 Judges Jdgs 7 8 20 And he said to Jether, his eldest son: Arise, and slay them. But he drew not his sword: for he was afraid, being but yet a boy.
6736 Judges Jdgs 7 8 21 And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise and run upon us: because the strength of a man is according to his age: Gedeon rose up, and slew Zebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments and bosses, with which the necks of the camels of kings are wont to be adorned.
6737 Judges Jdgs 7 8 22 And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son’s son: because thou hast delivered us from the hand of Madian.
6738 Judges Jdgs 7 8 23 And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.
6739 Judges Jdgs 7 8 24 And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.
6740 Judges Jdgs 7 8 25 They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.
6741 Judges Jdgs 7 8 26 And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and purple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides the golden chains that were about the camels necks.
6742 Judges Jdgs 7 8 27 And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon, and to all his house.
6743 Judges Jdgs 7 8 28 But Madian was humbled before the children of Israel, neither could they any more lift up their heads: but the land rested for forty years, while Gedeon presided.
6744 Judges Jdgs 7 8 29 So Jerobaal, the son of Joas, went and dwelt in his own house:
6745 Judges Jdgs 7 8 30 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.
6746 Judges Jdgs 7 8 31 And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.
6747 Judges Jdgs 7 8 32 And Gedeon, the son of Joas died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father, in Ephra, of the family of Ezri.
6748 Judges Jdgs 7 8 33 But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god:
6749 Judges Jdgs 7 8 34 And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies round about:
6750 Judges Jdgs 7 8 35 Neither did they shew mercy to the house of Jerobaal Gedeon, according to all the good things he had done to Israel.
6751 Judges Jdgs 7 9 1 And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to Sichem, to his mother’s brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his mother’s father, saying:
6752 Judges Jdgs 7 9 2 Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.
6753 Judges Jdgs 7 9 3 And his mother’s brethren spoke of him to all the men of Sichem, all these words, and they inclined their hearts after Abimelech, saying: He is our brother:
6754 Judges Jdgs 7 9 4 And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and vagabonds, and they followed him.
6755 Judges Jdgs 7 9 5 And he came to his father’s house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.
6756 Judges Jdgs 7 9 6 And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem.
6757 Judges Jdgs 7 9 7 This being told to Joatham, he went, and stood on the top of Mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
6758 Judges Jdgs 7 9 8 The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
6759 Judges Jdgs 7 9 9 And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?
6760 Judges Jdgs 7 9 10 And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.
6761 Judges Jdgs 7 9 11 And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?
6762 Judges Jdgs 7 9 12 And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.
6763 Judges Jdgs 7 9 13 And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?
6764 Judges Jdgs 7 9 14 And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us.
6765 Judges Jdgs 7 9 15 And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.
6766 Judges Jdgs 7 9 16 Now, therefore, if you have done well, and without sin, in appointing Abimelech king over you, and have dealt well with Jerobaal, and with his house, and have made a suitable return for the benefits of him who fought for you,
6767 Judges Jdgs 7 9 17 And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hand of Madian,
6768 Judges Jdgs 7 9 18 And you are now risen up against my father’s house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because he is your brother:
6769 Judges Jdgs 7 9 19 If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault, with Jerobaal and his house, rejoice ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he rejoice in you.
6770 Judges Jdgs 7 9 20 But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech.
6771 Judges Jdgs 7 9 21 And when he had said thus, he fled, and went into Bera: and dwelt there for fear of Abimelech, his brother.
6772 Judges Jdgs 7 9 22 So Abimelech reigned over Israel three years.
6773 Judges Jdgs 7 9 23 And the Lord sent a very evil spirit between Abimelech and the inhabitants of Sichem; who began to detest him,
6774 Judges Jdgs 7 9 24 And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.
6775 Judges Jdgs 7 9 25 And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains: and while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking spoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.
6776 Judges Jdgs 7 9 26 And Gaal, the son of Obed, came with his brethren, and went over to Sichem. And the inhabitants of Sichem, taking courage at his coming,
6777 Judges Jdgs 7 9 27 Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of their god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech.
6778 Judges Jdgs 7 9 28 And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and hath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men of Emor, the father of Sichem? Why then shall we serve him?
6779 Judges Jdgs 7 9 29 Would to God that some man would put this people under my hand, that I might remove Abimelech out of the way. And it was said to Abimelech: Gather together the multitude of an army, and come.
6780 Judges Jdgs 7 9 30 For Zebul, the ruler of the city, hearing the words of Gaal, the son of Obed, was very angry,
6781 Judges Jdgs 7 9 31 And sent messengers privately to Abimelech, saying: Behold, Gaal, the son of Obed, is come into Sichem with his brethren, and endeavoureth to set the city against thee.
6782 Judges Jdgs 7 9 32 Arise, therefore, in the night, with the people that is with thee, and lie hid in the field:
6783 Judges Jdgs 7 9 33 And betimes in the morning, at sun rising, set upon the city, and when he shall come out against thee, with his people, do to him what thou shalt be able.
6784 Judges Jdgs 7 9 34 Abimelech, therefore, arose with all his army, by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.
6785 Judges Jdgs 7 9 35 And Gaal, the son of Obed, went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up, and all his army with him, from the places of the ambushes.
6786 Judges Jdgs 7 9 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold, a multitude cometh down from the mountains. And he answered him: Thou seest the shadows of the mountains as if they were the heads of men, and this is thy mistake.
6787 Judges Jdgs 7 9 37 Again Gaal said: Behold, there cometh people down from the midst of the land, and one troop cometh by the way that looketh towards the oak.
6788 Judges Jdgs 7 9 38 And Zebul said to him: Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people which thou didst despise? Go out, and fight against him.
6789 Judges Jdgs 7 9 39 So Gaal went out, in the sight of the people of Sichem, and fought against Abimelech,
6790 Judges Jdgs 7 9 40 Who chased and put him to flight, and drove him to the city: and many were slain of his people, even to the gate of the city:
6791 Judges Jdgs 7 9 41 And Abimelech sat down in Ruma: but Zebul drove Gaal, and his companions, out of the city, and would not suffer them to abide in it.
6792 Judges Jdgs 7 9 42 So the day following the people went out into the field. And it was told to Abimelech,
6793 Judges Jdgs 7 9 43 And he took his army, and divided it into three companies, and laid ambushes in the fields. And seeing that the people came out of the city, he arose, and set upon them,
6794 Judges Jdgs 7 9 44 With his own company, assaulting and besieging the city: whilst the two other companies chased the enemies that were scattered about the field.
6795 Judges Jdgs 7 9 45 And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.
6796 Judges Jdgs 7 9 46 And when they who dwelt in the tower of Sichem, had heard this, they went into the temple of their god Berith, where they had made a covenant with him, and from thence the place had taken its name, and it was exceeding strong.
6797 Judges Jdgs 7 9 47 Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were gathered together,
6798 Judges Jdgs 7 9 48 Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do ye out of hand.
6799 Judges Jdgs 7 9 49 So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it on fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the town of Sichem.
6800 Judges Jdgs 7 9 50 Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.
6801 Judges Jdgs 7 9 51 And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of the city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the tower to defend themselves.
6802 Judges Jdgs 7 9 52 And Abimelech, coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and, approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:
6803 Judges Jdgs 7 9 53 And behold, a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.
6804 Judges Jdgs 7 9 54 And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him.
6805 Judges Jdgs 7 9 55 And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.
6806 Judges Jdgs 7 9 56 And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.
6807 Judges Jdgs 7 9 57 The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.
6808 Judges Jdgs 7 10 1 After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of Phua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:
6809 Judges Jdgs 7 10 2 And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died, and was buried in Samir.
6810 Judges Jdgs 7 10 3 To him succeeded Jair, the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years,
6811 Judges Jdgs 7 10 4 Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.
6812 Judges Jdgs 7 10 5 And Jair died, and was buried in the place which is called Camon.
6813 Judges Jdgs 7 10 6 But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him.
6814 Judges Jdgs 7 10 7 And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines, and of the children of Ammon.
6815 Judges Jdgs 7 10 8 And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen years, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorrhite, who is in Galaad:
6816 Judges Jdgs 7 10 9 Insomuch that the children of Ammon, passing over the Jordan, wasted Juda, and Benjamin, and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceedingly.
6817 Judges Jdgs 7 10 10 And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.
6818 Judges Jdgs 7 10 11 And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines,
6819 Judges Jdgs 7 10 12 The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?
6820 Judges Jdgs 7 10 13 And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more:
6821 Judges Jdgs 7 10 14 Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.
6822 Judges Jdgs 7 10 15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.
6823 Judges Jdgs 7 10 16 And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.
6824 Judges Jdgs 7 10 17 And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.
6825 Judges Jdgs 7 10 18 And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Galaad.
6826 Judges Jdgs 7 11 1 There was at that time Jephte, the Galaadite, a most valiant man, and a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was Galaad.
6827 Judges Jdgs 7 11 2 Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who, after they were grown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the house of our father, because thou art born of another mother.
6828 Judges Jdgs 7 11 3 Then he fled and avoided them, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered to him needy men and robbers, and they followed him as their prince.
6829 Judges Jdgs 7 11 4 In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
6830 Judges Jdgs 7 11 5 And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:
6831 Judges Jdgs 7 11 6 And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight against the children of Ammon.
6832 Judges Jdgs 7 11 7 And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father’s house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?
6833 Judges Jdgs 7 11 8 And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are now come to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.
6834 Judges Jdgs 7 11 9 Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I should fight for you against the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall deliver them into my hand, shall I be your prince?
6835 Judges Jdgs 7 11 10 They answered him: The Lord, who heareth these things, he himself is mediator and witness that we will do as we have promised.
6836 Judges Jdgs 7 11 11 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha.
6837 Judges Jdgs 7 11 12 And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to say in his name: What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to waste my land?
6838 Judges Jdgs 7 11 13 And he answered them: Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and the Jordan: now, therefore, restore the same peaceably to me.
6839 Judges Jdgs 7 11 14 And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to the king of Ammon:
6840 Judges Jdgs 7 11 15 Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
6841 Judges Jdgs 7 11 16 But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades.
6842 Judges Jdgs 7 11 17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to pass through thy land. But he would not condescend to his request. He sent also to the king of Moab, who, likewise, refused to give him passage. He abode, therefore, in Cades,
6843 Judges Jdgs 7 11 18 And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of Moab: and came over against the east coast of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon: and he would not enter the bounds of Moab.
6844 Judges Jdgs 7 11 19 So Israel sent messengers to Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and they said to him: Suffer me to pass through thy land to the river.
6845 Judges Jdgs 7 11 20 But he, also despising the words of Israel, suffered him not to pass through his borders: but gathering an infinite multitude, went out against him to Jasa, and made strong opposition.
6846 Judges Jdgs 7 11 21 And the Lord delivered him, with all his army, into the hands of Israel, and he slew him, and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite, the inhabitant of that country,
6847 Judges Jdgs 7 11 22 And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
6848 Judges Jdgs 7 11 23 So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess his land?
6849 Judges Jdgs 7 11 24 Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest, shall be our possession:
6850 Judges Jdgs 7 11 25 Unless, perhaps, thou art better than Balac, the son of Sephor, king of Moab: or canst shew that he strove against Israel, and fought against him,
6851 Judges Jdgs 7 11 26 Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing about this claim?
6852 Judges Jdgs 7 11 27 Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me by declaring an unjust war against me. The Lord be judge, and decide this day, between Israel and the children of Ammon.
6853 Judges Jdgs 7 11 28 And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.
6854 Judges Jdgs 7 11 29 Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from thence to the children of Ammon,
6855 Judges Jdgs 7 11 30 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
6856 Judges Jdgs 7 11 31 Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house, and shall meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, the same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.
6857 Judges Jdgs 7 11 32 And Jephte passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them: and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
6858 Judges Jdgs 7 11 33 And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very great slaughter: and the children of Ammon were humbled by the children of Israel.
6859 Judges Jdgs 7 11 34 And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.
6860 Judges Jdgs 7 11 35 And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.
6861 Judges Jdgs 7 11 36 And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.
6862 Judges Jdgs 7 11 37 And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire: Let me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may bewail my virginity with my companions.
6863 Judges Jdgs 7 11 38 And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months. And when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her virginity in the mountains.
6864 Judges Jdgs 7 11 39 And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:
6865 Judges Jdgs 7 11 40 That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.
6866 Judges Jdgs 7 12 1 But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.
6867 Judges Jdgs 7 12 2 And he answered them: I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon: and I called you to assist me, and you would not do it.
6868 Judges Jdgs 7 12 3 And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?
6869 Judges Jdgs 7 12 4 Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought against Ephraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said: Galaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim and Manasses.
6870 Judges Jdgs 7 12 5 And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan, by which Ephraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came thither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the Galaadites said to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am not:
6871 Judges Jdgs 7 12 6 They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is interpreted, An ear of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an ear of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and killed him in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim, two and forty thousand.
6872 Judges Jdgs 7 12 7 And Jephte, the Galaadite, judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.
6873 Judges Jdgs 7 12 8 After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:
6874 Judges Jdgs 7 12 9 He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons, of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years:
6875 Judges Jdgs 7 12 10 And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.
6876 Judges Jdgs 7 12 11 To him succeeded Ahialon, a Zabulonite: and he judged Israel ten years:
6877 Judges Jdgs 7 12 12 And he died, and was buried in Zabulon.
6878 Judges Jdgs 7 12 13 After him, Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite, judged Israel:
6879 Judges Jdgs 7 12 14 And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:
6880 Judges Jdgs 7 12 15 And he died, and was buried in Pharathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.
6881 Judges Jdgs 7 13 1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.
6882 Judges Jdgs 7 13 2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.
6883 Judges Jdgs 7 13 3 And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.
6884 Judges Jdgs 7 13 4 Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.
6885 Judges Jdgs 7 13 5 Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother’s womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
6886 Judges Jdgs 7 13 6 And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:
6887 Judges Jdgs 7 13 7 But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son: beware thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his mother’s womb until the day of his death.
6888 Judges Jdgs 7 13 8 Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us what we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born.
6889 Judges Jdgs 7 13 9 And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord appeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue her husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel,
6890 Judges Jdgs 7 13 10 She made haste, and ran to her husband: and told him, saying: Behold the man hath appeared to me, whom I saw before.
6891 Judges Jdgs 7 13 11 He rose up, and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said to him: Art thou he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.
6892 Judges Jdgs 7 13 12 And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what wilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?
6893 Judges Jdgs 7 13 13 And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I have spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself:
6894 Judges Jdgs 7 13 14 And let her eat nothing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I have commanded her, let her fulfil and observe.
6895 Judges Jdgs 7 13 15 And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to consent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.
6896 Judges Jdgs 7 13 16 And the angel answered him: If thou press me I will not eat of thy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord. And Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.
6897 Judges Jdgs 7 13 17 And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee?
6898 Judges Jdgs 7 13 18 And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?
6899 Judges Jdgs 7 13 19 Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.
6900 Judges Jdgs 7 13 20 And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended also in the flame. And when Manue and his wife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;
6901 Judges Jdgs 7 13 21 And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,
6902 Judges Jdgs 7 13 22 And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.
6903 Judges Jdgs 7 13 23 And his wife answered him: If the Lord had a mind to kill us, he would not have received a holocaust and libations at our hands; neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor have told us the things that are to come.
6904 Judges Jdgs 7 13 24 And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.
6905 Judges Jdgs 7 13 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to be with him in the camp of Dan, between Saraa and Esthaol.
6906 Judges Jdgs 7 14 1 Then Samson went down to Thamnatha, and seeing there a woman of the daughters of the Philistines,
6907 Judges Jdgs 7 14 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.
6908 Judges Jdgs 7 14 3 And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.
6909 Judges Jdgs 7 14 4 Now his parents knew not that the thing was done by the Lord, and that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
6910 Judges Jdgs 7 14 5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Thamnatha. And when they were come to the vineyards of the town, behold a young lion met him, raging and roaring.
6911 Judges Jdgs 7 14 6 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion as he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his hand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother.
6912 Judges Jdgs 7 14 7 And he went down, and spoke to the woman that had pleased his eyes.
6913 Judges Jdgs 7 14 8 And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb.
6914 Judges Jdgs 7 14 9 And when he had taken it in his hands, he went on eating: and coming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate: but he would not tell them that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.
6915 Judges Jdgs 7 14 10 So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do.
6916 Judges Jdgs 7 14 11 And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him thirty companions to be with him.
6917 Judges Jdgs 7 14 12 And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:
6918 Judges Jdgs 7 14 13 But if you shall not be able to declare it, you shall give me thirty shirts and the same number of coats. They answered him: Put forth the riddle, that we may hear it.
6919 Judges Jdgs 7 14 14 And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days expound the riddle.
6920 Judges Jdgs 7 14 15 And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson: Sooth thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle meaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy father’s house. Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip us?
6921 Judges Jdgs 7 14 16 So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I tell it to thee?
6922 Judges Jdgs 7 14 17 So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at length, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded it. And she immediately told her countrymen.
6923 Judges Jdgs 7 14 18 And they, on the seventh day before the sun went down, said to him: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.
6924 Judges Jdgs 7 14 19 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon, and slew there thirty men whose garments he took away, and gave to them that had declared the riddle. And being exceeding angry, he went up to his father’s house:
6925 Judges Jdgs 7 14 20 But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.
6926 Judges Jdgs 7 15 1 And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:
6927 Judges Jdgs 7 15 2 I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.
6928 Judges Jdgs 7 15 3 And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.
6929 Judges Jdgs 7 15 4 And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails:
6930 Judges Jdgs 7 15 6 And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
6931 Judges Jdgs 7 15 6 Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson, the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.
6932 Judges Jdgs 7 15 7 But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.
6933 Judges Jdgs 7 15 8 And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.
6934 Judges Jdgs 7 15 9 Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.
6935 Judges Jdgs 7 15 10 And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.
6936 Judges Jdgs 7 15 11 Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.
6937 Judges Jdgs 7 15 12 And they said to him: We are come to bind thee, and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me that you will not kill me.
6938 Judges Jdgs 7 15 13 They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.
6939 Judges Jdgs 7 15 14 Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
6940 Judges Jdgs 7 15 15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.
6941 Judges Jdgs 7 15 16 And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.
6942 Judges Jdgs 7 15 17 And when he had ended these words, singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.
6943 Judges Jdgs 7 15 18 And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.
6944 Judges Jdgs 7 15 19 Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
6945 Judges Jdgs 7 15 20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
6946 Judges Jdgs 7 16 1 He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.
6947 Judges Jdgs 7 16 2 And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.
6948 Judges Jdgs 7 16 3 But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.
6949 Judges Jdgs 7 16 4 After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.
6950 Judges Jdgs 7 16 5 And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
6951 Judges Jdgs 7 16 6 And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound, thou couldst not break loose.
6952 Judges Jdgs 7 16 7 And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.
6953 Judges Jdgs 7 16 8 And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;
6954 Judges Jdgs 7 16 9 Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.
6955 Judges Jdgs 7 16 10 And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.
6956 Judges Jdgs 7 16 11 And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.
6957 Judges Jdgs 7 16 12 Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for him in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.
6958 Judges Jdgs 7 16 13 And Dalila said to him again: How long dost thou deceive me, and tell me lies? Shew me wherewith thou mayest be bound. And Samson answered her: If thou plattest the seven locks of my head with a lace, and tying them round about a nail, fastenest it in the ground, I shall be weak.
6959 Judges Jdgs 7 16 14 And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the nail with the hairs and the lace.
6960 Judges Jdgs 7 16 15 And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.
6961 Judges Jdgs 7 16 16 And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.
6962 Judges Jdgs 7 16 17 Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother’s womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.
6963 Judges Jdgs 7 16 18 Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for now he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them the money which they had promised.
6964 Judges Jdgs 7 16 19 But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him.
6965 Judges Jdgs 7 16 20 And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.
6966 Judges Jdgs 7 16 21 Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.
6967 Judges Jdgs 7 16 22 And now his hair began to grow again,
6968 Judges Jdgs 7 16 23 And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.
6969 Judges Jdgs 7 16 24 And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the same: Our god hath delivered our adversary into our hands, him that destroyed our country, and killed very many.
6970 Judges Jdgs 7 16 25 And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should play before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before them; and they made him stand between two pillars.
6971 Judges Jdgs 7 16 26 And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch the pillars which support the whole house, and let me lean upon them, and rest a little.
6972 Judges Jdgs 7 16 27 Now the house was full of men and women, and all the princes of the Philistines were there. Moreover about three thousand persons of both sexes, from the roof and the higher part of the house, were beholding Samson’s play.
6973 Judges Jdgs 7 16 28 But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge.
6974 Judges Jdgs 7 16 29 And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested, and holding the one with his right hand, and the other with his left,
6975 Judges Jdgs 7 16 30 He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.
6976 Judges Jdgs 7 16 31 And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.
6977 Judges Jdgs 7 17 1 There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michas.
6978 Judges Jdgs 7 17 2 Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.
6979 Judges Jdgs 7 17 3 So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it to thee.
6980 Judges Jdgs 7 17 4 And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten god, which was in the house of Michas.
6981 Judges Jdgs 7 17 5 And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.
6982 Judges Jdgs 7 17 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.
6983 Judges Jdgs 7 17 7 There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.
6984 Judges Jdgs 7 17 8 Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem, and desired to sojourn wheresoever he should find it convenient for him. And when he was come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and had turned aside a little into the house of Michas,
6985 Judges Jdgs 7 17 9 He was asked by him whence he came. And he answered: I am a Levite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to dwell where I can, and where I shall find a place to my advantage.
6986 Judges Jdgs 7 17 10 And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.
6987 Judges Jdgs 7 17 11 He was content, and abode with the man, and was unto him as one of his sons.
6988 Judges Jdgs 7 17 12 And Michas filled his hand, and had the young man with him for his priest, saying:
6989 Judges Jdgs 7 17 13 Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites.
6990 Judges Jdgs 7 18 1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not received their lot among the other tribes.
6991 Judges Jdgs 7 18 2 So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men, of their stock and family, from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it diligently: and they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on their way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the house of Michas, and rested there:
6992 Judges Jdgs 7 18 3 And knowing the voice of the young man the Levite, and lodging with him, they said to him: Who brought thee hither? what dost thou here? why wouldst thou come hither?
6993 Judges Jdgs 7 18 4 He answered them: Michas hath done such and such things for me, and hath hired me to be his priest.
6994 Judges Jdgs 7 18 5 Then they desired him to consult the Lord, that they might know whether their journey should be prosperous, and the thing should have effect.
6995 Judges Jdgs 7 18 6 He answered them: Go in peace: the Lord looketh on your way, and the journey that you go.
6996 Judges Jdgs 7 18 7 So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men.
6997 Judges Jdgs 7 18 8 And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:
6998 Judges Jdgs 7 18 9 Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.
6999 Judges Jdgs 7 18 10 We shall come to a people that is secure, into a spacious country, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, in which there is no want of any thing that groweth on the earth.
7000 Judges Jdgs 7 18 11 There went therefore of the kindred of Dan, to wit, from Saraa and Esthaol, six hundred men, furnished with arms for war.
7001 Judges Jdgs 7 18 12 And going up they lodged in Cariathiarim of Juda: which place from that time is called the camp of Dan, and is behind Cariathiarim.
7002 Judges Jdgs 7 18 13 From thence they passed into mount Ephraim. And when they were come to the house of Michas,
7003 Judges Jdgs 7 18 14 The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do.
7004 Judges Jdgs 7 18 15 And when they had turned a little aside, they went into the house of the young man the Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and they saluted him with words of peace.
7005 Judges Jdgs 7 18 16 And the six hundred men stood before the door, appointed with their arms.
7006 Judges Jdgs 7 18 17 But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.
7007 Judges Jdgs 7 18 18 So they that were gone in took away the graven thing, the ephod, and the idols, and the molten god, And the priest said to them: What are you doing?
7008 Judges Jdgs 7 18 19 And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel?
7009 Judges Jdgs 7 18 20 When he heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.
7010 Judges Jdgs 7 18 21 And when they were going forward, and had put before them the children and the cattle, and all that was valuable,
7011 Judges Jdgs 7 18 22 And were now at a distance from the house of Michas, the men that dwelt in the houses of Michas gathering together followed them,
7012 Judges Jdgs 7 18 23 And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?
7013 Judges Jdgs 7 18 24 And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?
7014 Judges Jdgs 7 18 25 And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us, lest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.
7015 Judges Jdgs 7 18 26 And so they went on the journey they had begun. But Michas seeing that they were stronger than he, returned to his house.
7016 Judges Jdgs 7 18 27 And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke of before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with fire,
7017 Judges Jdgs 7 18 28 There being no man at all who brought them any succour, because they dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society or business with any man. And the city was in the land of Rohob: and they rebuilt it, and dwelt therein,
7018 Judges Jdgs 7 18 29 Calling the name of the city Dan, after the name of their father, who was the son of Israel, which before was called Lais.
7019 Judges Jdgs 7 18 30 And they set up to themselves the graven idol, and Jonathan the son of Gersam, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests in the tribe of Dan, until the day of their captivity.
7020 Judges Jdgs 7 18 31 And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
7021 Judges Jdgs 7 19 1 There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:
7022 Judges Jdgs 7 19 2 And she left him, and returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.
7023 Judges Jdgs 7 19 3 And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father’s house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy,
7024 Judges Jdgs 7 19 4 And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of his father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.
7025 Judges Jdgs 7 19 5 But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired to depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first a little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.
7026 Judges Jdgs 7 19 6 And they sat down together, and ate and drank. And the father of the young woman said to his son in law: I beseech thee to stay here to day, and let us make merry together.
7027 Judges Jdgs 7 19 7 But he rising up, began to be for departing. And nevertheless his father in law earnestly pressed him, and made him stay with him.
7028 Judges Jdgs 7 19 8 But when morning was come, the Levite prepared to go on his journey. And his father in law said to him again: I beseech thee to take a little meat, and strengthening thyself, till the day be farther advanced, afterwards thou mayest depart. And they ate together.
7029 Judges Jdgs 7 19 9 And the young man arose to set forward with his wife and servant. And his father in law spoke to him again: Consider that the day is declining, and draweth toward evening: tarry with me to day also, and spend the day in mirth, and to morrow thou shalt depart, that thou mayest go into thy house.
7030 Judges Jdgs 7 19 10 His son in law would not consent to his words: but forthwith went forward, and came over against Jebus, which by another name is called Jerusalem, leading with him two asses loaden, and his concubine.
7031 Judges Jdgs 7 19 11 And now they were come near Jebus, and the day was far spent: and the servant said to his master: Come, I beseech thee, let us turn into the city of the Jebusites, and lodge there.
7032 Judges Jdgs 7 19 12 His master answered him: I will not go into the town of another nation, who are not of the children of Israel, but I will pass over to Gabaa:
7033 Judges Jdgs 7 19 13 And when I shall come thither, we will lodge there, or at least in the city of Rama.
7034 Judges Jdgs 7 19 14 So they passed by Jebus, and went on their journey, and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gabaa, which is in the tribe of Benjamin:
7035 Judges Jdgs 7 19 15 And they turned into it to lodge there. And when they were come in, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them to lodge.
7036 Judges Jdgs 7 19 16 And behold they saw an old man, returning out of the field and from his work in the evening, and he also was of mount Ephraim, and dwelt as a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country were the children of Jemini.
7037 Judges Jdgs 7 19 17 And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with his bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest thou? and whither goest thou?
7038 Judges Jdgs 7 19 18 He answered him: We came out from Bethlehem Juda, and we are going to our home, which is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence we went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the house of God, and none will receive us under his roof:
7039 Judges Jdgs 7 19 19 We have straw and hay for provender of the asses, and bread and wine for the use of myself and of thy handmaid, and of the servant that is with me: we want nothing but lodging.
7040 Judges Jdgs 7 19 20 And the old man answered him: Peace be with thee: I will furnish all things that are necessary: only I beseech thee, stay not in the street.
7041 Judges Jdgs 7 19 21 And he brought him into his house, and gave provender to his asses: and after they had washed their feet, he entertained them with a feast.
7042 Judges Jdgs 7 19 22 While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with meat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city, sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man’s house, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the house, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may abuse him:
7043 Judges Jdgs 7 19 23 And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my brethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging, and cease I pray you from this folly.
7044 Judges Jdgs 7 19 24 I have a maiden daughter, and this man hath a concubine, I will bring them out to you, and you may humble them, and satisfy your lust: only, I beseech you, commit not this crime against nature on the man.
7045 Judges Jdgs 7 19 25 They would not be satisfied with his words; which the man seeing, brought out his concubine to them, and abandoned her to their wickedness: and when they had abused her all the night, they let her go in the morning.
7046 Judges Jdgs 7 19 26 But the woman, at the dawning of the day, came to the door of the house, where her lord lodged, and there fell down.
7047 Judges Jdgs 7 19 27 And in the morning the man arose, and opened the door, that he might end the journey he had begun: and behold his concubine lay before the door with her hands spread on the threshold.
7048 Judges Jdgs 7 19 28 He thinking she was taking her rest, said to her: Arise, and let us be going. But as she made no answer, perceiving she was dead, he took her up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to his house.
7049 Judges Jdgs 7 19 29 And when he was come home, he took a sword, and divided the dead body of his wife with her bones into twelve parts, and sent the pieces into all the borders of Israel.
7050 Judges Jdgs 7 19 30 And when every one had seen this, they all cried out: There was never such a thing done in Israel, from the day that our fathers came up out of Egypt, until this day: give sentence, and decree in common what ought to be done.
7051 Judges Jdgs 7 20 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:
7052 Judges Jdgs 7 20 2 And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen fit for war.
7053 Judges Jdgs 7 20 3 (Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of Israel were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been committed,
7054 Judges Jdgs 7 20 4 Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there I lodged:
7055 Judges Jdgs 7 20 5 And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.
7056 Judges Jdgs 7 20 6 And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the parts into all the borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a crime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.
7057 Judges Jdgs 7 20 7 You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.
7058 Judges Jdgs 7 20 8 And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man: We will not return to our tents, neither shall any one of us go into his own house:
7059 Judges Jdgs 7 20 9 But this we will do in common against Gabaa:
7060 Judges Jdgs 7 20 10 We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring victuals for the army, that we may fight against Gabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for its wickedness, what it deserveth.
7061 Judges Jdgs 7 20 11 And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one man, with one mind, and one counsel:
7062 Judges Jdgs 7 20 12 And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin, to say to them: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?
7063 Judges Jdgs 7 20 13 Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous crime, that they may die, and the evil may be taken away out of Israel. But they would not hearken to the proposition of their brethren the children of Israel:
7064 Judges Jdgs 7 20 14 But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the whole people of Israel.
7065 Judges Jdgs 7 20 15 And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa,
7066 Judges Jdgs 7 20 16 Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone’s going on either side.
7067 Judges Jdgs 7 20 17 Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to fight.
7068 Judges Jdgs 7 20 18 And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader.
7069 Judges Jdgs 7 20 19 And forthwith the children of Israel rising in the morning, camped by Gabaa:
7070 Judges Jdgs 7 20 20 And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to assault the city.
7071 Judges Jdgs 7 20 21 And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.
7072 Judges Jdgs 7 20 22 Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:
7073 Judges Jdgs 7 20 23 Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered them: Go up against them, and join battle.
7074 Judges Jdgs 7 20 24 And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,
7075 Judges Jdgs 7 20 25 The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them, made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill eighteen thousand men that drew the sword.
7076 Judges Jdgs 7 20 26 Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,
7077 Judges Jdgs 7 20 27 And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord was there,
7078 Judges Jdgs 7 20 28 And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was over the house. So they consulted the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin, our brethren, or shall we cease? And the Lord said to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver them into your hands.
7079 Judges Jdgs 7 20 29 And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:
7080 Judges Jdgs 7 20 30 And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as they had done the first and second.
7081 Judges Jdgs 7 20 31 And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and seeing their enemies flee, pursued them a long way, so as to wound and kill some of them, as they had done the first and second day, whilst they fled by two highways, whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other to Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men:
7082 Judges Jdgs 7 20 32 For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.
7083 Judges Jdgs 7 20 33 Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places where they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is called Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were about the city, began by little and little to come forth,
7084 Judges Jdgs 7 20 34 And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and they understood not that present death threatened them on every side.
7085 Judges Jdgs 7 20 35 And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and they slew of them in that day five and twenty thousand, and one hundred, all fighting men, and that drew the sword.
7086 Judges Jdgs 7 20 36 But the children of Benjamin, when they saw themselves to be too weak, began to flee. Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them place to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared, which they had set near the city.
7087 Judges Jdgs 7 20 37 And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their coverts, and whilst Benjamin turned their backs to the slayers, went into the city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
7088 Judges Jdgs 7 20 38 Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should make a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the city was taken.
7089 Judges Jdgs 7 20 39 And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle, (for the children of Benjamin thought they fled, and pursued them vigorously, killing thirty men of their army)
7090 Judges Jdgs 7 20 40 And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke rise up from the city; and Benjamin looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that the flames ascended on high:
7091 Judges Jdgs 7 20 41 They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces, stood bravely against them. Which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned their backs,
7092 Judges Jdgs 7 20 42 And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out to meet them.
7093 Judges Jdgs 7 20 43 And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the enemies, and there was no rest of their men dying. They fell and were beaten down on the east side of the city of Gabaa.
7094 Judges Jdgs 7 20 44 And they that were slain in the same place, were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant soldiers.
7095 Judges Jdgs 7 20 45 And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into the wilderness, and made towards the rock that is called Remmon. In that flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways; they slew of them five thousand men. And as they went farther, they still pursued them, and slew also other two thousand.
7096 Judges Jdgs 7 20 46 And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin, in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war.
7097 Judges Jdgs 7 20 47 And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and they abode in the rock Remmon four months.
7098 Judges Jdgs 7 20 48 But the children of Israel returning, put all the remains of the city to the sword, both men and beasts, and all the cities and villages of Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.
7099 Judges Jdgs 7 21 1 Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None of us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.
7100 Judges Jdgs 7 21 2 And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before him till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and weep, saying:
7101 Judges Jdgs 7 21 3 O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?
7102 Judges Jdgs 7 21 4 And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:
7103 Judges Jdgs 7 21 5 Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.
7104 Judges Jdgs 7 21 6 And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.
7105 Judges Jdgs 7 21 7 Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.
7106 Judges Jdgs 7 21 8 Therefore they said: Who is there of all the tribes of Israel, that came not up to the Lord to Maspha? And, behold, the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad were found not to have been in that army.
7107 Judges Jdgs 7 21 9 (At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was found there,)
7108 Judges Jdgs 7 21 10 So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded them, saying: Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword, with their wives and their children.
7109 Judges Jdgs 7 21 11 And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.
7110 Judges Jdgs 7 21 12 And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.
7111 Judges Jdgs 7 21 13 And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.
7112 Judges Jdgs 7 21 14 And the children of Benjamin came at that time, and wives were given them of the daughters of Jabes Galaad: but they found no others, whom they might give in like manner.
7113 Judges Jdgs 7 21 15 And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.
7114 Judges Jdgs 7 21 16 And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.
7115 Judges Jdgs 7 21 17 And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
7116 Judges Jdgs 7 21 18 For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.
7117 Judges Jdgs 7 21 19 So they took counsel, and said: Behold, there is a yearly solemnity of the Lord in Silo, which is situate on the north of the city of Bethel, and on the east side of the way, that goeth from Bethel to Sichem, and on the south of the town of Lebona.
7118 Judges Jdgs 7 21 20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin and said: Go, and lie hid in the vineyards,
7119 Judges Jdgs 7 21 21 And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of Benjamin.
7120 Judges Jdgs 7 21 22 And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall begin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have pity on them: for they took them not away as by the right of war or conquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the fault was committed on your part.
7121 Judges Jdgs 7 21 23 And the children of Benjamin did as they had been commanded: and, according to their number, they carried off for themselves every man his wife of them that were dancing: and they went into their possession, and built up their cities, and dwelt in them.
7122 Judges Jdgs 7 21 24 The children of Israel also returned by their tribes, and families, to their dwellings. In those days there was no king in Israel: but every one did that which seemed right to himself.
7123 Ruth Ruth 8 1 1 In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
7124 Ruth Ruth 8 1 2 He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.
7125 Ruth Ruth 8 1 3 And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons.
7126 Ruth Ruth 8 1 4 And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years,
7127 Ruth Ruth 8 1 5 And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.
7128 Ruth Ruth 8 1 6 And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with both her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked upon his people, and had given them food.
7129 Ruth Ruth 8 1 7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the land of Juda,
7130 Ruth Ruth 8 1 8 She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
7131 Ruth Ruth 8 1 9 May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep,
7132 Ruth Ruth 8 1 10 And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.
7133 Ruth Ruth 8 1 11 But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?
7134 Ruth Ruth 8 1 12 Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night, and bear children,
7135 Ruth Ruth 8 1 13 If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man’s estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
7136 Ruth Ruth 8 1 14 And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha kissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother in law.
7137 Ruth Ruth 8 1 15 And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with her.
7138 Ruth Ruth 8 1 16 She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
7139 Ruth Ruth 8 1 17 The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.
7140 Ruth Ruth 8 1 18 Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with her, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to her friends:
7141 Ruth Ruth 8 1 19 So they went together, and came to Bethlehem. And when they were come into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the women said: This is that Noemi.
7142 Ruth Ruth 8 1 20 But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.
7143 Ruth Ruth 8 1 21 I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath afflicted?
7144 Ruth Ruth 8 1 22 So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.
7145 Ruth Ruth 8 2 1 Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very rich, whose name was Booz.
7146 Ruth Ruth 8 2 3 And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder, that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter.
7147 Ruth Ruth 8 2 3 She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears of corn after the reapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
7148 Ruth Ruth 8 2 4 And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: The Lord be with you. And they answered him: The Lord bless thee.
7149 Ruth Ruth 8 2 5 And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers: Whose maid is this ?
7150 Ruth Ruth 8 2 6 And he answered him: This is the Moabitess, who came with Noemi, from the land of Moab,
7151 Ruth Ruth 8 2 7 And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain, following the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from morning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment.
7152 Ruth Ruth 8 2 8 And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in any other field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my maids,
7153 Ruth Ruth 8 2 9 And follow where they reap. For I have charged my young men, not to molest thee: and if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of the waters whereof the servants drink.
7154 Ruth Ruth 8 2 10 She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of another country?
7155 Ruth Ruth 8 2 11 And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done to thy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast left thy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
7156 Ruth Ruth 8 2 12 The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.
7157 Ruth Ruth 8 2 13 And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids.
7158 Ruth Ruth 8 2 14 And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of the reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and took the leavings.
7159 Ruth Ruth 8 2 15 And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before. And Booz commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with you, hinder her not:
7160 Ruth Ruth 8 2 16 And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them.
7161 Ruth Ruth 8 2 17 She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:
7162 Ruth Ruth 8 2 18 Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.
7163 Ruth Ruth 8 2 19 And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee. And she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man’s name, that he was called Booz.
7164 Ruth Ruth 8 2 20 And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.
7165 Ruth Ruth 8 2 21 And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.
7166 Ruth Ruth 8 2 22 And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man’s field some one may resist thee.
7167 Ruth Ruth 8 2 23 So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.
7168 Ruth Ruth 8 3 1 After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.
7169 Ruth Ruth 8 3 2 This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.
7170 Ruth Ruth 8 3 3 Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee, and put on thy best garments, and go down to the barnfloor: but let not the man see thee, till he shall have done eating and drinking.
7171 Ruth Ruth 8 3 4 And when he shall go to sleep, mark the place wherein he sleepeth: and thou shalt go in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is covered towards his feet, and shalt lay thyself down there: and he will tell thee what thou must do.
7172 Ruth Ruth 8 3 5 She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt command, I will do.
7173 Ruth Ruth 8 3 6 And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in law had bid her.
7174 Ruth Ruth 8 3 7 And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was merry, he went to sleep by the heap of sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his feet, laid herself down.
7175 Ruth Ruth 8 3 8 And behold, when it was now midnight the man was afraid, and troubled: and he saw a woman lying at his feet,
7176 Ruth Ruth 8 3 9 And he said to her: Who art thou ? And she answered: I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near kinsman.
7177 Ruth Ruth 8 3 10 And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed young men either poor or rich.
7178 Ruth Ruth 8 3 11 Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city, know that thou art a virtuous woman.
7179 Ruth Ruth 8 3 12 Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another nearer than I.
7180 Ruth Ruth 8 3 13 Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take thee by the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will undoubtedly take thee, as the Lord liveth: sleep till the morning.
7181 Ruth Ruth 8 3 14 So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she arose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any man know that thou camest hither.
7182 Ruth Ruth 8 3 15 And again he said: Spread thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered, and hold it with both hands. And when she spread it and held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried it, and went into the city,
7183 Ruth Ruth 8 3 16 And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou done, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
7184 Ruth Ruth 8 3 17 And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.
7185 Ruth Ruth 8 3 18 And Noemi said: Wait, my daughter, till we see what end the thing will have. For the man will not rest until he have accomplished what he hath said.
7186 Ruth Ruth 8 4 1 Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
7187 Ruth Ruth 8 4 2 And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.
7188 Ruth Ruth 8 4 3 They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned from the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
7189 Ruth Ruth 8 4 4 I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.
7190 Ruth Ruth 8 4 5 And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman’s hand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.
7191 Ruth Ruth 8 4 6 He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.
7192 Ruth Ruth 8 4 7 Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.
7193 Ruth Ruth 8 4 8 So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot.
7194 Ruth Ruth 8 4 9 And he said to the ancients, and to all the people: You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and Chelion’s, and Mahalon’s, of the hand of Noemi:
7195 Ruth Ruth 8 4 10 And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.
7196 Ruth Ruth 8 4 11 Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:
7197 Ruth Ruth 8 4 12 And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.
7198 Ruth Ruth 8 4 13 Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.
7199 Ruth Ruth 8 4 14 And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be preserved in Israel.
7200 Ruth Ruth 8 4 15 And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.
7201 Ruth Ruth 8 4 16 And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.
7202 Ruth Ruth 8 4 17 And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and saying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.
7203 Ruth Ruth 8 4 18 These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,
7204 Ruth Ruth 8 4 19 Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,
7205 Ruth Ruth 8 4 20 Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,
7206 Ruth Ruth 8 4 21 Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,
7207 Ruth Ruth 8 4 22 Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.
7208 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 1 There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the son of Suph, an Ephraimite:
7209 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 2 And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.
7210 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 3 And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.
7211 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 4 Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to Phenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions:
7212 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 5 But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb.
7213 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 6 Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:
7214 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 7 And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna wept, and did not eat.
7215 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 8 Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children?
7216 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 9 So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And Heli, the priest, sitting upon a stool before the door of the temple of the Lord;
7217 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 10 As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,
7218 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 11 And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down on the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.
7219 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 12 And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord, that Heli observed her mouth.
7220 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 13 Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,
7221 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 14 And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much.
7222 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 15 Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.
7223 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 16 Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.
7224 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 17 Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.
7225 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 18 And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy eyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no more changed.
7226 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 19 And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her.
7227 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 20 And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.
7228 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 21 And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.
7229 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 22 But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there.
7230 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 23 And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil his word. So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him.
7231 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 24 And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young:
7232 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 25 And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli.
7233 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 26 And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.
7234 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 27 For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him.
7235 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 1 28 Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said:
7236 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 1 My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.
7237 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 2 There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.
7238 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.
7239 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 4 The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.
7240 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 5 They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
7241 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.
7242 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:
7243 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them he hath set the world.
7244 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.
7245 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.
7246 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 11 And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child ministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.
7247 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 12 Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,
7248 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 13 Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh was in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,
7249 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 14 And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.
7250 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.
7251 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 16 And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul desireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give it me now, or else I will take it by force.
7252 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.
7253 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 18 But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.
7254 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 19 And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice.
7255 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 20 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. And they went to their own home.
7256 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 21 And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord.
7257 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 22 Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:
7258 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 23 And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?
7259 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 24 Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.
7260 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 25 If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
7261 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 26 But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the Lord and men.
7262 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 27 And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father’s house, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharao?
7263 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 28 And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father’s house of all the sacrifices of the children of Israel.
7264 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 29 Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel?
7265 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.
7266 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 31 Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
7267 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 32 And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
7268 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 33 However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my altar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great part of thy house shall die, when they come to man’s estate.
7269 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 34 And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.
7270 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according to my heart, and my soul and I will build him a faithful house, and he shall walk all days before my anointed.
7271 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 2 36 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
7272 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 1 Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision.
7273 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 2 And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his eyes were grown dim, that he could not see:
7274 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 3 Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.
7275 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 4 And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I.
7276 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 5 And he ran to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. He said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went and slept.
7277 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 6 And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did not call thee, my son: return and sleep.
7278 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the Lord been revealed to him.
7279 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up and went to Heli,
7280 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 9 And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli understood that the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went, and slept in his place.
7281 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 10 And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the other times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.
7282 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 11 And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in Israel: and whosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle.
7283 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 12 In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.
7284 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 13 For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not chastise them.
7285 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 14 Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli, that the iniquity of his house shall not be expiated with victims nor offerings for ever.
7286 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 15 And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to Heli.
7287 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 16 Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he answered: Here am I.
7288 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 17 And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said to thee.
7289 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 18 So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.
7290 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 19 And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.
7291 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 20 And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord.
7292 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 3 21 And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of the Lord. And the word of Samuel came to pass to all Israel.
7293 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came to Aphec,
7294 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 2 And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four thousand men.
7295 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 3 And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.
7296 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 4 So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the covenant of God.
7297 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.
7298 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 6 And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said: What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.
7299 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 7 And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And sighing, they said:
7300 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 8 Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert.
7301 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 9 Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.
7302 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
7303 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 11 And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.
7304 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo the same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.
7305 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 13 And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way, watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the man was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out.
7306 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 14 And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.
7307 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 15 Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.
7308 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 16 And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have fled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done, my son?
7309 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 17 And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.
7310 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 18 And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool backwards by the door, and broke his neck and died. For he was an old man, and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel forty years.
7311 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 19 And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.
7312 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 20 And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them not, nor gave heed to them.
7313 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 21 And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband:
7314 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 4 22 And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.
7315 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.
7316 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
7317 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 3 And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took Dagon, and set him again in his place.
7318 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 4 And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon the threshold:
7319 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 5 And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day.
7320 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 6 And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.
7321 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 7 And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said: The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us: for his hand is heavy upon us, and upon Dagon, our god.
7322 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 8 And sending, they gathered together all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about.
7323 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 9 And while they were carrying it about, the hand of the Lord came upon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men of every city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. And the Gethites consulted together, and made themselves seats of skins.
7324 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
7325 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 11 They sent therefore, and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return into its own place, and not kill us and our people.
7326 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 5 12 For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.
7327 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 1 Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months.
7328 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to send it back to its place. And they said:
7329 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 3 If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you.
7330 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 4 They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and they answered:
7331 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 5 According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you shall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same plague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make the likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice, that have destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to see if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from your land.
7332 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 6 Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed?
7333 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 7 Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
7334 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 8 And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart, and the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put into a little box at the side thereof: and send it away, that it may go.
7335 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 9 And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.
7336 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 10 They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
7337 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 11 And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.
7338 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 12 And the kine took the straight way, that leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.
7339 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 13 Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting up their eyes, they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
7340 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 14 And the cart came into the field of Josue, a Bethsamite, and stood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the wood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord.
7341 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 15 And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put them upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord.
7342 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 16 And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.
7343 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 17 And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one:
7344 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 18 And the golden mice, according to the number of the cities of the Philistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village that was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they set down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of Josue the Bethsamite.
7345 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 19 But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
7346 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 20 And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
7347 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 6 21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye down and fetch it up to you.
7348 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 1 And the men of Cariathiarim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and carried it into the house of Abinadab, in Gabaa: and they sanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord.
7349 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 2 And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the Lord abode in Cariathiarim, days were multiplied (for it was now the twentieth year) and all the house of Israel rested, following the Lord.
7350 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
7351 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 4 Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.
7352 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 5 And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.
7353 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 6 And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.
7354 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 7 And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Masphath, and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard this, they were afraid of the Philistines.
7355 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 8 And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
7356 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.
7357 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 10 And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the Philistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified them, and they were overthrown before the face of Israel.
7358 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 11 And the men of Israel going out of Masphath, pursued after the Philistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.
7359 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 12 And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.
7360 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 13 And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines, all the days of Samuel.
7361 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were restored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he delivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace between Israel and the Amorrhites.
7362 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:
7363 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 16 And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.
7364 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 7 17 And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.
7365 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.
7366 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 2 Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.
7367 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 3 And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
7368 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 4 Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha.
7369 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 5 And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.
7370 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
7371 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.
7372 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 8 According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.
7373 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 9 Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.
7374 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 10 Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,
7375 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 11 And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his chariots,
7376 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 12 And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.
7377 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 13 Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.
7378 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
7379 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 15 Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.
7380 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 16 Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.
7381 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 17 Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.
7382 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 18 And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.
7383 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 19 But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be a king over us,
7384 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 20 And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.
7385 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
7386 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 8 22 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.
7387 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Cis, the son of Abiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.
7388 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 2 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.
7389 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 3 And the asses of Cis, Saul’s father, were lost: and Cis said to his son Saul: Take one of the servants with thee, and arise, go, and seek the asses. And when they had passed through Mount Ephraim,
7390 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 4 And through the land of Salisa, and had not found them, they passed also through the land of Salim, and they were not there: and through the land of Jemini, and found them not.
7391 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 5 And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to the servant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my father forget the asses, and be concerned for us.
7392 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 6 And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this city, a famous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now, therefore, let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way, for which we are come.
7393 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 7 And Saul said to his servant: Behold we will go: but what shall we carry to the man of God? the bread is spent in our bags: and we have no present to make to the man of God, nor any thing at all.
7394 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 8 The servant answered Saul again, and said: Behold there is found in my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the man of God, that he may tell us our way.
7395 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 9 Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.
7396 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 10 And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come let us go. And they went into the city, where the man of God was.
7397 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 11 And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found maids coming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer here?
7398 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 12 They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is before you, make haste now: for he came to day into the city, for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place.
7399 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 13 As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat till he come; because he blesseth the victim, and afterwards they eat that are invited. Now, therefore, go up, for to day you shall find him.
7400 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 14 And they went up into the city. And when they were walking in the midst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out over against them, to go up to the high place.
7401 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 15 Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day before Saul came, saying:
7402 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 16 To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.
7403 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man, of whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my people.
7404 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 18 And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said: Tell me, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer?
7405 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 19 And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, that you may eat with me to day, and I will let thee go in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy heart.
7406 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 20 And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not solicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best things of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father’s house?
7407 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 21 And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me?
7408 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 22 Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the parlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited. For there were about thirty men.
7409 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 23 And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the portion which I gave thee, and commanded thee to set it apart by thee.
7410 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul ate with Samuel that day.
7411 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 25 And they went down from the high place into the town, and he spoke with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed for Saul on the top of the house and he slept.
7412 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 26 And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be light, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that I may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them: to wit, he and Samuel.
7413 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 9 27 And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand thou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord.
7414 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 1 And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.
7415 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 2 When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?
7416 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 3 And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.
7417 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 4 And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves, and thou shalt take them at their hand.
7418 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.
7419 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 6 And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.
7420 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 7 When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee.
7421 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 8 And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.
7422 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 9 So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave unto him another heart, and all these things came to pass that day.
7423 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 10 And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.
7424 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 11 And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the prophets?
7425 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 12 And one answered another, saying: And who is their father? therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?
7426 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
7427 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 14 And Saul’s uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went you? They answered: To seek the asses: and not finding them, we went to Samuel.
7428 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 15 And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee.
7429 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 16 And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to him, he told him not.
7430 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 17 And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:
7431 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 18 And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who afflicted you.
7432 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 19 But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.
7433 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 20 And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.
7434 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 21 And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the son of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found.
7435 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 22 And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.
7436 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.
7437 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 24 And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.
7438 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 25 And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.
7439 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 26 Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.
7440 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 10 27 But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he dissembled as though he heard not.
7441 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 1 And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the Ammonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
7442 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 2 And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel.
7443 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 3 And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no one to defend us, we will come out to thee.
7444 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 4 The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
7445 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 5 And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabes.
7446 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 6 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had heard these words, and his anger was exceedingly kindled.
7447 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 7 And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out as one man.
7448 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 8 And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.
7449 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 9 And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to the men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of Jabes, and they were glad.
7450 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 10 And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you shall do what you please with us.
7451 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 11 And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, that Saul put the people in three companies: and he came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the day grew hot, and the rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
7452 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 12 And the people said to Samuel: Who is he that said: Shall Saul reign over us? Bring the men, and we will kill them.
7453 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 13 And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord this day hath wrought salvation in Israel:
7454 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 14 And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom there.
7455 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 11 15 And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.
7456 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 1 And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
7457 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 2 And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.
7458 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man’s ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man’s hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.
7459 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 4 And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man’s hand.
7460 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 5 And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my hand. And they said: He is witness.
7461 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 6 And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt.
7462 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 7 Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against you before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and to your fathers:
7463 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 8 How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord: and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
7464 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 9 And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
7465 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 10 But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth: but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
7466 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 11 And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel, and delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you dwelt securely.
7467 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 12 But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas the Lord your God was your king.
7468 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 13 Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.
7469 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 14 If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.
7470 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 15 But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon your fathers.
7471 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 16 Now then stand, and see this great thing which the Lord will do in your sight.
7472 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring a king over you.
7473 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 18 And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day.
7474 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 19 And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.
7475 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 20 And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this evil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
7476 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 21 And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
7477 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 22 And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.
7478 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.
7479 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 24 Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in truth, and with your whole heart, for you have seen the great works which he hath done among you.
7480 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 12 25 But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.
7481 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 1 Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he reigned two years over Israel.
7482 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 2 And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings.
7483 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.
7484 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 4 And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison of the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Galgal.
7485 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 5 The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.
7486 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 6 And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.
7487 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 7 And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that followed him were greatly afraid.
7488 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 8 And he waited seven days, according to the appointment of Samuel, and Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.
7489 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 9 Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings. And he offered the holocaust.
7490 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 10 And when he had made an end of offering the holocaust, behold Samuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him.
7491 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 11 And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered together in Machmas,
7492 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 12 I said: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Galgal, and I have not appeased the face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I offered the holocaust.
7493 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 13 And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and hast not kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. And if thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever:
7494 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 14 But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a man according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be prince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the Lord commanded.
7495 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 15 And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin. And the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who fought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa, in the hill of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about six hundred men.
7496 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, were in Gabaa of Benjamin: But the Philistines encamped in Machmas.
7497 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 17 And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of Sual;
7498 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 18 And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.
7499 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 19 Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make them swords or spears.
7500 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.
7501 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 21 So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.
7502 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 22 And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.
7503 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 13 23 And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.
7504 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 1 Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father.
7505 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 2 And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gabaa, under the pomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him were about six hundred men.
7506 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 3 And Achias, the son of Achitob, brother of Ichabod the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the ephod. And the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone.
7507 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 4 Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:
7508 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 5 One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and the other to the south, over against Gabaa.
7509 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few.
7510 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 7 And his armourbearer said to him: Do all that pleaseth thy mind: go whither thou wilt, and I will be with thee wheresoever thou hast a mind.
7511 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 8 And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when we shall be seen by them,
7512 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 9 If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us stand still in our place, and not go up to them.
7513 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 10 But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.
7514 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 11 So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth out of the holes wherein they were hid.
7515 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 12 And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan, and to his armourbearer, and said: Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said to his armourbearer: Let us go up, follow me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hands of Israel.
7516 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 13 And Jonathan went up creeping on his hands and feet, and his armourbearer after him. And some fell before Jonathan, others his armourbearer slew as he followed him.
7517 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 14 And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a yoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day.
7518 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 15 And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.
7519 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 16 And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked, and behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that.
7520 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 17 And Saul said to the people that were with him: Look, and see who is gone from us. And when they had sought, it was found that Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
7521 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 18 And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of the Lord. (For the ark of God was there that day with the children of Israel.)
7522 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 19 And while Saul spoke to the priest, there arose a great uproar in the camp of the Philistines: and it increased by degrees, and was heard more clearly. And Saul said to the priest: Draw in thy hand.
7523 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 20 Then Saul, and all the people that were with him, shouted together, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold every man’s sword was turned upon his neighbour, and there was a very great slaughter.
7524 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 21 Moreover, the Hebrews that had been with the Philistines yesterday and the day before, and went up with them into the camp, returned to be with the Israelites, who were with Saul and Jonathan.
7525 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 22 And all the Israelites that had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines fled, joined themselves with their countrymen in the fight. And there were with Saul about ten thousand men.
7526 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 23 And the Lord saved Israel that day. And the fight went on as far as Bethaven.
7527 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
7528 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 25 And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground.
7529 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 26 And when the people came into the forest, behold the honey dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. For the people feared the oath.
7530 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 27 But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
7531 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 28 And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food this day. (And the people were faint.)
7532 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 29 And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:
7533 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 30 How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their enemies, which they found? had there not been made a greater slaughter among the Philistines?
7534 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 31 So they smote that day the Philistines, from Machmas to Aialon. And the people were wearied exceedingly.
7535 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 32 And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.
7536 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 33 And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to me now a great stone.
7537 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 34 And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this stone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with the blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the night: and slew them there.
7538 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.
7539 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 36 And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and destroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And the priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God.
7540 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 37 And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.
7541 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 38 And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.
7542 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 39 As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done by Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people gainsayed him.
7543 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 40 And he said to all Israel: Be you on one side and I, with Jonathan, my son, will be on the other side. And the people answered Saul: Do what seemeth good in thy eyes.
7544 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 41 And Saul said to the Lord: O Lord God of Israel, give a sign, by which we may know, what the meaning is, that thou answerest not thy servant to day: If this iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan, give a proof: or if this iniquity be in thy people, give holiness. And Jonathan and Saul were taken, and the people escaped.
7545 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 42 And Saul said: (Cast lots between me, and Jonathan, my son. And Jonathan was taken.
7546 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 43 And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said: I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I must die.
7547 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 44 And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more: for dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan.
7548 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 45 And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.
7549 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 46 And Saul went back, and did not pursue after the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own places.
7550 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 47 And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought against all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame.
7551 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 48 And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and delivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.
7552 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 49 And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua: and the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was Merob, and the name of the younger Michol.
7553 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 50 And the name of Saul’s wife was Achinoam, the daughter of Achimaas; and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, the cousin german of Saul.
7554 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 51 For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, was son of Abiel.
7555 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 14 52 And there was a great war against the Philistines all the days of Saul. For whomsoever Saul saw to be a valiant man, and fit for war, he took him to himself.
7556 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 1 And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his people Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord:
7557 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up out of Egypt.
7558 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 3 Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
7559 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.
7560 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 5 And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.
7561 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 6 And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.
7562 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.
7563 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 8 And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.
7564 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 9 And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed.
7565 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 10 And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying:
7566 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 11 It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.
7567 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 12 And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord, out of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.
7568 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 13 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.
7569 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 14 And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?
7570 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 15 And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.
7571 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 16 And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.
7572 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.
7573 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.
7574 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?
7575 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 20 And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
7576 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 21 But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.
7577 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.
7578 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.
7579 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.
7580 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 25 But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord.
7581 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
7582 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 27 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
7583 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 28 And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better than thee.
7584 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 29 But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.
7585 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.
7586 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 31 So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.
7587 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 32 And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death separate in this manner?
7588 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.
7589 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.
7590 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 15 35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king over Israel.
7591 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
7592 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 2 And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
7593 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 3 And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to thee.
7594 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 4 Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they said: Is thy coming hither peaceable?
7595 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 5 And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
7596 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 6 And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord’s anointed before him?
7597 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
7598 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 8 And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he said: Neither hath the Lord chosen this,
7599 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 9 And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
7600 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 10 Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel said to Isai: The Lord hath not chosen any one of these.
7601 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 11 And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
7602 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 12 He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he.
7603 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.
7604 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
7605 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 15 And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
7606 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 16 Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee, will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayst bear it more easily.
7607 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 17 And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can play well, and bring him to me.
7608 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 18 And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen a son of Isai, the Bethlehemite, a skilful player, and one of great strength, and a man fit for war, and prudent in his words, and a comely person: and the Lord is with him.
7609 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 19 Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy son, who is in the pastures.
7610 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 20 And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David, his son, to Saul.
7611 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.
7612 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he hath found favour in my sight.
7613 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 16 23 So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David took his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and was better, for the evil spirit departed from him.
7614 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 1 Now the Philistines gathering together their troops to battle, assembled at Socho of Juda: and camped between Socho and Azeca, in the borders of Dommim.
7615 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 2 And Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together, came to the valley of Terebinth, and they set the army in array to fight against the Philistines.
7616 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
7617 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 4 And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:
7618 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a coat of mail with scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was five thousand sicles of brass:
7619 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 6 And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass covered his shoulders.
7620 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer went before him.
7621 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 8 And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand.
7622 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants to you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be servants, and shall serve us.
7623 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 10 And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.
7624 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 11 And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
7625 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda, before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.
7626 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 13 And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the firstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma:
7627 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 14 But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed Saul,
7628 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 15 David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
7629 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 16 Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
7630 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 17 And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,
7631 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 18 And carry these ten little cheeses to the tribune: and go see thy brethren, if they are well: and learn with whom they are placed.
7632 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 19 But Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel, were in the valley of Terebinth, fighting against the Philistines.
7633 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 20 David, therefore, arose in the morning, and gave the charge of the flock to the keeper: and went away loaded, as Isai had commanded him. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was going out to fight, and shouted for the battle.
7634 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 21 For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philistines who stood against them were prepared.
7635 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 22 And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the care of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and asked if all things went well with his brethren.
7636 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 23 And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was Goliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and David heard them,
7637 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 24 And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.
7638 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 25 And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house free from tribute in Israel.
7639 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 26 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall be given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
7640 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 27 And the people answered him the same words, saying: These things shall be given to the man that shall slay him.
7641 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 28 Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle.
7642 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 29 And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?
7643 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 30 And he turned a little aside from him to another: and said the same word. And the people answered him as before.
7644 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 31 And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed before Saul.
7645 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 32 And when he was brought to him, he said to him. Let not any man’s heart be dismayed in him: I thy servant will go, and will fight against the Philistine.
7646 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 33 And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this Philistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is a warrior from his youth.
7647 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 34 And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the flock:
7648 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 35 And I pursued after them, and struck them, and delivered it out of their mouth: and they rose up against me, and I caught them by the throat, and I strangled, and killed them.
7649 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 36 For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?
7650 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 37 And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be with thee.
7651 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 38 And Saul clothed David with his garments, and put a helmet of brass upon his head, and armed him with a coat of mail.
7652 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 39 And David having girded his sword upon his armour, began to try if he could walk in armour: for he was not accustomed to it. And David said to Saul: I cannot go thus, for I am not used to it. And he laid them off,
7653 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 40 And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the shepherd’s scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his hand, and went forth against the Philistine.
7654 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 41 And the Philistine came on, and drew nigh against David, and his armourbearer before him.
7655 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 42 And when the Philistine looked, and beheld David, he despised him. For he was a young man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance.
7656 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 43 And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
7657 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 44 And he said to David: Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.
7658 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 45 And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou hast defied
7659 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 46 This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
7660 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands.
7661 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 48 And when the Philistine arose, and was coming, and drew nigh to meet David, David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the Philistine.
7662 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 49 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead: and the stone was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.
7663 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 50 And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a stone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no sword in his hand,
7664 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 51 He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the Philistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away.
7665 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 52 And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued after the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of Accaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of Saraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron.
7666 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 53 And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the Philistines, fell upon their camp.
7667 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 54 And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.
7668 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 55 Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.
7669 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 56 And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son this young man is.
7670 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 57 And when David was returned, after the Philistine was slain, Abner took him, and brought him in before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
7671 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 17 58 And Saul said to him: Young man, of what family art thou? And David said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite.
7672 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
7673 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 2 And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father’s house.
7674 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 3 And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his own soul.
7675 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the coat with which he was clothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
7676 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 5 And David went out to whatsoever business Saul sent him, and he behaved himself prudently: and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he was acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the eyes of Saul’s servants.
7677 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 6 Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.
7678 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 7 And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
7679 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 8 And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom?
7680 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 9 And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.
7681 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 10 And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand as at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand,
7682 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 11 And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David stept aside out of his presence twice.
7683 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 12 And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from himself.
7684 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over a thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people.
7685 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 14 And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
7686 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 15 And Saul saw that he was exceeding prudent, and began to beware of him.
7687 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 16 But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he came in and went out before them.
7688 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 17 And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.
7689 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 18 And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law of the king?
7690 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 19 And it came to pass at the time when Merob, the daughter of Saul, should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel, the Molathite, to wife.
7691 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 20 But Michol, the other daughter of Saul, loved David. And it was told Saul, and it pleased him.
7692 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 21 And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day.
7693 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 22 And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately, saying: Behold, thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee. Now, therefore be the king’s son in law.
7694 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 23 And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ears of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king’s son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.
7695 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying: Such words as these hath David spoken.
7696 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 25 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.
7697 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 26 And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had said, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king’s son in law.
7698 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 27 And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to wife.
7699 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 28 And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And Michol, the daughter of Saul, loved him.
7700 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 29 And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
7701 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 18 30 And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.
7702 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceedingly.
7703 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 2 And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.
7704 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall see, I will tell thee.
7705 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 4 And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee.
7706 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 5 And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault?
7707 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 6 And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.
7708 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 7 Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and Jonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been yesterday and the day before.
7709 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 8 And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against the Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled from his face.
7710 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 9 And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in his house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his hand.
7711 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 10 And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that night.
7712 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 11 Saul therefore sent his guards to David’s house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David’s wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die:
7713 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 12 She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.
7714 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 13 And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat’s skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.
7715 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 14 And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick.
7716 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 15 And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
7717 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 16 And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon the bed, and a goat skin at his head.
7718 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 17 And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.
7719 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 18 But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Najoth.
7720 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 19 And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth, in Ramatha.
7721 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 20 So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of the Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy.
7722 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 21 And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they also prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers the third time: and they prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding angry,
7723 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 22 Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the great cistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and said: In what place are Samuel and David? And it was told him: Behold they are in Najoth, in Ramatha.
7724 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 23 And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied till he came to Najoth, in Ramatha.
7725 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 19 24 And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night. This gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?
7726 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 1 But David fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and came and said to Jonathan: What have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is my sin against thy father, that he seeketh my life?
7727 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 2 And he said to him: (God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my father will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath then my father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be.
7728 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.
7729 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 4 And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee.
7730 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 5 And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.
7731 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 6 If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe.
7732 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 7 If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.
7733 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 8 Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me, thy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.
7734 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 9 And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should certainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I could do no otherwise than tell thee.
7735 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 10 And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy father should answer thee harshly concerning me?
7736 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 11 And Jonathan said to David: Come, and let us go out into the field. And when they were both of them gone out into the field,
7737 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 12 Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of Israel, if I shall discover my father’s mind, to morrow, or the day after, and there be any thing good for David, and I send not immediately to thee, and make it known to thee,
7738 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 13 May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But if my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
7739 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 14 And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die,
7740 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 15 Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever, when the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of them from the earth, may he take away Jonathan from his house, and may the Lord require it at the hands of David’s enemies.
7741 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 16 Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and the Lord required it at the hands of David’s enemies.
7742 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 17 And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he loved him as his own soul.
7743 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 18 And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou wilt be missed:
7744 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 19 For thy seat will be empty till after to morrow. So thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou must he hid, on the day when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain beside the stone, which is called Ezel.
7745 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 20 And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I were exercising myself at a mark.
7746 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 21 And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows.
7747 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 22 If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee away.
7748 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 23 And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.
7749 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 24 So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.
7750 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 25 And when the king sat down upon his chair, (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place appeared empty.
7751 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 26 And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.
7752 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 27 And when the second day after the new moon was come, David’s place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day?
7753 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 28 And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go to Bethlehem.
7754 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 29 And he said: Let me go, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the city, one of my brethren hath sent for me: and now if I have found favour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see my brethren. For this cause he came not to the king’s table.
7755 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 30 Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?
7756 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 31 For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and fetch him to me: for he is the son of death.
7757 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 32 And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done?
7758 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 33 And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.
7759 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 34 So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to confusion.
7760 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 35 And when the morning came, Jonathan went into the field according to the appointment with David, and a little boy with him.
7761 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 36 And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me the arrows which I shoot. And when the boy ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy.
7762 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 37 The boy therefore came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot: and Jonathan cried after the boy, and said: Behold the arrow is there further beyond thee.
7763 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 38 And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste speedily, stand not. And Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and brought them to his master:
7764 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 39 And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
7765 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 40 Jonathan therefore gave his arms to the boy, and said to him: Go, and carry them into the city.
7766 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 41 And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which was toward the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored thrice: and kissing one another, they wept together; but David more.
7767 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 42 And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever.
7768 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 20 43 And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
7769 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 1 And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech was astonished at David’s coming. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
7770 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 2 And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
7771 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 3 Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
7772 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 4 And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
7773 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 5 And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.
7774 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 6 The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.
7775 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul’s herdsmen.
7776 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 8 And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or a sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me, for the king’s business required haste.
7777 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 9 And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.
7778 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 10 And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis, the king of Geth:
7779 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 11 And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
7780 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 12 But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis, the king of Geth.
7781 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 13 And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down between their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
7782 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 14 And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me?
7783 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 21 15 Have we need of mad men, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
7784 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 1 David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father’s house, had heard of it, they went down to him thither.
7785 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 2 And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under affliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their prince, and there were with him about four hundred men.
7786 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 3 And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.
7787 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 4 And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in the hold.
7788 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 5 And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart, and go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the forest of Haret.
7789 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 6 And Saul heard that David was seen, and the men that were with him. Now whilst Saul abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is by Rama, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him,
7790 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 7 He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions:
7791 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.
7792 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 9 And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest.
7793 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 10 And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.
7794 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 11 Then the king sent to call for Achimelech, the priest, the son of Achitob, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nobe, and they came all of them to the king.
7795 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 12 And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He answered: Here I am, my lord.
7796 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 13 And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me, continuing a traitor to this day.
7797 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 14 And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son in law, and goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?
7798 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 15 Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from me: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any one in all my father’s house: for thy servant knew nothing of this matter, either little or great.
7799 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 16 And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father’s house.
7800 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 17 And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king’s servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.
7801 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 18 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.
7802 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 19 And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
7803 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 20 But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son of Achitob, whose name was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,
7804 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 21 And told him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord.
7805 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 22 And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the Edomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father’s house.
7806 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 22 23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life, seeketh thy life also, and with me thou shalt be saved.
7807 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 1 And they told David, saying: Behold the Philistines fight against Ceila, and they rob the barns.
7808 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 2 Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.
7809 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 3 And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we are in fear here in Judea, how much more if we go to Ceila against the bands of the Philistines?
7810 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 4 Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and said to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.
7811 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 5 David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.
7812 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 6 Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to David, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him.
7813 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come into a city that hath gates and bars.
7814 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 8 And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against Ceila, and to besiege David and his men.
7815 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 9 Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.
7816 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 10 And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a report, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my sake:
7817 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 11 Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord said: He will come down.
7818 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 12 And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into the hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.
7819 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.
7820 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 14 But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained in a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.
7821 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.
7822 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 16 And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and went to David, into the wood, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him:
7823 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 17 Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee, and thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and my father knoweth this.
7824 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 18 And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood: but Jonathan returned to his house.
7825 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 19 And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.
7826 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 20 Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down: and it shall be our business to deliver him into the king’s hands.
7827 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 21 And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.
7828 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 22 Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.
7829 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 23 Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.
7830 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of Jesimon.
7831 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 25 Then Saul and his men went to seek him: and it was told David, and forthwith he went down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon: and when Saul had heard of it, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
7832 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his men were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of being able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men encompassed David and his men round about, to take them.
7833 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 27 And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Make haste to come, for the Philistines have poured in themselves upon the land.
7834 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 23 28 Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pursuit of David, and went to meet the Philistines. For this cause they called that place the rock of division.
7835 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 1 Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds of Engaddi.
7836 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 2 And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi.
7837 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 3 Saul, therefore, took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went out to seek after David and his men, even upon the most craggy rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats.
7838 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 4 And he came to the sheepcotes which were in his way. And there was a cave, into which Saul went, to ease nature: now David and his men lay hid in the inner part of the cave.
7839 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 5 And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which the Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou mayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose, and secretly cut off the hem of Saul’s robe.
7840 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 6 After which David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off the hem of Saul’s robe.
7841 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 7 And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord’s anointed.
7842 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 8 And David stopped his men with his words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul: but Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his way.
7843 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 9 And David also rose up after him: and going out of the cave, cried after Saul, saying: My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him: and David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped,
7844 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 10 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt?
7845 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 11 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.
7846 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 12 Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away.
7847 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 13 The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.
7848 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 14 As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?
7849 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 15 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
7850 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 16 Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
7851 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 17 And when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, Saul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept:
7852 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 18 And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.
7853 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 19 And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.
7854 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 20 For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.
7855 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 21 And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy hand:
7856 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 22 Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.
7857 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 24 23 And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his men went up into safer places.
7858 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 1 And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.
7859 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 2 Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
7860 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.
7861 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 4 And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
7862 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 5 He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.
7863 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 6 And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.
7864 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 7 I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel.
7865 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 8 Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David.
7866 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 9 And when David’s servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these words in David’s name, and then held their peace.
7867 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 10 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters.
7868 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?
7869 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 12 So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.
7870 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 13 Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two hundred remained with the baggage.
7871 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 14 But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them.
7872 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 15 These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert.
7873 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 16 They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
7874 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.
7875 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:
7876 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 19 And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.
7877 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 20 And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.
7878 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 21 And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
7879 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 22 May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall.
7880 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 23 And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.
7881 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 24 And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant.
7882 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 25 Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.
7883 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.
7884 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 27 Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord.
7885 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 28 Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.
7886 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.
7887 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 30 And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel,
7888 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 31 This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid.
7889 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:
7890 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 33 And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.
7891 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 34 Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.
7892 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 35 And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face.
7893 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 36 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal’s heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.
7894 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 37 But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
7895 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 38 And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
7896 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 39 And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.
7897 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 40 And David’s servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife.
7898 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 41 And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
7899 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 42 And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.
7900 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 43 Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.
7901 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 25 44 But Saul gave Michol, his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallim.
7902 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 1 And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David is hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over against the wilderness.
7903 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 2 And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
7904 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 3 And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila, which was over against the wilderness in the way: and David abode in the wilderness. And seeing that Saul was come after him into the wilderness,
7905 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 4 He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.
7906 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 5 And David arose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was: and when he had beheld the place, wherein Saul slept, and Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army, and Saul sleeping in a tent, and the rest of the multitude round about him,
7907 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 6 David spoke to Achimelech, the Hethite, and Abisai, the son of Sarvia, the brother of Joab, saying: Who will go down with me to Saul into the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee.
7908 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 7 So David and Abisai came to the people by night, and found Saul lying and sleeping in the tent, and his spear fixed in the ground at his head: and Abner and the people sleeping round about him.
7909 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 8 And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.
7910 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 9 And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and shall be guiltless?
7911 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:
7912 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 11 The Lord be merciful unto me, that I extend not my hand upon the Lord’s anointed. But now take the spear, which is at his head, and the cup of water, and let us go.
7913 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 12 So David took the spear, and the cup of water which was at Saul’s head, and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or awaked, but they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
7914 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 13 And when David was gone over to the other side, and stood on the top of the hill afar off, and a good space was between them,
7915 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 14 David cried to the people, and to Abner, the son of Ner, saying: Wilt thou not answer, Abner? And Abner answering, said: Who art thou, that criest, and disturbest the king?
7916 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 15 And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like unto thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord.
7917 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 16 This thing is not good, that thou hast done: as the Lord liveth, you are the sons of death, who have not kept your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now where is the king’s spear, and the cup of water, which was at his head?
7918 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 17 And Saul knew David’s voice, and said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king.
7919 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?
7920 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 19 Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of thy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the Lord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.
7921 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 20 And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is hunted in the mountains.
7922 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 21 And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will no more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes this day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been ignorant in very many things.
7923 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 22 And David answering, said: Behold the king’s spear: let one of the king’s servants come over and fetch it.
7924 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 23 And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord’s anointed.
7925 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 24 And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.
7926 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 26 25 Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
7927 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.
7928 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 2 And David arose, and went away, both he and the six hundred men that were with him, to Achis, the son of Maoch, king of Geth.
7929 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 3 And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men; every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.
7930 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Geth, and he sought no more after him.
7931 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 5 And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let a place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
7932 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 6 Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg belongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.
7933 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, was four months.
7934 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 8 And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.
7935 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 9 And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman alive: and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis.
7936 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 10 And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of Ceni.
7937 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 11 And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.
7938 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 27 12 And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
7939 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered together their armies, to be prepared for war against Israel: And Achis said to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to the war, thou, and thy men.
7940 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 2 And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my life for ever.
7941 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and soothsayers out of the land.
7942 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 4 And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to Gelboe.
7943 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 5 And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed.
7944 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 6 And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.
7945 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 7 And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a divining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. And his servants said to him: There is a woman that hath a divining spirit at Endor.
7946 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 8 Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said to her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I shall tell thee.
7947 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 9 And the woman said to him: Behold thou knowest all that Saul hath done, and how he hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the land: why then dost thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put to death?
7948 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 10 And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth, there shall no evil happen to thee for this thing.
7949 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 11 And the woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
7950 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
7951 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 13 And the king said to her: Fear not: what hast thou seen? and the woman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
7952 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 14 And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old man cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and adored.
7953 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 15 And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I should be brought up? And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the Philistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do.
7954 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 16 And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival?
7955 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 17 For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke by me, and he will rend thy kingdom out of thy hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David:
7956 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 18 Because thou didst not obey the voice of the Lord, neither didst thou execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath the Lord done to thee what thou sufferest this day.
7957 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 19 And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.
7958 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 20 And forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was frightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all that day.
7959 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 21 And the woman came to Saul, (for he was very much troubled) and said to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest to me.
7960 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, that thou mayst eat and recover strength, and be able to go on thy journey.
7961 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 23 But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and the woman forced him, and at length hearkening to their voice, he arose from the ground, and sat upon the bed.
7962 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 24 Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste and killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread,
7963 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 28 25 And set it before Saul, and before his servants. And when they had eaten they rose up, and walked all that night.
7964 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 1 Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to Aphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.
7965 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 2 And the lords of the Philistines marched with their hundreds and their thousands: but David and his men were in the rear with Achis.
7966 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 3 And the princes of the Philistines said to Achis: What mean these Hebrews? And Achis said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not know David who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and hath been with me many days, or years, and I have found no fault in him, since the day that he fled over to me until this day?
7967 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads?
7968 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 5 Is not this David, to whom they sung in their dances, saying: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
7969 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 6 Then Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord liveth, thou art upright and good in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy coming in with me in the army: and I have not found any evil in thee, since the day that thou camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest not the lords.
7970 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 7 Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.
7971 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 8 And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
7972 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 9 And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.
7973 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 10 Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall begin to be light, go on your way.
7974 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 29 11 So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.
7975 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 1 Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,
7976 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 2 And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and great: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with them, and went on their way.
7977 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 3 So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives,
7978 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 4 David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.
7979 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 5 For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.
7980 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.
7981 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 7 And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son of Achimelech: Bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
7982 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 8 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue after these robbers, and shall I overtake them, or not? And the Lord said to him: Pursue after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them and recover the prey.
7983 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came to the torrent Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there.
7984 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor.
7985 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink,
7986 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 12 As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches of raisins. And when he had eaten them, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days and three nights.
7987 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 13 And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I began to be sick three days ago.
7988 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 14 For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.
7989 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 15 And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? and he said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company. And David swore to him.
7990 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 16 And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.
7991 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 17 And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.
7992 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 18 So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.
7993 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 19 And there was nothing missing small or great, neither of their sons or their daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatsoever they had taken, David recovered all.
7994 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 20 And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go before him: and they said: This is the prey of David.
7995 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 21 And David came to the two hundred men, who, being weary, had stayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to abide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the people that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them peaceably.
7996 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 22 Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David, answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take his wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way.
7997 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 23 But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands:
7998 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 24 And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.
7999 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 25 And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.
8000 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 26 Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the ancients of Juda, his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the prey of the enemies of the Lord.
8001 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 27 To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth to the south, and to them that were in Jether.
8002 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 28 And to them that were in Aroer, and that were in Sephamoth, and that were in Esthamo,
8003 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 29 And that were in Rachal, and that were in the cities of Jerameel, and that were in the cities of Ceni,
8004 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 30 And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake Asan, and that were in Athach,
8005 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 30 31 And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those places, in which David had abode with his men.
8006 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 1 And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.
8007 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 2 And the Philistines fell upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua, the sons of Saul.
8008 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 3 And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the archers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers.
8009 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 4 Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
8010 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 5 And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.
8011 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.
8012 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 7 And the men of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond the Jordan, seeing that the Israelites were fled, and that Saul was dead, and his sons, forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt there.
8013 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 8 And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.
8014 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 9 And they cut off Saul’s head, and stripped him of his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the temples of their idols and among their people.
8015 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 10 And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of Bethsan.
8016 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 11 Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad had heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
8017 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 12 All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Bethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there.
8018 1 Samuel 1Sam 9 31 13 And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.
8019 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 1 Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from the slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.
8020 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 2 And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul’s camp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he came to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.
8021 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 3 And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to him: I am fled out of the camp of Israel.
8022 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 4 And David said unto him: What is the matter that is come to pass? tell me: He said: The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan his son are slain.
8023 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 5 And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?
8024 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 6 And the young man that told him, said: I came by chance upon mount Gelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and horsemen drew nigh unto him,
8025 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 7 And looking behind him, and seeing me, he called me. And I answered, Here am I.
8026 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 8 And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an Amalecite.
8027 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 9 And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.
8028 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 10 So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not live after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee, my lord.
8029 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 11 Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.
8030 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
8031 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 13 And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.
8032 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 14 David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord’s anointed?
8033 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 15 And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.
8034 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 16 And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord’s anointed.
8035 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 17 And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.
8036 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 18 (Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda the use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he said: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high places.
8037 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 19 The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
8038 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 20 Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
8039 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 21 Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.
8040 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the valiant, the arrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
8041 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.
8042 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with scarlet in delights, who gave ornaments of gold for your attire.
8043 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 25 How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?
8044 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 26 I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee.
8045 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 1 27 How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?
8046 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 1 And after these things David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up into one of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up. And David said: Whither shall I go up? And he answered him: Into Hebron.
8047 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 2 So David went up, and his two wives Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel:
8048 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 3 And the men also that were with him, David brought up every man with his household: and they abode in the towns of Hebron.
8049 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 4 And the men of Juda came, and anointed David there, to be king over the house of Juda. And it was told David that the men of Jabes Galaad had buried Saul.
8050 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 5 David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and said to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to your master Saul, and have buried him.
8051 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 6 And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.
8052 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 7 Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to be their king.
8053 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 8 But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul’s army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,
8054 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 9 And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
8055 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 10 Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years; and only the house of Juda followed David.
8056 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 11 And the number of the days that David abode, reigning in Hebron over the house of Juda, was seven years and six months.
8057 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Isboseth the son of Saul, went out from the camp to Gabaon.
8058 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 13 And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the servants of David went out, and met them by the pool of Gabaon. And when they were come together, they sat down over against one another: the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side.
8059 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 14 And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before us. And Joab answered: Let them rise.
8060 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 15 Then there arose and went over twelve in number of Benjamin, of the part of Isboseth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
8061 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 16 And every one catching his fellow by the head, thrust his sword into the side of his adversary, and they fell down together: and the name of the place was called: The field of the valiant, in Gabaon.
8062 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 17 And there was a very fierce battle that day: and Abner was put to flight, with the men of Israel, by the servants of David.
8063 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 18 And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai, and Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that abide in the woods.
8064 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 19 And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
8065 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 20 And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he answered: I am.
8066 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 21 And Abner said to him: Go to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael would not leave off following him close.
8067 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 22 And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest I be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold up my face to Joab thy brother.
8068 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 23 But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside: wherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that came to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.
8069 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 24 Now while Joab and Abisai pursued after Abner, the sun went down: and they came as far as the hill of the aqueduct, that lieth over against the valley by the way of the wilderness in Gabaon.
8070 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together to Abner: and being joined in one body, they stood on the top of a hill.
8071 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 26 And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto utter destruction? knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive people to despair? how long dost thou defer to bid the people cease from pursuing after their brethren?
8072 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 27 And Joab said: As the Lord liveth, if thou hadst spoke sooner, even in the morning the people should have retired from pursuing after their brethren.
8073 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 28 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.
8074 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plains: and they passed the Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon, came to the camp.
8075 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 30 And Joab returning, after he had left Abner, assembled all the people: and there were wanting of David’s servants nineteen men, beside Asael.
8076 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 31 But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men that were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.
8077 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 2 32 And they took Asael, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father in Bethlehem and Joab, and the men that were with him, marched all the night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
8078 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 1 Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul decaying daily.
8079 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 2 And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:
8080 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 3 And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel: and the third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of Gessur:
8081 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 4 And the fourth Adonias, the son of Haggith: and the fifth Saphathia the son of Abital:
8082 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 5 And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of David: these were born to David in Hebron.
8083 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 6 Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.
8084 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 7 And Saul had a concubine named Respha, the daughter of Aia. And Isboseth said to Abner:
8085 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 8 Why didst thou go in to my father’s concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog’s head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman?
8086 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 9 So do God to Abner, and more also, unless as the Lord hath sworn to David, so I do to him,
8087 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 10 That the kingdom be translated from the house of Saul, and the throne of David be set up over Israel, and over Juda from Dan to Bersabee.
8088 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 11 And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him.
8089 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 12 Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying: Whose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and my hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.
8090 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 13 And he said: Very well: I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou bring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou shalt come, and see me.
8091 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 14 And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
8092 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 15 And Isboseth sent, and took her from her husband Phaltiel, the son of Lais.
8093 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 16 And her husband followed her, weeping as far as Bahurim: and Abner said to him: Go and return. And he returned.
8094 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 17 Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel, saying: Both yesterday and the day before you sought for David that he might reign over you.
8095 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 18 Now then do it: because the Lord hath spoken to David, saying: By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hands of the Philistines, and of all their enemies.
8096 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 19 And Abner spoke also to Benjamin. And he went to speak to David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to all Benjamin.
8097 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 20 And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a feast for Abner, and his men that came with him.
8098 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 21 And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I may gather all Israel unto thee my lord the king, and may enter into a league with thee, and that thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth. Now when David had brought Abner on his way, and he was gone in peace,
8099 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 22 Immediately, David’s servants and Joab came, after having slain the robbers, with an exceeding great booty. And Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had now sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
8100 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 23 And Joab and all the army that was with him, came afterwards: and it was told Joab, that Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
8101 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 24 And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done? Behold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone and departed?
8102 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 25 Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner, that to this end he came to thee, that he might deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy coming in, and to know all thou dost?
8103 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 26 Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and brought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.
8104 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.
8105 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 28 And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he said: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
8106 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 29 And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father’s house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.
8107 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 30 So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.
8108 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
8109 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 32 And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.
8110 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 33 And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.
8111 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people repeating it wept over him.
8112 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 35 And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.
8113 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 36 And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the king did seemed good in the sight of all the people.
8114 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 37 And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king’s doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.
8115 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 38 The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince and a great man is slain this day in Israel?
8116 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 3 39 But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil according to his wickedness.
8117 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 1 And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner was slain in Hebron: and his hands were weakened, and all Israel was troubled.
8118 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 2 Now the son of Saul had two men captains of his bands, the name of the one was Baana, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Remmon a Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for Beroth also was reckoned in Benjamin.
8119 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 3 And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there until that time.
8120 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 4 And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet: for he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made haste to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.
8121 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 5 And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming, went into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was sleeping upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was cleansing wheat, was fallen asleep.
8122 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 6 And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and Rechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.
8123 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 7 For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in a parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.
8124 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 8 And they brought the head of Isboseth to David to Hebron: and they said to the king: Behold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy enemy who sought thy life: and the Lord hath revenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
8125 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 9 But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress,
8126 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 10 The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news.
8127 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 11 How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand, and take you away from the earth?
8128 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 4 12 And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
8129 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.
8130 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 2 Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.
8131 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 3 The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel.
8132 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
8133 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 5 In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.
8134 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 6 And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David: Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the lame that say: David shall not come in hither.
8135 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 7 But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.
8136 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 8 For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike the Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and take away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David: therefore it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not come into the temple.
8137 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 9 And David dwelt in the castle, and called it, The city of David: and built round about from Mello and inwards.
8138 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 10 And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.
8139 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 11 And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for David.
8140 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 12 And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel.
8141 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 13 And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters:
8142 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 14 And these are the names of them, that were born to him in Jerusalem, Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
8143 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 15 And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,
8144 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 16 And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and Eliphaleth.
8145 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 17 And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David to be king over Israel: and they all came to seek David: and when David heard of it, he went down to a strong hold.
8146 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 18 And the Philistines coming spread themselves in the valley of Raphaim.
8147 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 19 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up to the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy hand.
8148 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 20 And David came to Baal Pharisim: and defeated them there, and he said, The Lord hath divided my enemies before me, as waters are divided. Therefore the name of the place was called Baal Pharisim.
8149 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 21 And they left there their idols: which David and his men took away.
8150 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 22 And the Philistines came up again and spread themselves into the valley of Raphaim.
8151 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 23 And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go not up against them but fetch a compass behind them, and thou shalt come upon them over against the pear trees.
8152 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 24 And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go out before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.
8153 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 5 25 And David did as the Lord had commanded him, and he smote the Philistines from Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.
8154 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 1 And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
8155 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 2 And David arose and went, with all the people that were with him of the men of Juda to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the Lord of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it upon the cherubims.
8156 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 3 And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
8157 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 4 And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.
8158 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 5 But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.
8159 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 6 And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and made it lean aside.
8160 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 7 And the indignation of the Lord was enkindled against Oza, and he struck him for his rashness: and he died there before the ark of God.
8161 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 8 And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.
8162 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
8163 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 10 And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself into the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house of Obededom the Gethite.
8164 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 11 And the ark of the Lord abode in the house of Obededom the Gethite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.
8165 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 12 And it was told king David, that the Lord had blessed Obededom, and all that he had, because of the ark of God. So David went, and brought away the ark of God out of the house of Obededom into the city of David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves for victims.
8166 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 13 And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a ram:
8167 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 14 And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.
8168 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 15 And David and all the house of Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.
8169 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 16 And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart.
8170 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 17 And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.
8171 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 18 And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
8172 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 19 And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house.
8173 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 20 And David returned to bless his own house: and Michol the daughter of Saul coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the king of Israel to day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.
8174 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 21 And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler over the people of the Lord in Israel,
8175 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 22 I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I will be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou speakest, I shall appear more glorious.
8176 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 6 23 Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
8177 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 1 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
8178 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 2 He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?
8179 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 3 And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart: because the Lord is with thee.
8180 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 4 But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:
8181 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 5 Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?
8182 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.
8183 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 7 In all the places that I have gone through with all the children of Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
8184 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 8 And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel:
8185 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 9 And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.
8186 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more: neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did before,
8187 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 11 From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to thee, that the Lord will make thee a house.
8188 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 12 And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
8189 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 13 He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
8190 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.
8191 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 15 But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before my face.
8192 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 16 And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.
8193 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 17 According to all these words and according to all this vision so did Nathan speak to David.
8194 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 18 And David went in, and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
8195 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 19 But yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless thou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to come: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:
8196 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God:
8197 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.
8198 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 22 Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things that we have heard with our ears.
8199 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 23 And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the face of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods.
8200 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.
8201 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 25 And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,
8202 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 26 That thy name may be magnified for ever, and it may be said: The Lord of hosts is God over Israel. And the house of thy servant David shall be established before the Lord.
8203 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 27 Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.
8204 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 28 And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true: for thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.
8205 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 7 29 And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may endure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
8206 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 1 And it came to pass after this that David defeated the Philistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of tribute out of the hand of the Philistines,
8207 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 2 And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the earth: and he measured with two lines, one to put to death, and one to save alive: and Moab was made to serve David under tribute.
8208 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 3 David defeated also Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba, when he went to extend his dominion over the river Euphrates.
8209 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 4 And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
8210 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 5 And the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Adarezer the king of Soba: and David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
8211 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 6 And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served David under tribute, and the Lord preserved David in all his enterprises, whithersoever he went.
8212 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 7 And David took the arms of gold, which the servants of Adarezer wore and brought them to Jerusalem.
8213 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 8 And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David took an exceeding great quantity of brass.
8214 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 9 And Thou the king of Emath heard that David had defeated all the forces of Adarezer.
8215 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 10 And Thou sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to congratulate with him, and to return him thanks: because he had fought against Adarezer, and had defeated him. For Thou was an enemy to Adarezer, and in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver, and vessels of brass:
8216 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 11 And king David dedicated them to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all the nations, which he had subdued:
8217 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalec, and of the spoils of Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba.
8218 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 13 David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:
8219 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 14 And he put guards in Edom, and placed there a garrison: and all Edom was made to serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all enterprises he went about.
8220 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 15 And David reigned over all Israel: and David did judgment and justice to all his people.
8221 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 16 And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
8222 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 17 And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and Saraias was the scribe:
8223 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 8 18 And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.
8224 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 1 And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan’s sake?
8225 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 2 Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant named Siba: and when the king had called him to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he answered: I am Siba thy servant.
8226 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 3 And the king said: Is there any one left of the house of Saul, that I may shew the mercy of God unto him? And Siba said to the king: There is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of his feet.
8227 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 4 Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the king: Behold he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodabar.
8228 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 5 Then King David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodabar.
8229 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 6 And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come to David, he fell on his face and worshipped. And David said: Miphiboseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.
8230 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 7 And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always.
8231 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 8 He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?
8232 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 9 Then the King called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him: All that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy master’s son.
8233 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 10 Thou therefore and thy sons and thy servants shall till the land for him: and thou shalt bring in food for thy master’s son, that he may be maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy master shall always eat bread at my table. And Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
8234 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 11 And Siba said to the king: As thou my lord the king hast commanded thy servant, so will thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall eat at my table, as one of the sons of the King.
8235 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 12 And Miphiboseth had a young son whose name was Micha: and all that kindred of the house of Siba served Miphiboseth.
8236 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 9 13 But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the king’s table: and he was lame of both feet.
8237 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead.
8238 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 2 And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort him for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were come into the land of the children of Ammon,
8239 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 3 The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon their lord: Thinkest thou that for the honour of thy father, David hath sent comforters to thee, and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee to search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?
8240 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 4 Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to the buttocks, and sent them away.
8241 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 5 When this was told David, he sent to meet them: for the men were sadly put to confusion, and David commanded them, saying: Stay at Jericho, till your beards be grown, and then return.
8242 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 6 And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to David, sent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba, twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and of Istob twelve thousand men.
8243 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 7 And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole army of warriors.
8244 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men in array at the entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and of Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.
8245 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 9 Then Joab seeing that the battle was prepared against him, both before and behind, chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
8246 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 10 And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother, who set them in array against the children of Ammon.
8247 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 11 And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
8248 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 12 Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.
8249 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 13 And Joab and the people that were with him, began to fight against the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.
8250 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 14 And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
8251 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 15 Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, gathered themselves together.
8252 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 16 And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the river, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host of Adarezer, was their general.
8253 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 17 And when this was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought against him.
8254 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 18 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen: and smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.
8255 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 10 19 And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
8256 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 1 And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.
8257 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 2 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.
8258 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 3 And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.
8259 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 4 And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:
8260 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 5 And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.
8261 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 6 And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.
8262 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 7 And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the people, and how the war was carried on.
8263 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 8 And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the king’s house, and there went out after him a mess of meat from the king.
8264 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 9 But Urias slept before the gate of the king’s house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.
8265 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 10 And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
8266 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 11 And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.
8267 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 12 Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.
8268 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 13 And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.
8269 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 14 And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,
8270 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 15 Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.
8271 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 16 Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.
8272 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 17 And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the Hethite was killed also.
8273 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 18 Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.
8274 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 19 And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the words of the battle to the king,
8275 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 20 If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are thrown from above off the wall?
8276 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 21 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.
8277 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 22 So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab had commanded him.
8278 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 23 And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us, and they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and pursued them even to the gate of the city.
8279 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 24 And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the wall above: and some of the king’s servants are slain, and thy servant Urias the Hethite is also dead.
8280 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 25 And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war: and sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword: encourage thy warriors against the city, and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow it.
8281 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 26 And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him.
8282 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 11 27 And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
8283 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 1 And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor.
8284 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 2 The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.
8285 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 3 But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.
8286 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 4 And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man’s ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
8287 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 5 And David’s anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a child of death.
8288 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 6 He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity.
8289 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 7 And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul,
8290 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 8 And gave thee thy master’s house and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.
8291 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 9 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
8292 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 10 Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife.
8293 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 11 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
8294 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.
8295 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.
8296 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 14 Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.
8297 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 15 And Nathan returned to his house. The Lord also struck the child which the wife of Urias had borne to David, and his life was despaired of.
8298 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 16 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.
8299 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 17 And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.
8300 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and the servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For they said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself if we tell him that the child is dead?
8301 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 19 But when David saw his servants whispering, he understood that the child was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead? They answered him He is dead.
8302 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 20 Then David arose from the ground, and washed and anointed himself: and when he had changed his apparel, he went into the house of the Lord: and worshipped, and then he came into his own house, and he called for bread, and ate.
8303 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 21 And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat bread.
8304 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 22 And he said: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept for him: for I said: Who knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to me, and the child may live?
8305 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.
8306 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 24 And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him.
8307 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.
8308 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 26 And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and laid close siege to the royal city.
8309 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against Rabbath, and the city of waters is about to be taken.
8310 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 28 Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and besiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me, the victory be ascribed to my name.
8311 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 29 Then David gathered all the people together, and went out against Rabbath: and after fighting, he took it.
8312 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 30 And he took the crown of their king from his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold, set with most precious stones, and it was put upon David’s head, and the spoils of the city which were very great he carried away.
8313 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 12 31 And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.
8314 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 1 And it came to pass after this that Amnon the son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her name was Thamar.
8315 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 2 And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the love of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any thing dishonestly with her.
8316 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 3 Now Amnon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the brother of David, a very wise man:
8317 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 4 And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Amnon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.
8318 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 5 And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself sick: and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my sister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make me a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.
8319 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 6 So Amnon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king came to visit him, Amnon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister Thamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at her hand.
8320 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 7 Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy brother Amnon, and make him a mess.
8321 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 8 And Thamar came to the house of Amnon her brother: but he was laid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes.
8322 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 9 And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it before him, but he would not eat: and Amnon said: Put out all persons from me. And when they had put all persons out,
8323 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 10 Amnon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I may eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had made, and brought them in to her brother Amnon in the chamber.
8324 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 11 And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and said: Come lie with me, my sister.
8325 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 12 She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.
8326 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 13 For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will not deny me to thee.
8327 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 14 But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger overpowered her and lay with her.
8328 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 15 Then Amnon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her before. And Amnon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone.
8329 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 16 She answered him: This evil which now thou dost against me, in driving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he would not hearken to her:
8330 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 17 But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust this woman out from me: and shut the door after her.
8331 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 18 And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king’s daughters that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her out: and shut the door after her.
8332 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 19 And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid her hands upon her head, and went on crying.
8333 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 20 And Absalom her brother said to her: Hath thy brother Amnon lain with thee? but now, sister, hold thy peace, he is thy brother: and afflict not thy heart for this thing. So Thamar remained pining away in the house of Absalom her brother.
8334 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 21 And when king David heard of these things he was exceedingly grieved: and he would not afflict the spirit of his son Amnon, for he loved him, because he was his firstborn.
8335 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 22 But Absalom spoke not to Amnon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Amnon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.
8336 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 23 And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons:
8337 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 24 And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant’s sheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his servant.
8338 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 25 And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my son, do not ask that we should all come, and be chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him, and he would not go, he blessed him.
8339 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 26 And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother Amnon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not necessary that he should go with thee.
8340 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 27 But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him. And Absalom made a feast as it were the feast of a king.
8341 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 28 And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Amnon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.
8342 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded them. And all the king’s sons arose and got up every man upon his mule, and fled.
8343 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 30 And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David, saying: Absalom hath slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left.
8344 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 31 Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.
8345 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 32 But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David’s brother answering, said: Let not my lord the king think that all the king’s sons are slain: Amnon only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from the day that he ravished his sister Thamar.
8346 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his heart, saying: All the king’s sons are slain: for Amnon only is dead.
8347 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 34 But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch, lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a by-way on the side of the mountain.
8348 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 35 And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the king’s sons are come: as thy servant said, so it is.
8349 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 36 And when he made an end of speaking, the king’s sons also appeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very much.
8350 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.
8351 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 13 38 And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there three years. And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he was comforted concerning the death of Amnon.
8352 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 1 And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king’s heart was turned to Absalom,
8353 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 2 Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.
8354 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 3 And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.
8355 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 4 And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.
8356 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 5 And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.
8357 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 6 And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the other, and slew him.
8358 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 7 And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith: Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no name, nor remainder upon the earth.
8359 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 8 And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
8360 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 9 And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the iniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his throne be guiltless.
8361 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 10 And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
8362 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 11 And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
8363 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 12 Then the woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.
8364 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 13 And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and not bring home again his own exile?
8365 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 14 We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.
8366 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 15 Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
8367 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 16 And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
8368 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 17 Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.
8369 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 18 And the king answering, said to the woman: Hide not from me the thing that I ask thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my lord the king.
8370 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 19 And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.
8371 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 20 That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.
8372 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 21 And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted thy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.
8373 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 22 And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and blessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood, that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast fulfilled the request of thy servant.
8374 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 23 Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
8375 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 24 But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the king’s face.
8376 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 25 But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so exceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
8377 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 26 And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.
8378 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 27 And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter, whose name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.
8379 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 28 And Absalom dwelt two years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king’s face.
8380 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 29 He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would not come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not come to him,
8381 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 30 He said to his servants: You know the field of Joab near my field, that hath a crop of barley: go now and set it on fire. So the servants of Absalom set the corn on fire. And Joab’s servants coming with their garments rent, said: The servants of Absalom have set part of the field on fire.
8382 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why have thy servants set my corn on fire?
8383 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 32 And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to come to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him: Wherefore am I come from Gessur? it had been better for me to be there: I beseech thee therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he be mindful of my iniquity, let him kill me.
8384 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 14 33 So Joab going in to the king, told him all: and Absalom was called for, and, he went in to the king: and prostrated himself on the ground before him: and the king kissed Absalom.
8385 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 1 Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
8386 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 2 And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate, and when any man had business to come to the king’s judgment, Absalom called him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and said: Thy servant is of such tribe of Israel.
8387 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 3 And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:
8388 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 4 O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.
8389 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 5 Moreover when any man came to him to salute him, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
8390 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 6 And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard by the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.
8391 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 7 And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.
8392 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 8 For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.
8393 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 9 And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went to Hebron.
8394 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 10 And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As soon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
8395 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 11 Now there went with Absalom two hundred men out of Jerusalem that were called, going with simplicity of heart, and knowing nothing of the design.
8396 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 12 Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased with Absalom.
8397 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 13 And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with their whole heart followeth Absalom.
8398 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 14 And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
8399 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 15 And the king’s servants said to him: Whatsoever our lord the king shall command, we thy servants will willingly execute.
8400 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 16 And the king went forth, and all his household on foot: and the king left ten women his concubines to keep the house:
8401 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 17 And the king going forth and all Israel on foot, stood afar off from the house:
8402 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 18 And all his servants walked by him, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant warriors, six hundred men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the king.
8403 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 19 And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us: return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come out of thy own place.
8404 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 20 Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.
8405 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 21 And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O king, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.
8406 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 22 And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the Gethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the people.
8407 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 23 And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.
8408 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 24 And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of God: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the city had done passing.
8409 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 25 And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me again, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.
8410 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 26 But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let him do that which is good before him.
8411 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 27 And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the city in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you.
8412 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 28 Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there come word from you to certify me.
8413 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 29 So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
8414 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 30 But David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, going up and weeping, walking barefoot, and with his head covered, and all the people that were with them, went up with their heads covered weeping.
8415 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.
8416 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 32 And when David was come to the top of the mountain, where he was about to adore the Lord, behold Chusai the Arachite, came to meet him with his garment rent and his head covered with earth.
8417 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 33 And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a burden to me:
8418 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 34 But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am thy servant, O king: as I have been thy father’s servant, so I will be thy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.
8419 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 35 And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests: and what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.
8420 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 36 And there are with them their two sons Achimaas; the son of Sadoc, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar: and you shall send by them to me every thing that you shall hear.
8421 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 15 37 Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
8422 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba the servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine.
8423 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 2 And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba answered: The asses are for the king’s household to sit on: and the loaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if any man be faint in the desert.
8424 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 3 And the king said: Where is thy master’s son? And Siba answered the king: He remained in Jerusalem, saying: To day, will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
8425 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 4 And the king said to Siba: I give thee all that belonged to Miphiboseth. And Siba said: I beseech thee let me find grace before thee, my lord, O king.
8426 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 5 And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,
8427 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 6 And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people, and all the warriors walked on the right, and on the left side of the king.
8428 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 7 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.
8429 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 8 The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul: because thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy evils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.
8430 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 9 And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.
8431 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 10 And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?
8432 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 11 And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden him.
8433 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 12 Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.
8434 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 13 And David and his men with him went by the way. And Semei by the hill’s side went over against him, cursing, and casting stones at him, and scattering earth.
8435 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 14 And the king and all the people with him came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
8436 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 15 But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with him.
8437 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 16 And when Chusai the Arachite, David’s friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.
8438 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 17 And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?
8439 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 18 And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will I abide.
8440 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 19 Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king’s son? as I have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.
8441 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 20 And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.
8442 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 21 And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be strengthened with thee.
8443 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 22 So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and he went in to his father’s concubines before all Israel.
8444 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 16 23 Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.
8445 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 1 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
8446 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 2 And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I will kill the king who will be left alone.
8447 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 3 And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man: for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in peace.
8448 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 4 And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.
8449 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 5 But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what he also saith.
8450 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 6 And when Chusai was come to Absalom, Absalom said to him: Achitophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do it or not? what counsel dost thou give?
8451 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 7 And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.
8452 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 8 And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.
8453 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 9 Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he list: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed Absalom.
8454 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 10 And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be a valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.
8455 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 11 But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.
8456 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 12 And we shall come upon him in what place soever he shall be found: and we shall cover him, as the dew falleth upon the ground, and we shall not leave of the men that are with him, not so much as one.
8457 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 13 And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes round about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that there shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.
8458 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 14 And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of Chusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by the will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated, that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
8459 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 15 And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests: Thus and thus did Achitophel counsel Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus and thus did I counsel them.
8460 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.
8461 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 17 And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and there went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the message to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the city.
8462 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 18 But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it.
8463 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 19 And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.
8464 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 20 And when Absalom’s servants were come into the house, they said to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into Jerusalem.
8465 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 21 And when they were gone, they came up out of the well, and going on told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river: for this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.
8466 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 22 So David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan, until it grew light, and not one of them was left that was not gone over the river.
8467 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
8468 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 24 But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
8469 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 25 Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab’s stead over the army: and Amasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the mother of Joab.
8470 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 26 And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Galaad.
8471 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 27 And when David was come to the camp, Sobi the son of Naas of Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of Lodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,
8472 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 28 Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and fried pulse,
8473 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 17 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.
8474 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 1 And David, having reviewed his people, appointed over them captains of thousands and of hundreds,
8475 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 2 And sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abisai the son of Sarvia Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ethai, who was of Geth: and the king said to the people: I also will go forth with you.
8476 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 3 And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they will not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand: it is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.
8477 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 4 And the king said to them: What seemeth good to you, that will I do. And the king stood by the gate: and all the people went forth by their troops, by hundreds and by thousands.
8478 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 5 And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom. And all the people heard the king giving charge to all the princes concerning Absalom.
8479 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.
8480 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 7 And the people of Israel were defeated there by David’s army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.
8481 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 8 And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.
8482 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 9 And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.
8483 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 10 And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.
8484 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 11 And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why didst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten sicles of silver, and a belt?
8485 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 12 And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king’s son for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.
8486 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 13 Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?
8487 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 14 And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,
8488 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 15 Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.
8489 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 16 And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.
8490 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.
8491 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 18 Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king’s valley: for he said: I have no son, and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.
8492 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 19 And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies.
8493 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 20 And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day, but shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear tidings, because the king’s son is dead.
8494 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 21 And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast seen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.
8495 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 22 Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.
8496 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 23 He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then Achimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.
8497 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was on the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running alone.
8498 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 25 And crying out he told the king: and the king said: If he be alone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And as he was coming apace, and drawing nearer,
8499 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 26 The watchman saw another man running, and crying aloud from above, he said: I see another man running alone. And the king said: He also is a good messenger.
8500 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 27 And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me like the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is a good man: and cometh with good news.
8501 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 28 And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O king. And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he said: Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have lifted up their hands against the lord my king.
8502 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 29 And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas said: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy servant: I know nothing else.
8503 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 30 And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.
8504 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 31 And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up against thee.
8505 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 32 And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.
8506 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 18 33 The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son, my son Absalom.
8507 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 1 And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:
8508 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his son.
8509 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 3 And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.
8510 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 4 And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.
8511 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 5 Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, that have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines.
8512 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 6 Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles, nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.
8513 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 7 Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now.
8514 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 8 Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.
8515 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 9 And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
8516 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 10 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle: how long are you silent, and bring not back the king?
8517 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 11 And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying: Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king in his house.)
8518 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 12 You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?
8519 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 13 And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.
8520 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 14 And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy servants.
8521 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 15 And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the Jordan.
8522 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 16 And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made haste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,
8523 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 17 With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him: and going over the Jordan,
8524 2 Samuel 2Sam 19:18.They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over the king’s household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan,
8525 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 19 Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.
8526 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 20 For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet my lord the king.
8527 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 21 But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?
8528 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 22 And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? why are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?
8529 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 23 And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto him.
8530 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 24 And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his return in peace.
8531 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 25 And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?
8532 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 26 And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me: for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.
8533 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 27 Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what pleaseth thee.
8534 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 28 For all of my father’s house were no better than worthy of death before my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the guests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what right to cry any more to the king?
8535 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 29 Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I have said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.
8536 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 30 And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.
8537 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 31 Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought the king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the river.
8538 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 32 Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.
8539 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 33 And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem.
8540 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 34 And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
8541 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 35 I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?
8542 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 36 I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.
8543 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 37 But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.
8544 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 38 Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt ask of me, thou shalt obtain.
8545 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 39 And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own place.
8546 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 40 So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the people of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people of Israel were there.
8547 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 41 Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king, said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?
8548 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 42 And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten any thing of the king’s, or have any gifts been given us?
8549 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 19 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.
8550 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.
8551 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 2 And all Israel departed from David, and followed Seba the son of Bochri: but the men of Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto Jerusalem.
8552 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 3 And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them, but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood.
8553 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 4 And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda against the third day, and be thou here present.
8554 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond the set time which the king had appointed him.
8555 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 6 And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.
8556 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 7 So Joab’s men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the Phelethi: and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.
8557 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 8 And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa coming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his habit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank, in a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion and strike.
8558 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 9 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.
8559 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 10 But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.
8560 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 11 In the mean time some men of Joab’s company stopping at the dead body of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab’s stead the companion of David.
8561 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 12 And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A certain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him, so he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him with a garment, that they who passed might, not stop on his account.
8562 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 13 And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on following Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.
8563 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 14 Now he had passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abela and Bethmaacha: and all the chosen men were gathered together unto him.
8564 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 15 And they came, and besieged him in Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and they cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged: and all the people that were with Joab, laboured to throw down the walls.
8565 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 16 And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to Joab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee.
8566 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 17 And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou Joab? And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear.
8567 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 18 And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They that inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.
8568 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 19 Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?
8569 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 20 And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy.
8570 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 21 The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab: Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.
8571 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 22 So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
8572 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 23 So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,
8573 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 24 But Aduram over the tributes: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.
8574 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 25 And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.
8575 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 20 26 And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.
8576 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slew the Gabaonites.
8577 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)
8578 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 3 David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you? and what shall be the atonement for you, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
8579 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 4 And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver and gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire that any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will you then that I should do for you?
8580 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 5 And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.
8581 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 6 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them.
8582 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 7 And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8583 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 8 So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai, that was of Molathi:
8584 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 9 And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.
8585 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 10 And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
8586 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 11 And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.
8587 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 12 And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they had slain Saul in Gelboe.
8588 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 13 And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were crucified,
8589 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 14 And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed mercy again to the land after these things.
8590 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 15 And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David growing faint,
8591 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 16 Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword, attempted to kill David.
8592 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 17 And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the Philistine killed him. Then David’s men swore unto him saying: Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of Israel.
8593 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 18 There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines: then Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family of the giants.
8594 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 19 And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew Goliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
8595 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 20 A fourth battle was in Geth: where there was a man of great stature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, four and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.
8596 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 21 And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the brother of David slew him.
8597 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 21 22 These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the hand of David, and of his servants.
8598 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
8599 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 2 And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.
8600 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 3 God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.
8601 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 4 I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
8602 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 5 For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.
8603 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 6 The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
8604 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 7 In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.
8605 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 8 The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.
8606 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 9 A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.
8607 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 10 He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
8608 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 11 And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.
8609 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 12 He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.
8610 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 13 By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.
8611 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 14 The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give forth his voice.
8612 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 15 He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.
8613 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 16 And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.
8614 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 17 He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.
8615 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 18 He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
8616 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 19 He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.
8617 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 20 And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.
8618 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 21 The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.
8619 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 22 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
8620 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 23 For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.
8621 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 24 And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
8622 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 25 And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.
8623 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 26 With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.
8624 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 27 With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
8625 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 28 And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.
8626 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 29 For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.
8627 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 30 For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
8628 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 31 God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.
8629 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 32 Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
8630 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 33 God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.
8631 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 34 Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.
8632 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 35 He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of brass.
8633 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 36 Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.
8634 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 37 Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.
8635 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 38 I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.
8636 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 39 I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.
8637 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 40 Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.
8638 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 41 My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.
8639 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 42 They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.
8640 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 43 I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.
8641 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 44 Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me,
8642 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 45 The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will obey me.
8643 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 46 The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.
8644 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 47 The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:
8645 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 48 God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,
8646 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 49 Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.
8647 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 50 Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.
8648 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 22 51 Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.
8649 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 1 Now these are David’s last words. David the son of Isai said: The man to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob, the excellent psalmist of Israel said:
8650 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 2 The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me and his word by my tongue.
8651 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 3 The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the ruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.
8652 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 4 As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by rain.
8653 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.
8654 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 6 But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands.
8655 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 7 And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.
8656 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 8 These are the names of the valiant men of David: Jesbaham sitting in the chair was the wisest chief among the three, he was like the most tender little worm of the wood, who killed eight hundred men at one onset.
8657 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three valiant men that were with David when they defied the Philistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.
8658 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 10 And when the men of Israel were gone away, he stood and smote the Philistines till his hand was weary, and grew stiff with the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day: and the people that were fled away, returned to take spoils of them that were slain.
8659 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 11 And after him was Semma the son of Age of Arari. And the Philistines were gathered together in a troop: for there was a field full of lentils. And when the people were fled from the face of the Philistines,
8660 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 12 He stood in the midst of the field, and defended it, and defeated the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great victory.
8661 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 13 Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the thirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the giants.
8662 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 14 And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethlehem.
8663 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 15 And David longed, and said: O that some man would get me a drink of the water out of the cistern, that is in Bethlehem, by the gate.
8664 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 16 And the three valiant men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and brought it to David: but he would not drink, but offered it to the Lord,
8665 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 17 Saying: The Lord be merciful to me, that I may not do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that went, and the peril of their lives? therefore he would not drink. These things did these three mighty men.
8666 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 18 Abisai also the brother of Joab, the son of Sarvia, was chief among three: and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew, and he was renowned among the three,
8667 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 19 And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three first he attained not.
8668 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 20 And Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of great deeds, of Cabseel: he slew the two lions of Moab, and he went down, and slew a lion in the midst of a pit, in the time of snow.
8669 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 21 He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy to be a sight, having a spear in his hand: but he went down to him with a rod, and forced the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his own spear.
8670 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 22 These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.
8671 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 23 And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the most honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first three: and David made him of his privy council.
8672 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 24 Asael the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, Elehanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem.
8673 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 25 Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,
8674 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 26 Heles of Phalti, Hira the son of Acces of Thecua,
8675 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 27 Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of Husati,
8676 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 28 Selmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
8677 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 29 Heled the son of Baana, also a Netophathite, Ithai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the children of Benjamin,
8678 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 30 Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the torrent Gaas,
8679 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Beromi,
8680 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 32 Eliaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jassen, Jonathan,
8681 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 33 Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of Sarar the Arorite,
8682 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 34 Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son of Machati, Eliam the son of Achitophel the Gelonite,
8683 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 35 Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,
8684 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 36 Igaal the son of Nathan of Soba, Bonni of Gadi,
8685 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 37 Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Berothite, armourbearer of Joab the son of Sarvia,
8686 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 38 Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;
8687 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 23 39 Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.
8688 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 1 And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.
8689 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 2 And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people that I may know the number of them.
8690 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 3 And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?
8691 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 4 But the king’s words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the captains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
8692 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 5 And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the right side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.
8693 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 6 And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of Hodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by Sidon,
8694 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 7 They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:
8695 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 8 And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.
8696 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.
8697 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 10 But David’s heart struck him, after the people were numbered: and David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have done: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy servant, because I have done exceeding foolishly.
8698 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 11 And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:
8699 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 12 Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.
8700 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 13 And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
8701 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 14 And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.
8702 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 15 And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.
8703 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 16 And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
8704 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 17 And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father’s house.
8705 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 18 And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
8706 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 19 And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had commanded him.
8707 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 20 And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming towards him:
8708 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 21 And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.
8709 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 22 And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
8710 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 23 All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.
8711 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 24 And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:
8712 2 Samuel 2Sam 10 24 25 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
8713 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 1 Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes he was not warm.
8714 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 2 His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our lord the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king.
8715 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 3 So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.
8716 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 4 And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the king, and served him, but the king did not know her.
8717 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 5 And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will be king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
8718 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 6 Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.
8719 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 7 And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar, the priest, who furthered Adonias’s side.
8720 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 8 But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Nathan, the prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David’s army, was not with Adonias.
8721 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 9 And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle, by the stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all his brethren, the king’s sons, and all the men of Juda, the king’s servants:
8722 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 10 But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men, and Solomon, his brother, he invited not.
8723 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 11 And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not?
8724 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 12 Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
8725 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 13 Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?
8726 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 14 And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words.
8727 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 15 So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king was very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him.
8728 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 16 Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?
8729 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 17 She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
8730 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 18 And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king, knowest nothing of it.
8731 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 19 He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and invited all the king’s sons, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the general of the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited not.
8732 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 20 And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the king, after thee.
8733 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.
8734 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 22 As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.
8735 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 23 And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And when he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to the ground,
8736 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 24 Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?
8737 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 25 Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king’s sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:
8738 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 26 But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he hath not invited.
8739 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 27 Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not told me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
8740 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 28 And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when she was come in to the king, and stood before him,
8741 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 29 The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress,
8742 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 30 Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Solomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day.
8743 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 31 And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.
8744 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 32 King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada. And when they were come in before the king,
8745 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 33 He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:
8746 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 34 And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him there king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: God save king Solomon.
8747 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 35 And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.
8748 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 36 And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.
8749 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 37 As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king David.
8750 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 38 So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went down, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set Solomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.
8751 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 39 And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people said: God save king Solomon.
8752 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 40 And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.
8753 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 41 And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now the feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trumpet, said: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar?
8754 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 42 While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest, came: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man, and bringest good news.
8755 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 43 And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David, hath appointed Solomon king;
8756 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 44 And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and they have set him upon the king’s mule:
8757 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 45 And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him king, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.
8758 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 46 Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom.
8759 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 47 And the king’s servants going in, have blessed our lord king David, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his bed:
8760 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 48 And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath given this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it.
8761 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 49 Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose, and every man went his way.
8762 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 50 And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the horn of the altar.
8763 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 51 And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the sword.
8764 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 52 And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he shall die.
8765 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 53 Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and going in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy house.
8766 1 Kings 1Ki 11 1 1 And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged his son Solomon, saying:
8767 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 2 I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man.
8768 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and observe his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst understand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:
8769 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 4 That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.
8770 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 5 Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
8771 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 6 Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.
8772 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 7 But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and let them eat at thy table: for they met me when I fled from the face of Absalom, thy brother.
8773 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 8 Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the sword:
8774 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 9 Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
8775 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
8776 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 11 And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.
8777 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 12 And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.
8778 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 13 And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It is peaceable.
8779 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 14 And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him: Speak. And he said:
8780 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 15 Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had preferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is become my brother’s: for it was appointed him by the Lord.
8781 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 16 Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face. And she said to him: Say on.
8782 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 17 And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.
8783 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 18 And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king.
8784 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 19 Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right hand.
8785 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 20 And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not put me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must not turn away thy face.
8786 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 21 And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife.
8787 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 22 And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom; for he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Sarvia.
8788 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 23 Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life.
8789 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 24 And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed me upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day.
8790 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada, who slew him, and he died.
8791 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 26 And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth, to thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my father endured.
8792 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 27 So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord, that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning the house of Heli in Silo.
8793 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 28 And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar.
8794 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 29 And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias, the son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him.
8795 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 30 And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him: Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth, but here I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying: Thus saith Joab, and thus he answered me.
8796 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 31 And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father:
8797 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;
8798 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 33 And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed, and his house, and to his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord.
8799 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 34 So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert.
8800 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 35 And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in his room over the army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar.
8801 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 36 The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence any where.
8802 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 37 For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the brook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be upon thy own head.
8803 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 38 And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
8804 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 39 And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei ran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told Semei that his servants were gone to Geth.
8805 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 40 And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis, to Geth, to seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth.
8806 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 41 And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to Geth, and was come back.
8807 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 42 And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And thou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good.
8808 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?
8809 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 44 And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.
8810 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
8811 1 Kings 1Ki 11 2 46 So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and he went out and struck him; and he died.
8812 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 1 And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
8813 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 2 But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.
8814 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.
8815 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 4 He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the great high place: a thousand victims for holocausts, did Solomon offer upon that altar, in Gabaon.
8816 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 5 And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
8817 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 6 And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant David, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice, and an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for him, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
8818 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 7 And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and come in;
8819 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 8 And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
8820 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 9 Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?
8821 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 10 And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing.
8822 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 11 And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment;
8823 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 12 Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.
8824 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 13 Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.
8825 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.
8826 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 15 And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when he was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings, and made a great feast for all his servants.
8827 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 16 Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
8828 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 17 And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber.
8829 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 18 And the third day after I was delivered, she also was delivered; and we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we two.
8830 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 19 And this woman’s child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him.
8831 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 20 And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.
8832 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 21 And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.
8833 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 22 And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before the king.
8834 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 23 Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy child is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and mine liveth.
8835 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 24 The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had brought a sword before the king,
8836 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 25 Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.
8837 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 26 But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it.
8838 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 27 The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof.
8839 1 Kings 1Ki 11 3 28 And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.
8840 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 1 And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:
8841 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 2 And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the son of Sadoc, the priest:
8842 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 3 Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat, the son of Ahilud, recorder:
8843 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 4 Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc, and Abiathar, priests.
8844 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 5 Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king: Zabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king’s friend:
8845 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 6 And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda, over the tribute.
8846 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 7 And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year.
8847 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 8 And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.
8848 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 9 Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in Bethanan.
8849 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 10 Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher.
8850 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 11 Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.
8851 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 12 Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and Mageddo, and all Bethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto Abelmehula, over against Jecmaan.
8852 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 13 Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair, the son of Manasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is in Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.
8853 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 14 Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim.
8854 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 15 Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.
8855 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 16 Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth.
8856 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 17 Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.
8857 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 18 Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
8858 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 19 Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of Sehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over all that were in that land.
8859 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 20 Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.
8860 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 21 And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him all the days of his life.
8861 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 22 And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;
8862 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.
8863 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 24 For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.
8864 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 25 And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.
8865 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thousand for the saddle.
8866 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 27 And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon’s table, with great care, in their time.
8867 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 28 They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.
8868 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 29 And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.
8869 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 30 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians;
8870 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 31 And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.
8871 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 32 Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.
8872 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 33 And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
8873 1 Kings 1Ki 11 4 34 And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.
8874 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon: for he heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram had always been David’s friend.
8875 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:
8876 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 3 Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
8877 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 4 But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there is no adversary nor evil occurrence.
8878 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 5 Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.
8879 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 6 Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.
8880 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 7 Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given to David a very wise son over this numerous people.
8881 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast desired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and fir trees.
8882 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 9 My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I will put them together in floats, on the sea, and convey them to the place, which thou shalt signify to me, and will land them there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish food for my household.
8883 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all his desire.
8884 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 11 And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for provision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram every year.
8885 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 12 And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league together.
8886 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 13 And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men.
8887 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 14 And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.
8888 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 15 And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:
8889 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 16 Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.
8890 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 17 And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:
8891 1 Kings 1Ki 11 5 18 And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.
8892 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.
8893 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 2 And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.
8894 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 3 And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.
8895 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.
8896 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 5 And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he made chambers in the sides round about.
8897 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 6 The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.
8898 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.
8899 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 8 The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.
8900 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 9 So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.
8901 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 10 And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
8902 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
8903 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 12 As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David thy father.
8904 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 13 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.
8905 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
8906 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
8907 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 16 And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.
8908 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 17 And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.
8909 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.
8910 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
8911 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.
8912 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 21 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
8913 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.
8914 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 23 And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.
8915 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.
8916 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 25 The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:
8917 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 26 That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.
8918 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 27 And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.
8919 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
8920 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 29 And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.
8921 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 30 And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and without.
8922 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 31 And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors of olive tree, and posts of five corners,
8923 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 32 And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much projecting; and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and the palm trees, and the other things, with gold.
8924 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 33 And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree foursquare:
8925 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 34 And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.
8926 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 35 And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.
8927 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.
8928 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 37 In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month Zio:
8929 1 Kings 1Ki 11 6 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.
8930 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 1 And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.
8931 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 2 He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.
8932 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 3 And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was held up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,
8933 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 4 Set one against another,
8934 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 5 And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.
8935 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 6 And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch, and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.
8936 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 7 He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of judgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.
8937 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 8 And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in judgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch;
8938 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 9 All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.
8939 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 10 And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits.
8940 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 11 And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in like manner planks of cedar.
8941 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 12 And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.
8942 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 13 And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,
8943 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 14 The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali, whose father was a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and understanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was come to king Solomon, he wrought all his work.
8944 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 15 And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.
8945 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 16 He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
8946 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 17 And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.
8947 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to cover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in like manner did he to the other chapiter.
8948 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in the porch of four cubits.
8949 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 20 And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network: and of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the other chapiter.
8950 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 21 And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and when he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name thereof Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called the name thereof Booz.
8951 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 22 And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.
8952 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 23 He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
8953 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 24 And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.
8954 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 25 And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the north, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and three towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid within.
8955 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 26 And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.
8956 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 27 And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in length, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.
8957 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 28 And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.
8958 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 29 And between the little crowns and the ledges, were lions, and oxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings likewise above: and under the lions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.
8959 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 30 And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at the four sides were undersetters, under the laver molten, looking one against another.
8960 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 31 The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the chapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round, and together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were square, not round.
8961 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 32 And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base, were joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
8962 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 33 And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot: and their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast.
8963 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 34 And the four undersetters, that were at every corner of each base, were of the base itself, cast and joined together.
8964 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 35 And on the top of the base, there was a round compass of half a cubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its gravings, and divers sculptures of itself.
8965 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 36 He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about.
8966 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 37 After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting and measure, and the like graving.
8967 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 38 He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bases, and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many lavers.
8968 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 39 And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple, and five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the temple, over against the east southward.
8969 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 40 And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished all the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.
8970 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 41 The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the chapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords, that were upon the top of the pillars.
8971 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters, which were upon the tops of the pillars.
8972 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 43 And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.
8973 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.
8974 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 45 And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the vessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of fine brass.
8975 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 46 In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham.
8976 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 47 And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
8977 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 48 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of proposition should be set:
8978 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 49 And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on the left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like lilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,
8979 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 50 And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
8980 1 Kings 1Ki 11 7 51 And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the Lord, and brought in the things that David, his father, had dedicated, the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up in the treasures of the house of the Lord.
8981 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 1 Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled to king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.
8982 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 2 And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.
8983 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 3 And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,
8984 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 4 And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the tabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.
8985 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 5 And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were assembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.
8986 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubims.
8987 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 7 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.
8988 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 8 And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.
8989 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 9 Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
8990 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
8991 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 11 And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
8992 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 12 Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.
8993 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 13 Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever.
8994 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 14 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.
8995 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 15 And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:
8996 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 16 Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
8997 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 17 And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel:
8998 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 18 And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.
8999 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 19 Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
9000 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 20 The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in the room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
9001 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
9002 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,
9003 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 23 And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart:
9004 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day proveth.
9005 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 25 Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight.
9006 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 26 And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father.
9007 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
9008 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 28 But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:
9009 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:
9010 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 30 That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.
9011 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy altar, to thy house,
9012 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 32 Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and justifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.
9013 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 33 If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they will sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:
9014 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.
9015 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 35 If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:
9016 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 36 Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people in possession.
9017 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 37 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,
9018 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 38 Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house;
9019 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 39 Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the children of men)
9020 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.
9021 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 41 Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand,
9022 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 42 And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place,
9023 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 43 Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, which I have built.
9024 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 44 If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name:
9025 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 45 And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.
9026 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 46 But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;
9027 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 47 Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and being converted, make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:
9028 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 48 And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name:
9029 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 49 Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:
9030 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 50 And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have compassion on them.
9031 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 51 For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.
9032 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 52 That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.
9033 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 53 For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from amongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
9034 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 54 And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the altar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had spread his hands towards heaven.
9035 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 55 And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:
9036 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 56 Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one word of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses.
9037 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off:
9038 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 58 But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
9039 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment for his servant, and for his people Israel, day by day:
9040 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 60 That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.
9041 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 61 Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.
9042 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the Lord.
9043 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 63 And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king, and the children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the Lord.
9044 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 64 In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.
9045 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 65 And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.
9046 1 Kings 1Ki 11 8 66 And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed the king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for all the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant, and for Israel, his people.
9047 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 1 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that he desired and was pleased to do,
9048 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 2 That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.
9049 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always.
9050 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments,
9051 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 5 I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel.
9052 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 6 But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them:
9053 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 7 I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.
9054 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 8 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
9055 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 9 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
9056 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 10 And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two houses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,
9057 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 11 (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with cedar trees, and fir trees, and gold, according to all he had need of) then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9058 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 12 And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not;
9059 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 13 And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.
9060 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 14 And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
9061 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 15 This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.
9062 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 16 Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
9063 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 17 So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether,
9064 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 18 And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the wilderness.
9065 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 19 And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled, he fortified; the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.
9066 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 20 All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel:
9067 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 21 Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.
9068 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 22 But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.
9069 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 23 And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.
9070 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 24 And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.
9071 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 25 Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.
9072 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 26 And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
9073 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 27 And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
9074 1 Kings 1Ki 11 9 28 And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.
9075 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 1 And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.
9076 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 2 And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and camels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and precious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she had in her heart.
9077 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 3 And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him: there was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not answer her.
9078 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 4 And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,
9079 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 5 And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her;
9080 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 6 And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country,
9081 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 7 Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works exceed the fame which I heard.
9082 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 8 Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.
9083 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.
9084 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.
9085 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 11 (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.
9086 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 12 And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house: and citterns and harps for singers: there were no such thyine trees as these brought nor seen unto this day.)
9087 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 13 And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal bounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her servants.
9088 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 14 And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:
9089 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 15 Besides that which the men brought him that were over the tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the country.
9090 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 16 And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.
9091 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 17 And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of gold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Libanus.
9092 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 18 King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.
9093 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 19 It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions stood, one at each hand,
9094 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 20 And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one side and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.
9095 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 21 Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon:
9096 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 22 For the king’s navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and elephants’ teeth, and apes, and peacocks.
9097 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 23 And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
9098 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 24 And all the earth desired to see Solomon’s face, to hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.
9099 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 25 And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every year.
9100 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he bestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.
9101 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.
9102 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 28 And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for the king’s merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set price.
9103 1 Kings 1Ki 11 10 29 And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred sicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this manner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.
9104 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 1 And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:
9105 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.
9106 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 3 And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.
9107 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 4 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.
9108 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 5 But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites.
9109 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 6 And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.
9110 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 7 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.
9111 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 8 And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.
9112 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice;
9113 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not follow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord commanded him.
9114 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 11 The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.
9115 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 12 Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
9116 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 13 Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen.
9117 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 14 And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad, the Edomite, of the king’s seed, in Edom.
9118 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army, was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom,
9119 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 16 (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)
9120 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 17 Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants, with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.
9121 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 18 And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they took men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the king of Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and assigned him land.
9122 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 19 And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave him to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.
9123 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 20 And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son, Genubath; and Taphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao among his children.
9124 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 21 And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
9125 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 22 And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go.
9126 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 23 God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.
9127 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 24 And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.
9128 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon: and this is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned in Syria.
9129 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 26 Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.
9130 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 27 And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father.
9131 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 28 And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing him a young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the tributes of all the house of Joseph.
9132 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 29 So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field.
9133 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 30 And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:
9134 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 31 And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
9135 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 32 But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant, David, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:
9136 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 33 Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, his father.
9137 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 34 Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.
9138 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 35 But I will take away the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give thee ten tribes:
9139 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 36 And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.
9140 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.
9141 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 38 If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my commandments and my precepts, as David, my servant, did: I will be with thee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for David, and I will deliver Israel to thee:
9142 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for ever.
9143 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 40 Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and fled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
9144 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 41 And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did and his wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the days of Solomon.
9145 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 42 And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, were forty years.
9146 1 Kings 1Ki 11 11 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.
9147 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 1 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.
9148 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 2 But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.
9149 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 3 And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:
9150 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 4 Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
9151 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 5 And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,
9152 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 6 King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people?
9153 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 7 They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle words to them, they will be thy servants always.
9154 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 8 But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and stood before him.
9155 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 9 And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father put upon us, lighter?
9156 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 10 And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.
9157 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 11 And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
9158 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 12 So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.
9159 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 13 And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
9160 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 14 And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
9161 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 15 And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.
9162 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 16 Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.
9163 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 17 But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.
9164 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 18 Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:
9165 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 19 And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.
9166 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Juda only.
9167 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 21 And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand chosen men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.
9168 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 22 But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God, saying:
9169 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 23 Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying:
9170 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 24 Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.
9171 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 25 And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and going out from thence, he built Phanuel.
9172 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David,
9173 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord Roboam, the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.
9174 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 28 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
9175 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:
9176 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 30 And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.
9177 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 31 And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
9178 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 32 And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the high places, which he had made.
9179 1 Kings 1Ki 11 12 33 And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went up on the altar to burn incense.
9180 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 1 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.
9181 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 2 And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men’s bones upon thee.
9182 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.
9183 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 4 And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he stretched forth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it back again to him.
9184 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in the word of the Lord.
9185 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 6 And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
9186 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 7 And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine, and I will make thee presents.
9187 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 8 And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me half thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place:
9188 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 9 For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me: Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way that thou camest.
9189 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 10 So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that he came into Bethel.
9190 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 11 Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to him, and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
9191 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 12 And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.
9192 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 13 And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had saddled it, he got up,
9193 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a turpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God who camest from Juda? He answered: I am.
9194 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 15 And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread.
9195 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 16 But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place:
9196 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 17 Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.
9197 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 18 He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,
9198 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 19 And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water in his house.
9199 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 20 And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:
9200 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 21 And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
9201 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 22 And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers.
9202 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 23 And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the prophet, whom he had brought back.
9203 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 24 And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body.
9204 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 25 And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city, wherein that old prophet dwelt.
9205 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 26 And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way, heard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he hath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.
9206 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 27 And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had saddled it,
9207 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 28 And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the ass.
9208 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old prophet, to mourn for him.
9209 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 30 And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned over him, saying: Alas! alas, my brother.
9210 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 31 And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay my bones beside his bones.
9211 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 32 For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold in the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and against all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of Samaria.
9212 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 33 After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high places.
9213 1 Kings 1Ki 11 13 34 And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.
9214 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 1 At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.
9215 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this people.
9216 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 3 Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this child.
9217 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 4 Jeroboam’s wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.
9218 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 5 And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,
9219 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 6 Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
9220 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 7 Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel;
9221 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:
9222 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
9223 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 10 Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.
9224 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 11 Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9225 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 12 Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,
9226 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
9227 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 14 And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:
9228 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.
9229 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 16 And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.
9230 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 17 And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,
9231 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 18 And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias, the prophet.
9232 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.
9233 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.
9234 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 21 And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naama, an Ammonitess.
9235 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 22 And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.
9236 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 23 For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
9237 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 24 There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
9238 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 25 And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.
9239 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made:
9240 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 27 And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king’s house.
9241 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 28 And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.
9242 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 29 Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.
9243 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 30 And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.
9244 1 Kings 1Ki 11 14 31 And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead.
9245 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 1 Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.
9246 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.
9247 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.
9248 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 4 But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
9249 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 5 Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.
9250 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 6 But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his life.
9251 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 7 And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.
9252 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 8 And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead.
9253 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 9 So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Asa, king of Juda,
9254 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 10 And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.
9255 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 11 And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David, his father:
9256 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 12 And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
9257 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 13 Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:
9258 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 14 But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:
9259 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and he had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.
9260 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 16 And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.
9261 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 17 And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.
9262 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them to Benadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:
9263 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
9264 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 20 Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army against the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and Abeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali.
9265 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 21 And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa.
9266 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 22 But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.
9267 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 23 But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
9268 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 24 And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.
9269 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 25 But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second year of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.
9270 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
9271 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 27 And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the Philistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.
9272 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 28 So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of Juda, and reigned in his place.
9273 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 29 And when he was king, he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he left not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite:
9274 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 30 Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.
9275 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 31 But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9276 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all their days.
9277 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 33 In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias, reigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.
9278 1 Kings 1Ki 11 15 34 And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
9279 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasa, saying:
9280 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 2 For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins:
9281 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 3 Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.
9282 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 4 Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.
9283 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 5 But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9284 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 6 So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.
9285 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 7 And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.
9286 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 8 In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son of Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years.
9287 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 9 And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen, rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the house of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.
9288 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 10 And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.
9289 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 11 And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and all his kinsfolks and friends.
9290 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 12 And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the prophet,
9291 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 13 For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their vanities.
9292 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 14 But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9293 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 15 In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a city of the Philistines.
9294 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 16 And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king, all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in the camp that day.
9295 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 17 And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.
9296 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 18 And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into the palace, and burnt himself with the king’s house: and he died
9297 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 19 In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
9298 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 20 But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9299 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half of the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and one half followed Amri.
9300 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 22 But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people that followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri reigned.
9301 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 23 In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.
9302 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 24 And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of silver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.
9303 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 25 And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly above all that were before him.
9304 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 26 And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
9305 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 27 Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9306 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 28 And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Achab, his son, reigned in his stead.
9307 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 29 Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.
9308 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 30 And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
9309 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 31 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.
9310 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 32 And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria;
9311 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 33 And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
9312 1 Kings 1Ki 11 16 34 In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.
9313 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.
9314 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 2 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
9315 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 3 Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;
9316 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 4 And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
9317 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 5 So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.
9318 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.
9319 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 7 But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not rained upon the earth.
9320 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
9321 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 9 Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.
9322 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 10 He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
9323 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 11 And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
9324 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 12 And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
9325 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 13 And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.
9326 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 14 For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.
9327 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 15 She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day
9328 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 16 The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.
9329 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 17 And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.
9330 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 18 And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?
9331 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 11 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
9332 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 20 And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill her son?
9333 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 21 And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.
9334 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.
9335 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 23 And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.
9336 1 Kings 1Ki 11 17 24 And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.
9337 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 1 After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third year, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.
9338 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 2 And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
9339 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 3 And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.
9340 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 4 For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.
9341 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 5 And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.
9342 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 6 And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.
9343 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 7 And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?
9344 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 8 And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.
9345 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 9 And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me, thy servant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?
9346 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.
9347 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 11 And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here.
9348 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.
9349 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 13 Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?
9350 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 14 And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
9351 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 15 And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
9352 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 16 Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.
9353 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 17 And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
9354 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 18 And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father’s house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.
9355 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 19 Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel’s table.
9356 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 20 Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.
9357 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 21 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
9358 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 22 And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.
9359 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 23 Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under it.
9360 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 24 Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all the people answering, said: A very good proposal.
9361 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 25 Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your gods; but put no fire under.
9362 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 26 And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made.
9363 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 27 And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.
9364 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 28 So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.
9365 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 29 And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the time was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor did any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.
9366 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 30 Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken down:
9367 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 31 And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.
9368 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 32 And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round about the altar.
9369 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 33 And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it upon the wood.
9370 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 34 And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the third time. And they did so the third time.
9371 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 35 And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.
9372 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 36 And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.
9373 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.
9374 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
9375 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 39 And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.
9376 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 40 And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.
9377 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 41 And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
9378 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 42 Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between his knees,
9379 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 43 And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.
9380 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 44 And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man’s foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.
9381 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 45 And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain. And Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:
9382 1 Kings 1Ki 11 18 46 And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.
9383 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 1 And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
9384 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 2 And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.
9385 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 3 Then Elias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,
9386 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 4 And he went forward, one day’s journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.
9387 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 5 And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.
9388 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 6 He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.
9389 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.
9390 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
9391 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 9 And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave. and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?
9392 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 10 And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
9393 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 11 And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but the Lord is not in the earthquake.
9394 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 12 And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is not in the fire. And after the fire, a whistling of a gentle air.
9395 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 13 And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:
9396 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 14 With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
9397 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 15 And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the desert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
9398 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 16 And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over Israel: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy room.
9399 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 17 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.
9400 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 18 And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him, kissing the hands.
9401 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 19 And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that were ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle upon him.
9402 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 20 And he forthwith left the oxen, and ran after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.
9403 1 Kings 1Ki 11 19 21 And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising up, he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.
9404 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 1 And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and there were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and going up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.
9405 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 2 And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,
9406 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 3 He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.
9407 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 4 And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all that I have.
9408 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 5 And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who sent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy children, thou shalt deliver up to me.
9409 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 6 To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands, and take away.
9410 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 7 And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and said: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said not nay.
9411 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 8 And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not to him, nor consent to him.
9412 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 9 Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord, the king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I will do: but this thing I cannot do.
9413 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 10 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
9414 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 11 And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.
9415 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 12 And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset the city. And they beset it.
9416 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 13 And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord.
9417 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 14 And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.
9418 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 15 So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and he found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered after them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:
9419 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 16 And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.
9420 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 17 And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of Samaria.
9421 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 18 And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.
9422 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 19 So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the rest of the army followed:
9423 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 20 And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of Syria, fled away on horseback with his horsemen.
9424 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 21 But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
9425 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 22 (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year the king of Syria will come up against thee.)
9426 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 23 But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.
9427 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 24 Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:
9428 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 25 And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel, and did so.
9429 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 26 Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.
9430 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 27 And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals, went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.
9431 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 28 (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)
9432 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 29 And both sides set their armies in array one against the other seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the children of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
9433 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 30 And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.
9434 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 31 And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.
9435 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 32 So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother.
9436 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 33 The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.
9437 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 34 And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy father, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from thee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.
9438 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 35 Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.
9439 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 36 Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
9440 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 37 Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he struck him and wounded him.
9441 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 38 So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised himself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.
9442 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
9443 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 40 And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a sudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.
9444 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 41 But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king of Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.
9445 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 42 And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.
9446 1 Kings 1Ki 11 20 43 And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear, and raging came into Samaria.
9447 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 1 And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king of Samaria.
9448 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 2 And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
9449 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 3 Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
9450 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 4 And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.
9451 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 5 And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is the matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread?
9452 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 6 And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard.
9453 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 7 Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.
9454 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 8 So she wrote letters in Achab’s name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.
9455 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 9 And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make Naboth sit among the chief of the people;
9456 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 10 And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him. and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.
9457 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 11 And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them;
9458 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 12 They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of the people.
9459 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 13 And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.
9460 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 14 And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
9461 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 15 And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned, and dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and give it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
9462 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 16 And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he arose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to take possession of it.
9463 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 17 And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:
9464 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 18 Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take possession of it:
9465 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.
9466 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 20 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.
9467 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 21 Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.
9468 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 22 And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.
9469 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 23 And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.
9470 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 24 If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.
9471 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 25 Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,
9472 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 26 And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
9473 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 27 And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.
9474 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 28 And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:
9475 1 Kings 1Ki 11 21 29 Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
9476 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 1 And there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel.
9477 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 2 And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the king of Israel.
9478 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 3 (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?)
9479 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 4 And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to Ramoth Galaad?
9480 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 5 And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my people and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day the word of the Lord.
9481 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 6 Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
9482 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 7 And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire by him?
9483 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 8 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.
9484 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 9 Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make haste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla.
9485 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 10 And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on his throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
9486 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 11 And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.
9487 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 12 And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king’s hands.
9488 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 13 And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good things to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.
9489 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 14 But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.
9490 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 15 So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him: Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king’s hands.
9491 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 16 But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord.
9492 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 17 And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master: let every man of them return to his house in peace.
9493 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 18 (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee, that he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?)
9494 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 19 And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left:
9495 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 20 And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise.
9496 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?
9497 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 22 And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.
9498 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 23 Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.
9499 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 24 And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to thee?
9500 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 25 And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.
9501 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 26 And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with Amon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech;
9502 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 27 And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.
9503 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 28 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
9504 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 29 So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to Ramoth-Galaad.
9505 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 30 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take armour, and go into the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel changed his dress, and went into the battle.
9506 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 31 And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains of the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or great, but against the king of Israel only.
9507 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 32 So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault, they fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.
9508 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 33 And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the king of Israel, and they turned away from him.
9509 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 34 And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.
9510 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 35 And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
9511 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 36 And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.
9512 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 37 And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria.
9513 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 38 And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.
9514 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 39 But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9515 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 40 So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.
9516 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 41 But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the fourth year of Achab, king of Israel.
9517 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 42 He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Azuba, the daughter of Salai.
9518 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.
9519 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 44 Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.
9520 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 45 And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.
9521 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 46 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9522 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 47 And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land.
9523 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 48 And there was then no king appointed in Edom.
9524 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 49 But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.
9525 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 50 Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.
9526 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 51 And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.
9527 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 52 And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two years.
9528 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 53 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
9529 1 Kings 1Ki 11 22 54 He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
9530 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 1 And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.
9531 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 2 And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.
9532 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 3 And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron?
9533 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 4 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away.
9534 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 5 And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?
9535 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 6 But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.
9536 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 7 And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?
9537 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 8 But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.
9538 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 9 And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.
9539 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 10 And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him.
9540 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 11 And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king: Make haste and come down.
9541 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 12 Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
9542 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 13 Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before Elias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.
9543 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 14 Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I beseech thee to spare my life.
9544 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 15 And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with him, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king,
9545 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 16 And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent messengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word; therefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die.
9546 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 17 So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke; and Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of Joram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son.
9547 2 Kings 2Ki 12 1 18 But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9548 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 1 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into heaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.
9549 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 2 And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come down to Bethel,
9550 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 3 The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold your peace.
9551 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 4 And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho,
9552 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 5 The sons of the prophets, that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away thy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace.
9553 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 6 And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together.
9554 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 7 And fifty men, of the sons of the prophets, followed them, and stood in sight, at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.
9555 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 8 And Elias took his mantle, and folded it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed over on dry ground.
9556 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 9 And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Eliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit.
9557 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 10 And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.
9558 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 11 And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
9559 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 12 And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.
9560 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 13 And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going back, he stood on the bank of the Jordan;
9561 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 14 And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now the God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and Eliseus passed over.
9562 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 15 And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.
9563 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 16 And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.
9564 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 17 But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.
9565 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 18 And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say to you? Do not send.
9566 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 19 And the men of the city, said to Eliseus . Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.
9567 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 20 And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,
9568 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness.
9569 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 22 And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Eliseus, which he spoke.
9570 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 23 And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.
9571 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 24 And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of them, two and forty boys.
9572 2 Kings 2Ki 12 2 25 And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
9573 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 1 And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.
9574 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 2 And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.
9575 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 3 Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.
9576 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 4 Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with their fleeces.
9577 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 5 And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with the king of Israel.
9578 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 6 And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all Israel.
9579 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 7 And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is revolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people: and my horses, thy horses.
9580 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 8 And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the desert of Edom.
9581 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 9 So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was no water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.
9582 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 10 And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath gathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab.
9583 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 11 And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water on the hands of Elias.
9584 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 12 And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down to him.
9585 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 13 And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three kings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab?
9586 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 14 And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.
9587 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 15 But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:
9588 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 16 Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.
9589 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 17 For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts.
9590 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 18 And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he will deliver, also, Moab into your hands.
9591 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 19 And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.
9592 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 20 And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
9593 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 21 And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight against them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon them, and stood in the borders.
9594 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 22 And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them red, like blood,
9595 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 23 And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have fought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to the spoils.
9596 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 24 And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up, defeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went and smote Moab.
9597 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 25 And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.
9598 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 26 And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had prevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break in upon the king of Edom: but they could not.
9599 2 Kings 2Ki 12 3 27 Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there was great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and returned into their own country.
9600 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.
9601 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 2 And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid, have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.
9602 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 3 And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.
9603 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 4 And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.
9604 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 5 So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.
9605 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 6 And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.
9606 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 7 And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.
9607 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 8 And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.
9608 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 9 And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.
9609 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 10 Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may abide there.
9610 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 11 Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the chamber, and rested there.
9611 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 12 And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him,
9612 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 13 He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.
9613 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 14 And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.
9614 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 15 Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,
9615 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 16 He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
9616 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 17 And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.
9617 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 18 And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,
9618 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 19 He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.
9619 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.
9620 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 21 And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,
9621 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 22 She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
9622 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.
9623 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 24 And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.
9624 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 25 So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.
9625 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 26 Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well.
9626 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
9627 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 28 And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?
9628 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 29 Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
9629 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 30 But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.
9630 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 31 But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.
9631 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 32 Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed:
9632 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 33 And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.
9633 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child’s flesh grew warm.
9634 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 35 Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes.
9635 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 36 And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.
9636 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 37 She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out.
9637 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 38 And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
9638 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 39 And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the pot of pottage; for he knew not what it was.
9639 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 40 And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they had tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat thereof.
9640 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 41 But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.
9641 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 42 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.
9642 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 43 And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.
9643 2 Kings 2Ki 12 4 44 So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left, according to the word of the Lord.
9644 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 1 Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.
9645 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 2 Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman’s wife.
9646 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 3 And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath.
9647 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 4 Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and thus said the girl from the land of Israel.
9648 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 5 And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment;
9649 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 6 And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy.
9650 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.
9651 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 8 And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9652 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus:
9653 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 10 And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt be clean.
9654 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 11 Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.
9655 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 12 Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,
9656 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 13 His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean?
9657 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 14 Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.
9658 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 15 And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a blessing of thy servant.
9659 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 16 But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.
9660 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 17 And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me, thy servant, to take from hence two mules’ burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.
9661 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 18 But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for thy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy servant, for this thing.
9662 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 19 And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.
9663 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 20 But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him.
9664 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 21 And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well?
9665 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 22 And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
9666 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 23 And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he forced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried them before him.
9667 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 24 And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, and they departed.
9668 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.
9669 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 26 But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back, from his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants.
9670 2 Kings 2Ki 12 5 27 But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.
9671 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 1 And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
9672 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 2 Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.
9673 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 3 And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.
9674 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 4 So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
9675 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 5 And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.
9676 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 6 And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the place: Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the iron swam.
9677 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 7 And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand, and took it.
9678 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 8 And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.
9679 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.
9680 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 10 And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice.
9681 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 11 And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel?
9682 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 12 And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.
9683 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 13 And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.
9684 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 14 Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.
9685 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 15 And the servant of the man of God, rising early went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?
9686 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 16 But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with them.
9687 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 17 And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.
9688 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 18 And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.
9689 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 19 And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led them into Samaria.
9690 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 20 And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.
9691 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 21 And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?
9692 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 22 And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
9693 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 23 And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate and drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
9694 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 24 And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
9695 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons’ dung, for five pieces of silver.
9696 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.
9697 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 27 And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:
9698 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 28 This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
9699 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.
9700 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 30 When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.
9701 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 31 And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add more, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him this day.
9702 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 32 But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off my head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master’s feet is behind him.
9703 2 Kings 2Ki 12 6 33 While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?
9704 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 1 And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.
9705 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 2 Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
9706 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 3 Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?
9707 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 4 If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die.
9708 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 5 So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp. And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found no man there.
9709 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 6 For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one to another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.
9710 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 7 Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their tents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to save their lives.
9711 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 8 So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came again, and went into another tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and hid it.
9712 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 9 Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day of good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the morning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it in the king’s court.
9713 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 10 So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses, and asses tied, and the tents standing.
9714 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 11 Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king’s palace.
9715 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 12 And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and then we may get into the city.
9716 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 13 And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and see.
9717 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 14 They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.
9718 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 15 And they went after them, as far as the Jordan: and behold, all the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away, in their fright, and the messengers returned, and told the king.
9719 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 16 And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a bushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, according to the word of the Lord.
9720 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 17 And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to stand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down to him.
9721 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 18 And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.
9722 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 19 When that lord answered the man of God, and said: Although the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which thou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.
9723 2 Kings 2Ki 12 7 20 And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
9724 2 Kings 2Ki 8:1.And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.
9725 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 2 And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
9726 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 3 And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands.
9727 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 4 And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.
9728 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 5 And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to life, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to the king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.
9729 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 6 And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this present.
9730 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 7 Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was sick; and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.
9731 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 8 And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to meet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?
9732 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 9 And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood before him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?
9733 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 10 And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
9734 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 11 And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and the man of God wept.
9735 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 12 And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women.
9736 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 13 And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king of Syria.
9737 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 14 And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who said to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me: Thou shalt recover.
9738 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 15 And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it, and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.
9739 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 16 In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of Josaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.
9740 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 17 He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
9741 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 18 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
9742 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 19 But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant’s sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.
9743 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 20 In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made themselves a king.
9744 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 21 And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.
9745 2 Kings 2Ki 8.22. So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna also revolted at the same time.
9746 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 23 But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9747 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.
9748 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 25 In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel, reigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.
9749 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 26 Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.
9750 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 27 And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of the house of Achab.
9751 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 28 He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:
9752 2 Kings 2Ki 12 8 29 And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians had wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria And Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram, the son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.
9753 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 1 And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.
9754 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 2 And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi: and going in, thou shalt make him rise up from amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.
9755 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 3 Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay there.
9756 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 4 So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth Galaad,
9757 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 5 And went in thither: and behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said: Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince.
9758 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 6 And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil upon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have anointed thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.
9759 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 7 And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab, thy master, and I will revenge the blood of my servants, the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel.
9760 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 8 And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from Achab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the meanest in Israel.
9761 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 9 And I will make the house of Achab, like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias.
9762 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 10 And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the field of Jezrahel, and there shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled.
9763 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 11 Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his lord: and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he said.
9764 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 12 But they answered: It is false; but rather do thou tell us. And he said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.
9765 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 13 Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.
9766 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 14 So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of Namsi, conspired against Joram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel, fighting with Hazael, king of Syria:
9767 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 15 And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.
9768 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 16 And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for Joram was sick there, and Ochozias king of Juda, was come down to visit Joram.
9769 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 17 The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well?
9770 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 18 So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith the king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do with peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The messenger came to them, but he returneth not.
9771 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 19 And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and said: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.
9772 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 20 And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but returneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Namsi; for he drives furiously.
9773 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 21 And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his chariot: and Joram, king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.
9774 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy mother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour.
9775 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 23 And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There is treachery, Ochozias.
9776 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 24 But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he fell in his chariot.
9777 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 25 And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him into the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and thou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man’s father, that the Lord laid this burden upon him, saying:
9778 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 26 If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.
9779 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 27 But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the garden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.
9780 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 28 And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the city of David.
9781 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 29 In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda;
9782 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 30 And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, hearing of his coming in, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked out of a window.
9783 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 31 At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for Zambri, that hath killed his master?
9784 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 32 And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.
9785 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 33 And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the horses trod upon her.
9786 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 34 And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king’s daughter.
9787 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 35 And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.
9788 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 36 And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel.
9789 2 Kings 2Ki 12 9 37 And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the earth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is this that same Jezabel?
9790 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 1 And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and to them that brought up Achab’s children, saying:
9791 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 2 As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master’s sons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour,
9792 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 3 Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for the house of your master.
9793 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?
9794 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 5 Therefore they that were over the king’s house, and the rulers of the city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us we will do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth thee.
9795 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 6 And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.
9796 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 7 And when the letters came to them, they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.
9797 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 8 And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the entering in of the gate until the morning.
9798 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 9 And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the people: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him; who hath slain all these?
9799 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 10 See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any of the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Achab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his servant Elias.
9800 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 11 So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till there were no remains left of him.
9801 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 12 And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the shepherds’ cabin in the way,
9802 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 13 He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king of Juda, and he said to them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of Ochozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.
9803 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 14 And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and killed them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not any of them.
9804 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 15 And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab, the son of Rechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is. If it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he lifted him up to him into the chariot,
9805 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 16 And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,
9806 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 17 And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of Achab, in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Elias.
9807 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 18 And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.
9808 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
9809 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 20 And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,
9810 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 21 And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants of Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went into the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end to the other.
9811 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 22 And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth garments.
9812 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 23 And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab, went to the temple of Baal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there be not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the servants of Baal only.
9813 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but Jehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him go, shall answer life for life.
9814 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 25 And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that Jehu commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them: let none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge of the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the temple of Baal,
9815 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 26 And brought the statue out of Baal’s temple, and burnt it,
9816 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 27 And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.
9817 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 28 So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:
9818 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 29 But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that were in Bethel, and Dan.
9819 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 30 And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.
9820 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.
9821 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 32 In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,
9822 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 33 From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and Ruben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and Galaad, and Basan.
9823 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 34 But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his strength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9824 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead.
9825 2 Kings 2Ki 12 10 36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight and twenty years.
9826 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 1 Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.
9827 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 2 But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the face of Athalia; so that he was not slain.
9828 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 3 And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.
9829 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 4 And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the king’s son:
9830 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 5 And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.
9831 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 6 Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch of the king’s house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.
9832 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 7 But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
9833 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 8 And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.
9834 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 9 And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the priest, had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went in on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to Joiada, the priest.
9835 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 10 And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which were in the house of the Lord.
9836 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 11 And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands, from the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and of the temple, about the king.
9837 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 12 And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands, they said: God save the king.
9838 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 13 And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in to the people into the temple of the Lord,
9839 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 14 She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.
9840 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 15 But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.
9841 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 16 And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.
9842 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 17 And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the king and the people.
9843 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 18 And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and broke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly: they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the priest set guards in the house of the Lord.
9844 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 19 And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.
9845 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king’s house.
9846 2 Kings 2Ki 12 11 21 Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.
9847 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.
9848 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 2 And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught him.
9849 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 3 But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
9850 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 4 And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:
9851 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 5 Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.
9852 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 6 Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.
9853 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 7 And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.
9854 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 8 And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.
9855 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 9 And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.
9856 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 10 And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king’s scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.
9857 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 11 And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the house of the Lord,
9858 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 12 And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house.
9859 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 13 But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord:
9860 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 14 For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.
9861 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 15 And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.
9862 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 16 But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.
9863 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 17 Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth, and took it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
9864 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 18 Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king’s palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.
9865 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 19 And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9866 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 20 And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew Joas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella.
9867 2 Kings 2Ki 12 12 21 For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his stead.
9868 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 1 In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias, king of Juda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, seventeen years.
9869 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 2 And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not from them.
9870 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 3 And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.
9871 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 4 But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them:
9872 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 5 And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out of the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their pavilions as yesterday and the day before.
9873 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 6 But yet they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a grove also in Samaria.
9874 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 7 And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had slain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the barnfloor.
9875 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 8 But the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his valour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9876 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 9 And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead.
9877 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 10 In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz reigned over Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years.
9878 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 11 And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; but he walked in them.
9879 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 12 But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his valour wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9880 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 13 And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.
9881 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 14 Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas, king of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof.
9882 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 15 And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows. And when he had brought him a bow and arrows,
9883 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 16 He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And when he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king’s hands,
9884 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 17 And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.
9885 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 18 And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times, and stood still.
9886 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to utter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.
9887 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 20 And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.
9888 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 21 And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones of Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet.
9889 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 22 Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of Joachaz.
9890 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 23 And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present time.
9891 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 24 And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Benadad, his son, reigned in his stead.
9892 2 Kings 2Ki 12 13 25 Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of Joachaz, his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him, and he restored the cities to Israel.
9893 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 1 In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel, reigned Amasias son of Joas, king of Juda.
9894 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 2 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine and twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was Joadan, of Jerusalem.
9895 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 3 And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father, did:
9896 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 4 But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:
9897 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 5 And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king, his father.
9898 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 6 But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.
9899 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men, and took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto this day.
9900 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 8 Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.
9901 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 9 And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.
9902 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 10 Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?
9903 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 11 But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in Bethsames, a town in Juda.
9904 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 12 And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.
9905 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 13 But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem; and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.
9906 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s treasures, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
9907 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 15 But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9908 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 16 And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.
9909 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 17 And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the death of Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.
9910 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 18 And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9911 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.
9912 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 20 And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.
9913 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 21 And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.
9914 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.
9915 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 23 In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and forty years:
9916 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 24 And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
9917 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 25 He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, unto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.
9918 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 26 For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was exceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were shut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to help Israel.
9919 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 27 And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the son of Joas.
9920 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 28 But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath to Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9921 2 Kings 2Ki 12 14 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and Zacharias, his son, reigned in his stead.
9922 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 1 In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda.
9923 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia, of Jerusalem.
9924 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 3 And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father, Amasias, had done.
9925 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 4 But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.
9926 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 5 And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king’s son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.
9927 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 6 And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9928 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 7 And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his stead.
9929 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 8 In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Zacharias, son of Jeroboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months:
9930 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 9 And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
9931 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 10 And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired against him: and struck him publicly, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
9932 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 11 Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9933 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 12 This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.
9934 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 13 Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda: and reigned one month in Samaria.
9935 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 14 And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came into Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
9936 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 15 And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy which he made, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9937 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 16 Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.
9938 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Manahem, son of Gadi, over Israel, ten years, in Samaria.
9939 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 18 And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, all his days.
9940 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 19 And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom.
9941 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 20 And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and rich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of silver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in the land.
9942 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 21 And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9943 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 22 And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son, reigned in his stead.
9944 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 23 In the fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phaceia, the son of Manahem, over Israel, in Samaria, two years.
9945 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 24 And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
9946 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 25 And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king’s house, near Argob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the Galaadites, and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
9947 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 26 And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9948 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phacee, the son of Romelia, over Israel, in Samaria, twenty years.
9949 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 28 And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.
9950 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 29 In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.
9951 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 30 Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.
9952 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 31 But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
9953 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 32 In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel, reigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda.
9954 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 33 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of Sadoc.
9955 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 34 And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.
9956 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 35 But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.
9957 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 36 But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9958 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 37 In those days the Lord began to send into Juda, Rasin king of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.
9959 2 Kings 2Ki 12 15 38 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his stead.
9960 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 1 In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of Romelia reigned Achaz, the son of Joatham, king of Juda.
9961 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 2 Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father.
9962 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according to the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
9963 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
9964 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 5 Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but were not able to overcome him.
9965 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 6 At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and dwelt there unto this day.
9966 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 7 And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are risen up together against me.
9967 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 8 And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could be found in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s treasures, he sent it for a present to the king of the Assyrians.
9968 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 9 And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went up against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabitants thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.
9969 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 10 And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof.
9970 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 11 And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus.
9971 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice;
9972 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 13 And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace offerings, which he had offered, upon the altar.
9973 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 14 But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar towards the north.
9974 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 15 And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the great altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and the king’s holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole people of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt pour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.
9975 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 16 So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him.
9976 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 17 And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.
9977 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 18 The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the temple, and the king’s entry from without, he turned into the temple of the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.
9978 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 19 Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
9979 2 Kings 2Ki 12 16 20 And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead.
9980 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 1 In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.
9981 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 2 And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.
9982 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 3 Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute.
9983 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 4 And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring to rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.
9984 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 5 And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.
9985 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 6 And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
9986 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 7 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.
9987 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 8 And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.
9988 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 9 And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9989 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 10 And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:
9990 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 11 And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.
9991 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 12 And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.
9992 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 13 And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.
9993 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 14 And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God.
9994 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 15 And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
9995 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 16 And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal,
9996 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 17 And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.
9997 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 18 And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.
9998 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 19 But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.
9999 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 20 And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his face:
10000 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 21 Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.
10001 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,
10002 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 23 Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants, the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of their land to Assyria, unto this day.
10003 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 24 And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
10004 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 25 And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.
10005 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 26 And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
10006 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 27 And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.
10007 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 28 So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.
10008 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 29 And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt.
10009 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 30 For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.
10010 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 31 And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
10011 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 32 And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places.
10012 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 33 And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria:
10013 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 34 Unto this day they follow the old manner: they fear not the Lord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he surnamed Israel:
10014 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 35 With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.
10015 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 36 But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.
10016 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 37 And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.
10017 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 38 And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange gods,
10018 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 39 But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
10019 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 40 But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old custom.
10020 2 Kings 2Ki 12 17 41 So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also their idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so do they unto this day.
10021 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 1 In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, reigned Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda.
10022 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 2 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zacharias.
10023 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 3 And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David, his father, had done
10024 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.
10025 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 5 He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him:
10026 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 6 And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
10027 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 7 Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which he went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.
10028 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 8 He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10029 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 9 In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,
10030 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 10 And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of Ezechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria was taken:
10031 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 11 And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
10032 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 12 Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do.
10033 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 13 In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.
10034 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 14 Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.
10035 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 15 And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s treasures.
10036 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 16 At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord, and the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to the king of the Assyrians.
10037 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 17 And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller’s field.
10038 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 18 And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
10039 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 19 And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein thou trustest?
10040 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 20 Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?
10041 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 21 Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.
10042 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 22 But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
10043 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 23 Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to have riders for them.
10044 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 24 And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master’s servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10045 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 25 Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it.
10046 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 26 Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.
10047 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 27 And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?
10048 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 28 Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.
10049 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 29 Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of my hand.
10050 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 30 Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
10051 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 31 Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own fig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,
10052 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 32 Till I come, and take you away, to a land, like to your own land, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall live, and not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.
10053 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 33 Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
10054 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 34 Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
10055 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 35 Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
10056 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.
10057 2 Kings 2Ki 12 18 37 And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Ezechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.
10058 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 1 And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
10059 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 2 And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and the ancients of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to Isaias, the prophet, the son of Amos.
10060 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 3 And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to the birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.
10061 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 4 It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the living God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord, thy God, hath heard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.
10062 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 5 So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.
10063 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 6 And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
10064 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 7 Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return into his own country, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own country.
10065 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 8 And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.
10066 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 9 And when he heard of Tharaca, king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is come out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:
10067 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 10 Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
10068 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone be delivered?
10069 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thelassar?
10070 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 13 Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava?
10071 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 14 And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,
10072 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 15 And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of the earth: thou madest heaven and earth:
10073 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 16 Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.
10074 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 17 Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.
10075 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 18 And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.
10076 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.
10077 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 20 And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians.
10078 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.
10079 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 22 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel.
10080 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 23 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.
10081 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 24 I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.
10082 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 25 Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins:
10083 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 26 And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.
10084 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 27 Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I knew before, and thy rage against me.
10085 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 28 Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
10086 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 29 And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
10087 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 30 And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
10088 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
10089 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.
10090 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 33 By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
10091 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 34 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David, my servant’s sake.
10092 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 35 And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.
10093 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 36 And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.
10094 2 Kings 2Ki 12 19 37 And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god, Adramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned in his stead.
10095 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 1 In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son of Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.
10096 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 2 And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying:
10097 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.
10098 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 4 And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying:
10099 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 5 Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.
10100 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant’s sake.
10101 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 7 And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.
10102 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 8 And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?
10103 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 9 And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?
10104 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 10 And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.
10105 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 11 And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down on the dial of Achaz.
10106 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 12 At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the Babylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that Ezechias had been sick.
10107 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 13 And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the house of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and divers precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not.
10108 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 14 And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon.
10109 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 15 And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They saw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
10110 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 16 And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.
10111 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 17 Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
10112 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 18 And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
10113 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 19 Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.
10114 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 20 And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
10115 2 Kings 2Ki 12 20 21 And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son reigned in his stead.
10116 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 1 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.
10117 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.
10118 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 3 And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.
10119 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.
10120 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.
10121 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 6 And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.
10122 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 7 He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
10123 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 8 And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them.
10124 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 9 But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
10125 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 10 And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:
10126 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 11 Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:
10127 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 12 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle.
10128 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.
10129 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 14 And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies.
10130 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 15 Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.
10131 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.
10132 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
10133 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 18 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in his stead.
10134 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 19 Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth, the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.
10135 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 20 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his father, had done.
10136 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 21 And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them.
10137 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 22 And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
10138 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 23 And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.
10139 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.
10140 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 25 But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
10141 2 Kings 2Ki 12 21 26 And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and his son, Josias, reigned in his stead.
10142 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 1 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.
10143 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.
10144 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 3 And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan, the son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the Lord, saying to him:
10145 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 4 Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.
10146 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 5 And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house of the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the temple of the Lord, to repair the temple:
10147 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 6 That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches: and that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair the temple of the Lord.
10148 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 7 But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which they receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.
10149 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 8 And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it.
10150 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 9 And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king, and brought him word again concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord: and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the overseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.
10151 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 10 And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, saying: Helcias, the priest, hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before the king,
10152 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 11 And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent his garments.
10153 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 12 And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of Saphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and Asaia, the king’s servant, saying:
10154 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 13 Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.
10155 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 14 So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Saphan, and Asaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.
10156 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 15 And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me:
10157 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 16 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read:
10158 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
10159 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 18 But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus shall you say: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as thou hast heard the words of the book,
10160 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 19 And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have heard thee; saith the Lord.
10161 2 Kings 2Ki 12 22 20 Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the evils which I will bring upon this place.
10162 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 1 And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.
10163 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 2 And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.
10164 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 3 And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.
10165 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 4 And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
10166 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 5 And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.
10167 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 6 And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people.
10168 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 7 He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.
10169 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 8 And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of the city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.
10170 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 9 However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10171 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter, through fire, to Moloch.
10172 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 11 And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire.
10173 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 12 And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron.
10174 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 13 The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.
10175 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
10176 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 15 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.
10177 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.
10178 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 17 And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of Bethel.
10179 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 18 And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his bones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out of Samaria.
10180 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 19 Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
10181 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, upon the altars; and he burnt men’s bones upon them: and returned to Jerusalem.
10182 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 21 And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.
10183 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 22 Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,
10184 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 23 As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.
10185 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 24 Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had been in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might perform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.
10186 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 25 There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there arise any like unto him.
10187 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 26 But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.
10188 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 27 And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.
10189 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
10190 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 29 In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.
10191 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 30 And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
10192 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 31 Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.
10193 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 32 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
10194 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 33 And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of Emath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon the land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
10195 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 34 And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.
10196 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 35 And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had taxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the commandment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every man according to his ability: to give to Pharao Nechao.
10197 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 36 Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida, the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.
10198 2 Kings 2Ki 12 23 37 And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done.
10199 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 1 In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.
10200 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 2 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.
10201 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 3 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;
10202 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.
10203 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 5 But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers:
10204 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 6 And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.
10205 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.
10206 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 8 Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta, the daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.
10207 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 9 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
10208 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 10 At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.
10209 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 11 And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.
10210 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 12 And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.
10211 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 13 And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.
10212 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.
10213 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 15 And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon.
10214 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 16 And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and the smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.
10215 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 17 And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.
10216 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 18 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.
10217 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 19 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.
10218 2 Kings 2Ki 12 24 20 For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till he cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.
10219 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it.
10220 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 2 And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias,
10221 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 3 The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
10222 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 4 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king’s garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.
10223 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him:
10224 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 6 So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.
10225 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 7 And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out his eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.
10226 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 8 In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
10227 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 9 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every house he burnt with fire.
10228 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
10229 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 11 And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.
10230 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 12 But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.
10231 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
10232 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 14 They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.
10233 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 15 Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold in gold: and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army took away.
10234 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 16 That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
10235 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 17 One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass, which was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of brass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.
10236 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 18 And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and Sophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:
10237 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 19 And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of war: and five men of them who had stood before the king, whom he found in the city, and Sopher, the captain of the army, who exercised the young soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the common people, who were found in the city:
10238 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 20 These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and carried them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
10239 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha, in the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.
10240 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 22 But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to Godolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.
10241 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 23 And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had made Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son of Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of Thanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they and their men.
10242 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 24 And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not afraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
10243 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men with him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.
10244 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 26 And all the people, both little and great, and the captains of the soldiers, rising up, went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.
10245 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out of prison.
10246 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 28 And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
10247 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 29 And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate bread always before him, all the days of his life.
10248 2 Kings 2Ki 12 25 30 And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given him by the king, day by day, all the days of his life.
10249 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 1 Adam, Seth, Enos,
10250 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 2 Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,
10251 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 3 Henoc, Mathusale, Lamech,
10252 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 4 Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
10253 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, Thubal, Mosoch, Thiras.
10254 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 6 And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and Riphath, and Thogorma.
10255 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 7 And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.
10256 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 8 The sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesrai, and Phut, and Chanaan.
10257 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 9 And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabathaca. And the sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
10258 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 10 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty upon earth.
10259 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 11 But Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Laabim, and Nephtuim,
10260 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 12 Phetrusim also, and Casluim: from whom came the Philistines, and Caphtorim.
10261 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 13 And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and the Hethite,
10262 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 14 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite,
10263 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 15 And the Hevite, and the Aracite, and the Sinite,
10264 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 16 And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and the Hamathite.
10265 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 17 The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.
10266 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 18 And Arphaxad begot Sale, and Sale begot Heber.
10267 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 19 And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided; and the name of his brother was Jectan.
10268 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 20 And Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, and Jare,
10269 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 21 And Adoram, and Usal, and Decla,
10270 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 22 And Hebal, and Abimael, and Saba,
10271 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 23 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these are the sons of Jectan.
10272 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 24 Sem, Arphaxad, Sale,
10273 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 25 Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,
10274 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 26 Serug, Nachor, Thare,
10275 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 27 Abram, this is Abraham.
10276 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 28 And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ismahel.
10277 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 29 And these are the generations of them. The firstborn of Ismahel, Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,
10278 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 30 And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,
10279 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 31 Jetur, Naphis, Cedma: these are the sons of Ismahel.
10280 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 32 And the sons of Cetura, Abraham’s concubine, whom she bore: Zamran, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jecsan, Saba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim, and Latussim, and Laomin.
10281 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 33 And the sons of Madian: Epha, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa. All these are the sons of Cetura.
10282 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 34 And Abraham begot Isaac: and his sons were Esau and Israel.
10283 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rahuel, Jehus, Ihelom, and Core.
10284 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Theman, Omar, Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, and by Thamna, Amalec.
10285 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 37 The sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma, Meza.
10286 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Sobal, Sebeon, Ana, Dison, Eser, Disan.
10287 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam. And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.
10288 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 40 The sons of Sobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Sephi, and Onam. The sons of Sebeon: Aia, and Ana. The son of Ana: Dison.
10289 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 41 The sons of Dison: Hamram, and Eseban, and Jethran, and Charan.
10290 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 42 The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Jacan. The sons of Disan: Hus and Aran.
10291 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there was a king over the children of Israel: Bale the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Denaba.
10292 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 44 And Bale died, and Jobab the son of Zare of Bosra, reigned in his stead.
10293 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 45 And when Jobab also was dead, Husam of the land of the Themanites reigned in his stead.
10294 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 46 And Husam also died, and Adad the son of Badad reigned in his stead, and he defeated the Madianites in the land of Moab: the name of his city was Avith.
10295 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 47 And when Adad also was dead, Semla of Masreca reigned in his stead.
10296 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 48 Semla also died, and Saul of Rohoboth, which is near the river, reigned in his stead.
10297 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 49 And when Saul was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor reigned in his stead.
10298 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 50 He also died, and Adad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Phau, and his wife was called Meetabel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezaab.
10299 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 51 And after the death of Adad, there began to be dukes in Edom instead of kings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,
10300 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 52 Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,
10301 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 53 Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,
10302 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 1 54 Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram. These are the dukes of Edom.
10303 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 1 And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, and Zabulon,
10304 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and Aser.
10305 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 3 The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him of the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.
10306 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 4 And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were five.
10307 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 5 And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul.
10308 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 6 And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and Chalchal, and Dara, five in all.
10309 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 7 And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by the theft of the anathema.
10310 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 8 The sons of Ethan: Azarias,
10311 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 9 And the sons of Hesron that were born to him: Jerameel, and Ram, and Calubi.
10312 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 10 And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda.
10313 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 11 And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz.
10314 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 12 And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai.
10315 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 13 And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the third Simmaa,
10316 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 14 The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Raddai,
10317 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 15 The sixth Asom, the seventh David.
10318 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 16 And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab, and Asael, three.
10319 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 17 And Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ismahelite.
10320 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 18 And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife named Azuba, of whom he had Jerioth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.
10321 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 19 And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to wife Ephrata: who bore him Hur.
10322 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 20 And Hur begot Uri: and Uri begot Bezeleel.
10323 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 21 And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years old: and she bore him Segub.
10324 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 22 And Segub begot Jair, and he had three and twenty cities in the land of Galaad.
10325 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 23 And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and the villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir father of Galaad.
10326 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 24 And when Hesron was dead, Caleb went in to Ephrata. Hesron also had to wife Abia who bore him Ashur the father of Thecua.
10327 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 25 And the sons of Jerameel the firstborn of Hesron, were Ram his firstborn, and Buna, and Aram, and Asom, and Achia.
10328 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 26 And Jerameel married another wife, named Atara, who was the mother of Onam.
10329 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin, and Achar.
10330 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 28 And Onam had sons Semei, and Jada. And the sons of Semei: Nadab, and Abisur.
10331 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 29 And the name of Abisur’s wife was Abihail, who bore him Ahobban, and Molid.
10332 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 30 And the sons of Nadab were Saled and Apphaim. And Saled died without children.
10333 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 31 But the son of Apphaim was Jesi: and Jesi begot Sesan. And Sesan begot Oholai.
10334 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Semei: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether also died without children.
10335 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 33 But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and Ziza. These were the sons of Jerameel.
10336 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 34 And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and a servant an Egyptian, named Jeraa.
10337 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 35 And he gave him his daughter to wife: and she bore him Ethei.
10338 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 36 And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad.
10339 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 37 And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal begot Obed.
10340 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 38 Obed begot Jehu, Jehu begot Azarias.
10341 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 39 Azarias begot Helles, and Helles begot Elasa.
10342 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 40 Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot Sellum,
10343 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 41 Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia begot Elisama.
10344 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerameel were Mesa his firstborn, who was the father of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of Hebron.
10345 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 43 And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Thaphua, and Recem, and Samma.
10346 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 44 And Samma begot Raham, the father of Jercaam, and Recem begot Sammai.
10347 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 45 The son of Sammai, Maon: and Maon the father of Bethsur.
10348 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 46 And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez. And Haran begot Gezez.
10349 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 47 And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom, and Joathan, and Gesan, and Phalet, and Epha, and Saaph.
10350 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 48 And Maacha the concubine of Caleb bore Saber, and Tharana.
10351 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 49 And Saaph the father of Madmena begot Sue the father of Machbena, and the father of Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
10352 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur the firstborn of Ephrata, Sobal the father of Cariathiarim.
10353 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the father of Bethgader.
10354 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 52 And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half of the places of rest.
10355 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 53 And of the kindred of Cariathiarim, the Jethrites, and Aphuthites, and Semathites, and Maserites. Of them came the Saraites, and Esthaolites.
10356 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 54 The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the crowns of the house of Joab, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.
10357 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 2 55 And the families of the scribes that dwell in Jabes, singing and making melody, and abiding in tents. These are the Cinites, who came of Calor (Chamath) father of the house of Rechab.
10358 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 1 Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess.
10359 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 2 The third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tolmai king of Gessur, the fourth Adonias the son of Aggith,
10360 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 3 The fifth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth Jethrahem of Egla his wife.
10361 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 4 So six sons were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years.
10362 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 5 And these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of Ammiel.
10363 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 6 Jebaar also and Elisama,
10364 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 7 And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
10365 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 8 And Elisama, and Eliada, and Elipheleth, nine:
10366 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 9 All these the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines: and they had a sister Thamar.
10367 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 10 And Solomon’s son was Roboam: whose son Abia begot Asa. And his son was Josaphat,
10368 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 11 The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:
10369 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 12 And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias
10370 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 13 Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.
10371 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 14 And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias.
10372 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 15 And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.
10373 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 16 Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias.
10374 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 17 The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,
10375 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 18 Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and Jecemia, Sama, and Nadabia.
10376 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 19 Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Semei. Zorobabel begot Mosollam, Hananias, and Salomith their sister:
10377 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 20 Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and Hasadias, Josabhesed, five.
10378 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 21 And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the father of Jeseias, whose son was Raphaia. And his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia, whose son was Sechenias.
10379 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 22 The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose sons were Hattus, and Jegaal, and Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in number.
10380 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 23 The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.
10381 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 3 24 The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Eliasub, and Pheleia, and Accub, and Johanan, and Dalaia, and Anani, seven.
10382 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 1 The sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron, and Charmi and Hur, and Sobal.
10383 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 2 And Raia the son of Sobal begot Jahath, of whom were born Ahumai, and Laad. These are the families of Sarathi.
10384 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 3 And this is the posterity of Etam: Jezrahel, and Jesema, And Jedebos: and the name of their sister was Asalelphuni.
10385 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 4 And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and Ezar the father of Hosa, these are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratha the father of Bethlehem.
10386 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 5 And Assur the father of Thecua had two wives, Halaa and Naara:
10387 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 6 And Naara bore him Ozam, and Hepher, and Themani, and Ahasthari: these are the sons of Naara.
10388 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 7 And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and Ethnan.
10389 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 8 And Cos begot Anob, and Soboba, and the kindred of Aharehel the son of Arum.
10390 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 9 And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow.
10391 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 10 And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou wilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me, and thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the things he prayed for.
10392 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 11 And Caleb the brother of Sua begot Mahir, who was the father of Esthon.
10393 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 12 And Esthon begot Bethrapha, and Phesse, and Tehinna father of the city of Naas: these are the men of Recha.
10394 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 13 And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel, and Saraia. And the sons of Othoniel, Hathath, and Maonathi.
10395 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 14 Maonathi begot Ophra, and Saraia begot Joab the father of the Valley of artificers: for artificers were there.
10396 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephone, were Hir, and Ela, and Naham. And the sons of Ela: Cenez.
10397 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 16 The sons also of Jaleleel: Ziph, and Zipha, Thiria and Asrael.
10398 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 17 And the sons of Esra, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon, and he begot Mariam, and Sammai, and Jesba the father of Esthamo.
10399 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 18 And his wife Judaia, bore Jared the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Icuthiel the father of Zanoe. And these are the sons of Bethia the daughter of Pharao, whom Mered took to wife.
10400 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 19 And the sons of his wife Odaia the sister of Naham the father of Celia, Garmi, and Esthamo, who was of Machathi.
10401 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 20 The sons also of Simon, Amnon, and Rinna the son of Hanan, and Thilon. And the sons of Jesi Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
10402 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 21 The sons of Sela the son of Juda: Her the father of Lecha, and Laada the father of Maresa, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen in the House of oath.
10403 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 22 And he that made the sun to stand, and the men of Lying, and Secure, and Burning, who were princes in Moab, and who returned into Lahem. Now these are things of old.
10404 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 23 These are the potters, and they dwelt in Plantations, and Hedges, with the king for his works, and they abode there.
10405 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 24 The sons of Simeon: Namuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul:
10406 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 25 Sellum his son, Mapsam his son, Masma his son.
10407 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 26 The sons of Masma: Hamuel his son, Zachur his son, Semei his son.
10408 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 27 The sons of Semei were sixteen, and six daughters: but his brethren had not many sons, and the whole kindred could not reach to the sum of the children of Juda.
10409 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 28 And they dwelt in Bersabee, and Molada, and Hasarsuhal,
10410 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 29 And in Bala, and in Asom, and in Tholad,
10411 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 30 And in Bathuel, and in Horma, and in Siceleg,
10412 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 31 And in Bethmarchaboth, and in Hasarsusim, and in Bethberai, and in Saarim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
10413 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 32 Their towns also were Etam, and Aen, Remmon, and Thochen, and Asan, five cities.
10414 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 33 And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal. This was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings.
10415 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 34 And Mosabab and Jemlech, and Josa, the son of Amasias,
10416 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josabia the son of Saraia, the son of Asiel,
10417 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 36 And Elioenai, and Jacoba, and Isuhaia, and Asaia, and Adiel, and Ismiel, and Banaia,
10418 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 37 Ziza also the son of Sephei the son of Allon the son of Idaia the son of Semri the son of Samaia.
10419 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 38 These were named princes in their kindreds, and in the houses of their families were multiplied exceedingly.
10420 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 39 And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.
10421 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 40 And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.
10422 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 41 And these whose names are written above, came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the inhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat pastures.
10423 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 42 Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons of Jesi:
10424 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 4 43 And they slew the remnant of the Amalecites, who had been able to escape, and they dwelt there in their stead unto this day.
10425 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 1 Now the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was his firstborn: but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his first birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he was not accounted for the firstborn.
10426 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 2 But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren, came the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)
10427 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 3 The sons then of Ruben the firstborn of Israel were Enoch, and Phallu, Esron, and Charmi.
10428 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 4 The sons of Joel: Samaia his son, Gog his son, Semei his son,
10429 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 5 Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his son,
10430 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 6 Beera his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians carried away captive, and he was prince in the tribe of Ruben.
10431 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 7 And his brethren, and all his kindred, when they were numbered by their families, had for princes Jehiel, and Zacharias.
10432 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 8 And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of Samma, the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer as far as Nebo, and Beelmeon.
10433 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 9 And eastward he had his habitation as far as the entrance of the desert, and the river Euphrates. For they possessed a great number of cattle in the land of Galaad.
10434 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 10 And in the days of Saul they fought against the Agarites, and slew them, and dwelt in their tents in their stead, in all the country, that looketh to the east of Galaad.
10435 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Basan, as far as Selcha:
10436 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 12 Johel the chief, and Saphan the second: and Janai, and Saphat in Basan.
10437 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 13 And their brethren according to the houses of their kindreds, were Michael and Mosollam, and Sebe, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zie, and Heber, seven.
10438 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jara, the son of Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of Jesisi, the son of Jeddo, the son of Buz.
10439 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 15 And their brethren the sons of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house in their families,
10440 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 16 And they dwelt in Galaad, and in Basan and in the towns thereof, and in all the suburbs of Saron, unto the borders.
10441 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 17 All these were numbered in the days of Joathan king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
10442 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 18 The sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses, fighting men, bearing shields, and swords, and bending the bow, and trained up to battles, four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore that went out to war.
10443 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 19 They fought against the Agarites: but the Itureans, and Naphis, and Nodab,
10444 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 20 Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands, and all that were with them, because they called upon God in the battle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him.
10445 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 21 And they took all that they possessed, of camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand souls.
10446 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 22 And many fell down slain: for it was the battle of the Lord. And they dwelt in their stead till the captivity.
10447 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasses possessed the land, from the borders of Basan unto Baal, Hermon, and Sanir, and mount Hermon, for their number was great.
10448 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 24 And these were the heads of the house of their kindred, Epher, and Jesi, and Eliel, and Esriel, and Jeremia, and Odoia, and Jediel, most valiant and powerful men, and famous chiefs in their families.
10449 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 25 But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
10450 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 5 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phul king of the Assyrians. and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur: and he carried away Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, and brought them to Lahela, and to Habor, and to Ara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.
10451 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 1 The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.
10452 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 2 The sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel.
10453 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Mary. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
10454 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 4 Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phinees begot Abisue,
10455 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 5 And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci begot Ozi.
10456 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 6 Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias begot Maraioth.
10457 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 7 And Maraioth begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.
10458 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 8 Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achimaas.
10459 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 9 Achimaas begot Azarias, Azarias begot Johanan,
10460 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 10 Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly office in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.
10461 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 11 And Azarias begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.
10462 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 12 And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Sellum,
10463 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 13 Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot Azarias,
10464 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 14 Azarias begot Saraias, and Saraias begot Josedec.
10465 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 15 Now Josedec went out, when the Lord carried away Juda, and Jerusalem, by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.
10466 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 16 So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.
10467 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 17 And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.
10468 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 18 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel.
10469 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds of Levi according to their families.
10470 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 20 Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son, Zamma his son,
10471 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 21 Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son, Jethrai his son.
10472 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 22 The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core his son, Asir his son,
10473 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 23 Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his son,
10474 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 24 Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his son, Saul his son.
10475 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 25 The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth.
10476 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 26 And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son,
10477 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.
10478 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vasseni, and Abia.
10479 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 29 And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his son, Semei his son, Oza his son,
10480 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 30 Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his son.
10481 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 31 These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the ark was placed.
10482 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 32 And they ministered before the tabernacle of the testimony, with singing, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they stood according to their order in the ministry.
10483 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 33 And these are they that stood with their sons, of the sons of Caath, Hemam a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,
10484 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 34 The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,
10485 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 35 The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
10486 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 36 The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the son of Azarias, the son of Sophonias,
10487 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 37 The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,
10488 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 38 The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
10489 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, Asaph the son of Barachias, the son of Samaa.
10490 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 40 The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the, son of Melchia.
10491 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 41 The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the son of Adaia.
10492 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.
10493 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 43 The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.
10494 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 44 And the sons of Merari their brethren, on the left hand, Ethan the son of Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,
10495 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 45 The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the son of Helcias,
10496 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 46 The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the son of Somer,
10497 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 47 The son of Moholi, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
10498 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 48 Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.
10499 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 49 But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
10500 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his son, Abisue his son,
10501 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 51 Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,
10502 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 52 Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,
10503 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 53 Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.
10504 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 54 And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to wit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to them by lot.
10505 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:
10506 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 56 But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of Jephone.
10507 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,
10508 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 58 And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:
10509 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 59 Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.
10510 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities throughout their families were thirteen.
10511 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 61 And to the sons of Caath that remained of their kindred they gave out of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities in possession.
10512 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 62 And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephtali, and out of the tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.
10513 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 63 And to the sons of Merari by their families out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, they gave by lot twelve cities.
10514 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.
10515 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 65 And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.
10516 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 66 And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and the cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.
10517 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 67 And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,
10518 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 68 Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner,
10519 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 69 Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethremmon in like manner,
10520 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 70 And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner and its suburbs, Baalam and its suburbs, to wit, to them that were left of the family of the sons of Caath.
10521 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 71 And to the sons of Gersom, out of the kindred of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its suburbs.
10522 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 72 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its suburbs, and Dabereth with its suburbs;
10523 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 73 Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs.
10524 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 74 And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with its suburbs, and Abdon in like manner;
10525 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 75 Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with its suburbs.
10526 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 76 And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee and its suburbs, Hamon with its suburbs, and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.
10527 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 77 And to the sons of Merari that remained: out of the tribe of Zabulon, Remmono and its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.
10528 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 78 Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;
10529 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 79 Cademoth also and its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
10530 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 80 Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad and its suburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs;
10531 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 6 81 Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
10532 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 1 Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron, four.
10533 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 2 The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jemai, and Jebsem, and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the posterity of Thola were numbered in the days of David, two and twenty thousand six hundred most valiant men.
10534 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 3 The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born Michael, and Obadia, and Joel, and Jesia, five all great men.
10535 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 4 And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and thirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives and children.
10536 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 5 Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were numbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war.
10537 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 6 The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.
10538 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 7 The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial, and Jerimoth and Urai, five chiefs of their families, and most valiant warriors, and their number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
10539 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 8 And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath: all these were the sons of Bechor.
10540 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 9 And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred.
10541 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 10 And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the sons of Balan: Jehus and Benjamin, and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, and Ahisahar.
10542 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 11 All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most valiant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fifty to go out to war.
10543 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 12 Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of Aher.
10544 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 13 And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Sellum, sons of Bala.
10545 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 14 And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his concubine the Syrian bore Machir the father of Galaad.
10546 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 15 And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he had a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and Salphaad had daughters.
10547 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 16 And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Phares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam and Recen.
10548 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 17 And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses.
10549 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 18 And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and Mohola.
10550 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 19 And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.
10551 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 20 And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala, Bared his son, Thahath his son, Elada his son, Thahath his son, and his son Zabad,
10552 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 21 And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of Geth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their possessions.
10553 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
10554 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 23 And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:
10555 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 24 And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the upper, and Ozensara.
10556 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 25 And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and Thale, of whom was born Thaan,
10557 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 26 Who begot Laadan: and his son was Ammiud, who begot Elisama,
10558 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 27 Of whom was born Nun, who had Josue for his son.
10559 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 28 And their possessions and habitations were Bethel with her daughters, and eastward Noran, and westward Gazer and her daughters, Sichem also with her daughters, as far as Asa with her daughters.
10560 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 29 And by the borders of the sons of Manasses Bethsan and her daughters, Thanach and her daughters, Mageddo and her daughters: Dor and her daughters: in these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of Israel.
10561 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 30 The children of Aser were Jemna, and Jesua, and Jessui, and Baria, and Sara their sister.
10562 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 31 And the sons of Baria: Haber, and Melchiel: he is the father of Barsaith.
10563 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 32 And Heber begot Jephlat, and Somer, and Hotham, and Suaa their sister.
10564 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 33 The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and Chamaal, and Asoth: these are the sons of Jephlat.
10565 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 34 And the sons of Somer: Ahi, and Roaga and Haba, and Aram.
10566 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 35 And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha, and Jemna, and Selles, and Amal.
10567 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 36 The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.
10568 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 37 Bosor and Hod, and Samma, and Salusa, and Jethran, and Bera.
10569 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 38 The sons of Jether: Jephone, and Phaspha, and Ara.
10570 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 39 And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia.
10571 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 7 40 All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and most valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of the age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.
10572 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 1 Now Benjamin begot Bale his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the third,
10573 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 2 Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
10574 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 3 And the sons of Bale were Addar, and Gera, and Abiud,
10575 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 4 And Abisue, and Naaman, and Ahoe,
10576 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 5 And Gera, and Sephuphan, and Huram.
10577 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 6 These are the sons of Ahod, heads of families that dwelt in Gabaa, who were removed into Manahath.
10578 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 7 And Naaman, and Achia, and Gera he removed them, and begot Oza, and Ahiud.
10579 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 8 And Saharim begot in the land of Moab, after he sent away Husim and Bara his wives.
10580 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 9 And he begot of Hodes his wife Jobab, and Sebia, and Mosa, and Molchom,
10581 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 10 And Jehus and Sechia, and Marma. These were his sons heads of their families.
10582 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 11 And Mehusim begot Abitob, and Elphaal.
10583 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 12 And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and Misaam, and Samad: who built Ono, and Lod, and its daughters.
10584 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 13 And Baria, and Sama were heads of their kindreds that dwelt in Aialon: these drove away the inhabitants of Geth.
10585 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 14 And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,
10586 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 15 And Zabadia, and Arod, and Heder,
10587 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 16 And Michael, and Jespha, and Joha, the sons of Baria.
10588 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 17 And Zabadia, and Mosollam, and Hezeci, and Heber,
10589 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 18 And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab, sons of Elphaal,
10590 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 19 And Jacim, and Zechri, and Zabdi,
10591 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 20 And Elioenai, and Selethai, and Elial,
10592 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 21 And Adaia, and Baraia, and Samareth, the sons of Semei.
10593 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 22 And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,
10594 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 23 And Abdon, and Zechri, and Hanan,
10595 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 24 And Hanania, and Elam, and Anathothia.
10596 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 25 And Jephdaia, and Phanuel the sons of Sesac.
10597 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 26 And Samsari, and Sohoria and Otholia,
10598 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 27 And Jersia, and Elia, and Zechri, the sons of Jeroham.
10599 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 28 These were the chief fathers, and heads of their families who dwelt in Jerusalem.
10600 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 29 And at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon, and the name of his wife was Maacha:
10601 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and Nadab,
10602 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher, and Macelloth:
10603 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 32 And Macelloth begot Samaa: and they dwelt over against their brethren in Jerusalem with their brethren.
10604 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 33 And Ner begot Cis and Cis begot Saul. And Saul begot Jonathan and Melchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.
10605 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 34 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot Micha.
10606 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 35 And the sons of Micha were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.
10607 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 36 And Ahaz begot Joada: and Joada begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and Zamri: and Zamri begot Mosa,
10608 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 37 And Mosa begot Banaa, whose son was Rapha, of whom was born Elasa, who begot Asel.
10609 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 38 And Asel had six sons whose names were Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel, Saria, Obdia, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Asel.
10610 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 39 And the sons of Esec, his brother, were Ulam the firstborn, and Jehus the second, and Eliphalet the third.
10611 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 8 40 And the sons of Ulam were most valiant men, and archers of great strength: and they had many sons and grandsons, even to a hundred and fifty. All these were children of Benjamin.
10612 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 1 And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
10613 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 2 Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.
10614 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Juda, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and of Manasses.
10615 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 4 Othei the son of Ammiud, the son of Amri, the son of Omrai, the son of Bonni of the sons of Phares the son of Juda.
10616 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 5 And of Siloni: Asaia the firstborn, and his sons.
10617 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 6 And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
10618 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Salo the son of Mosollam, the son of Oduia, the son of Asana:
10619 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 8 And Jobania the son of Jeroham: and Ela the son of Ozi, the son of Mochori and Mosallam the son of Saphatias, the son of Rahuel, the son of Jebania:
10620 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 9 And their brethren by their families, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of their families, by the houses of their fathers.
10621 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 10 And of the priests: Jedaia, Joiarib, and Jachin:
10622 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 11 And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high priest of the house of God.
10623 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 12 And Adaias the son of Jeroham, the son of Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jezra, the son of Mosollam, the son of Mosollamith, the son of Emmer.
10624 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 13 And their brethren heads in their families a thousand seven hundred and threescore, very strong and able men for the work of the ministry in the house of God.
10625 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 14 And of the Levites: Semeia the son of Hassub the son of Ezricam, the son of Hasebia of the sons of Merari.
10626 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 15 And Bacbacar the carpenter, and Galal, and Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zechri the son of Asaph:
10627 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 16 And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son of Galal, the son of Idithum: and Barachia the son of Asa, the son of Elcana, who dwelt in the suburbs of Netophati.
10628 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 17 And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman: and their brother Sellum was the prince,
10629 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 18 Until that time, in the king’s gate eastward, the sons of Levi waited by their turns.
10630 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 19 But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, with his brethren and his father’s house, the Corites were over the works of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their families in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord.
10631 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 20 And Phinees the son of Eleazar, was their prince before the Lord,
10632 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 21 And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia, was porter of the gate of the tabernacle of the testimony:
10633 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 22 All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.
10634 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 23 As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the Lord, and the tabernacle by their turns.
10635 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 24 In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the east, and west, and north, and south.
10636 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 25 And their brethren dwelt in villages, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.
10637 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 26 To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.
10638 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 27 And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.
10639 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 28 And some of their stock had the charge of the vessels for the ministry: for the vessels were both brought in and carried out by number.
10640 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 29 Some of them also had the instruments of the sanctuary committed unto them, and the charge of the fine flour, and wine, and oil, and frankincense, and spices.
10641 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 30 And the sons of the priests made the ointments of the spices.
10642 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 31 And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn of Sellum the Corite, was overseer of such things as were fried in the fryingpan.
10643 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 32 And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the loaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.
10644 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 33 These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might serve continually day and night in their ministry.
10645 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 34 The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
10646 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 35 And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of Gabaon, and the name of his wife was Maacha:
10647 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 36 His firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
10648 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 37 Gedor also, and Ahio, and Zacharias, and Macelloth.
10649 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 38 And Macelloth begot Samaan: these dwelt over against their brethren in Jerusalem, with their brethren.
10650 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 39 Now Ner begot Cis: and Cis begot Saul: and Saul begot Jonathan and Melchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.
10651 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 40 And the son of Jonathan, was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot Micha.
10652 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 41 And the sons of Micha, were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.
10653 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 42 And Ahaz begot Jara, and Jara begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and Zamri. And Zamri begot Mosa.
10654 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 43 And Mosa begot Banaa: whose son Raphaia begot Elasa: of whom was born Asel.
10655 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 9 44 And Asel had six sons whose names are, Ezricam Bochru, Ismahel, Saria, Obdia, Hanan: these are the sons of Asel.
10656 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down wounded in mount Gelboe.
10657 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 2 And the Philistines drew near pursuing after Saul, and his sons, and they killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul.
10658 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 3 And the battle grew hard against Saul and the archers reached him, and wounded him with arrows.
10659 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 4 And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would not, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
10660 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 5 And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died.
10661 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house fell together.
10662 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 7 And when the men of Israel, that dwelt in the plains, saw this, they fled: and Saul and his sons being dead, they forsook their cities, and were scattered up and down: and the Philistines came, and dwelt in them.
10663 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 8 And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.
10664 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 9 And when they had stripped him, and cut off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.
10665 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 10 And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and his head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.
10666 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 11 And when the men of Jabes Galaad had heard this, to wit, all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
10667 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 12 All the valiant men of them arose, and took the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and brought them to Jabes, and buried their bones under the oak that was in Jabes, and they fasted seven days.
10668 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 13 So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch,
10669 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 10 14 And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David the son of Isai.
10670 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.
10671 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 2 Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over them.
10672 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 3 So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him king over Israel according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in the hand of Samuel.
10673 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.
10674 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David: Thou shalt not come in here. But David took the castle of Sion, which is the city of David.
10675 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 6 And he said: Whosoever shall first strike the Jebusites, shall be the head and chief captain. And Joab the son of Sarvia went up first, and was made the general.
10676 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 7 And David dwelt in the castle, and therefore it was called the city of David,
10677 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 8 And he built the city round about from Mello all round, and Joab built the rest of the city.
10678 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 9 And David went on growing and increasing, and the Lord of hosts was with him.
10679 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 10 These are the chief of the valiant men of David, who helped him to be made king over all Israel, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Israel.
10680 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 11 And this is the number of the heroes of David: Jesbaam the son of Hachamoni the chief among the thirty: he lifted up his spear against three hundred wounded by him at one time.
10681 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 12 And after him was Eleazar his uncle’s son the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
10682 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 13 He was with David in Phesdomim, when the Philistines were gathered to that place to battle: and the field of that country was full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.
10683 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 14 But these men stood in the midst of the field, and defended it: and they slew the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliverance to his people.
10684 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 15 And three of the thirty captains went down to the rock, wherein David was, to the cave of Odollam, when the Philistines encamped in the valley of Raphaim.
10685 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 16 And David was in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines in Bethlehem.
10686 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 17 And David longed, and said: O that some man would give me water of the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate.
10687 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 18 And these three broke through the midst of the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, which was in the gate, and brought it to David to drink: and he would not drink of it, but rather offered it to the Lord,
10688 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 19 Saying: God forbid that I should do this in the sight of my God, and should drink the blood of these men: for with the danger of their lives they have brought me the water. And therefore he would not drink. These things did the three most valiant.
10689 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 20 And Abisai the brother of Joab, he was chief of three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew, and he was renowned among the three,
10690 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 21 And illustrious among the second three, and their captain: but yet he attained not to the first three.
10691 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 22 Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of Cabseel, who had done many acts: he slew the two ariels of Moab: and he went down, and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in the time of snow.
10692 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 23 And he slew an Egyptian, whose stature was of five cubits, and who had a spear like a weaver’s beam: and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked away the spear, that he held in his hand, and slew him with his own spear.
10693 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 24 These things did Banaias the son of Joiada, who was renowned among the three valiant ones,
10694 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 25 And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained not: and David made him of his council.
10695 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 26 Moreover the most valiant men of the army, were Asahel brother of Joab, and Elchanan the son of his uncle of Bethlehem,
10696 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 27 Sammoth an Arorite, Helles a Phalonite,
10697 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 28 Ira the son of Acces a Thecuite, Abiezer an Anathothite,
10698 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 29 Sobbochai a Husathite, Ilai an Ahohite,
10699 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 30 Maharai a Netophathite, Heled the son of Baana a Netophathite,
10700 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 31 Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the sons of Benjamin, Banai a Pharathonite,
10701 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 32 Hurai of the torrent Gaas, Abiel an Arbathite, Azmoth a Bauramite, Eliaba a Salabonite,
10702 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 33 The sons of Assem a Gezonite, Jonathan the son of Sage an Ararite,
10703 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 34 Ahiam the son of Sachar an Ararite,
10704 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 35 Eliphal the son of Ur,
10705 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 36 Hepher a Mecherathite, Ahia a Phelonite,
10706 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 37 Hesro a Carmelite, Naarai the son of Azbai,
10707 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibahar the son of Agarai.
10708 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 39 Selec an Ammonite, Naharai a Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Sarvia.
10709 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 40 Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,
10710 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 41 Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of Oholi,
10711 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 42 Adina the son of Siza a Rubenite the prince of the Rubenites, and thirty with him:
10712 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 43 Hanan the son of Maacha, and Josaphat a Mathanite,
10713 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 44 Ozia an Astarothite, Samma, and Jehiel the sons of Hotham an Arorite,
10714 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 45 Jedihel the son of Zamri, and Joha his brother a Thosaite,
10715 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 11 46 Eliel a Mahumite, and Jeribai, and Josaia the sons of Elnaim, and Jethma a Moabite, Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel of Masobia.
10716 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 1 Now these are they that came to David to Siceleg, while he yet fled from Saul the son of Cis, and they were most valiant and excellent warriors,
10717 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 2 Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.
10718 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 3 The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons of Samaa of Gabaath, and Jaziel, and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an Anathothite.
10719 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 4 And Samaias of Gabaon, the stoutest amongst the thirty and over the thirty; Jeremias, and Jeheziel and Johanan, and Jozabad of Gaderoth;
10720 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 5 And Eluzai, and Jerimuth, and Baalia, and Samaria, and Saphatia the Haruphite;
10721 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 6 Elcana, and Jesia, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jesbaam of Carehim:
10722 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 7 And Joela, and Zabadia the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
10723 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 8 From Gaddi also there went over to David, when he lay hid in the wilderness most valiant men, and excellent warriors, holding shield and spear: whose faces were like the faces of a lion, and they were swift like the roebucks on the mountains.
10724 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 9 Ezer the chief, Obdias the second, Eliab the third,
10725 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 10 Masmana the fourth, Jeremias the fifth,
10726 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 11 Ethi the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
10727 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzebad the ninth,
10728 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 13 Jerenias the tenth, Machbani the eleventh,
10729 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the army: the least of them was captain over a hundred soldiers, and the greatest over a thousand.
10730 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 15 These are they who passed over the Jordan in the first month, when it is used to flow over its banks: and they put to flight all that dwelt in the valleys both toward the east and toward the west.
10731 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 16 And there came also of the men of Benjamin, and of Juda to the hold, in which David abode.
10732 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 17 And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come peaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you plot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands, let the God of our fathers see, and judge.
10733 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 18 But the spirit came upon Amasai the chief among thirty, and he said: We are thine, O David, and for thee, O son of Isai: peace, peace be to thee, and peace to thy helpers. For thy God helpeth thee. So David received them, and made them captains of the band.
10734 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 19 And there were some of Manasses that went over to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to fight: but he did not fight with them: because the lords of the Philistines taking counsel sent him back, saying: With the danger of our heads he will return to his master Saul.
10735 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 20 So when he went back to Siceleg, there fled to him of Manasses, Ednas and Jozabad, and Jedihel, and Michael, and Ednas, and Jozabad, and Eliu, and Salathi, captains of thousands in Manasses.
10736 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 21 These helped David against the rovers: for they were all most valiant men, and were made commanders in the army.
10737 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 22 Moreover day by day there came some to David to help him till they became a great number, like the army of God.
10738 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 23 And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to David, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul, according to the word of the Lord.
10739 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 24 The sons of Juda bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred well appointed to war.
10740 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 25 Of the sons of Simeon valiant men for war, seven thousand one hundred.
10741 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 26 Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred.
10742 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 27 And Joiada prince of the race of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred.
10743 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 28 Sadoc also a young man of excellent disposition, and the house of his father, twenty-two principal men.
10744 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 29 And of the sons of Benjamin the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto a great part of them followed the house of Saul.
10745 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 30 And of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, men of great valour renowned in their kindreds.
10746 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 31 And of the half tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, every one by their names, came to make David king.
10747 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 32 Also of the sons of Issachar men of understanding, that knew all times to order what Israel should do, two hundred principal men: and all the rest of the tribe followed their counsel.
10748 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 33 And of Zabulon such as went forth to battle, and stood in array well appointed with armour for war, there came fifty thousand to his aid, with no double heart.
10749 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 34 And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and with them seven and thirty thousand, furnished with shield and spear.
10750 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 35 Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for battle.
10751 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 36 And of Aser forty thousand going forth to fight, and challenging in battle.
10752 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 37 And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty thousand, furnished with arms for war.
10753 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 38 All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.
10754 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 39 And they were there with David three days eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
10755 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 12 40 Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.
10756 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and with all the commanders.
10757 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 2 And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and if the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to the rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the priests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to gather themselves to us,
10758 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought it not in the days of Saul.
10759 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 4 And all the multitude answered that it should be so: for the word pleased all the people.
10760 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 5 So David assembled all Israel from Sihor of Egypt, even to the entering into Emath, to bring the ark of God from Cariathiarim.
10761 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 6 And David went up with all the men of Israel to the hill of Cariathiarim which is in Juda, to bring thence the ark of the Lord God sitting upon the cherubims, where his name is called upon.
10762 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 7 And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart out of the house of Abinadab. And Oza and his brother drove the cart.
10763 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might with hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals, and trumpets,
10764 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 9 And when they came to the floor of Chidon, Oza put forth his hand, to hold up the ark: for the ox being wanton had made it lean a little on one side.
10765 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 10 And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had touched the ark; and he died there before the Lord.
10766 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 11 And David was troubled because the Lord had divided Oza: and he called that place the Breach of Oza to this day.
10767 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 12 And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the ark of God to me?
10768 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 13 And therefore he brought it not home to himself, that is, into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gethite.
10769 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 13 14 And the ark of God remained in the house of Obededom three months: and the Lord blessed his house, and all that he had.
10770 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
10771 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 2 And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, and that his kingdom was exalted over his people Israel.
10772 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 3 And David took other wives in Jerusalem: and he begot sons, and daughters.
10773 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 4 Now these are the names of them that were born to him in Jerusalem: Samua, and Sobad, Nathan, and Solomon,
10774 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 5 Jebahar, and Elisua, and Eliphalet,
10775 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 6 And Noga, and Napheg, and Japhia,
10776 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 7 Elisama, and Baaliada, and Eliphalet.
10777 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 8 And the Philistines hearing that David was anointed king over all Israel, went all up to seek him: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
10778 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the vale of Raphaim.
10779 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 10 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to him: Go up, and I will deliver them into thy hand.
10780 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 11 And when they were come to Baalpharasim, David defeated them there, and he said: God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as waters are divided: and therefore the name of that place was called Baalpharasim.
10781 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 12 And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they should be burnt.
10782 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 13 Another time also the Philistines made an irruption, and spread themselves abroad in the valley.
10783 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 14 And David consulted God again, and God said to him: Go not up after them, turn away from them, and come upon them over against the pear trees.
10784 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 15 And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt thou go out to battle. For God is gone out before thee to strike the army of the Philistines.
10785 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 16 And David did as God had commanded him, and defeated the army of the Philistines, slaying them from Gabaon to Gazera.
10786 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 14 17 And the name of David became famous in all countries, and the Lord made all nations fear him.
10787 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 1 He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.
10788 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 2 Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever.
10789 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 3 And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.
10790 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 4 And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.
10791 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 5 Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty.
10792 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 6 Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty.
10793 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 7 Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty.
10794 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 8 Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief: and his brethren two hundred.
10795 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 9 Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and his brethren eighty.
10796 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 10 Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief: and his brethren a hundred and twelve.
10797 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 11 And David called Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites, Uriel, Asaia, Joel, Semeia, Eliel, and Aminadab:
10798 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 12 And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:
10799 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 13 Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law.
10800 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 14 So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark of the Lord the God of Israel.
10801 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 15 And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded, according to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the staves.
10802 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 16 And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of their brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound on high.
10803 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 17 And they appointed Levites, Hemam the son of Joel, and of his brethren Asaph the son of Barachias: and of the sons of Merari, their brethren: Ethan the son of Casaia.
10804 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 18 And with them their brethren: in the second rank, Zacharias, and Ben, and Jaziel, and Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and Banaias, and Maasias, and Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias, and Obededom, and Jehiel, the porters.
10805 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 19 Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded with cymbals of brass.
10806 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 20 And Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and Maasias, and Banaias, sung mysteries upon psalteries.
10807 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 21 And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias and Obededom, and Jehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps.
10808 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 22 And Chonenias chief of the Levites, presided over the prophecy, to give out the tunes: for he was very skilful.
10809 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 23 And Barachias, and Elcana, were doorkeepers of the ark.
10810 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 24 And Sebenias, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharias, and Banaias, and Eliezer the priests, sounded with trumpets, before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehias were porters of the ark.
10811 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 25 So David and all the ancients of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy.
10812 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 26 And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.
10813 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an ephod of linen.
10814 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 28 And all Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and sounding with the sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and cymbals, and psalteries, and harps.
10815 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 15 29 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come to the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.
10816 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it: and they offered holocausts, and peace offerings before God.
10817 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 2 And when David had made an end of offering holocausts, and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.
10818 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 3 And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.
10819 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 4 And he appointed Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to remember his works, and to glorify, and praise the Lord God of Israel.
10820 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 5 Asaph the chief, and next after him Zacharias: moreover Jahiel, and Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and Eliab, and Banaias, and Obededom: and Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery, and harps: and Asaph sounded with cymbals:
10821 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 6 But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound the trumpet continually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
10822 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 7 In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord with his brethren.
10823 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 8 Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings among the nations.
10824 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 9 Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his wondrous works.
10825 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 10 Praise ye his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice, that seek the Lord.
10826 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 11 Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.
10827 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 12 Remember his wonderful works, which he hath done: his signs, and the judgments of his mouth.
10828 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 13 O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
10829 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 14 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
10830 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 15 Remember for ever his covenant: the word, which he commanded to a thousand generations.
10831 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 16 The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.
10832 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 17 And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
10833 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 18 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritance.
10834 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 19 When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it.
10835 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 20 And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to another people.
10836 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.
10837 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 22 Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
10838 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 23 Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day his salvation.
10839 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 24 Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.
10840 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 25 For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.
10841 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 26 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
10842 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 27 Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his place.
10843 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 28 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families of the nations: bring ye to the Lord glory and empire.
10844 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 29 Give to the Lord glory to his name, bring up sacrifice, and come ye in his sight: and adore the Lord in holy becomingness.
10845 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 30 Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded the world immoveable.
10846 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 31 Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad: and let them say among the nations: The Lord hath reigned.
10847 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all things that are in them.
10848 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 33 Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord: because he is come to judge the earth.
10849 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 34 Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
10850 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 35 And say ye: Save us, O God our savior: and gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, that we may give glory to thy holy name, and may rejoice in singing thy praises.
10851 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 36 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity: and let all the people say Amen, and a hymn to God.
10852 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren to minister in the presence of the ark continually day by day, and in their courses.
10853 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 38 And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.
10854 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 39 And Sadoc the priest, and his brethren priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place, which was in Gabaon.
10855 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 40 That they should offer holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of holocausts continually, morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.
10856 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 41 And after him Heman, and Idithun, and the rest that were chosen, every one by his name to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever.
10857 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 42 And Heman and Idithun sounded the trumpet, and played on the cymbals, and all kinds of musical instruments to sing praises to God: and the sons of Idithun he made porters.
10858 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 16 43 And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless also his own house.
10859 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 1 Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under skins.
10860 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 2 And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in thy heart: for God is with thee.
10861 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 3 Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
10862 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 4 Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.
10863 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 5 For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought up Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a tabernacle, and in a tent,
10864 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 6 Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever speak to any one, of all the judges of Israel whom I charged to feed my people, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
10865 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took thee from the pastures, from following the flock, that thou shouldst be ruler of my people Israel.
10866 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have slain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that of one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.
10867 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 9 And I have given a place to my people Israel: they shall be planted, and shall dwell therein, and shall be moved no more, neither shall the children of iniquity waste them, as at the beginning,
10868 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 10 Since the days that I gave judges to my people Israel, and have humbled all thy enemies. And I declare to thee, that the Lord will build thee a house.
10869 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 11 And when thou shalt have ended thy days to go to thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I will establish his kingdom.
10870 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.
10871 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 13 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee.
10872 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 14 But I will settle him in my house, and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be most firm for ever.
10873 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
10874 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 16 And king David came and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou shouldst give such things to me?
10875 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 17 But even this hath seemed little in thy sight, and therefore thou hast also spoken concerning the house of thy servant for the time to come: and hast made me remarkable above all men, O Lord God.
10876 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 18 What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy servant, and known him?
10877 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 19 O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.
10878 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 20 O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.
10879 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 21 For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people Israel, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by his greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he had delivered out of Egypt?
10880 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 22 And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.
10881 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 23 Now therefore, O Lord, let the word which thou hast spoken to thy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
10882 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 24 And let thy name remain and be magnified for ever: and let it be said: The Lord of hosts is God of Israel, and the house of David his servant remaineth before him.
10883 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 25 For thou, O Lord my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build him a house: and therefore thy servant hath found confidence to pray before thee.
10884 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 26 And now O Lord, thou art God: and thou hast promised to thy servant such great benefits.
10885 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 17 27 And thou hast begun to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be always before thee: for seeing thou blessest it, O Lord, it shall be blessed for ever.
10886 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 1 And it came to pass after this, that David defeated the Philistines, and humbled them, and took away Geth, and her daughters out of the hands of the Philistines,
10887 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 2 And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David’s servants, and brought him gifts.
10888 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 3 At that time David defeated also Adarezer king of Soba of the land of Hemath, when he went to extend his dominions as far as the river Euphrates.
10889 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot horses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.
10890 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 5 And the Syrians of Damascus came also to help Adarezer king of Soba: and David slew of them likewise two and twenty thousand men.
10891 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 6 And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve him, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which he went.
10892 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 7 And David took the golden quivers which the servants of Adarezer had, and he brought them to Jerusalem.
10893 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 8 Likewise out of Thebath and Chun, cities of Adarezer, he brought very much brass, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
10894 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 9 Now when Thou king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all the army of Adarezer king of Soba,
10895 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 10 He sent Adoram his son to king David to desire peace of him, and to congratulate him that he had defeated and overthrown Adarezer: for Thou was an enemy to Adarezer.
10896 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 11 And all the vessels of gold, and silver and brass king David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and gold which he had taken from all the nations, as well from Edom, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, as from the Philistines, and from Amalec.
10897 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 12 And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of the saltpits, eighteen thousand:
10898 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 13 And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.
10899 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
10900 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 15 And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army, and Josaphat the son of Ahilud recorder.
10901 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 16 And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and Susa, scribe.
10902 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 18 17 And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.
10903 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 1 Now it came to pass that Naas the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
10904 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 2 And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Naas: for his father did a favour to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him upon the death of his father. But when they were come into the land of the children of Ammon, to comfort Hanon,
10905 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 3 The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon: Thou thinkest perhaps that David to do honour to thy father hath sent comforters to thee: and thou dost not take notice, that his servants are come to thee to consider, and search, and spy out thy land.
10906 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 4 Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and sent them away.
10907 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 5 And when they were gone, they sent word to David, who sent to meet them (for they had suffered a great affront) and ordered them to stay at Jericho till their beards grew and then to return.
10908 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had done an injury to David, Hanon and the rest of the people sent a thousand talents of silver, to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out of Syria Maacha, and out of Soba.
10909 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 7 And they hired two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of Maacha, with his people. And they came and camped over against Medaba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together out of their cities, and came to battle.
10910 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of valiant men:
10911 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 9 And the children of Ammon came out and put their army in array before the gate of the city: and the kings, that were come to their aid, stood apart in the field.
10912 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 10 Wherefore Joab understanding that the battle was set against him before and behind, chose out the bravest men of all Israel, and marched against the Syrians,
10913 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 11 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai his brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.
10914 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 12 And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will help thee.
10915 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 13 Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.
10916 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 14 So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the Syrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.
10917 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 15 And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and Joab also returned to Jerusalem.
10918 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 16 But the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, sent messengers, and brought to them the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Sophach, general of the army of Adarezer, was their leader.
10919 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 17 And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and passed the Jordan, and came upon them, and put his army in array against them, and they fought with him.
10920 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 18 But the Syrian fled before Israel: and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and Sophach the general of the army.
10921 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 19 19 And when the servants of Adarezer saw themselves overcome by Israel, they went over to David, and served him: and Syria would not help the children of Ammon any more.
10922 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 1 And it came to pass after the course of a year, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab gathered together an army and the strength of the troops, and wasted the land of the children of Ammon: and went and besieged Rabba. But David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote Rabba, and destroyed it.
10923 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 2 And David took the crown of Melchom from his head, and found in it a talent weight of gold, and most precious stones, and he made himself a diadem of it: he took also the spoils of the city which were very great.
10924 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 3 And the people that were therein he brought out: and made harrows, and sleds, and chariots of iron to go over them, so that they were cut and bruised to pieces: in this manner David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon: and he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.
10925 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 4 After this there arose a war at Gazer against the Philistines: in which Sabachai the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and humbled them.
10926 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 5 Another battle also was fought against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath the Gethite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
10927 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 6 There was another battle also in Geth, in which there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and foot: who also was born of the stock of Rapha.
10928 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 20 7 He reviled Israel: but Jonathan the son of Samaa the brother of David slew him. These were the sons of Rapha in Geth, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.
10929 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 1 And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
10930 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 2 And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of them that I may know it.
10931 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 3 And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
10932 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 4 But the king’s word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.
10933 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 5 And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.
10934 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king’s orders.
10935 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 7 And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.
10936 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 8 And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.
10937 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 9 And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:
10938 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 10 Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee.
10939 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 11 And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:
10940 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 12 Either three years famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.
10941 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 13 And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.
10942 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 14 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
10943 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 15 And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
10944 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 16 And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.
10945 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 17 And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father’s house: and let not thy people be destroyed.
10946 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 18 And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
10947 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 19 And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord.
10948 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 20 Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.
10949 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 21 And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.
10950 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 22 And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.
10951 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 23 And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I will give it all willingly.
10952 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 24 And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.
10953 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.
10954 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 26 And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
10955 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 27 And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.
10956 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 28 And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.
10957 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 29 But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of Gabaon.
10958 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 21 30 And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.
10959 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 1 Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.
10960 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 2 And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and polish them, to build the house of God.
10961 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 3 And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.
10962 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 4 And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and Tyrians brought to David.
10963 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 5 And David said: Solomon my son is very young and tender, and the house which I would have to be built to the Lord, must be such as to be renowned in all countries: therefore I will prepare him necessaries. And therefore before his death he prepared all the charges.
10964 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 6 And he called for Solomon his son: and commanded him to build a house to the Lord the God of Israel.
10965 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 7 And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built a house to the name of the Lord my God.
10966 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much blood, and fought many battles, so thou canst not build a house to my name, after shedding so much blood before me:
10967 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 9 The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man: for I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and therefore he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and quietness to Israel all his days.
10968 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 10 He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
10969 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 11 Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper, and build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.
10970 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 12 The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.
10971 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 13 For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the commandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach Israel: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed.
10972 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 14 Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.
10973 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 15 Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and masons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their work,
10974 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 16 In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there is no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
10975 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 17 David also charged all the princes of Israel, to help Solomon his son,
10976 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 18 Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is with you, and hath given you rest round about, and hath delivered all your enemies into your hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.
10977 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 22 19 Give therefore your hearts and your souls, to seek the Lord your God and arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may be brought into the house, which is built to the name of the Lord.
10978 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 1 David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.
10979 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites.
10980 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 3 And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
10981 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 4 Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.
10982 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 5 Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.
10983 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 6 And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.
10984 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 7 The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.
10985 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 8 The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three.
10986 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 9 The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these were the heads of the families of Leedan.
10987 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 10 And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria: these were the sons of Semei, four.
10988 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 11 And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: but Jaus and Baria had not many children, and therefore they were counted in one family, and in one house.
10989 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 12 The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, four.
10990 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 13 The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses. And Aaron was separated to minister in the holy of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn incense before the Lord, according to his ceremonies, and to bless his name for ever.
10991 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 14 The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the tribe of Levi.
10992 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 15 The sons of Moses were Gersom and Eliezer:
10993 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 16 The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.
10994 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 17 And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had no more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.
10995 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 18 The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.
10996 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.
10997 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 20 The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.
10998 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 21 The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The sons of Moholi: Eleazar and Cis.
10999 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of Cis their brethren took them.
11000 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 23 The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
11001 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 24 These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and upward.
11002 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 25 For David said: The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest to his people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever.
11003 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 26 And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof.
11004 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 27 So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty years old and upward.
11005 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 28 And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers, and in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the works of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.
11006 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 29 And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.
11007 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 30 And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,
11008 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 31 As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.
11009 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 23 32 And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of the Lord.
11010 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 1 Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
11011 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 2 But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children: so Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.
11012 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 3 And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their courses and ministry.
11013 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 4 And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the principal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses.
11014 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 5 And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
11015 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 6 And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them down before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and Levitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and another house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.
11016 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 7 Now the first lot came forth to Joiarib, the second to Jedei,
11017 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
11018 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 9 The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,
11019 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 10 The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,
11020 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 11 The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,
11021 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 12 The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,
11022 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 13 The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Isbaab,
11023 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 14 The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,
11024 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
11025 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 16 The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth to Hezechiel,
11026 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
11027 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 18 The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the four and twentieth to Maaziau.
11028 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 19 These are their courses according to their ministries, to come into the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the hand of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded.
11029 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 20 Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there was of the sons of Amram, Subael: and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.
11030 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 21 Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.
11031 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 22 And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son of Salemoth Jahath:
11032 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 23 And his son Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaan the fourth.
11033 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 24 The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha, Samir.
11034 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 25 The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son of Jesia, Zacharias.
11035 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 26 The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.
11036 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 27 The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.
11037 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 28 And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.
11038 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 29 And the son of Cis, Jeramael.
11039 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 30 The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jerimoth. These are the sons of Levi according to the houses of their families.
11040 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 24 31 And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.
11041 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 1 Moreover David and the chief officers of the army separated for the ministry the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Idithun: to prophesy with harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals according to their number serving in their appointed office.
11042 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph, and Nathania, and Asarela, sons of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph prophesying near the king.
11043 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 3 And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun, Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and Hasabias, and Mathathias, six, under the hand of their father Idithun, who prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
11044 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 4 Of Heman also: the sons of Heman, Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel, Subuel, and Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, and Romemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth:
11045 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 5 All these were the sons of Heman the seer of the king in the words of God, to lift up the horn: and God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
11046 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 6 All these under their father’s hand were distributed to sing in the temple of the Lord, with cymbals, and psalteries and harps, for the service of the house of the Lord near the king: to wit, Asaph, and Idithun, and Heman.
11047 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 7 And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight.
11048 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 8 And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together.
11049 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 9 And the first lot came forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph. The second to Godolias, to him and his sons, and his brethren twelve.
11050 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 10 The third to Zachur, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11051 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 11 The fourth to Isari, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11052 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 12 The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11053 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 13 The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11054 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 14 The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11055 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 15 The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11056 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 16 The ninth to Mathanaias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11057 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 17 The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11058 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 18 The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11059 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 19 The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11060 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 20 The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11061 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 21 The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11062 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 22 The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11063 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 23 The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11064 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 24 The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11065 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 25 The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11066 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 26 The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11067 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 27 The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11068 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 28 The one and twentieth to Othir, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11069 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 29 The two and twentieth to Geddelthi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11070 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11071 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 25 31 The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
11072 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 1 And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.
11073 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 2 The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the firstborn, Jadihel the second, Zabadias the third, Jathanael the fourth,
11074 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 3 Elam the fifth, Johanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
11075 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 4 And the sons of Obededom, Semeias the firstborn, Jozabad the second, Joaha the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth,
11076 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phollathi the eighth: for the Lord had blessed him.
11077 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 6 And to Semei his son were born sons, heads of their families: for they were men of great valour.
11078 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 7 The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.
11079 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 8 All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and their brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.
11080 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 9 And the sons of Meselemia, and their brethren strong men, were eighteen.
11081 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 10 And of Hosa, that is, of the sons of Merari: Semri the chief, (for he had not a firstborn, and therefore his father made him chief.)
11082 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 11 Helcias the second, Tabelias the third, Zacharias the fourth: all these the sons, and the brethren of Hosa, were thirteen.
11083 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the chiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in the house of the Lord.
11084 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 13 And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.
11085 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 14 And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son Zacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.
11086 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 15 And to Obededom and his sons that towards the south: in which part of the house was the council of the ancients.
11087 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 16 To Sephim, and Hosa towards the west, by the gate which leadeth to the way of the ascent: ward against ward.
11088 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 17 Now towards the east were six Levites: and towards the north four a day: and towards the south likewise four a day: and where the council was, two and two.
11089 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 18 In the cells also of the porters toward the west four in the way: and two at every cell.
11090 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 19 These are the divisions of the porters of the sons of Core, and of Merari.
11091 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 20 Now Achias was over the treasures of the house of God, and the holy vessels.
11092 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 21 The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni: of Ledan were heads of the families, of Ledan, and Gersonni, Jehieli.
11093 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zathan and Joel, his brethren over the treasures of the house of the Lord,
11094 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 23 With the Amramites, and Isaarites, and Hebronites, and Ozielites.
11095 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 24 And Subael the son of Gersom, the son of Moses, was chief over the treasures.
11096 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 25 His brethren also, Eliezer, whose son Rohobia, and his son Isaias, and his son Joram, and his son Zechri, and his son Selemith.
11097 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 26 Which Selemith and his brethren were over the treasures of the holy things, which king David, and the heads of families, and the captains over thousands and over hundreds, and the captains of the host had dedicated,
11098 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 27 Out of the wars, and the spoils won in battles, which they had consecrated to the building and furniture of the temple of the Lord.
11099 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 28 And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had sanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under the hand of Selemith and his brethren.
11100 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 29 But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.
11101 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 30 And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and his brethren most able men, a thousand seven hundred had the charge over Israel beyond the Jordan westward, in all the works of the Lord, and for the service of the king.
11102 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 31 And the chief of the Hebronites was Jeria according to their families and kindreds. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were numbered, and there were found most valiant men in Jazer Galaad,
11103 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 26 32 And his brethren of stronger age, two thousand seven hundred chiefs of families. And king David made them rulers over the Rubenites and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, for all the service of God, and the king.
11104 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 1 Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads of families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that served the king according to their companies, who came in and went out every month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty thousand.
11105 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 2 Over the first company the first month Jesboam, the son of Zabdiel was chief, and under him were four and twenty thousand.
11106 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 3 Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all the captains in the host in the first month.
11107 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 4 The company of the second month was under Dudia, an Ahohite, and after him was another named Macelloth, who commanded a part of the army of four and twenty thousand.
11108 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 5 And the captain of the third company for the third month, was Banaias the son of Joiada the priest: and in his division were four and twenty thousand.
11109 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 6 This is that Banaias the most valiant among the thirty, and above the thirty. And Amizabad his son commanded his company.
11110 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 7 The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zabadias his son after him: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11111 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month, was Samaoth a Jezerite: and his company were four and twenty thousand.
11112 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 9 The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira the son of Acces a Thecuite: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11113 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 10 The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helles a Phallonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11114 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 11 The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sobochai a Husathite of the race of Zarahi: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11115 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 12 The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer an Anathothite of the sons of Jemini, and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11116 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 13 The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai, who was a Netophathite of the race of Zarai: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11117 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 14 The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Banaias, a Pharathonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11118 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 15 The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Holdai a Netophathite, of the race of Gothoniel: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.
11119 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 16 Now the chiefs over the tribes of Israel were these: over the Rubenites, Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler: over the Simeonites, Saphatias the son of Maacha:
11120 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 17 Over the Levites, Hasabias the son of Camuel: over the Aaronites, Sadoc:
11121 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 18 Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David over Issachar, Amri the son of Michael:
11122 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 19 Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaias the son of Adias: over the Nephtalites, Jerimoth the son of Ozriel:
11123 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 20 Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee the son of Ozaziu: over the half tribe of Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia:
11124 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 21 And over the half tribe of Manasses in Galaad, Jaddo the son of Zacharias: and over Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abner.
11125 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 22 And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of Jeroham: these were the princes of the children of Israel.
11126 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 23 But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.
11127 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 24 Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not: because upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles of king David.
11128 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 25 And over the king’s treasures was Azmoth the son of Adiel: and over those stores which were in the cities, and in the villages, and, in the castles, was Jonathan the son of Ozias.
11129 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 26 And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub:
11130 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 27 And over the dressers of the vine yards, was Semeias a Romathite: and over the wine cellars, Zabdias an Aphonite.
11131 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 28 And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the plains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.
11132 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 29 And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and over the oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:
11133 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 30 And over the camels, Ubil an Ishmahelite and over the asses, Jadias a Meronathite:
11134 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 31 And over the sheep Jaziz an Agarene. All these were the rulers of the substance of king David.
11135 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 32 And Jonathan David’s uncle, a counsellor, a wise and learned man: he and Jahiel the son of Hachamoni were with the king’s sons.
11136 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 33 And Achitophel was the king’s counsellor, and Chusai the Arachite, the king’s friend.
11137 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 27 34 And after Achitophel was Joiada the son of Banaias, and Abiathar. And the general of the king’s army was Joab.
11138 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 1 And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies, who waited on the king: and the captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and them who had the charge over the substance and possessions of the king, and his sons with the officers of the court, and the men of power, and all the bravest of the army at Jerusalem.
11139 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 2 And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.
11140 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 3 And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.
11141 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 4 But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the princes: and of the house of Juda, my father’s house: and among the sons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.
11142 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 5 And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
11143 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 6 And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.
11144 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 7 And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he continue to keep my commandments, and my judgments, as at this day.
11145 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 8 Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that you may possess the good land, and may leave it to your children after you for ever.
11146 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 9 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
11147 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 10 Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.
11148 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 11 And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,
11149 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 12 As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things,
11150 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 13 And of the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, for all the works of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of the service of the temple of the Lord.
11151 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 14 Gold by weight for every vessel for the ministry. And silver by weight according to the diversity of the vessels and uses.
11152 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 15 He gave also gold for the golden candlesticks, and their lamps, according to the dimensions of every candlestick, and the lamps thereof. In like manner also he gave silver by weight for the silver candlesticks, and for their lamps according to the diversity of the dimensions of them.
11153 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 16 He gave also gold for the tables of proposition, according to the diversity of the tables: in like manner also silver for other tables of silver.
11154 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 17 For fleshhooks also, and bowls, and censers of fine gold, and for little lions of gold, according to the measure he gave by weight, for every lion. In like manner also for lions of silver he set aside a different weight of silver.
11155 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 18 And for the altar of incense, he gave the purest gold: and to make the likeness of the chariot of the cherubims spreading their wings, and covering the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
11156 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 19 All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the Lord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.
11157 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 20 And David said to Solomon his son: Act like a man, and take courage, and do: fear not, and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God will be with thee, and will not leave thee, nor forsake thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
11158 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 28 21 Behold the courses of the priests and the Levites, for every ministry of the house of the Lord, stand by thee, and are ready, and both the princes, and the people know how to execute all thy commandments.
11159 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 1 And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.
11160 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 2 And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance.
11161 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 3 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.
11162 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 4 Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.
11163 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 5 And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for wheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the hands of the artificers: now if any man is willing to offer, let him fill his hand to day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.
11164 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 6 Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of the king’s possessions promised,
11165 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 7 And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord, of gold, five thousand talents, and ten thousand solids: of silver ten thousand talents: and of brass eighteen thousand talents: and of iron a hundred thousand talents.
11166 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 8 And all they that had stones, gave them to the treasures of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.
11167 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 9 And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.
11168 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 10 And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity.
11169 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 11 Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes.
11170 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 12 Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.
11171 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 13 Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy glorious name.
11172 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 14 Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.
11173 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.
11174 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 16 O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name, is from thy hand, and all things are thine.
11175 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 17 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.
11176 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 18 O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel our fathers, keep for ever this will of their heart, and let this mind remain always for the worship of thee.
11177 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.
11178 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 20 And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.
11179 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 21 And they sacrificed victims to the Lord: and they offered holocausts the next day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their libations, and with every thing prescribed most abundantly for all Israel.
11180 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 22 And they ate, and drank before the Lord that day with great joy. And they anointed the second time Solomon the son of David. And they anointed him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoc to be high priest.
11181 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 23 And Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and he pleased all: and all Israel obeyed him.
11182 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 24 And all the princes, and men of power, and all the sons of king David gave their hand, and were subject to Solomon the king.
11183 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 25 And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel: and gave him the glory of a reign, such as no king of Israel had before him.
11184 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 26 So David the son of Isai reigned over all Israel.
11185 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 27 And the days that he reigned over Israel, were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.
11186 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 28 And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
11187 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 29 Now the acts of king David first and last are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer:
11188 1 Chronicles 1Chr 13 29 30 And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that passed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the countries.
11189 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.
11190 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 2 And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all Israel, and the heads of the families:
11191 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 3 And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon, where was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the servant of God made, in the wilderness.
11192 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 4 For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.
11193 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 5 And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and all the assembly sought it:
11194 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand victims.
11195 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 7 And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
11196 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 8 And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my father David: and hast made me king in his stead.
11197 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 9 Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.
11198 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 10 Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great?
11199 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 11 And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have made thee king,
11200 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 12 Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee, nor after thee, shall be like thee.
11201 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 13 Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to Jerusalem before the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over Israel.
11202 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 14 And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem.
11203 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 15 And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great multitude.
11204 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 16 And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the king’s merchants, who went, and bought at a price,
11205 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 1 17 A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all the kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.
11206 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 1 And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord, and a palace for himself.
11207 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 2 And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
11208 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 3 He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in which he dwelt:
11209 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 4 So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with aromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and for the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which are commanded for Israel.
11210 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 5 For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is great above all gods.
11211 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 6 Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be able to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be burnt before him.
11212 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 7 Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in blue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I have with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
11213 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 8 Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus, and my servants shall be with thy servants,
11214 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 9 To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.
11215 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 10 And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the trees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.
11216 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over them.
11217 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 12 And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing son, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.
11218 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 13 I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most skilful man,
11219 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and silk and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to devise ingeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy artificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.
11220 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 15 The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine, which thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy servants.
11221 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 16 And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt want, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be thy part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.
11222 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 17 And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.
11223 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 2 18 And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.
11224 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 1 And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
11225 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 2 And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
11226 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 3 Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.
11227 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 4 And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
11228 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 5 And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
11229 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 6 He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
11230 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 7 And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.
11231 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 8 He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.
11232 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 9 He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
11233 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 10 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
11234 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 11 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.
11235 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 12 In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.
11236 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 13 So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.
11237 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
11238 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 15 He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.
11239 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 16 He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.
11240 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 3 17 These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.
11241 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 1 He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
11242 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 2 Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
11243 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 3 And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were with two rows.
11244 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 4 And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve oxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward the west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that remained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.
11245 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 5 Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.
11246 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 6 He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
11247 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 7 And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
11248 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 8 Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
11249 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 9 He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.
11250 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 10 And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.
11251 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 11 And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king’s work in the house of God:
11252 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 12 That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.
11253 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 13 And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
11254 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 14 He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:
11255 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 15 One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
11256 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 16 And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest brass.
11257 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 17 In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.
11258 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 18 And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.
11259 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 19 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of proposition,
11260 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 20 The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the manner.
11261 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 21 And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of the finest gold.
11262 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 4 22 The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the temple without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon made in the house of the Lord.
11263 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 1 Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the treasures of the house of God.
11264 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 2 And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the children of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Sion.
11265 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 3 And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the seventh month.
11266 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 4 And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up the ark,
11267 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 5 And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.
11268 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 6 And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were gathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without number: so great was the multitude of the victims.
11269 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims:
11270 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 8 So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.
11271 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 9 Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day.
11272 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 10 And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.
11273 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 11 Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the priests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that time the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among them,
11274 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 12 Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they that were under Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they that were under Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine linen, sounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests, sounding with trumpets.
11275 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 13 So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice, and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments, and lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was filled with a cloud.
11276 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 5 14 Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
11277 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 1 Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a cloud.
11278 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 2 But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for ever.
11279 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of Israel for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:
11280 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 4 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in deed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:
11281 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 5 From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel.
11282 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.
11283 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 7 And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel,
11284 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 8 The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:
11285 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 9 But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
11286 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 10 The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.
11287 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 11 And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with the children of Israel.
11288 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.
11289 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the midst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the presence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands towards heaven,
11290 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 14 He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
11291 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 15 Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all that thou hast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken with thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.
11292 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 16 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant David my father, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail thee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
11293 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 17 And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.
11294 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 18 Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?
11295 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 19 But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.
11296 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 20 That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,
11297 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 21 And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in this place, hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.
11298 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 22 If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:
11299 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.
11300 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 24 If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon thy name, and pray to thee in this place,
11301 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 25 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and their fathers.
11302 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 26 If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost afflict them,
11303 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 27 Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy people to possess.
11304 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 28 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:
11305 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 29 Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,
11306 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 30 Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:
11307 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 31 That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.
11308 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 32 If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, come from a far country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and thy stretched out arm, and adore in this place:
11309 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 33 Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that which that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel, and may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.
11310 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the way that thou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of this city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:
11311 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 35 Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and revenge them.
11312 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 36 And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,
11313 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 37 And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they were led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:
11314 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 38 And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore thee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:
11315 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 39 Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they have sinned:
11316 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 40 For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.
11317 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 41 Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things.
11318 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 6 42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
11319 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 1 And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the majesty of the Lord filled the house.
11320 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 2 Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.
11321 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 3 Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
11322 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 4 And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.
11323 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
11324 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 6 And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the instruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David by their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
11325 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 7 Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:
11326 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 8 And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath to the torrent of Egypt.
11327 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 9 And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.
11328 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 10 So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his people.
11329 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 11 And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.
11330 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 12 And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
11331 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 13 If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:
11332 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 14 And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.
11333 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 15 My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.
11334 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 16 For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.
11335 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 17 And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my justices and my judgments:
11336 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 18 I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be ruler in Israel.
11337 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 19 But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,
11338 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.
11339 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 21 And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
11340 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 7 22 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.
11341 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 1 And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house:
11342 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 2 He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
11343 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 3 He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.
11344 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 4 And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong cities in Emath.
11345 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 5 And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates and bars and locks.
11346 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 6 Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon’s, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.
11347 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 7 All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel:
11348 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 8 Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of Israel had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this day.
11349 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 9 But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king’s works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots and horsemen.
11350 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 10 And all the chief captains of king Solomon’s army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.
11351 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 11 And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.
11352 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 12 Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,
11353 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 13 That every day an offering might be made on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
11354 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 14 And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.
11355 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 15 And the priests and Levites departed not from the king’s commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the keeping of the treasures.
11356 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 16 Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded the house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.
11357 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 17 Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of the Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.
11358 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 8 18 And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and skilful mariners, and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and they took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king Solomon.
11359 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 1 And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and camels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that was in her heart.
11360 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 2 And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was not any thing that he did not make clear unto her.
11361 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 3 And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,
11362 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 4 And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so astonished.
11363 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 5 And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my country of thy virtues and wisdom.
11364 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 6 I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had seen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.
11365 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 7 Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
11366 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 8 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
11367 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 9 And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.
11368 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 10 And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon, brought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:
11369 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 11 And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and harps and psalteries for the singing men: never were there seen such trees in the land of Juda.
11370 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, and that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so she returned, and went to her own country with her servants.
11371 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 13 And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:
11372 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 14 Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.
11373 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 15 And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:
11374 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 16 And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold, which went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in the armoury, which was compassed with a wood.
11375 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 17 The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
11376 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 18 And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of gold, and two arms one on either side, and two lions standing by the arms:
11377 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 19 Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the steps on both sides: there was not such a throne in any kingdom.
11378 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 20 And all the vessels of the king’s table were of gold, and the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those days.
11379 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 21 For the king’s ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram, once in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
11380 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 22 And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for riches and glory.
11381 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 23 And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of Solomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his heart.
11382 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 24 And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.
11383 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 25 And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve thousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the chariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.
11384 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 26 And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.
11385 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 27 And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.
11386 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 28 And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all countries.
11387 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the books of Ahias the Silonite, and in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
11388 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
11389 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 9 31 And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of David: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
11390 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 1 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled, to make him king.
11391 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 2 And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was fled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.
11392 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 3 And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:
11393 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 4 Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.
11394 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 5 And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,
11395 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 6 He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?
11396 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 7 And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.
11397 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 8 But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.
11398 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 9 And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?
11399 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 10 But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.
11400 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 11 My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.
11401 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 12 So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as he commanded them.
11402 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 13 And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients.
11403 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 14 And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.
11404 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 15 And he condescended not to the people’s requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
11405 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 16 And all the people upon the king’s speaking roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their dwellings.
11406 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 17 But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda.
11407 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 18 And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste to get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.
11408 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 10 19 And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.
11409 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 1 And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house of Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men and warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to him.
11410 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 2 And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:
11411 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 3 Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all Israel, in Juda and Benjamin:
11412 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 4 Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: let every man return to his own house, for by my will this thing has been done. And when they heard the word of the Lord, they returned, and did not go against Jeroboam,
11413 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 5 And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.
11414 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 6 And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,
11415 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 7 And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,
11416 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 8 And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,
11417 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 9 And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,
11418 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 10 Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and Benjamin, well fenced cities.
11419 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 11 And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them governors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine.
11420 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 12 Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and spears, and he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned over Juda, and Benjamin,
11421 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 13 And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to him out of all their seats,
11422 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 14 Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off, from executing the priestly office to the Lord.
11423 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 15 And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
11424 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 16 Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to sacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers.
11425 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 17 And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established Roboam the son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways of David and of Solomon, only three years.
11426 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 18 And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.
11427 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 19 And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and Zoom.
11428 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 20 And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.
11429 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 21 And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.
11430 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 22 But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the chief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,
11431 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 11 23 Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities: and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.
11432 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 1 And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
11433 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 2 And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)
11434 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 3 With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.
11435 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 4 And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.
11436 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 5 And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.
11437 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 6 And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said: The Lord is just.
11438 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 7 And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.
11439 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 8 But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.
11440 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 9 So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,
11441 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 10 Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.
11442 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 11 And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.
11443 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 12 But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned away from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda there were found good works.
11444 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 13 King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.
11445 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 14 But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.
11446 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 15 Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books of Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.
11447 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 12 16 And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.
11448 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.
11449 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 2 Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia and Jeroboam.
11450 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 3 And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred thousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most valiant for war.
11451 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 4 And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and said: Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:
11452 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 5 Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the kingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
11453 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 6 And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.
11454 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 7 And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.
11455 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 8 And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for gods.
11456 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 9 And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of the herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no gods.
11457 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 10 But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their order.
11458 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 11 And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.
11459 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 12 Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you.
11460 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 13 While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he encompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.
11461 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 14 And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them both before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests began to sound with the trumpets.
11462 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 15 And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted, God terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and Juda.
11463 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 16 And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hand.
11464 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 17 And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.
11465 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 18 And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.
11466 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 19 And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her daughters.
11467 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 20 And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
11468 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 21 But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.
11469 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 13 22 And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.
11470 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 1 And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was quiet ten years.
11471 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 2 And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.
11472 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 3 And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.
11473 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 4 And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.
11474 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 5 And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace.
11475 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 6 He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there had no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace.
11476 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 7 And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building.
11477 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 8 And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of Juda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men.
11478 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 9 And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten hundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as far as Maresa.
11479 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 10 And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for battle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:
11480 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 11 And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.
11481 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 12 And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and the Ethiopians fled.
11482 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerara: and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed. And they took abundance of spoils,
11483 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 14 And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great fear was come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried off much booty.
11484 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 14 15 And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number of cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.
11485 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 1 And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,
11486 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
11487 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 3 And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
11488 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 4 And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.
11489 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 5 At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the earth.
11490 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 6 For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.
11491 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 7 Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.
11492 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 8 And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.
11493 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 9 And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.
11494 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 10 And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
11495 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 11 They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand rams.
11496 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 12 And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.
11497 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 13 And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.
11498 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 14 And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,
11499 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 15 All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about.
11500 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 16 Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.
11501 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
11502 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 18 And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses.
11503 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 15 19 And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.
11504 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 1 And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom, Baasa the king of Israel came up against Juda, and built a wall about Rama, that no one might safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.
11505 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s treasures, and sent to Benadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:
11506 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that thou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, and make him depart from me.
11507 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 4 And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.
11508 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 5 And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and interrupted his work.
11509 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 6 Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the stones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.
11510 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 7 At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and said to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and not in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
11511 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 8 Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?
11512 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 9 For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength to those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise against thee.
11513 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 10 And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to death many of the people at that time.
11514 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 11 But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
11515 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 12 And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign, of a most violent pain in his feet, and yet in his illness he did not seek the Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.
11516 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 13 And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
11517 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 16 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.
11518 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 1 And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel.
11519 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 2 And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
11520 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 3 And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,
11521 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 4 But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.
11522 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 5 And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much glory.
11523 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 6 And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.
11524 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 7 And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach in the cities of Juda:
11525 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 8 And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and Thobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.
11526 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 9 And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of the law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and instructed the people.
11527 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 10 And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against Josaphat.
11528 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 11 The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute in silver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and as many he goats.
11529 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 12 And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in Juda houses like towers, and walled cities.
11530 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 13 And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had warriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem.
11531 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 14 Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every one: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three hundred thousand most valiant men.
11532 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 15 After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand.
11533 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 16 And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.
11534 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 17 After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield.
11535 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 18 After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready for war.
11536 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 17 19 All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he had put in the walled cities, in all Juda.
11537 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 1 Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by affinity to Achab.
11538 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 2 And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at his coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people that came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.
11539 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 3 And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with me to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.
11540 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 4 And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, at present the word of the Lord.
11541 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 5 So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver into the king’s hand.
11542 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 6 And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire also of him?
11543 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 7 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of Jemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.
11544 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 8 And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.
11545 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 9 Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on their thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court by the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
11546 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 10 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.
11547 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 11 And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver them into the king’s hand.
11548 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 12 And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold the words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king: I beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak thou also good success.
11549 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 13 And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.
11550 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 14 So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered into your hands.
11551 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 15 And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing but the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.
11552 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 16 Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let every man return to his own house in peace.
11553 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 17 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee that this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?
11554 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 18 Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left,
11555 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 19 And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner, and another otherwise:
11556 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 20 There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou deceive him?
11557 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 21 And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and shalt prevail: go out, and do so.
11558 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 22 Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the mouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.
11559 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 23 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the cheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak to thee?
11560 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 24 And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.
11561 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 25 And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and carry him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of Amelech,
11562 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 26 And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.
11563 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 27 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
11564 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 28 So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to Ramoth Galaad.
11565 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 29 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress, and so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And the king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.
11566 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry, saying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel only.
11567 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 31 So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said: This is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but he cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.
11568 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 32 For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the king of Israel, they left him.
11569 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 33 And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the shoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.
11570 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 18 34 And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the sunset.
11571 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 1 And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
11572 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:
11573 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 3 But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.
11574 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 4 And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the people from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord the God of their fathers.
11575 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 5 And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in every place.
11576 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 6 And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you exercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you judge, it shall redound to you.
11577 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 7 Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.
11578 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 8 In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and chiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.
11579 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the Lord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
11580 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 10 Every cause that shall come to you of your brethren, that dwell in their cities, between kindred and kindred, wheresoever there is question concerning the law, the commandment, the ceremonies, the justifications: shew it them, that they may not sin against the Lord, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brethren: and so doing you shall not sin.
11581 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 19 11 And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the things which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler in the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the king’s office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take courage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good things.
11582 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 1 After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against Josaphat.
11583 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 2 And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of Syria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.
11584 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 3 And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.
11585 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 4 And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.
11586 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 5 And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,
11587 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 6 And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.
11588 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 7 Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
11589 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 8 And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name, saying:
11590 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 9 If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy name is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and thou wilt hear, and save us.
11591 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 10 Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass, when they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew them not,
11592 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 11 Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.
11593 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 12 O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.
11594 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 13 And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.
11595 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 14 And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son of Banaias, the son of Jehiel, the son of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was there, upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the multitude,
11596 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 15 And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye not, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
11597 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 16 To morrow you shall go down against them: for they will come up by the ascent named Sis, and you shall find them at the head of the torrent, which is over against the wilderness of Jeruel.
11598 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 17 It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with confidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda, and Jerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.
11599 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 18 Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell flat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.
11600 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 19 And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and of the sons of Core praised the Lord the God of Israel with a loud voice, on high.
11601 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.
11602 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 21 And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men of the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the army, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever.
11603 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 22 And when they began to sing praises, the Lord turned their ambushments upon themselves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come out to fight against Juda, and they were slain.
11604 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 23 For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed one another.
11605 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 24 And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the desert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of dead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.
11606 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 25 Then Josaphat came, and all the people with him to take away the spoils of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, stuff of various kinds, and garments, and most precious vessels: and they took them for themselves, insomuch that they could not carry all, nor in three days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.
11607 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 26 And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of Blessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called that place the valley of Blessing until this day.
11608 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 27 And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem returned, and Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy, because the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.
11609 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 28 And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and trumpets into the house of the Lord.
11610 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 29 And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.
11611 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 30 And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet, and God gave him peace round about.
11612 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 31 And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years old, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.
11613 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 32 And he walked in the way of his father Asa and departed not from it, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.
11614 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 33 But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not yet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.
11615 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 34 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into the books of the kings of Israel.
11616 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 35 After these things Josaphat king of Juda made friendship with Ochozias king of Israel, whose works were very wicked.
11617 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 36 And he was partner with him in making ships, to go to Tharsis: and they made the ships in Asiongaber.
11618 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 20 37 And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat, saying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath destroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to Tharsis.
11619 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 1 And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.
11620 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 2 And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the sons of Josaphat king of Juda.
11621 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the eldest.
11622 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 4 So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.
11623 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 5 Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
11624 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 6 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
11625 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 7 But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.
11626 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 8 In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made themselves a king.
11627 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 9 And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with him, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded him, and all the captains of his cavalry.
11628 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 10 However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.
11629 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 11 Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to transgress.
11630 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 12 And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,
11631 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 13 But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,
11632 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 14 Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.
11633 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 15 And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.
11634 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 16 And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.
11635 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 17 And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.
11636 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 18 And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.
11637 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 19 And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years passed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void his very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most wretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.
11638 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 21 20 He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
11639 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son king in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda reigned.
11640 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 2 Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.
11641 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.
11642 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 4 So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab did: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
11643 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 5 And he walked after their counsels. And he went with Joram the son of Achab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria, at Ramoth Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
11644 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 6 And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many wounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he lay sick.
11645 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 7 For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come to Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son of Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.
11646 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 8 So when Jehu was rooting out the house of Achab, he found the princes of Juda, and the sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served him, and he slew them.
11647 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 9 And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in Samaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried him: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with all his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of the race of Ochozias.
11648 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 10 For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.
11649 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 11 But Josabeth the king’s daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain. And she hid him with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was daughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of Ochozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.
11650 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 22 12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during which Athalia reigned over the land.
11651 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 1 And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.
11652 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 2 And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
11653 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 3 And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.
11654 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 4 And this is the thing that you shall do:
11655 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 5 A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third part at the king’s house: and a third at the gate that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
11656 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 6 And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches of the Lord.
11657 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 7 And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.
11658 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 8 So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.
11659 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 9 And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.
11660 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 10 And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.
11661 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 11 And they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.
11662 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 12 Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.
11663 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 13 And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.
11664 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 14 And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.
11665 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 15 And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.
11666 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 16 And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the Lord.
11667 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 17 And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars.
11668 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 18 And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition of David.
11669 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 19 He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.
11670 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king’s house, and set him on the royal throne.
11671 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 23 21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword.
11672 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 1 Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
11673 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 2 And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.
11674 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 3 And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.
11675 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 4 After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
11676 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 5 And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.
11677 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 6 And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony?
11678 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 7 For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
11679 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 8 And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
11680 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 9 And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
11681 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 10 And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was filled.
11682 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 11 And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king’s scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the chest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was gathered an immense sum of money.
11683 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 12 And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.
11684 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 13 And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its former state, and made it stand firm.
11685 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 14 And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
11686 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 15 But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.
11687 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.
11688 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 17 And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.
11689 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 18 And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.
11690 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 19 And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.
11691 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 20 The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?
11692 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 21 And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king’s commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
11693 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 22 And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.
11694 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 23 And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
11695 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 24 And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.
11696 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 25 And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants rose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
11697 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 26 Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
11698 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 24 27 And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God, they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.
11699 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 1 Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother was Joadan of Jerusalem.
11700 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 2 And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.
11701 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 3 And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.
11702 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 4 But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
11703 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 5 Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield.
11704 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 6 He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
11705 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 7 But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:
11706 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 8 And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the army, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.
11707 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 9 And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee much more than this.
11708 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 10 Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda, returned to their own country.
11709 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 11 And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the vale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.
11710 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 12 And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to the steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top, and they all were broken to pieces.
11711 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 13 But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much spoil.
11712 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 14 But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of the children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and adored them, and burnt incense to them.
11713 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 15 Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?
11714 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 16 And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king’s counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.
11715 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 17 Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas the son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.
11716 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 18 But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in Libanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.
11717 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 19 Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil against thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.
11718 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 20 Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord’s will that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the gods of Edom.
11719 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 21 So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to be seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of Juda:
11720 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 22 And Juda fell before Israel, and they fled to their dwellings.
11721 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 23 And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem: and broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.
11722 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 24 And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that he found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures of the king’s house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he brought back to Samaria.
11723 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 25 And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.
11724 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 26 Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
11725 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 27 And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent, and killed him there.
11726 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 25 28 And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of David.
11727 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 1 And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.
11728 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 2 He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.
11729 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 3 Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.
11730 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 4 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his father had done.
11731 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 5 And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood and saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all things.
11732 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 6 Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of Azotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines.
11733 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.
11734 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories.
11735 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 9 And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner, and over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the wall, and fortified them.
11736 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.
11737 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 11 And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was under the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under the hand of Henanias, who was one of the king’s captains.
11738 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 12 And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant men were two thousand six hundred.
11739 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 13 And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand five hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the enemy.
11740 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 14 And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
11741 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him.
11742 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 16 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
11743 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 17 And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,
11744 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 18 Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the sanctuary, do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by the Lord God.
11745 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 19 And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar of incense.
11746 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 20 And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests looked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made haste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to go out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord.
11747 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 21 And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the king’s house, and judged the people of the land.
11748 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 22 But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by Isaias the son of Amos, the prophet.
11749 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 26 23 And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the field of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.
11750 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 1 Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.
11751 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 2 And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.
11752 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
11753 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.
11754 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 5 He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and third year.
11755 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 6 And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed before the Lord his God.
11756 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 7 Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.
11757 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
11758 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 27 9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
11759 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 1 Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord as David his father had done,
11760 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 2 But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.
11761 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 3 It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.
11762 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
11763 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 5 And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.
11764 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 6 For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers.
11765 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 7 At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king’s son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who was next to the king.
11766 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 8 And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.
11767 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 9 At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.
11768 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 10 Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.
11769 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 11 But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you.
11770 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 12 Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war.
11771 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 13 And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.
11772 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 14 So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude.
11773 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 15 And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.
11774 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 16 At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking help.
11775 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 17 And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great booty.
11776 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 18 The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the plains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon, and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in them.
11777 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 19 For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.
11778 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 20 And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance.
11779 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 21 And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.
11780 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 22 Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
11781 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 23 Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
11782 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 24 Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.
11783 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 25 And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.
11784 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 26 But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
11785 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 28 27 And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.
11786 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 1 Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
11787 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 2 And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
11788 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 3 In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
11789 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 4 And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.
11790 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 5 And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.
11791 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 6 Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.
11792 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 7 They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
11793 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.
11794 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 9 Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.
11795 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.
11796 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 11 My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense to him.
11797 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.
11798 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 13 And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.
11799 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 14 And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and Oziel.
11800 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 15 And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.
11801 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 16 And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the entrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and carried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.
11802 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 17 And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.
11803 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 18 And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have sanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,
11804 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 19 And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his reign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set forth before the altar of the Lord.
11805 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 20 And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the city, and went up into the house of the Lord:
11806 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 21 And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.
11807 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 22 Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar.
11808 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 23 And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:
11809 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 24 And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
11810 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the king, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the commandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.
11811 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 26 And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets.
11812 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 27 And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which David the king of Israel had prepared.
11813 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 28 And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the trumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.
11814 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 29 And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were with him bowed down and adored.
11815 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 30 And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.
11816 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 31 And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the Lord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a devout mind.
11817 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 32 And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.
11818 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 33 And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three thousand sheep.
11819 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 34 But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.
11820 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 35 So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings, and the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the Lord was completed.
11821 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 29 36 And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was taken suddenly.
11822 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 1 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,
11823 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 2 For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.
11824 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 3 For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered together to Jerusalem.
11825 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 4 And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.
11826 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 5 And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed by the law.
11827 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 6 And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and his princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king’s orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant of you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
11828 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 7 Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the Lord the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to destruction, as you see.
11829 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 8 Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you.
11830 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 9 For if you turn again to the Lord, your brethren, and children shall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive, and they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
11831 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 10 So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land of Ephraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at them and mocked them.
11832 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 11 Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon, yielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.
11833 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 12 But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the princes.
11834 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 13 And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:
11835 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 14 And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast them into the torrent Cedron.
11836 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 15 And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.
11837 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 16 And they stood in their order according to the disposition and law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,
11838 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 17 Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.
11839 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 18 For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase otherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The Lord who is good will shew mercy,
11840 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 19 To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not sanctified.
11841 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 20 And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.
11842 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 21 And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the Lord every day. the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments that agreed to their office.
11843 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 22 And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord the God of their fathers.
11844 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 23 And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days: which they did with great joy.
11845 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 24 For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given the people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests was sanctified.
11846 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 25 And all the multitude of Juda with the priests and Levites, and all the assembly, that came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.
11847 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 26 And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not been in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel.
11848 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 30 27 And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.
11849 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 1 And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.
11850 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 2 And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites, by their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the priests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the Lord.
11851 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 3 And the king’s part was, that of his proper substance the holocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written in the law of Moses.
11852 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 4 He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to the priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to the law of the Lord.
11853 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 5 Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground bringeth forth.
11854 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 6 Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the cities of Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of holy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and carrying them all, made many heaps.
11855 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 7 In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.
11856 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 8 And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.
11857 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 9 And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.
11858 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 10 Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him, saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left, because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is this great store which thou seest.
11859 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 11 Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when they had done so,
11860 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 12 They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes, and all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the Levite, and Semei his brother was the second,
11861 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 13 And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and Banaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother, by the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of the house of God, to whom all things appertained.
11862 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 14 But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east gate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord, and of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.
11863 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 15 And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:
11864 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 16 Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that went into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in the ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.
11865 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 17 To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.
11866 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 18 And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things that had been sanctified.
11867 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 19 Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.
11868 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 20 So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God,
11869 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 31 21 In all the service of the ministry of the house of the Lord according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it and prospered.
11870 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 1 After these things, and this truth, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came and entered into Juda, and besieged the fenced cities, desiring to take them.
11871 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 2 And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the whole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem,
11872 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 3 He took counsel with the princes, and the most valiant men, to stop up the heads of the springs, that were without the city: and as they were all of this mind,
11873 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 4 He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up all the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land, saying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and find abundance of water.
11874 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 5 He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and shields:
11875 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 6 And he appointed captains of the soldiers of the army: and he called them all together in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke to their heart, saying:
11876 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 7 Behave like men, and take courage: be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of the Assyrians, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there are many more with us than with him.
11877 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 8 For with him is an arm of flesh: with us the Lord our God, who is our helper, and fighteth for us. And the people were encouraged with these words of Ezechias king of Juda.
11878 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 9 After this, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians sent his servants to Jerusalem, (for he with all his army was besieging Lachis,) to Ezechias king of Juda, and to all the people that were in the city, saying:
11879 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: In whom do you trust, that you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?
11880 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 11 Doth not Ezechias deceive you, to give you up to die by hunger and thirst, affirming that the Lord your God shall deliver you from the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
11881 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?
11882 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 13 Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of the lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to deliver their country out of my hand?
11883 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 14 Who is there among all the gods of the nations, which my fathers have destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of this hand?
11884 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 15 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.
11885 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 16 And many other things did his servants speak against the Lord God, and against Ezechias his servant.
11886 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 17 He wrote also letters full of blasphemy against the Lord the God of Israel, and he spoke against him: As the gods of other nations could not deliver their people out of my hand, so neither can the God of Ezechias deliver his people out of this hand.
11887 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 18 Moreover he cried out with a loud voice, in the Jews’ tongue, to the people that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, that he might frighten them, and take the city.
11888 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 19 And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.
11889 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 20 And Ezechias the king, and Isaias the prophet the son of Amos, prayed against this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven.
11890 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 21 And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the stout men and the warriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and he returned with disgrace into his own country. And when he was come into the house of his god, his sons that came out of his bowels, slew him with the sword.
11891 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 22 And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the hand of all, and gave them treasures on every side.
11892 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 23 Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified thenceforth in the sight of all nations.
11893 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 24 In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and he prayed to the Lord: and he heard him, and gave him a sign.
11894 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 25 But he did not render again according to the benefits which he had received, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was enkindled against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem.
11895 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 26 And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart had been lifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias.
11896 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 27 And Ezechias was rich, and very glorious, and he gathered himself great treasures of silver and of gold, and of precious stones, of spices, and of arms, of all kinds, and of vessels of great price.
11897 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 28 Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for all beasts, and folds for cattle.
11898 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 29 And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.
11899 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 30 This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.
11900 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 31 But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.
11901 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 32 Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and of his mercies are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
11902 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 32 33 And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.
11903 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 1 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
11904 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 2 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:
11905 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 3 And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.
11906 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 4 He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
11907 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 5 And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
11908 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 6 And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
11909 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 7 He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever.
11910 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 8 And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.
11911 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 9 So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
11912 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 10 And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not hearken.
11913 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 11 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.
11914 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 12 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
11915 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 13 And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.
11916 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 14 After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the fish gate round about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:
11917 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city.
11918 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 16 And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed upon it victims, and peace offerings, and praise: and he commanded Juda to serve the Lord the God of Israel.
11919 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to the Lord their God.
11920 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 18 But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.
11921 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 19 His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.
11922 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 20 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.
11923 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
11924 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 22 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had made, and served them.
11925 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 23 And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasses his father had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.
11926 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
11927 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 33 25 But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.
11928 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 1 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.
11929 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
11930 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.
11931 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 4 And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.
11932 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.
11933 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 6 And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.
11934 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 7 And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had broken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
11935 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land, and the temple of the Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Eselias, and Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of Joachaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
11936 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 9 And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the money which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the Levites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim, and all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
11937 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 10 Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the workmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all that was weak.
11938 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 11 But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy stones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the building, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had destroyed.
11939 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 12 And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen were Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of the sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play on instruments.
11940 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 13 But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.
11941 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 14 Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
11942 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 15 And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him.
11943 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 16 But he carried the book to the king, and told him, saying: Lo, all that thou hast committed to thy servants, is accomplished.
11944 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 17 They have gathered together the silver that was found in the house of the Lord: and it is given to the overseers of the artificers, and of the workmen, for divers works.
11945 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 18 Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this book. And he read it before the king.
11946 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 19 And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments:
11947 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 20 And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Abdon the son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king’s servant, saying:
11948 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 21 Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel, and Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in this book.
11949 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 22 And Helcias and they that were sent with him by the king, went to Olda the prophetess, the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son of Hasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second part: and they spoke to her the words above mentioned.
11950 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 23 And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me:
11951 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 24 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written in this book which they read before the king of Juda.
11952 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath shall fall upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
11953 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 26 But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord, thus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Because thou hast heard the words of this book,
11954 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 27 And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy garments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
11955 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 28 For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They therefore reported to the king all that she had said.
11956 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 29 And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.
11957 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 30 And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all the people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their hearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.
11958 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 31 And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the Lord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and justifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the things that were written in that book which he had read.
11959 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 32 And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to do the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.
11960 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 34 33 And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the countries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in Israel, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed not from the Lord the God of their fathers.
11961 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 1 And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.
11962 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 2 And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to minister in the house of the Lord.
11963 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 3 And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was sanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the temple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you shall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to his people Israel.
11964 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 4 And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to your courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son hath written.
11965 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 5 And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.
11966 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 6 And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
11967 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 7 And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the solemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of other small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were of the king’s substance.
11968 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 8 And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
11969 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 9 And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and Hasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the rest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
11970 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 10 And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king’s commandment.
11971 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 11 And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
11972 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 12 And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families of every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.
11973 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 13 And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is written in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in caldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily among all the people.
11974 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 14 And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the fat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron last.
11975 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore their brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.
11976 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 16 So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day, both in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
11977 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 17 And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase at that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days.
11978 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 18 There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11979 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase celebrated.
11980 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 20 After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt came up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to meet him.
11981 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 21 But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste: forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.
11982 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 22 Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and hearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to fight in the field of Mageddo.
11983 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 23 And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his servants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.
11984 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 24 And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,
11985 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
11986 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according to what was commanded by the law of the Lord:
11987 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 35 27 And his works first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
11988 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 1 Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.
11989 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 2 Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
11990 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 3 And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
11991 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 4 And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with him and carried him away into Egypt.
11992 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 5 Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God.
11993 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 6 Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon.
11994 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 7 And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them in his temple.
11995 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 8 But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.
11996 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 9 Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
11997 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 10 And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.
11998 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 11 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
11999 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 12 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not reverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord.
12000 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 13 He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him swear by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to the Lord the God of Israel.
12001 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.
12002 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 15 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.
12003 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.
12004 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands.
12005 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 18 And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he carried away to Babylon.
12006 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 19 And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious they destroyed.
12007 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 20 Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there served the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,
12008 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.
12009 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 22 But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying:
12010 2 Chronicles 2Chr 14 36 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
12011 Esdras Ezra 15 1 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:
12012 Esdras Ezra 15 1 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.
12013 Esdras Ezra 15 1 3 Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.
12014 Esdras Ezra 15 1 4 And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help him every man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in Jerusalem.
12015 Esdras Ezra 15 1 5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.
12016 Esdras Ezra 15 1 6 And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.
12017 Esdras Ezra 15 1 7 And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the temple of his god.
12018 Esdras Ezra 15 1 8 Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of Mithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the prince of Juda.
12019 Esdras Ezra 15 1 9 And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,
12020 Esdras Ezra 15 1 10 Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels a thousand.
12021 Esdras Ezra 15 1 11 All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred: all these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity of Babylon to Jerusalem.
12022 Esdras Ezra 15 2 1 Now these are the children of the province, that went out of the captivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every man to his city.
12023 Esdras Ezra 15 2 2 Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia, Saraia, Rahelaia, Mardochai, Belsan, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
12024 Esdras Ezra 15 2 3 The children of Pharos two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
12025 Esdras Ezra 15 2 4 The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
12026 Esdras Ezra 15 2 5 The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.
12027 Esdras Ezra 15 2 6 The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two thousand eight hundred twelve.
12028 Esdras Ezra 15 2 7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.
12029 Esdras Ezra 15 2 8 The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-five.
12030 Esdras Ezra 15 2 9 The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.
12031 Esdras Ezra 15 2 10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
12032 Esdras Ezra 15 2 11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
12033 Esdras Ezra 15 2 12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two.
12034 Esdras Ezra 15 2 13 The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-six.
12035 Esdras Ezra 15 2 14 The children of Beguai, two thousand fifty-six.
12036 Esdras Ezra 15 2 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
12037 Esdras Ezra 15 2 16 The children of Ather, who were of Ezechias, ninety-eight.
12038 Esdras Ezra 15 2 17 The children of Besai, three hundred and twenty-three.
12039 Esdras Ezra 15 2 18 The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.
12040 Esdras Ezra 15 2 19 The children of Hasum, two hundred twenty-three.
12041 Esdras Ezra 15 2 20 The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.
12042 Esdras Ezra 15 2 21 The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.
12043 Esdras Ezra 15 2 22 The men of Netupha, fifty-six.
12044 Esdras Ezra 15 2 23 The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.
12045 Esdras Ezra 15 2 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
12046 Esdras Ezra 15 2 25 The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.
12047 Esdras Ezra 15 2 26 The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hundred twenty-one.
12048 Esdras Ezra 15 2 27 The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.
12049 Esdras Ezra 15 2 28 The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred twenty-three.
12050 Esdras Ezra 15 2 29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
12051 Esdras Ezra 15 2 30 The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.
12052 Esdras Ezra 15 2 31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.
12053 Esdras Ezra 15 2 32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
12054 Esdras Ezra 15 2 33 The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
12055 Esdras Ezra 15 2 34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
12056 Esdras Ezra 15 2 35 The children of Senaa, three thousand six hundred thirty.
12057 Esdras Ezra 15 2 36 The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine hundred seventy-three.
12058 Esdras Ezra 15 2 37 The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.
12059 Esdras Ezra 15 2 38 The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.
12060 Esdras Ezra 15 2 39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
12061 Esdras Ezra 15 2 40 The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children of Odovia, seventy-four.
12062 Esdras Ezra 15 2 41 The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.
12063 Esdras Ezra 15 2 42 The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.
12064 Esdras Ezra 15 2 43 The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
12065 Esdras Ezra 15 2 44 The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of Phadon,
12066 Esdras Ezra 15 2 45 The children of Lebana, the children of Hegaba, the children of Accub,
12067 Esdras Ezra 15 2 46 The children of Hagab, the children of Semlai, the children of Hanan,
12068 Esdras Ezra 15 2 47 The children of Gaddel, the children of Gaher, the children of Raaia,
12069 Esdras Ezra 15 2 48 The children of Rasin, the children of Necoda, the children of Gazam,
12070 Esdras Ezra 15 2 49 The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of Besee,
12071 Esdras Ezra 15 2 50 The children of Asena, the children of Munim, the children of Nephusim,
12072 Esdras Ezra 15 2 51 The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of Harhur,
12073 Esdras Ezra 15 2 52 The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of Harsa,
12074 Esdras Ezra 15 2 53 The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of Thema,
12075 Esdras Ezra 15 2 54 The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,
12076 Esdras Ezra 15 2 55 The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sotai, the children of Sopheret, the children of Pharuda,
12077 Esdras Ezra 15 2 56 The children of Jala, the children of Dercon, the children of Geddel,
12078 Esdras Ezra 15 2 57 The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of Phochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,
12079 Esdras Ezra 15 2 58 All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.
12080 Esdras Ezra 15 2 59 And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers and their seed, whether they were of Israel.
12081 Esdras Ezra 15 2 60 The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of Necoda, six hundred fifty-two.
12082 Esdras Ezra 15 2 61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobia, the children of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their name:
12083 Esdras Ezra 15 2 62 These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and they were cast out of the priesthood.
12084 Esdras Ezra 15 2 63 And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy of holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.
12085 Esdras Ezra 15 2 64 All the multitudes as one man, were forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty:
12086 Esdras Ezra 15 2 65 Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women two hundred.
12087 Esdras Ezra 15 2 66 Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred forty-five,
12088 Esdras Ezra 15 2 67 Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
12089 Esdras Ezra 15 2 68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.
12090 Esdras Ezra 15 2 69 According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.
12091 Esdras Ezra 15 2 70 So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singing men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
12092 Esdras Ezra 15 3 1 And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
12093 Esdras Ezra 15 3 2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
12094 Esdras Ezra 15 3 3 And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.
12095 Esdras Ezra 15 3 4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment, the duty of the day in its day.
12096 Esdras Ezra 15 3 5 And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.
12097 Esdras Ezra 15 3 6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
12098 Esdras Ezra 15 3 7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
12099 Esdras Ezra 15 3 8 And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.
12100 Esdras Ezra 15 3 9 Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.
12101 Esdras Ezra 15 3 10 And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.
12102 Esdras Ezra 15 3 11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.
12103 Esdras Ezra 15 3 12 But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
12104 Esdras Ezra 15 3 13 So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
12105 Esdras Ezra 15 4 1 Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.
12106 Esdras Ezra 15 4 2 And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither.
12107 Esdras Ezra 15 4 3 But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as Cyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.
12108 Esdras Ezra 15 4 4 Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them in building.
12109 Esdras Ezra 15 4 5 And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of the Persians.
12110 Esdras Ezra 15 4 6 And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.
12111 Esdras Ezra 15 4 7 And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the Persians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was read in the Syrian tongue.
12112 Esdras Ezra 15 4 8 Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Jerusalem to king Artaxerxes, in this manner:
12113 Esdras Ezra 15 4 9 Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and the rest of their counsellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the Apharsites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the Dievites, and the Elamites,
12114 Esdras Ezra 15 4 10 And the rest of the nations, whom the great and glorious Asenaphar brought over: and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the countries of this side of the river in peace.
12115 Esdras Ezra 15 4 11 (This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him15 To Artaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the river, send greeting.
12116 Esdras Ezra 15 4 12 Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who came up from thee to us, are come to Jerusalem a rebellious and wicked city, which they are building, setting up the ramparts thereof and repairing the walls.
12117 Esdras Ezra 15 4 13 And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up, and the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor yearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.
12118 Esdras Ezra 15 4 14 But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and because we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore sent and certified the king,
12119 Esdras Ezra 15 4 15 That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy fathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and provinces, and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which cause also the city was destroyed.
12120 Esdras Ezra 15 4 16 We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls thereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the river.
12121 Esdras Ezra 15 4 17 The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to the rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the rest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace.
12122 Esdras Ezra 15 4 18 The accusation, which you have sent to us, hath been plainly read before me,
12123 Esdras Ezra 15 4 19 And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that this city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and wars have been raised therein.
12124 Esdras Ezra 15 4 20 For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.
12125 Esdras Ezra 15 4 21 Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city be not built, till further orders be given by me.
12126 Esdras Ezra 15 4 22 See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.
12127 Esdras Ezra 15 4 23 Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.
12128 Esdras Ezra 15 4 24 Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.
12129 Esdras Ezra 15 5 1 Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel.
12130 Esdras Ezra 15 5 2 Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
12131 Esdras Ezra 15 5 3 And at the same time came to them Thathanai, who was governor beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and said thus to them: Who hath given you counsel to build this house, and to repair the walls thereof?
12132 Esdras Ezra 15 5 4 In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the promoters of that building.
12133 Esdras Ezra 15 5 5 But the eye of their God was upon the ancients of the Jews, and they could not hinder them. And it was agreed that the matter should be referred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning that accusation.
12134 Esdras Ezra 15 5 6 The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the Arphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.
12135 Esdras Ezra 15 5 7 The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the king all peace.
12136 Esdras Ezra 15 5 8 Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished stones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on diligently and advanceth in their hands.
12137 Esdras Ezra 15 5 9 And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?
12138 Esdras Ezra 15 5 10 We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them.
12139 Esdras Ezra 15 5 11 And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was built these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and set up.
12140 Esdras Ezra 15 5 12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the people to Babylon.
12141 Esdras Ezra 15 5 13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth a decree, that this house of God should be built.
12142 Esdras Ezra 15 5 14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom also he appointed governor,
12143 Esdras Ezra 15 5 15 And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.
12144 Esdras Ezra 15 5 16 Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in building, and is not yet finished.
12145 Esdras Ezra 15 5 17 Now therefore if it seem good to the king, let him search in the king’s library, which is in Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by Cyrus the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
12146 Esdras Ezra 15 6 1 Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of the books that were laid up in Babylon,
12147 Esdras Ezra 15 6 2 And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.
12148 Esdras Ezra 15 6 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore cubits,
12149 Esdras Ezra 15 6 4 Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king’s house.
12150 Esdras Ezra 15 6 5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to their place, which also were placed in the temple of God.
12151 Esdras Ezra 15 6 6 Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, Stharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond the river, depart far from them,
12152 Esdras Ezra 15 6 7 And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews, and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its place.
12153 Esdras Ezra 15 6 8 I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king’s chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work be hindered.
12154 Esdras Ezra 15 6 9 And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and kids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given them day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.
12155 Esdras Ezra 15 6 10 And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.
12156 Esdras Ezra 15 6 11 And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.
12157 Esdras Ezra 15 6 12 And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to resist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.
12158 Esdras Ezra 15 6 13 So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the king had commanded.
12159 Esdras Ezra 15 6 14 And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians.
12160 Esdras Ezra 15 6 15 And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
12161 Esdras Ezra 15 6 16 And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house of God with joy.
12162 Esdras Ezra 15 6 17 And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a hundred calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
12163 Esdras Ezra 15 6 18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
12164 Esdras Ezra 15 6 19 And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the first month.
12165 Esdras Ezra 15 6 20 For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all were clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and themselves.
12166 Esdras Ezra 15 6 21 And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and all that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.
12167 Esdras Ezra 15 6 22 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the house of the Lord the God of Israel.
12168 Esdras Ezra 15 7 1 Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Helcias,
12169 Esdras Ezra 15 7 2 The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,
12170 Esdras Ezra 15 7 3 The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,
12171 Esdras Ezra 15 7 4 The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,
12172 Esdras Ezra 15 7 5 The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest from the beginning.
12173 Esdras Ezra 15 7 6 This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
12174 Esdras Ezra 15 7 7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
12175 Esdras Ezra 15 7 8 And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king.
12176 Esdras Ezra 15 7 9 For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him.
12177 Esdras Ezra 15 7 10 For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.
12178 Esdras Ezra 15 7 11 And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king Artaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the words and commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.
12179 Esdras Ezra 15 7 12 Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.
12180 Esdras Ezra 15 7 13 It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and of the priests and of the Levites in my realm, that are minded to go into Jerusalem, should go with thee.
12181 Esdras Ezra 15 7 14 For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven counsellors, to visit Judea and Jerusalem according to the law of thy God, which is in thy hand.
12182 Esdras Ezra 15 7 15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose tabernacle is in Jerusalem.
12183 Esdras Ezra 15 7 16 And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that the priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem,
12184 Esdras Ezra 15 7 17 Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams, lambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon the altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.
12185 Esdras Ezra 15 7 18 And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing with the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of your God.
12186 Esdras Ezra 15 7 19 The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the house of thy God, deliver thou in the sight of God in Jerusalem.
12187 Esdras Ezra 15 7 20 And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy God, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be given out of the treasury, and the king’s exchequer, and by me.
12188 Esdras Ezra 15 7 21 I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers of the public chest, that are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, you give it without delay,
12189 Esdras Ezra 15 7 22 Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of wheat, and unto a hundred bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of oil, and salt without measure.
12190 Esdras Ezra 15 7 23 All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be given diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath should be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons.
12191 Esdras Ezra 15 7 24 We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and ministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to impose toll or tribute, or custom upon them.
12192 Esdras Ezra 15 7 25 And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.
12193 Esdras Ezra 15 7 26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto death, or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least to prison.
12194 Esdras Ezra 15 7 27 Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king’s heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem,
12195 Esdras Ezra 15 7 28 And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his counsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
12196 Esdras Ezra 15 8 1 Now these are the chiefs of families, and the genealogy of them, who came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
12197 Esdras Ezra 15 8 2 Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattus.
12198 Esdras Ezra 15 8 3 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with him were numbered a hundred and fifty men.
12199 Esdras Ezra 15 8 4 Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with him two hundred men.
12200 Esdras Ezra 15 8 5 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three hundred men.
12201 Esdras Ezra 15 8 6 Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty men.
12202 Esdras Ezra 15 8 7 Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him seventy men.
12203 Esdras Ezra 15 8 8 Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him eighty men.
12204 Esdras Ezra 15 8 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.
12205 Esdras Ezra 15 8 10 Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a hundred and sixty men.
12206 Esdras Ezra 15 8 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him eight and twenty men.
12207 Esdras Ezra 15 8 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a hundred and ten men.
12208 Esdras Ezra 15 8 13 Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their names: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.
12209 Esdras Ezra 15 8 14 Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy men.
12210 Esdras Ezra 15 8 15 And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.
12211 Esdras Ezra 15 8 16 So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam, chief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.
12212 Esdras Ezra 15 8 17 And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia, and I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and his brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should bring us ministers of the house of our God.
12213 Esdras Ezra 15 8 18 And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most learned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel, and Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,
12214 Esdras Ezra 15 8 19 And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his brethren, and his sons twenty.
12215 Esdras Ezra 15 8 20 And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these were called by their names.
12216 Esdras Ezra 15 8 21 And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.
12217 Esdras Ezra 15 8 22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.
12218 Esdras Ezra 15 8 23 And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
12219 Esdras Ezra 15 8 24 And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,
12220 Esdras Ezra 15 8 25 And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels consecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had offered.
12221 Esdras Ezra 15 8 26 And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,
12222 Esdras Ezra 15 8 27 And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.
12223 Esdras Ezra 15 8 28 And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the Lord the God of our fathers.
12224 Esdras Ezra 15 8 29 Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver them by weight before the chief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the Lord.
12225 Esdras Ezra 15 8 30 And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
12226 Esdras Ezra 15 8 31 Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
12227 Esdras Ezra 15 8 32 And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.
12228 Esdras Ezra 15 8 33 And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Urias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.
12229 Esdras Ezra 15 8 34 According to the number and weight of everything: and all the weight was written at that time.
12230 Esdras Ezra 15 8 35 Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that were come out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of Israel, twelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust to the Lord.
12231 Esdras Ezra 15 8 36 And they gave the king’s edicts to the lords that were from the king’s court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered the people and the house of God.
12232 Esdras Ezra 15 9 1 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.
12233 Esdras Ezra 15 9 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.
12234 Esdras Ezra 15 9 3 And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.
12235 Esdras Ezra 15 9 4 And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that were come from the captivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.
12236 Esdras Ezra 15 9 5 And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and having rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
12237 Esdras Ezra 15 9 6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,
12238 Esdras Ezra 15 9 7 From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day.
12239 Esdras Ezra 15 9 8 And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.
12240 Esdras Ezra 15 9 9 For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.
12241 Esdras Ezra 15 9 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
12242 Esdras Ezra 15 9 11 Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth.
12243 Esdras Ezra 15 9 12 Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not their daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their prosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good things of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.
12244 Esdras Ezra 15 9 13 And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,
12245 Esdras Ezra 15 9 14 That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?
12246 Esdras Ezra 15 9 15 O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be saved as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there can be no standing before thee in this matter.
12247 Esdras Ezra 15 10 1 Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation.
12248 Esdras Ezra 15 10 2 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,
12249 Esdras Ezra 15 10 3 Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.
12250 Esdras Ezra 15 10 4 Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee: take courage, and do it.
12251 Esdras Ezra 15 10 5 So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.
12252 Esdras Ezra 15 10 6 And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate no bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them that were come out of the captivity.
12253 Esdras Ezra 15 10 7 And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble together into Jerusalem.
12254 Esdras Ezra 15 10 8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the ancients, all his substance should be taken away, and he should be cast out of the company of them that were returned from captivity.
12255 Esdras Ezra 15 10 9 Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.
12256 Esdras Ezra 15 10 10 And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.
12257 Esdras Ezra 15 10 11 And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.
12258 Esdras Ezra 15 10 12 And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.
12259 Esdras Ezra 15 10 13 But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)
12260 Esdras Ezra 15 10 14 Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our cities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times appointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city, until the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.
12261 Esdras Ezra 15 10 15 Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and Jaasia the son of Thecua were appointed over this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped them:
12262 Esdras Ezra 15 10 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
12263 Esdras Ezra 15 10 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
12264 Esdras Ezra 15 10 18 And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.
12265 Esdras Ezra 15 10 19 And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer for their offence a ram of the flock.
12266 Esdras Ezra 15 10 20 And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and Zebedia.
12267 Esdras Ezra 15 10 21 And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia, and Semeia, and Jehiel, and Ozias.
12268 Esdras Ezra 15 10 22 And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael, Jozabed, and Elasa.
12269 Esdras Ezra 15 10 23 And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia, the same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.
12270 Esdras Ezra 15 10 24 And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the porters, Sellum, and Telem, and Uri.
12271 Esdras Ezra 15 10 25 And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Remeia, and Jezia, and Melchia, and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.
12272 Esdras Ezra 15 10 26 And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.
12273 Esdras Ezra 15 10 27 And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania, Jerimuth, and Zabad, and Aziaza.
12274 Esdras Ezra 15 10 28 And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:
12275 Esdras Ezra 15 10 29 And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch, and Adaia, Jasub, and Saal, and Ramoth.
12276 Esdras Ezra 15 10 30 And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and Maasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.
12277 Esdras Ezra 15 10 31 And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue, Melchias, Semeias, Simeon,
12278 Esdras Ezra 15 10 32 Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.
12279 Esdras Ezra 15 10 33 And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jermai, Manasse, Semei.
12280 Esdras Ezra 15 10 34 Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and Uel,
12281 Esdras Ezra 15 10 35 Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,
12282 Esdras Ezra 15 10 36 Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,
12283 Esdras Ezra 15 10 37 Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,
12284 Esdras Ezra 15 10 38 And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,
12285 Esdras Ezra 15 10 39 And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,
12286 Esdras Ezra 15 10 40 And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,
12287 Esdras Ezra 15 10 41 Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,
12288 Esdras Ezra 15 10 42 Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.
12289 Esdras Ezra 15 10 43 Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu, and Joel, and Banaia.
12290 Esdras Ezra 15 10 44 All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children.
12291 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 1 The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And it came to pass in the month of Casleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in the castle of Susa,
12292 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 2 That Hanani one of my brethren came, he and some men of Juda; and I asked them concerning the Jews, that remained and were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
12293 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 3 And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach: and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.
12294 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 4 And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.
12295 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 5 And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee, and keep thy commandments:
12296 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father’s house have sinned.
12297 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 7 We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant Moses.
12298 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 8 Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
12299 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 9 But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them, though you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I will gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I have chosen for my name to dwell there.
12300 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 10 And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast redeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand.
12301 Nehemiah Neh 16 1 11 I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
12302 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 1 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.
12303 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 2 And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:
12304 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 3 And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
12305 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 4 Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,
12306 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 5 And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
12307 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 6 And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.
12308 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 7 And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea:
12309 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.
12310 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 9 And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. And the king had sent with me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.
12311 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 10 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.
12312 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 11 And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12313 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
12314 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.
12315 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 14 And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.
12316 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 15 And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.
12317 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 16 But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.
12318 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 17 Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
12319 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 18 And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king’s words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
12320 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?
12321 Nehemiah Neh 16 2 20 And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.
12322 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 1 Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests, and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto the tower of Hananeel.
12323 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 2 And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built Zachur the son of Amri.
12324 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 3 But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them built Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.
12325 Nehemiah Neh 4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of Merezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.
12326 Nehemiah Neh 5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
12327 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 6 And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia built the old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars.
12328 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 7 And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the Meronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in the country beyond the river.
12329 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 8 And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and next to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left Jerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.
12330 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 9 And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street of Jerusalem.
12331 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 10 And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own house: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.
12332 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 11 Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab, built half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.
12333 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 12 And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half the street of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
12334 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 13 And the gate of the valley Hanun built, and the inhabitants of Zanoe: they built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the gate of the dunghill.
12335 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 14 And the gate of the dunghill Melchias the son of Rechab built, lord of the street of Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars.
12336 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 15 And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built, lord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the pool of Siloe unto the king’s guard, and unto the steps that go down from the city of David.
12337 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 16 After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.
12338 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 17 After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him built Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street.
12339 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 18 After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of half Ceila.
12340 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 19 And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built another measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.
12341 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 20 After him in the mount Baruch the son of Zachai built another measure, from the corner to the door of the house of Eliasib the high priest.
12342 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 21 After him Merimuth the son of Urias the son of Haccus, built another measure, from the door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of the house of Eliasib.
12343 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 22 And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the Jordan.
12344 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 23 After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over against their own house: and after him built Azarias the son of Maasias the son of Ananias over against his house.
12345 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 24 After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad another measure, from the house of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the corner.
12346 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 25 Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower, which lieth out from the king’s high house, that is, in the court of the prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.
12347 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 26 And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.
12348 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 27 After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from the great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.
12349 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 28 And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over against his house.
12350 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 29 After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house. And after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east gate.
12351 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 30 After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth son of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of Barachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith’s son built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small wares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the corner.
12352 Nehemiah Neh 16 3 31 And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants built.
12353 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 1 And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed at the Jews.
12354 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 2 And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?
12355 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 3 Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.
12356 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 4 Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.
12357 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 5 Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.
12358 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 6 So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.
12359 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 7 And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry.
12360 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 8 And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.
12361 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 9 And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.
12362 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 10 And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.
12363 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 11 And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
12364 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,
12365 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 13 I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.
12366 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 14 And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your houses.
12367 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had been told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of us to the walls, every man to his work.
12368 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 16 And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears, and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda.
12369 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 17 Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.
12370 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 18 For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.
12371 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 19 And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another:
12372 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 20 In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.
12373 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 21 And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.
12374 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 22 At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work.
12375 Nehemiah Neh 16 4 23 Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed.
12376 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 1 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
12377 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 2 And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
12378 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 3 And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
12379 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 4 And others said: Let us borrow money for the king’s tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:
12380 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.
12381 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 6 And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words.
12382 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 7 And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
12383 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 8 And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.
12384 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 9 And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?
12385 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 10 Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the debt that is owing to us.
12386 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 11 Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.
12387 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 12 And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.
12388 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 13 Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.
12389 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 14 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.
12390 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.
12391 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 16 Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.
12392 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 17 The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
12393 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 18 And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.
12394 Nehemiah Neh 16 5 19 Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.
12395 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 1 And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)
12396 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 2 Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
12397 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 3 And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you.
12398 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 4 And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.
12399 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 5 And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:
12400 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 6 It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end
12401 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 7 Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.
12402 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 8 And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.
12403 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 9 For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:
12404 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 10 And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay thee.
12405 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 11 And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.
12406 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 12 And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had hired him.
12407 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 13 For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.
12408 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 14 Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.
12409 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 15 But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.
12410 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 16 And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of God.
12411 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 17 Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.
12412 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 18 For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.
12413 Nehemiah Neh 16 6 19 And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.
12414 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 1 Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:
12415 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 2 I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God above the rest,)
12416 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 3 And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till the sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were shut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one by their courses, and every man over against his house.
12417 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 4 And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.
12418 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 5 But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and magistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of the number of them who came up at first and therein it was found written:
12419 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 6 These are the children of the province, who came up from the captivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every one into his own city.
12420 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 7 Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemias, Azarias, Raamias, Nahamani, Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum, Baana. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
12421 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 8 The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
12422 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 9 The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.
12423 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 10 The children of Area, six hundred fifty-two.
12424 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 11 The children of Phahath Moab of the children of Josue and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
12425 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 12 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
12426 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 13 The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.
12427 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 14 The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.
12428 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 15 The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.
12429 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
12430 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
12431 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 18 The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.
12432 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 19 The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.
12433 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
12434 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 21 The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.
12435 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 22 The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.
12436 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 23 The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.
12437 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 24 The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.
12438 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 25 The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.
12439 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 26 The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.
12440 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.
12441 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 28 The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.
12442 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 29 The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.
12443 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 30 The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
12444 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 31 The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.
12445 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 32 The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.
12446 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
12447 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 34 The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
12448 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 35 The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.
12449 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
12450 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 37 The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
12451 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 38 The children of Senaa, three thousand nine hundred thirty.
12452 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 39 The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine hundred and seventy-three.
12453 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 40 The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.
12454 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 41 The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
12455 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 42 The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:
12456 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 43 The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons
12457 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 44 Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:
12458 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 45 The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.
12459 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 46 The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.
12460 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 47 The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tebbaoth,
12461 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 48 The children of Ceros, the children of Siaa, the children of Phadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Selmai,
12462 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 49 The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of Gaher,
12463 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 50 The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of Necoda,
12464 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 51 The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of Phasea,
12465 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 52 The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of Nephussim,
12466 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 53 The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of Harhur,
12467 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 54 The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of Harsa,
12468 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 55 The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of Thema,
12469 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 56 The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,
12470 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 57 The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,
12471 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 58 The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of Jeddel,
12472 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 59 The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of Phochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.
12473 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 60 All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.
12474 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 61 And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
12475 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 62 The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of Necoda, six hundred forty-two.
12476 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 63 And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai the Galaadite, and he was called by their name.
12477 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 64 These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.
12478 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 65 And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.
12479 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 66 All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
12480 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 67 Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women, two hundred forty-five.
12481 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred forty-five.
12482 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 69 Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
12483 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 70 And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.
12484 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 71 And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds of silver.
12485 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 72 And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven garments for priests.
12486 Nehemiah Neh 16 7 73 And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singing men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and all Israel dwelt in their cities.
12487 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 1 And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
12488 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 2 Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month.
12489 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 3 And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.
12490 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 4 And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam.
12491 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 5 And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.
12492 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 6 And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground.
12493 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 7 Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their place.
12494 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 8 And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read.
12495 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 9 And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
12496 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
12497 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 11 And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace, for the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.
12498 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 12 So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had taught them.
12499 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 13 And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras the scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.
12500 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 14 And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:
12501 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 15 And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch branches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles, as it is written.
12502 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 16 And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
12503 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 17 And all the assembly of them that were returned from the captivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the days of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so, until that day: and there was exceeding great joy.
12504 Nehemiah Neh 16 8 18 And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.
12505 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 1 And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
12506 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 2 And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
12507 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 3 And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they confessed, and adored the Lord their God.
12508 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 4 And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
12509 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 5 And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all blessing and praise.
12510 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 6 Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.
12511 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 7 Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.
12512 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 8 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.
12513 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.
12514 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 10 And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.
12515 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.
12516 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 12 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.
12517 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 13 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.
12518 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 14 Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.
12519 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 15 And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.
12520 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.
12521 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 17 And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.
12522 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 18 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:
12523 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.
12524 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 20 And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.
12525 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 21 Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.
12526 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 22 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.
12527 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 23 And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.
12528 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 24 And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as it pleased them.
12529 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.
12530 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.
12531 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 27 And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of their enemies.
12532 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 28 But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight: and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.
12533 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 29 And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
12534 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 30 And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.
12535 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 31 Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.
12536 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 32 Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.
12537 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 33 And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.
12538 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.
12539 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 35 And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.
12540 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 36 Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.
12541 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 37 And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.
12542 Nehemiah Neh 16 9 38 And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.
12543 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 1 And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of Hachelai, and Sedecias,
12544 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 2 Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,
12545 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 3 Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,
12546 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 4 Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,
12547 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 5 Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,
12548 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 6 Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,
12549 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 7 Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,
12550 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 8 Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.
12551 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 9 And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of Henadad, Cedmihel,
12552 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 10 And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,
12553 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 11 Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,
12554 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 12 Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,
12555 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 13 Odaia, Bani, Baninu.
12556 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 14 The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu, Bani,
12557 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 15 Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,
12558 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 16 Adonia, Begoai, Adin,
12559 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 17 Ater, Hezecia, Azur,
12560 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 18 Odaia, Hasum, Besai,
12561 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 19 Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,
12562 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 20 Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,
12563 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 21 Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,
12564 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 22 Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,
12565 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 23 Osee, Hanania, Hasub,
12566 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 24 Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,
12567 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 25 Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,
12568 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 26 Echaia, Hanan, Anan,
12569 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 27 Melluch, Haran, Baana:
12570 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 28 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters.
12571 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 29 All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with their chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would walk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant of God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord our God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.
12572 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 30 And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.
12573 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 31 And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.
12574 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 32 And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,
12575 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 33 For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.
12576 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 34 And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the people for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law of Moses:
12577 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 35 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord.
12578 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 36 And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep, to be offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
12579 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 37 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities.
12580 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the tithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their tithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure house.
12581 Nehemiah Neh 16 10 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry to the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the sanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men, and the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.
12582 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 1 And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of the people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
12583 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 2 And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
12584 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 3 These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.
12585 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 4 And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the children of Juda, and some of the children of Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the son of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son of Amarias, the son of Saphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,
12586 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 5 Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Cholhoza, the son of Hazia, the son of Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of the Silonite:
12587 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 6 All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
12588 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 7 And these are the children of Benjamin: Sellum the son of Mosollam, the son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the son of Masia, the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.
12589 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 8 And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
12590 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 9 And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and Judas the son of Senua was second over the city.
12591 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 10 And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib, Jachin,
12592 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 11 Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince of the house of God,
12593 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 12 And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight hundred twenty-two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia, the son of Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur, the son of Melchias,
12594 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 13 And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred forty-two. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of Mosollamoth, the son of Emmer,
12595 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 14 And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight: and their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.
12596 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 15 And of the Levites Semeia the son of Hasub, the son of Azaricam, the son of Hasabia, the son of Boni,
12597 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 16 And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business of the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,
12598 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 17 And Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zebedei, the son of Asaph, was the principal man to praise, and to give glory in prayer, and Becbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and Abda the son of Samua, the son of Galal, the son of Idithun.
12599 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
12600 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 19 And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the doors: a hundred seventy-two.
12601 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 20 And the rest of Israel, the priests and the Levites were in all the cities of Juda, every man in his possession.
12602 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 21 And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Nathinites.
12603 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 22 And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Azzi the son of Bani, the son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, were the singing men in the ministry of the house of God.
12604 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 23 For the king’s commandment was concerning them, and an order among the singing men day by day.
12605 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 24 And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the children of Zara the son of Juda was at the hand of the king, in all matters concerning the people,
12606 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 25 And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children of Juda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages thereof.
12607 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 26 And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Bethphaleth,
12608 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 27 And at Hasersual, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,
12609 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 28 And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in the villages thereof,
12610 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 29 And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jerimuth,
12611 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 30 Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages, at Lachis and its dependencies, and at Azeca and the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Bersabee unto the valley of Ennom.
12612 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 31 And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai, and at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,
12613 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 32 At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,
12614 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 33 Asor, Rama, Gethaim,
12615 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 34 Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,
12616 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 35 And Ono the valley of craftsmen.
12617 Nehemiah Neh 16 11 36 And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.
12618 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 1 Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,
12619 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 2 Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,
12620 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 3 Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,
12621 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 4 Addo, Genthon, Abia,
12622 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 5 Miamin, Madia, Belga,
12623 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 6 Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc, Helcias,
12624 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 7 Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren in the days of Josue.
12625 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 8 And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Juda, Mathanias, they and their brethren were over the hymns:
12626 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 9 And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their brethren every one in his office.
12627 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 10 And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib begot Joiada,
12628 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 11 And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jeddoa.
12629 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 12 And in the days of Joacim the priests and heads of the families were: Of Saraia, Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania:
12630 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 13 Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Johanan:
12631 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 14 Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:
12632 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 15 Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:
12633 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 16 Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosollam:
12634 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 17 Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:
12635 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 18 Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:
12636 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 19 Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:
12637 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 20 Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:
12638 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 21 Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.
12639 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 22 The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib, and Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
12640 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 23 The sons of Levi, heads of the families were written in the book of Chronicles, even unto the days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.
12641 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 24 Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to wait equally in order.
12642 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 25 Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.
12643 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 26 These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of Josedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the priest and scribe.
12644 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.
12645 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 28 And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of the plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati,
12646 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 29 And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about Jerusalem.
12647 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 30 And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
12648 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 31 And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I appointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate.
12649 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 32 And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,
12650 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 33 And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and Semeia, and Jeremias.
12651 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 34 And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son of Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia, the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,
12652 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 35 And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai, Nathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.
12653 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 36 And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the water gate eastward:
12654 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 37 And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the opposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,
12655 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 38 And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and even to the flock gate: and they stood still in the watch gate.
12656 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 39 And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.
12657 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 40 And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai, Zacharia, Hanania with trumpets,
12658 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 41 And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Johanan, and Melchia, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia was their overseer:
12659 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 42 And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they rejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also and their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.
12660 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 43 They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the treasure, for the libations, and for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in honour of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites: for Juda was joyful in the priests and Levites that assisted.
12661 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 44 And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
12662 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 45 For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.
12663 Nehemiah Neh 16 12 46 And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Nehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by day, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the sons of Aaron.
12664 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 1 And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:
12665 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.
12666 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 3 And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated every stranger from Israel.
12667 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 4 And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the treasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.
12668 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 5 And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.
12669 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 6 But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and after certain days I asked the king:
12670 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 7 And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib had done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house of God.
12671 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 8 And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.
12672 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 9 And I commanded and they cleansed the storehouses: and I brought thither again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.
12673 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that ministered were fled away every man to his own country:
12674 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 11 And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places.
12675 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 12 And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses.
12676 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 13 And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son of Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and to them were committed the portions of their brethren.
12677 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 14 Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies.
12678 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 15 In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on which it was lawful to sell.
12679 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 16 Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner of wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in Jerusalem.
12680 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 17 And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:
12681 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 18 Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel by violating the sabbath.
12682 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day.
12683 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 20 So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem, once or twice.
12684 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 21 And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.
12685 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 22 I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
12686 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 23 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
12687 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 24 And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews’ language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.
12688 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 25 And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:
12689 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.
12690 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 27 And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:
12691 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 28 And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.
12692 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 29 Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.
12693 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 30 So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:
12694 Nehemiah Neh 16 13 31 And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the firstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.
12695 Tobias Tob 17 1 1 Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the west, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,)
12696 Tobias Tob 17 1 2 When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,
12697 Tobias Tob 17 1 3 But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.
12698 Tobias Tob 17 1 4 And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.
12699 Tobias Tob 17 1 5 Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,
12700 Tobias Tob 17 1 6 And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,
12701 Tobias Tob 17 1 7 So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.
12702 Tobias Tob 17 1 8 These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God.
12703 Tobias Tob 17 1 9 But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,
12704 Tobias Tob 17 1 10 And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin.
12705 Tobias Tob 17 1 11 And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all his tribe was come to the city of Ninive,
12706 Tobias Tob 17 1 12 (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and never was defiled with their meats.
12707 Tobias Tob 17 1 13 And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God gave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king.
12708 Tobias Tob 17 1 14 And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a mind.
12709 Tobias Tob 17 1 15 He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them wholesome admonitions.
12710 Tobias Tob 17 1 16 And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten talents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:
12711 Tobias Tob 17 1 17 And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus in want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave him the aforesaid sum of money.
12712 Tobias Tob 17 1 18 But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when Sennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the children of Israel:
12713 Tobias Tob 17 1 19 Tobias daily went among all his kindred and comforted them, and distributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods:
12714 Tobias Tob 17 1 20 He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful to bury the dead, and they that were slain.
12715 Tobias Tob 17 1 21 And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy, and being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies.
12716 Tobias Tob 17 1 22 But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and took away all his substance.
12717 Tobias Tob 17 1 23 But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him.
12718 Tobias Tob 17 1 24 But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.
12719 Tobias Tob 17 1 25 And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was restored to him.
12720 Tobias Tob 17 2 1 But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias’s house,
12721 Tobias Tob 17 2 2 He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.
12722 Tobias Tob 17 2 3 And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body.
12723 Tobias Tob 17 2 4 And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.
12724 Tobias Tob 17 2 5 And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,
12725 Tobias Tob 17 2 6 Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.
12726 Tobias Tob 17 2 7 So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.
12727 Tobias Tob 17 2 8 Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?
12728 Tobias Tob 17 2 9 But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.
12729 Tobias Tob 17 2 10 Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,
12730 Tobias Tob 17 2 11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow’s nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
12731 Tobias Tob 17 2 12 Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.
12732 Tobias Tob 17 2 13 For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,
12733 Tobias Tob 17 2 14 But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
12734 Tobias Tob 17 2 15 For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:
12735 Tobias Tob 17 2 16 Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead?
12736 Tobias Tob 17 2 17 But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:
12737 Tobias Tob 17 2 18 For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.
12738 Tobias Tob 17 2 19 Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.
12739 Tobias Tob 17 2 20 Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home:
12740 Tobias Tob 17 2 21 And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.
12741 Tobias Tob 17 2 22 At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident thy hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.
12742 Tobias Tob 17 2 23 And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him.
12743 Tobias Tob 17 3 1 Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,
12744 Tobias Tob 17 3 2 Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:
12745 Tobias Tob 17 3 3 And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.
12746 Tobias Tob 17 3 4 For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.
12747 Tobias Tob 17 3 5 And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.
12748 Tobias Tob 17 3 6 And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.
12749 Tobias Tob 17 3 7 Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father’s servant maids,
12750 Tobias Tob 17 3 8 Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.
12751 Tobias Tob 17 3 9 So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.
12752 Tobias Tob 17 3 10 Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:
12753 Tobias Tob 17 3 11 But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.
12754 Tobias Tob 17 3 12 And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord,
12755 Tobias Tob 17 3 13 She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.
12756 Tobias Tob 17 3 14 To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.
12757 Tobias Tob 17 3 15 I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth.
12758 Tobias Tob 17 3 16 Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust.
12759 Tobias Tob 17 3 17 Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.
12760 Tobias Tob 17 3 18 But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my lust.
12761 Tobias Tob 17 3 19 And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,
12762 Tobias Tob 17 3 20 For thy counsel is not in man’s power.
12763 Tobias Tob 17 3 21 But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under tribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it shall be allowed to come to thy mercy.
12764 Tobias Tob 17 3 22 For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a storm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyfulness.
12765 Tobias Tob 17 3 23 Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,
12766 Tobias Tob 17 3 24 At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God:
12767 Tobias Tob 17 3 25 And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.
12768 Tobias Tob 17 4 1 Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son,
12769 Tobias Tob 17 4 2 And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in thy heart.
12770 Tobias Tob 17 4 3 When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:
12771 Tobias Tob 17 4 4 For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb.
12772 Tobias Tob 17 4 5 And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me.
12773 Tobias Tob 17 4 6 And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God.
12774 Tobias Tob 17 4 7 Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.
12775 Tobias Tob 17 4 8 According to thy ability be merciful.
12776 Tobias Tob 17 4 9 If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little.
12777 Tobias Tob 17 4 10 For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.
12778 Tobias Tob 17 4 11 For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.
12779 Tobias Tob 17 4 12 Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.
12780 Tobias Tob 17 4 13 Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.
12781 Tobias Tob 17 4 14 Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.
12782 Tobias Tob 17 4 15 If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.
12783 Tobias Tob 17 4 16 See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.
12784 Tobias Tob 17 4 17 Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked,
12785 Tobias Tob 17 4 18 Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.
12786 Tobias Tob 17 4 19 Seek counsel always of a wise man.
12787 Tobias Tob 17 4 20 Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him.
12788 Tobias Tob 17 4 21 I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I have a note of his hand with me:
12789 Tobias Tob 17 4 22 Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of him the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand.
12790 Tobias Tob 17 4 23 Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have many good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is good.
12791 Tobias Tob 17 5 1 Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me.
12792 Tobias Tob 17 5 2 But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither.
12793 Tobias Tob 17 5 3 Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.
12794 Tobias Tob 17 5 4 But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.
12795 Tobias Tob 17 5 5 Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.
12796 Tobias Tob 17 5 6 And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
12797 Tobias Tob 17 5 7 But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?
12798 Tobias Tob 17 5 8 And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
12799 Tobias Tob 17 5 9 And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father.
12800 Tobias Tob 17 5 10 Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him.
12801 Tobias Tob 17 5 11 So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.
12802 Tobias Tob 17 5 12 And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness and see not the light of heaven?
12803 Tobias Tob 17 5 13 And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from God is at hand.
12804 Tobias Tob 17 5 14 And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire.
12805 Tobias Tob 17 5 15 And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring him back to thee.
12806 Tobias Tob 17 5 16 And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou?
12807 Tobias Tob 17 5 17 And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?
12808 Tobias Tob 17 5 18 But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias.
12809 Tobias Tob 17 5 19 And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family.
12810 Tobias Tob 17 5 20 And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe.
12811 Tobias Tob 17 5 21 And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.
12812 Tobias Tob 17 5 22 Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together.
12813 Tobias Tob 17 5 23 And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.
12814 Tobias Tob 17 5 24 I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.
12815 Tobias Tob 17 5 25 For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son.
12816 Tobias Tob 17 5 26 And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.
12817 Tobias Tob 17 5 27 For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.
12818 Tobias Tob 17 5 28 At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.
12819 Tobias Tob 17 6 1 And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged the first night by the river of Tigris.
12820 Tobias Tob 17 6 2 And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him.
12821 Tobias Tob 17 6 3 And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.
12822 Tobias Tob 17 6 4 And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he began to pant before his feet.
12823 Tobias Tob 17 6 5 Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines.
12824 Tobias Tob 17 6 6 And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.
12825 Tobias Tob 17 6 7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish?
12826 Tobias Tob 17 6 8 And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.
12827 Tobias Tob 17 6 9 And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured.
12828 Tobias Tob 17 6 10 And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?
12829 Tobias Tob 17 6 11 And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he hath no son nor any other daughter beside her.
12830 Tobias Tob 17 6 12 All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.
12831 Tobias Tob 17 6 13 Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to wife.
12832 Tobias Tob 17 6 14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them.
12833 Tobias Tob 17 6 15 Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell.
12834 Tobias Tob 17 6 16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.
12835 Tobias Tob 17 6 17 For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power.
12836 Tobias Tob 17 6 18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her.
12837 Tobias Tob 17 6 19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the devil shall be driven away.
12838 Tobias Tob 17 6 20 But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of the holy Patriarchs.
12839 Tobias Tob 17 6 21 And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound children may be born of you.
12840 Tobias Tob 17 6 22 And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.
12841 Tobias Tob 17 7 1 And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy.
12842 Tobias Tob 17 7 2 And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is this young man to my cousin?
12843 Tobias Tob 17 7 3 And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young men our brethren?
12844 Tobias Tob 17 7 4 But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity of Ninive.
12845 Tobias Tob 17 7 5 And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they said: We know him.
12846 Tobias Tob 17 7 6 And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said to Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man’s father.
12847 Tobias Tob 17 7 7 And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the son of a good and most virtuous man.
12848 Tobias Tob 17 7 8 And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.
12849 Tobias Tob 17 7 9 And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed, and a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to dinner,
12850 Tobias Tob 17 7 10 Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou first grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.
12851 Tobias Tob 17 7 11 Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition,
12852 Tobias Tob 17 7 12 The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for to him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore another could not have her.
12853 Tobias Tob 17 7 13 Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers and tears in his sight.
12854 Tobias Tob 17 7 14 And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this maid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law of Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee.
12855 Tobias Tob 17 7 15 And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the right hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and fulfil his blessing in you.
12856 Tobias Tob 17 7 16 And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage.
12857 Tobias Tob 17 7 17 And afterwards they made merry, blessing God.
12858 Tobias Tob 17 7 18 And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her to prepare another chamber.
12859 Tobias Tob 17 7 19 And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept.
12860 Tobias Tob 17 7 20 And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of heaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone.
12861 Tobias Tob 17 8 1 And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.
12862 Tobias Tob 17 8 2 And Tobias remembering the angel’s word, took out of his bag part of the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.
12863 Tobias Tob 17 8 3 Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.
12864 Tobias Tob 17 8 4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.
12865 Tobias Tob 17 8 5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God.
12866 Tobias Tob 17 8 6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them,
12867 Tobias Tob 17 8 7 And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.
12868 Tobias Tob 17 8 8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.
12869 Tobias Tob 17 8 9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
12870 Tobias Tob 17 8 10 Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.
12871 Tobias Tob 17 8 11 And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.
12872 Tobias Tob 17 8 12 For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.
12873 Tobias Tob 17 8 13 And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her:
12874 Tobias Tob 17 8 14 Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may bury him before it be day.
12875 Tobias Tob 17 8 15 So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.
12876 Tobias Tob 17 8 16 And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord,
12877 Tobias Tob 17 8 17 And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected.
12878 Tobias Tob 17 8 18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us.
12879 Tobias Tob 17 8 19 And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth.
12880 Tobias Tob 17 8 20 And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit they had made, before it was day.
12881 Tobias Tob 17 8 21 And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all kind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.
12882 Tobias Tob 17 8 22 He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends,
12883 Tobias Tob 17 8 23 And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two weeks.
12884 Tobias Tob 17 8 24 And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to Tobias, and made a writing, that the half that remained should after their decease come also to Tobias.
12885 Tobias Tob 17 9 1 Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and said to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:
12886 Tobias Tob 17 9 2 If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a worthy return for thy care.
12887 Tobias Tob 17 9 3 However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding.
12888 Tobias Tob 17 9 4 For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay one day more, his soul will be afflicted.
12889 Tobias Tob 17 9 5 And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise.
12890 Tobias Tob 17 9 6 Then Raphael took four of Raguel’s servants, and two camels, and went to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his note of hand, and received of him all the money.
12891 Tobias Tob 17 9 7 And he told him concerning Tobias the son of Tobias, all that had been done: and made him come with him to the wedding.
12892 Tobias Tob 17 9 8 And when he was come into Raguel’s house he found Tobias sitting at the table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus wept, and blessed God,
12893 Tobias Tob 17 9 9 And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son of a very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds:
12894 Tobias Tob 17 9 10 And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents.
12895 Tobias Tob 17 9 11 And may you see your children, and your children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation: and may your seed be blessed by the God of Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever.
12896 Tobias Tob 17 9 12 And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the marriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord.
12897 Tobias Tob 17 10 1 But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or why is he detained there?
12898 Tobias Tob 17 10 2 Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the money?
12899 Tobias Tob 17 10 3 And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with him: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not return to them on the day appointed.
12900 Tobias Tob 17 10 4 But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity?
12901 Tobias Tob 17 10 5 We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have let thee go from us.
12902 Tobias Tob 17 10 6 And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our son is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.
12903 Tobias Tob 17 10 7 But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off.
12904 Tobias Tob 17 10 8 But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a messenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.
12905 Tobias Tob 17 10 9 And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them.
12906 Tobias Tob 17 10 10 And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no means would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all his substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels, and in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from him,
12907 Tobias Tob 17 10 11 Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey, and bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about your parents, and my eyes may see your children before I die.
12908 Tobias Tob 17 10 12 And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her go:
12909 Tobias Tob 17 10 13 Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love her husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to behave herself irreprehensibly.
12910 Tobias Tob 17 11 1 And as they were returning they came to Charan, which is in the midway to Ninive, the eleventh day.
12911 Tobias Tob 17 11 2 And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou didst leave thy father.
12912 Tobias Tob 17 11 3 If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family follow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.
12913 Tobias Tob 17 11 4 And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias took some of that gall and departed.
12914 Tobias Tob 17 11 5 But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off.
12915 Tobias Tob 17 11 6 And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.
12916 Tobias Tob 17 11 7 And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy house, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go to thy father, and kiss him.
12917 Tobias Tob 17 11 8 And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which thou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be presently opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and shall rejoice in the sight of thee.
12918 Tobias Tob 17 11 9 Then the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before, and coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning and wagging his tail.
12919 Tobias Tob 17 11 10 And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling with his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son.
12920 Tobias Tob 17 11 11 And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they began to weep for joy.
12921 Tobias Tob 17 11 12 And when they had adored God, and given him thanks, they sat down together.
12922 Tobias Tob 17 11 13 Then Tobias taking of the gall of the fish, anointed his father’s eyes.
12923 Tobias Tob 17 11 14 And he stayed about half an hour: and a white skin began to come out of his eyes, like the skin of an egg.
12924 Tobias Tob 17 11 15 And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and immediately he recovered his sight.
12925 Tobias Tob 17 11 16 And they glorified God, both he and his wife and all that knew him.
12926 Tobias Tob 17 11 17 And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because thou hast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias my son.
12927 Tobias Tob 17 11 18 And after seven days Sara his son’s wife and all the family arrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and an abundance of money of his wife’s: and that money also which he had received of Gabelus,
12928 Tobias Tob 17 11 19 And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had done to him by the man that conducted him.
12929 Tobias Tob 17 11 20 And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of Tobias came, rejoicing for Tobias, and congratulating with him for all the good things that God had done for him.
12930 Tobias Tob 17 11 21 And for seven days they feasted and rejoiced all with great joy.
12931 Tobias Tob 17 12 1 Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him: What can we give to this holy man, that is come with thee?
12932 Tobias Tob 17 12 2 Tobias answering, said to his father: Father, what wages shall we give him? or what can be worthy of his benefits?
12933 Tobias Tob 17 12 3 He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money of Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the evil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being devoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of heaven, and we are filled with all good things through him. What can we give him sufficient for these things?
12934 Tobias Tob 17 12 4 But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would vouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought.
12935 Tobias Tob 17 12 5 So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought,
12936 Tobias Tob 17 12 6 Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you.
12937 Tobias Tob 17 12 7 For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God.
12938 Tobias Tob 17 12 8 Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold.
12939 Tobias Tob 17 12 9 For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.
12940 Tobias Tob 17 12 10 But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.
12941 Tobias Tob 17 12 11 I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.
12942 Tobias Tob 17 12 12 When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.
12943 Tobias Tob 17 12 13 And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.
12944 Tobias Tob 17 12 14 And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son’s wife from the devil.
12945 Tobias Tob 17 12 15 For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.
12946 Tobias Tob 17 12 16 And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.
12947 Tobias Tob 17 12 17 And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.
12948 Tobias Tob 17 12 18 For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him.
12949 Tobias Tob 17 12 19 I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with you but I use an invisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men.
12950 Tobias Tob 17 12 20 It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.
12951 Tobias Tob 17 12 21 And when he had said these things, he was taken from their sight, and they could see him no more.
12952 Tobias Tob 17 12 22 Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face, blessed God, and rising up, they told all his wonderful works.
12953 Tobias Tob 17 13 1 And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and said: Thou art great O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all ages.
12954 Tobias Tob 17 13 2 For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.
12955 Tobias Tob 17 13 3 Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in the sight of the Gentiles:
12956 Tobias Tob 17 13 4 Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who know not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them know that there is no other almighty God besides him.
12957 Tobias Tob 17 13 5 He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and he will save us for his own mercy.
12958 Tobias Tob 17 13 6 See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling give ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your works.
12959 Tobias Tob 17 13 7 As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation,
12960 Tobias Tob 17 13 8 Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God, believing that he will shew his mercy to you.
12961 Tobias Tob 17 13 9 And I and my soul will rejoice in him.
12962 Tobias Tob 17 13 10 Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give glory to him.
12963 Tobias Tob 17 13 11 Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chastised thee for the works of thy hands.
12964 Tobias Tob 17 13 12 Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God eternal that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever.
12965 Tobias Tob 17 13 13 Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the earth shall worship thee,
12966 Tobias Tob 17 13 14 Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy.
12967 Tobias Tob 17 13 15 For they shall call upon the great name in thee,
12968 Tobias Tob 17 13 16 They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be condemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that shall build thee up,
12969 Tobias Tob 17 13 17 But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all be blessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord.
12970 Tobias Tob 17 13 18 Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy peace,
12971 Tobias Tob 17 13 19 My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath delivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles.
12972 Tobias Tob 17 13 20 Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the glory of Jerusalem.
12973 Tobias Tob 17 13 21 The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones.
12974 Tobias Tob 17 13 22 All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung in its streets,
12975 Tobias Tob 17 13 23 Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it, and may he reign over it for ever and ever, Amen.
12976 Tobias Tob 17 14 1 And the words of Tobias were ended. And after Tobias was restored to his sight, he lived two and forty years, and saw the children of his grandchildren.
12977 Tobias Tob 17 14 2 And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive.
12978 Tobias Tob 17 14 3 For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.
12979 Tobias Tob 17 14 4 And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace.
12980 Tobias Tob 17 14 5 And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:
12981 Tobias Tob 17 14 6 The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it.
12982 Tobias Tob 17 14 7 And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with people, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither.
12983 Tobias Tob 17 14 8 And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and shall come into Jerusalem, and shall dwell in it.
12984 Tobias Tob 17 14 9 And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice in it, adoring the King of Israel.
12985 Tobias Tob 17 14 10 Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him:
12986 Tobias Tob 17 14 11 And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds, and that they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth, and with all their power.
12987 Tobias Tob 17 14 12 And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as you shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct your steps to depart hence:
12988 Tobias Tob 17 14 13 For I see that its iniquity will bring it to destruction.
12989 Tobias Tob 17 14 14 And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias departed out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children’s children, and returned to his father and mother in law.
12990 Tobias Tob 17 14 15 And he found them in health in a good old age: and he took care of them, and he closed their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel’s house came to him: and he saw his children’s children to the fifth generation.
12991 Tobias Tob 17 14 16 And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the Lord, with joy they buried him.
12992 Tobias Tob 17 14 17 And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good life, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to God, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land.
12993 Judith Judi 18 1 1 Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,
12994 Judith Judi 18 1 2 Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet.
12995 Judith Judi 18 1 3 And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers:
12996 Judith Judi 18 1 4 And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots.
12997 Judith Judi 18 1 5 Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him,
12998 Judith Judi 18 1 6 In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians.
12999 Judith Judi 18 1 7 Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus,
13000 Judith Judi 18 1 8 And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,
13001 Judith Judi 18 1 9 And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
13002 Judith Judi 18 1 10 To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers:
13003 Judith Judi 18 1 11 But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour.
13004 Judith Judi 18 1 12 Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries.
13005 Judith Judi 18 2 1 In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.
13006 Judith Judi 18 2 2 And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:
13007 Judith Judi 18 2 3 And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under his empire.
13008 Judith Judi 18 2 4 And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,
13009 Judith Judi 18 2 5 And said to him: Go out against all the kingdoms of the west, and against them especially that despised my commandment.
13010 Judith Judi 18 2 6 Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and all the strong cities thou shalt bring under my yoke.
13011 Judith Judi 18 2 7 Then Holofernes called the captains, and officers of the power of the Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, as the king commanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and twelve thousand archers, horsemen.
13012 Judith Judi 18 2 8 And he made all his warlike preparations to go before with a multitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the armies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without number.
13013 Judith Judi 18 2 9 He appointed corn to be prepared out of all Syria in his passage.
13014 Judith Judi 18 2 10 But gold and silver he took out of the king’s house in great abundance.
13015 Judith Judi 18 2 11 And he went forth he and all the army, with the chariots, and horsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like locusts.
13016 Judith Judi 18 2 12 And when he had passed through the borders of the Assyrians, he came to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cilicia: and he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places.
13017 Judith Judi 18 2 13 And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon.
13018 Judith Judi 18 2 14 And he passed over the Euphrates and came into Mesopotamia: and he forced all the stately cities that were there, from the torrent of Mambre, till one comes to the sea:
13019 Judith Judi 18 2 15 And he took the borders thereof, from Cilicia to the coasts of Japheth, which are towards the south.
13020 Judith Judi 18 2 16 And he carried away all the children of Madian, and stripped them of all their riches, and all that resisted him he slew with the edge of the sword.
13021 Judith Judi 18 2 17 And after these things he went down into the plains of Damascus in the days of the harvest, and he set all the corn on fire, and he caused all the trees and vineyards to be cut down.
13022 Judith Judi 18 2 18 And the fear of them fell upon all the inhabitants of the land.
13023 Judith Judi 18 3 1 Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:
13024 Judith Judi 18 3 2 Let thy indignation towards us cease, for it is better for us to live and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee, than to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery.
13025 Judith Judi 18 3 3 All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and fields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight:
13026 Judith Judi 18 3 4 Let all we have be subject to thy law,
13027 Judith Judi 18 3 5 Both we and our children are thy servants.
13028 Judith Judi 18 3 6 Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee,
13029 Judith Judi 18 3 7 Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.
13030 Judith Judi 18 3 8 And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war,
13031 Judith Judi 18 3 9 And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming.
13032 Judith Judi 18 3 10 And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and timbrels, and flutes.
13033 Judith Judi 18 3 11 And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart:
13034 Judith Judi 18 3 12 For he both destroyed their cities, and cut down their groves.
13035 Judith Judi 18 3 13 For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.
13036 Judith Judi 18 3 14 And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,
13037 Judith Judi 18 3 15 And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for thirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to be united.
13038 Judith Judi 18 4 1 Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda, hearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him.
13039 Judith Judi 18 4 2 Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other cities and their temples.
13040 Judith Judi 18 4 3 And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains:
13041 Judith Judi 18 4 4 And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together corn for provision for war.
13042 Judith Judi 18 4 5 And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way, that they should take possession of the ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to Jerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the mountains.
13043 Judith Judi 18 4 6 And the children of Israel did as the priest of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them.
13044 Judith Judi 18 4 7 And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.
13045 Judith Judi 18 4 8 And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth.
13046 Judith Judi 18 4 9 And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.
13047 Judith Judi 18 4 10 Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them,
13048 Judith Judi 18 4 11 Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.
13049 Judith Judi 18 4 12 Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that trusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in his shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting with the sword, but by holy prayers:
13050 Judith Judi 18 4 13 So all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work which you have begun.
13051 Judith Judi 18 4 14 So they being moved by this exhortation of his, prayed to the Lord, and continued in the sight of the Lord.
13052 Judith Judi 18 4 15 So that even they who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon their head.
13053 Judith Judi 18 4 16 And they all begged of God with all their heart, that he would visit his people Israel.
13054 Judith Judi 18 5 1 And it was told Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, that the children of Israel prepared themselves to resist, and had shut up the ways of the mountains.
13055 Judith Judi 18 5 2 And he was transported with exceeding great fury and indignation, and he called all the princes of Moab and the leaders of Ammon.
13056 Judith Judi 18 5 3 And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth the mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how great: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is the king over their warfare:
13057 Judith Judi 18 5 4 And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace?
13058 Judith Judi 18 5 5 Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth.
13059 Judith Judi 18 5 6 This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.
13060 Judith Judi 18 5 7 They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.
13061 Judith Judi 18 5 8 Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods,
13062 Judith Judi 18 5 9 They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to depart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine over all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four hundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be numbered.
13063 Judith Judi 18 5 10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they cried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers plagues.
13064 Judith Judi 18 5 11 And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the plague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again, and bring them back to their service,
13065 Judith Judi 18 5 12 The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that the waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they walked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot.
13066 Judith Judi 18 5 13 And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them in that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was not one left, to tell what had happened to posterity.
13067 Judith Judi 18 5 14 After they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of mount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested.
13068 Judith Judi 18 5 15 There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for forty years they received food from heaven.
13069 Judith Judi 18 5 16 Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without shield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame.
13070 Judith Judi 18 5 17 And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when they departed from the worship of the Lord their God.
13071 Judith Judi 18 5 18 But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach.
13072 Judith Judi 18 5 19 And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.
13073 Judith Judi 18 5 20 So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities:
13074 Judith Judi 18 5 21 And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.
13075 Judith Judi 18 5 22 And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.
13076 Judith Judi 18 5 23 But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are.
13077 Judith Judi 18 5 24 Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy power:
13078 Judith Judi 18 5 25 But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth.
13079 Judith Judi 18 5 26 And it came to pass, when Achior had ceased to speak these words, all the great men of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind to kill him, saying to each other:
13080 Judith Judi 18 5 27 Who is this, that saith the children of Israel can resist king Nabuchodonosor, and his armies, men unarmed, and without force, and without skill in the art of war?
13081 Judith Judi 18 5 28 That Achior therefore may know that he deceiveth us, let us go up into the mountains: and when the bravest of them shall be taken, then shall he with them be stabbed with the sword,
13082 Judith Judi 18 5 29 That every nation may know that Nabuchodonosor is god of the earth, and besides him there is no other.
13083 Judith Judi 18 6 1 And it came to pass when they had left off speaking, that Holofernes being in a violent passion, said to Achior:
13084 Judith Judi 18 6 2 Because thou hast prophesied unto us, saying: That the nation of Israel is defended by their God, to shew thee that there is no God, but Nabuchodonosor:
13085 Judith Judi 18 6 3 When we shall slay them all as one man, then thou also shalt die with them by the sword of the Assyrians, and all Israel shall perish with thee:
13086 Judith Judi 18 6 4 And thou shalt find that Nabuchodonosor is lord of the whole earth: and then the sword of my soldiers shall pass through thy sides, and thou shalt be stabbed and fall among the wounded of Israel, and thou shalt breathe no more till thou be destroyed with them.
13087 Judith Judi 18 6 5 But if thou think thy prophecy true, let not thy countenance sink, and let the paleness that is in thy face, depart from thee, if thou imaginest these my words cannot be accomplished.
13088 Judith Judi 18 6 6 And that thou mayst know that thou shalt experience these things together with them, behold from this hour thou shalt be associated to their people, that when they shall receive the punishment they deserve from my sword, thou mayst fall under the same vengeance.
13089 Judith Judi 18 6 7 Then Holofernes commanded his servants to take Achior, and to lead him to Bethulia, and to deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
13090 Judith Judi 18 6 8 And the servants of Holofernes taking him, went through the plains: but when they came near the mountains, the slingers came out against them.
13091 Judith Judi 18 6 9 Then turning out of the way by the side of the mountain, they tied Achior to a tree hand and foot, and so left him bound with ropes, and returned to their master.
13092 Judith Judi 18 6 10 And the children of Israel coming down from Bethulia, came to him, and loosing him they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in the midst of the people, asked him what was the matter that the Assyrians had left him bound.
13093 Judith Judi 18 6 11 In those days the rulers there, were Ozias the son of Micha of the tribe of Simeon, and Charmi, called also Gothoniel.
13094 Judith Judi 18 6 12 And Achior related in the midst of the ancients, and in the presence of all the people, all that he had said being asked by Holofernes: and how the people of Holofernes would have killed him for this word,
13095 Judith Judi 18 6 13 And how Holofernes himself being angry had commanded him to be delivered for this cause to the Israelites: that when he should overcome the children of Israel, then he might command Achior also himself to be put to death by diverse torments, for having said: The God of heaven is their defender.
13096 Judith Judi 18 6 14 And when Achior had declared all these things, all the people fell upon their faces, adoring the Lord, and all of them together mourning and weeping poured out their prayers with one accord to the Lord,
13097 Judith Judi 18 6 15 Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.
13098 Judith Judi 18 6 16 So when their weeping was ended, and the people’s prayer, in which they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,
13099 Judith Judi 18 6 17 Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction.
13100 Judith Judi 18 6 18 And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.
13101 Judith Judi 18 6 19 Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into his house, and made him a great supper.
13102 Judith Judi 18 6 20 And all the ancients were invited, and they refreshed themselves together after their fast was over.
13103 Judith Judi 18 6 21 And afterwards all the people were called together, and they prayed all the night long within the church, desiring help of the God of Israel.
13104 Judith Judi 18 7 1 But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to his army, to go up against Bethulia.
13105 Judith Judi 18 7 2 Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations of those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of the provinces and cities of all the youth.
13106 Judith Judi 18 7 3 All these prepared themselves together to fight against the children of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which looketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Belma, unto Chelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.
13107 Judith Judi 18 7 4 But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads, praying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy upon his people.
13108 Judith Judi 18 7 5 And taking their arms of war, they posted themselves at the places, which by a narrow pathway lead directly between the mountains, and they guarded them all day and night.
13109 Judith Judi 18 7 6 Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountain which supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the city on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to be cut off.
13110 Judith Judi 18 7 7 Nevertheless there were springs not far from the walls, out of which they were seen secretly to draw water, to refresh themselves a little rather than to drink their fill.
13111 Judith Judi 18 7 8 But the children of Ammon and Moab came to Holofernes, saying: The children of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but the mountains are their defence, and the steep hills and precipices guard them.
13112 Judith Judi 18 7 9 Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle, set guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out they will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is situate in the mountains, to be impregnable.
13113 Judith Judi 18 7 10 And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring.
13114 Judith Judi 18 7 11 And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure.
13115 Judith Judi 18 7 12 Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,
13116 Judith Judi 18 7 13 Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.
13117 Judith Judi 18 7 14 And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.
13118 Judith Judi 18 7 15 And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.
13119 Judith Judi 18 7 16 For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless the Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.
13120 Judith Judi 18 7 17 We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our fathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring you to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes, that our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made longer by the drought of thirst.
13121 Judith Judi 18 7 18 And when they had said these things, there was great weeping and lamentation of all in the assembly, and for many hours with one voice they cried to God, saying:
13122 Judith Judi 18 7 19 We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity:
13123 Judith Judi 18 7 20 Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our iniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in thee to a people that knoweth not thee,
13124 Judith Judi 18 7 21 That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God?
13125 Judith Judi 18 7 22 And when being wearied with these cries, and tired with these weepings, they held their peace,
13126 Judith Judi 18 7 23 Ozias rising up all in tears, said: Be of good courage, my brethren, and let us wait these five days for mercy from the Lord.
13127 Judith Judi 18 7 24 For perhaps he will put a stop to his indignation, and will give glory to his own name.
13128 Judith Judi 18 7 25 But if after five days be past there come no aid, we will do the things which you have spoken.
13129 Judith Judi 18 8 1 Now it came to pass, when Judith a widow had heard these words, who was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the son of Ozias, the son of Elai, the son of Jamnor, the son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchias, the son of Enan, the son of Nathanias, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon, the son of Ruben:
13130 Judith Judi 18 8 2 And her husband was Manasses, who died in the time of the barley harvest:
13131 Judith Judi 18 8 3 For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers.
13132 Judith Judi 18 8 4 And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.
13133 Judith Judi 18 8 5 And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids.
13134 Judith Judi 18 8 6 And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.
13135 Judith Judi 18 8 7 And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep.
13136 Judith Judi 18 8 8 And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the Lord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of her.
13137 Judith Judi 18 8 9 When therefore she had heard that Ozias had promised that he would deliver up the city after the fifth day, she sent to the ancients Chabri and Charmi.
13138 Judith Judi 18 8 10 And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by which Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if within five days there come no aid to us?
13139 Judith Judi 18 8 11 And who are you that tempt the Lord?
13140 Judith Judi 18 8 12 This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation.
13141 Judith Judi 18 8 13 You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure.
13142 Judith Judi 18 8 14 But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this same thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon:
13143 Judith Judi 18 8 15 For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man.
13144 Judith Judi 18 8 16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service:
13145 Judith Judi 18 8 17 Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so also we may glorify in our humility.
13146 Judith Judi 18 8 18 For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods.
13147 Judith Judi 18 8 19 For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him.
13148 Judith Judi 18 8 20 Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will require our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble all the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to disgrace.
13149 Judith Judi 18 8 21 And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.
13150 Judith Judi 18 8 22 They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God.
13151 Judith Judi 18 8 23 So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.
13152 Judith Judi 18 8 24 But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord,
13153 Judith Judi 18 8 25 Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents.
13154 Judith Judi 18 8 26 As for us therefore let us not revenge ourselves for these things which we suffer.
13155 Judith Judi 18 8 27 But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction.
13156 Judith Judi 18 8 28 And Ozias and the ancients said to her: All things which thou hast spoken are true, and there is nothing to be reprehended in thy words.
13157 Judith Judi 18 8 29 Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a holy woman, and one fearing God.
13158 Judith Judi 18 8 30 And Judith said to them: As you know that what I have been able to say is of God:
13159 Judith Judi 18 8 31 So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray that God may strengthen my design.
13160 Judith Judi 18 8 32 You shall stand at the gate this night, and I will go out with my maidservant: and pray ye, that as you have said, in five days the Lord may look down upon his people Israel.
13161 Judith Judi 18 8 33 But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I bring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord our God.
13162 Judith Judi 18 8 34 And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the Lord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies. So returning they departed.
13163 Judith Judi 18 9 1 And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying:
13164 Judith Judi 18 9 2 Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion:
13165 Judith Judi 18 9 3 And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who were zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a widow.
13166 Judith Judi 18 9 4 For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.
13167 Judith Judi 18 9 5 For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments.
13168 Judith Judi 18 9 6 Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to look upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy servants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors.
13169 Judith Judi 18 9 7 But thou lookedst over their camp, and darkness wearied them.
13170 Judith Judi 18 9 8 The deep held their feet, and the waters overwhelmed them.
13171 Judith Judi 18 9 9 So may it be with these also, O Lord, who trust in their multitude, and in their chariots, and in their pikes, and in their shields, and in their arrows, and glory in their spears,
13172 Judith Judi 18 9 10 And know not that thou art our God, who destroyest wars from the beginning, and the Lord is thy name.
13173 Judith Judi 18 9 11 Lift up thy arm as from the beginning, and crush their power with thy power: let their power fall in their wrath, who promise themselves to violate thy sanctuary, and defile the dwelling place of thy name, and to beat down with their sword the horn of thy altar.
13174 Judith Judi 18 9 12 Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride may be cut off with his own sword.
13175 Judith Judi 18 9 13 Let him be caught in the net of his own eyes in my regard, and do thou strike him by the graces of the words of my lips.
13176 Judith Judi 18 9 14 Give me constancy in my mind, that I may despise him: and fortitude that I may overthrow him.
13177 Judith Judi 18 9 15 For this will be a glorious monument for thy name, when he shall fall by the hand of a woman.
13178 Judith Judi 18 9 16 For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure in the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the proud been acceptable to thee: but the prayer of the humble and the meek hath always pleased thee.
13179 Judith Judi 18 9 17 O God of the heavens, creator of the waters, and Lord of the whole creation, hear me a poor wretch, making supplication to thee, and presuming of thy mercy.
13180 Judith Judi 18 9 18 Remember, O Lord, thy covenant, and put thou words in my mouth, and strengthen the resolution in my heart, that thy house may continue in thy holiness:
13181 Judith Judi 18 9 19 And all nations may acknowledge that thou art God, and there is no other besides thee.
13182 Judith Judi 18 10 1 And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that she rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord.
13183 Judith Judi 18 10 2 And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took off her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood,
13184 Judith Judi 18 10 3 And she washed her body, and anointed herself with the best ointment, and plaited the hair of her head, and put a bonnet upon her head, and clothed herself with the garments of her gladness, and put sandals on her feet, and took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets, and rings, and adorned herself with all her ornaments.
13185 Judith Judi 18 10 4 And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing up did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men’s eyes incomparably lovely.
13186 Judith Judi 18 10 5 And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went out.
13187 Judith Judi 18 10 6 And when they came to the gate of the city, they found Ozias, and the ancients of the city waiting.
13188 Judith Judi 18 10 7 And when they saw her they were astonished, and admired her beauty exceedingly.
13189 Judith Judi 18 10 8 But they asked her no question, only they let her pass, saying: The God of our fathers give thee grace, and may he strengthen all the counsel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem may glory in thee, and thy name may be in the number of the holy and just.
13190 Judith Judi 18 10 9 And they that were there said, all with one voice: So be it, so be it.
13191 Judith Judi 18 10 10 But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her maid.
13192 Judith Judi 18 10 11 And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her, saying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou?
13193 Judith Judi 18 10 12 And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because they despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves, that they might find mercy in your sight.
13194 Judith Judi 18 10 13 For this reason I thought with myself, saying: I will go to the presence of the prince Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets, and shew him by what way he may take them, without the loss of one man of his army.
13195 Judith Judi 18 10 14 And when the men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and their eyes were amazed, for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty.
13196 Judith Judi 18 10 15 And they said to her: Thou hast saved thy life by taking this resolution, to come down to our lord.
13197 Judith Judi 18 10 16 And be assured of this, that when thou shalt stand before him, he will treat thee well, and thou wilt be most acceptable to his heart. And they brought her to the tent of Holofernes, telling him of her.
13198 Judith Judi 18 10 17 And when she was come into his presence, forthwith Holofernes was caught by his eyes.
13199 Judith Judi 18 10 18 And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the Hebrews, who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it worth our while for their sakes to fight against them?
13200 Judith Judi 18 10 19 And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting under a canopy, which was woven of purple and gold, with emeralds and precious stones:
13201 Judith Judi 18 10 20 After she had looked on his face, bowed down to him, prostrating herself to the ground. And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by the command of their master.
13202 Judith Judi 18 11 1 Then Holofernes said to her: Be of good comfort, and fear not in thy heart: for I have never hurt a man that was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor the king.
13203 Judith Judi 18 11 2 And if thy people had not despised me, I would never have lifted up my spear against them.
13204 Judith Judi 18 11 3 But now tell me, for what cause hast thou left them, and why it hath pleased thee to come to us?
13205 Judith Judi 18 11 4 And Judith said to him: Receive the words of thy handmaid, for if thou wilt follow the words of thy handmaid, the Lord will do with thee a perfect thing.
13206 Judith Judi 18 11 5 For as Nabuchodonosor the king of the earth liveth, and his power liveth which is in thee for chastising of all straying souls: not only men serve him through thee, but also the beasts of the field obey him.
13207 Judith Judi 18 11 6 For the industry of thy mind is spoken of among all nations, and it is told through the whole world, that thou only art excellent, and mighty in all his kingdom, and thy discipline is cried up in all provinces.
13208 Judith Judi 18 11 7 It is known also what Achior said, nor are we ignorant of what thou hast commanded to be done to him.
13209 Judith Judi 18 11 8 For it is certain that our God is so offended with sins, that he hath sent word by his prophets to the people, that he will deliver them up for their sins.
13210 Judith Judi 18 11 9 And because the children of Israel know they have offended their God, thy dread is upon them.
13211 Judith Judi 18 11 10 Moreover also a famine hath come upon them, and for drought of water they are already to be counted among the dead.
13212 Judith Judi 18 11 11 And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink the blood of them.
13213 Judith Judi 18 11 12 And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction.
13214 Judith Judi 18 11 13 And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things.
13215 Judith Judi 18 11 14 For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,
13216 Judith Judi 18 11 15 And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:
13217 Judith Judi 18 11 16 Because these things are told me by the providence of God.
13218 Judith Judi 18 11 17 And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee.
13219 Judith Judi 18 11 18 And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:
13220 Judith Judi 18 11 19 There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words.
13221 Judith Judi 18 11 20 And Holofernes said to her: God hath done well who sent thee before the people, that thou mightest give them into our hands:
13222 Judith Judi 18 11 21 And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth.
13223 Judith Judi 18 12 1 Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table.
13224 Judith Judi 18 12 2 And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought.
13225 Judith Judi 18 12 3 And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?
13226 Judith Judi 18 12 4 And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have purposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had commanded.
13227 Judith Judi 18 12 5 And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord.
13228 Judith Judi 18 12 6 And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days.
13229 Judith Judi 18 12 7 And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water.
13230 Judith Judi 18 12 8 And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people.
13231 Judith Judi 18 12 9 And going in, she remained pure in the tent, until she took her own meat in the evening.
13232 Judith Judi 18 12 10 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a supper for his servants, and said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade that Hebrew woman, to consent of her own accord to dwell with me.
13233 Judith Judi 18 12 11 For it is looked upon as shameful among the Assyrians, if a woman mock a man, by doing so as to pass free from him.
13234 Judith Judi 18 12 12 Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be afraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry.
13235 Judith Judi 18 12 13 And Judith answered him: Who am I, that I should gainsay my lord?
13236 Judith Judi 18 12 14 All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And whatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of my life.
13237 Judith Judi 18 12 15 And she arose and dressed herself out with her garments, and going in she stood before his face.
13238 Judith Judi 18 12 16 And the heart of Holofernes was smitten, for he was burning with the desire of her.
13239 Judith Judi 18 12 17 And Holofernes said to her: Drink now, and sit down and be merry; for thou hast found favour before me.
13240 Judith Judi 18 12 18 And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my life is magnified this day above all my days.
13241 Judith Judi 18 12 19 And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared for her.
13242 Judith Judi 18 12 20 And Holofernes was made merry on her occasion, and drank exceeding much wine, so much as he had never drunk in his life.
13243 Judith Judi 18 13 1 And when it was grown late, his servants made haste to their lodgings, and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and went his way.
13244 Judith Judi 18 13 2 And they were all overcharged with wine.
13245 Judith Judi 18 13 3 And Judith was alone in the chamber.
13246 Judith Judi 18 13 4 But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep, being exceedingly drunk.
13247 Judith Judi 18 13 5 And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber, and to watch:
13248 Judith Judi 18 13 6 And Judith stood before the bed praying with tears, and the motion of her lips in silence,
13249 Judith Judi 18 13 7 Saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, and in this hour look on the works of my hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst raise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring to pass that which I have purposed, having a belief that it might be done by thee.
13250 Judith Judi 18 13 8 And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at his bed’s head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it.
13251 Judith Judi 18 13 9 And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his head, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour.
13252 Judith Judi 18 13 10 And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body.
13253 Judith Judi 18 13 11 And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet.
13254 Judith Judi 18 13 12 And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to prayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they came to the gate of the city.
13255 Judith Judi 18 13 13 And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.
13256 Judith Judi 18 13 14 And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they called the ancients of the city.
13257 Judith Judi 18 13 15 And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she would come.
13258 Judith Judi 18 13 16 And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and she went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And when all had held their peace,
13259 Judith Judi 18 13 17 Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken them that hope in him.
13260 Judith Judi 18 13 18 And by me his handmaid he hath fulfilled his mercy, which he promised to the house of Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his people by my hand this night.
13261 Judith Judi 18 13 19 Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in his drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a woman.
13262 Judith Judi 18 13 20 But as the same Lord liveth, his angel hath been my keeper both going hence, and abiding there, and returning from thence hither: and the Lord hath not suffered me his handmaid to be defiled, but hath brought me back to you without pollution of sin, rejoicing for his victory, for my escape, and for your deliverance.
13263 Judith Judi 18 13 21 Give all of you glory to him, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
13264 Judith Judi 18 13 22 And they all adored the Lord, and said to her: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought.
13265 Judith Judi 18 13 23 And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth.
13266 Judith Judi 18 13 24 Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies.
13267 Judith Judi 18 13 25 Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God.
13268 Judith Judi 18 13 26 And all the people said: So be it, so be it.
13269 Judith Judi 18 13 27 And Achior being called for came, and Judith said to him: The God of Israel, to whom thou gavest testimony, that he revengeth himself of his enemies, he hath cut off the head of all the unbelievers this night by my hand.
13270 Judith Judi 18 13 28 And that thou mayst find that it is so, behold the head of Holofernes, who in the contempt of his pride despised the God of Israel: and threatened them with death, saying: When the people of Israel shall be taken, I will command thy sides to be pierced with a sword.
13271 Judith Judi 18 13 29 Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes, being seized with a great fear he fell on his face upon the earth, and his soul swooned away.
13272 Judith Judi 18 13 30 But after he had recovered his spirits he fell down at her feet, and reverenced her, and said:
13273 Judith Judi 18 13 31 Blessed art thou by thy God in every tabernacle of Jacob, for in every nation which shall hear thy name, the God of Israel shall be magnified on occasion of thee.
13274 Judith Judi 18 14 1 And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye up this head upon our walls.
13275 Judith Judi 18 14 2 And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms, and rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault.
13276 Judith Judi 18 14 3 Then the watchmen must needs run to awake their prince for the battle.
13277 Judith Judi 18 14 4 And when the captains of them shall run to the tent of Holofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood, fear shall fall upon them.
13278 Judith Judi 18 14 5 And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them securely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet.
13279 Judith Judi 18 14 6 Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the Gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, with all the succession of his kindred until this present day.
13280 Judith Judi 18 14 7 And immediately at break of day, they hung up the head of Holofernes upon the walls, and every man took his arms, and they went out with a great noise and shouting.
13281 Judith Judi 18 14 8 And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes.
13282 Judith Judi 18 14 9 And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise, before the door of the chamber to awake him, endeavouring by art to break his rest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by their noise.
13283 Judith Judi 18 14 10 For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians.
13284 Judith Judi 18 14 11 But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains:
13285 Judith Judi 18 14 12 Go in, and awake him, for the mice, coming out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us to fight.
13286 Judith Judi 18 14 13 Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and made a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping with Judith.
13287 Judith Judi 18 14 14 But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, weltering in his blood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments.
13288 Judith Judi 18 14 15 And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran out to the people,
13289 Judith Judi 18 14 16 And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him.
13290 Judith Judi 18 14 17 Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this, they all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell upon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.
13291 Judith Judi 18 14 18 And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp.
13292 Judith Judi 18 15 1 And when all the army heard that Holofernes was beheaded, courage and counsel fled from them, and being seized with trembling and fear they thought only to save themselves by flight.
13293 Judith Judi 18 15 2 So that no one spoke to his neighbour, but hanging down the head, leaving all things behind, they made haste to escape from the Hebrews, who, as they heard, were coming armed upon them, and fled by the ways of the fields, and the paths of the hills.
13294 Judith Judi 18 15 3 So the children of Israel seeing them fleeing, followed after them. And they went down sounding with trumpets and shouting after them.
13295 Judith Judi 18 15 4 And because the Assyrians were not united together, they went without order in their flight; but the children of Israel pursuing in one body, defeated all that they could find.
13296 Judith Judi 18 15 5 And Ozias sent messengers through all the cities and countries of Israel.
13297 Judith Judi 18 15 6 And every country, and every city, sent their chosen young men armed after them, and they pursued them with the edge of the sword until they came to the extremities of their confines.
13298 Judith Judi 18 15 7 And the rest that were in Bethulia went into the camp of the Assyrians, and took away the spoils which the Assyrians in their flight had left behind them, and they were laden exceedingly,
13299 Judith Judi 18 15 8 But they that returned conquerors to Bethulia, brought with them all things that were theirs, so that there was no numbering of their cattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, insomuch that from the least to the greatest all were made rich by their spoils.
13300 Judith Judi 18 15 9 And Joachim the high priest came from Jerusalem to Bethulia with all his ancients to see Judith.
13301 Judith Judi 18 15 10 And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people:
13302 Judith Judi 18 15 11 For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been strengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever.
13303 Judith Judi 18 15 12 And all the people said: So be it, so be it.
13304 Judith Judi 18 15 13 And thirty days were scarce sufficient for the people of Israel to gather up the spoils of the Assyrians.
13305 Judith Judi 18 15 14 But all those things that were proved to be the peculiar goods of Holofernes, they gave to Judith in gold, and silver, and garments and precious stones, and all household stuff, and they all were delivered to her by the people.
13306 Judith Judi 18 15 15 And all the people rejoiced, with the women, and virgins, and young men, playing on instruments and harps.
13307 Judith Judi 18 16 1 Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying:
13308 Judith Judi 18 16 2 Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.
13309 Judith Judi 18 16 3 The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.
13310 Judith Judi 18 16 4 He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.
13311 Judith Judi 18 16 5 The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
13312 Judith Judi 18 16 6 He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.
13313 Judith Judi 18 16 7 But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.
13314 Judith Judi 18 16 8 For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her face.
13315 Judith Judi 18 16 9 For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel.
13316 Judith Judi 18 16 10 She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.
13317 Judith Judi 18 16 11 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head.
13318 Judith Judi 18 16 12 The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness.
13319 Judith Judi 18 16 13 Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst.
13320 Judith Judi 18 16 14 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before the face of the Lord my God.
13321 Judith Judi 18 16 15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our God.
13322 Judith Judi 18 16 16 O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no one can overcome thee.
13323 Judith Judi 18 16 17 Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were created, and there is no one that can resist thy voice.
13324 Judith Judi 18 16 18 The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the waters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.
13325 Judith Judi 18 16 19 But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.
13326 Judith Judi 18 16 20 Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the Lord almighty will take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will visit them.
13327 Judith Judi 18 16 21 For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may burn, and may feel for ever.
13328 Judith Judi 18 16 22 And it came to pass after these things, that all the people, after the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as they were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and their promises.
13329 Judith Judi 18 16 23 And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber.
13330 Judith Judi 18 16 24 And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and for three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith.
13331 Judith Judi 18 16 25 And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith was made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land of Israel.
13332 Judith Judi 18 16 26 And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.
13333 Judith Judi 18 16 27 And on festival days she came forth with great glory.
13334 Judith Judi 18 16 28 And she abode in her husband’s house a hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her husband in Bethulia.
13335 Judith Judi 18 16 29 And all the people mourned for seven days.
13336 Judith Judi 18 16 30 And all the time of her life there was none that troubled Israel, nor many years after her death.
13337 Judith Judi 18 16 31 But the day of the festivity of this victory is received by the Hebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the Jews from that time until this day.
13338 Esther Est 19 1 1 In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven provinces:
13339 Esther Est 19 1 2 When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom.
13340 Esther Est 19 1 3 Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight,
13341 Esther Est 19 1 4 That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days.
13342 Esther Est 19 1 5 And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the people that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and commanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and of the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king.
13343 Esther Est 19 1 6 And there were hung up on every side sky coloured, and green, and violet hangings, fastened with cords of silk, and of purple, which were put into rings of ivory, and were held up with marble pillars. The beds also were of gold and silver, placed in order upon a floor paved with porphyry and white marble: which was embellished with painting of wonderful variety.
13344 Esther Est 19 1 7 And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats were brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in abundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king’s magnificence.
13345 Esther Est 19 1 8 Neither was there any one to compel them to drink that were not willing, but as the king had appointed, who set over every table one of his nobles, that every man might take what he would.
13346 Esther Est 19 1 9 Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell.
13347 Esther Est 19 1 10 Now on the seventh day, when the king was merry, and after very much drinking was well warmed with wine, he commanded Mauman, and Bazatha, and Harbona, and Bagatha, and Abgatha, and Zethar, and Charcas, the seven eunuchs that served in his presence,
13348 Esther Est 19 1 11 To bring in queen Vasthi before the king, with the crown set upon her head, to shew her beauty to all the people and the princes: for she was exceeding beautiful.
13349 Esther Est 19 1 12 But she refused, and would not come at the king’s commandment, which he had signified to her by the eunuchs. Whereupon the king, being angry, and inflamed with a very great fury,
13350 Esther Est 19 1 13 Asked the wise men, who according to the custom of the kings, were always near his person, and all he did was by their counsel, who knew the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:
13351 Esther Est 19 1 14 (Now the chief and nearest him were, Charsena, and Sethar, and Admatha, and Tharsis, and Mares, and Marsana, and Mamuchan, seven princes of the Persians and of the Medes, who saw the face of the king, and were used to sit first after him:)
13352 Esther Est 19 1 15 What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi the queen, who had refused to obey the commandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent to her by the eunuchs?
13353 Esther Est 19 1 16 And Mamuchan answered, in the hearing of the king and the princes: Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the king, but also all the people and princes that are in all the provinces of king Assuerus.
13354 Esther Est 19 1 17 For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not.
13355 Esther Est 19 1 18 And by this example all the wives of the princes of the Persians and the Medes will slight the commandments of their husbands: wherefore the king’s indignation is just.
13356 Esther Est 19 1 19 If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.
13357 Esther Est 19 1 20 And let this be published through all the provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.
13358 Esther Est 19 1 21 His counsel pleased the king, and the princes: and the king did according to the counsel of Mamuchan.
13359 Esther Est 19 1 22 And he sent letters to all the provinces of his kingdom, as every nation could hear and read, in divers languages and characters, that the husbands should be rulers and masters in their houses: and that this should be published to every people.
13360 Esther Est 19 2 1 After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered:
13361 Esther Est 19 2 2 And the king’s servants and his officers said: Let young women be sought for the king, virgins and beautiful,
13362 Esther Est 19 2 3 And let some persons be sent through all the provinces to look for beautiful maidens and virgins: and let them bring them to the city of Susan, and put them into the house of the women under the hand of Egeus the eunuch, who is the overseer and keeper of the king’s women: and let them receive women’s ornaments, and other things necessary for their use.
13363 Esther Est 19 2 4 And whosoever among them all shall please the king’s eyes, let her be queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded it should be done as they had suggested.
13364 Esther Est 19 2 5 There was a man in the city of Susan, a Jew, named Mardochai, the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the race of Jemini,
13365 Esther Est 19 2 6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem at the time that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away Jechonias king of Juda,
13366 Esther Est 19 2 7 And he had brought up his brother’s daughter Edissa, who by another name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and was exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for his daughter.
13367 Esther Est 19 2 8 And when the king’s ordinance was noised abroad, and according to his commandment many beautiful virgins were brought to Susan, and were delivered to Egeus the eunuch: Esther also among the rest of the maidens was delivered to him to be kept in the number of the women.
13368 Esther Est 19 2 9 And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he commanded the eunuch to hasten the women’s ornaments, and to deliver to her her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king’s house, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.
13369 Esther Est 19 2 10 And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:
13370 Esther Est 19 2 11 And he walked every day before the court of the house, in which the chosen virgins were kept, having a care for Esther’s welfare, and desiring to know what would befall her.
13371 Esther Est 19 2 12 Now when every virgin’s turn came to go in to the king, after all had been done for setting them off to advantage, it was the twelfth month: so that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and for other six months they used certain perfumes and sweet spices.
13372 Esther Est 19 2 13 And when they were going in to the king, whatsoever they asked to adorn themselves they received: and being decked out, as it pleased them, they passed from the chamber of the women to the king’s chamber.
13373 Esther Est 19 2 14 And she that went in at evening, came out in the morning, and from thence she was conducted to the second house, that was under the hand of Susagaz the eunuch, who had the charge over the king’s concubines: neither could she return any more to the king, unless the king desired it, and had ordered her by name to come.
13374 Esther Est 19 2 15 And as the time came orderly about, the day was at hand, when Esther, the daughter of Abihail the brother of Mardochai, whom he had adopted for his daughter, was to go in to the king. But she sought not women’s ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the virgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her. For she was exceeding fair, and her incredible beauty made her appear agreeable and amiable in the eyes of all.
13375 Esther Est 19 2 16 So she was brought to the chamber of king Assuerus the tenth month, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
13376 Esther Est 19 2 17 And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had favour and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi.
13377 Esther Est 19 2 18 And he commanded a magnificent feast to be prepared for all the princes, and for his servants, for the marriage and wedding of Esther, And he gave rest to all the provinces, and bestowed gifts according to princely magnificence.
13378 Esther Est 19 2 19 And when the virgins were sought the second time, and gathered together, Mardochai stayed at the king’s gate,
13379 Esther Est 19 2 20 Neither had Esther as yet declared her country and people, according to his commandment. For whatsoever he commanded, Esther observed: and she did all things in the same manner as she was wont at that time when he brought her up a little one.
13380 Esther Est 19 2 21 At that time, therefore, when Mardochai abode at the king’s gate, Bagathan and Thares, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were porters, and presided in the first entry of the palace, were angry: and they designed to rise up against the king, and to kill him.
13381 Esther Est 19 2 22 And Mardochai had notice of it, and immediately he told it to queen Esther: and she to the king in Mardochai’s name, who had reported the thing unto her.
13382 Esther Est 19 2 23 It was inquired into, and found out: and they were both hanged on a gibbet. And it was put in the histories, and recorded in the chronicles before the king.
13383 Esther Est 19 3 1 After these things, king Assuerus advanced Aman, the son of Amadathi, who was of the race of Agag: and he set his throne above all the princes that were with him.
13384 Esther Est 19 3 2 And all the king’s servants, that were at the doors of the palace, bent their knees, and worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had commanded them, only Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor worship him.
13385 Esther Est 19 3 3 And the king’s servants that were chief at the doors of the palace, said to him: Why dost thou alone not observe the king’s commandment?
13386 Esther Est 19 3 4 And when they were saying this often, and he would not hearken to them, they told Aman, desirous to know whether he would continue in his resolution: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
13387 Esther Est 19 3 5 Now when Aman had heard this, and had proved by experience that Mardochai did not bend his knee to him, nor worship him, he was exceeding angry.
13388 Esther Est 19 3 6 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.
13389 Esther Est 19 3 7 In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is called Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the Jews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
13390 Esther Est 19 3 8 And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered through all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from another, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the king’s ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity.
13391 Esther Est 19 3 9 If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.
13392 Esther Est 19 3 10 And the king took the ring that he used, from his own hand, and gave it to Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy of the Jews,
13393 Esther Est 19 3 11 And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it for thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to thee.
13394 Esther Est 19 3 12 And the king’s scribes were called in the first month Nisan, on the thirteenth day of the same month: and they wrote, as Aman had commanded, to all the king’s lieutenants, and to the judges of the provinces, and of divers nations, as every nation could read, and hear according to their different languages, in the name of king Assuerus: and the letters, sealed with his ring,
13395 Esther Est 19 3 13 Were sent by the king’s messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.
13396 Esther Est 19 3 14 And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all provinces might know and be ready against that day.
13397 Esther Est 19 3 15 The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king’s commandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king and Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city weeping.
13398 Esther Est 19 4 1 Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head and he cried with a loud voice in the street in the midst of the city, shewing the anguish of his mind.
13399 Esther Est 19 4 2 And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the palace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king’s court.
13400 Esther Est 19 4 3 And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king’s cruel edict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, wailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.
13401 Esther Est 19 4 4 Then Esther’s maids and her eunuchs went in, and told her. And when she heard it she was in a consternation and she sent a garment, to clothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but he would not receive it.
13402 Esther Est 19 4 5 And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed to attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn of him why he did this.
13403 Esther Est 19 4 6 And Athach going out went to Mardochai, who was standing in the street of the city, before the palace gate:
13404 Esther Est 19 4 7 And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had promised to pay money into the king’s treasures, to have the Jews destroyed.
13405 Esther Est 19 4 8 He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in Susan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in to the king, and to entreat him for her people.
13406 Esther Est 19 4 9 And Athach went back and told Esther all that Mardochai had said.
13407 Esther Est 19 4 10 She answered him, and bade him say to Mardochai:
13408 Esther Est 19 4 11 All the king’s servants, and all the provinces that are under his dominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the king’s inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to death without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can I go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called unto him?
13409 Esther Est 19 4 12 And when Mardochai had heard this,
13410 Esther Est 19 4 13 He sent word to Esther again, saying: Think not that thou mayst save thy life only, because thou art in the king’s house, more than all the Jews:
13411 Esther Est 19 4 14 For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father’s house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?
13412 Esther Est 19 4 15 And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words:
13413 Esther Est 19 4 16 Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
13414 Esther Est 19 4 17 So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.
13415 Esther Est 19 5 1 And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s hall: now he sat upon his throne in the hall of the palace, over against the door of the house.
13416 Esther Est 19 5 2 And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.
13417 Esther Est 19 5 3 And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it shall be given to thee.
13418 Esther Est 19 5 4 But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.
13419 Esther Est 19 5 5 And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman quickly, that he may obey Esther’s will. So the king and Aman came to the banquet which the queen had prepared for them.
13420 Esther Est 19 5 6 And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.
13421 Esther Est 19 5 7 And Esther answered: My petition and request is this:
13422 Esther Est 19 5 8 If I have found favour in the king’s sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king.
13423 Esther Est 19 5 9 So Aman went out that day joyful and merry. And when he saw Mardochai sitting before the gate of the palace, and that he not only did not rise up to honour him, but did not so much as move from the place where he sat, he was exceedingly angry:
13424 Esther Est 19 5 10 But dissembling his anger, and returning into his house, he called together to him his friends, and Zares his wife:
13425 Esther Est 19 5 11 And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.
13426 Esther Est 19 5 12 And after this he said: Queen Esther also hath invited no other to the banquet with the king, but me: and with her I am also to dine to morrow with the king:
13427 Esther Est 19 5 13 And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so long as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king’s gate.
13428 Esther Est 19 5 14 Then Zares his wife, and the rest of his friends answered him: Order a great beam to be prepared, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king, that Mardochai may be hanged upon it, and so thou shalt go full of joy with the king to the banquet. The counsel pleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet to be prepared.
13429 Esther Est 19 6 1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
13430 Esther Est 19 6 2 They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had discovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought to kill king Assuerus.
13431 Esther Est 19 6 3 And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath Mardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said to him: He hath received no reward at all.
13432 Esther Est 19 6 4 And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was coming in to the inner court of the king’s house, to speak to the king, that he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet, which was prepared for him.
13433 Esther Est 19 6 5 The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
13434 Esther Est 19 6 6 And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to the man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his heart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,
13435 Esther Est 19 6 7 Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
13436 Esther Est 19 6 8 Ought to be clothed with the king’s apparel, and to be set upon the horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon his head,
13437 Esther Est 19 6 9 And let the first of the king’s princes and nobles hold his horse, and going through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say: Thus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
13438 Esther Est 19 6 10 And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the horse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth before the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those things which thou hast spoken.
13439 Esther Est 19 6 11 So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mardochai in the street of the city, and setting him on the horse, went before him, and proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
13440 Esther Est 19 6 12 But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to go to his house, mourning and having his head covered:
13441 Esther Est 19 6 13 And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had befallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife answered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his sight.
13442 Esther Est 19 6 14 As they were yet speaking, the king’s eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.
13443 Esther Est 19 7 1 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
13444 Esther Est 19 7 2 And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.
13445 Esther Est 19 7 3 Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.
13446 Esther Est 19 7 4 For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
13447 Esther Est 19 7 5 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
13448 Esther Est 19 7 6 And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
13449 Esther Est 19 7 7 But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.
13450 Esther Est 19 7 8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
13451 Esther Est 19 7 9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman’s house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it.
13452 Esther Est 19 7 10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
13453 Esther Est 19 8 1 On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews’ enemy, to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had confessed to him that he was her uncle.
13454 Esther Est 19 8 2 And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken again from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai over her house.
13455 Esther Est 19 8 3 And not content with these things, she fell down at the king’s feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.
13456 Esther Est 19 8 4 But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before him,
13457 Esther Est 19 8 5 And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king’s provinces, may be reversed by new letters.
13458 Esther Est 19 8 6 For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?
13459 Esther Est 19 8 7 And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given Aman’s house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.
13460 Esther Est 19 8 8 Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you in the king’s name, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that no man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king’s name, and were sealed with his ring.
13461 Esther Est 19 8 9 Then the king’s scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters, and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear.
13462 Esther Est 19 8 10 And these letters which were sent in the king’s name, were sealed with his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the provinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages.
13463 Esther Est 19 8 11 And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.
13464 Esther Est 19 8 12 And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.
13465 Esther Est 19 8 13 And this was the content of the letter, that it should be notified in all lands and peoples that were subject to the empire of king Assuerus, that the Jews were ready to be revenged of their enemies.
13466 Esther Est 19 8 14 So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king’s edict was hung up in Susan.
13467 Esther Est 19 8 15 And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king’s presence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour, wearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk and purple. And all the city rejoiced, and was glad.
13468 Esther Est 19 8 16 But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and dancing.
13469 Esther Est 19 8 17 And in all peoples, cities, and provinces, whithersoever the king’s commandments came, there was wonderful rejoicing, feasts and banquets, and keeping holy day: Insomuch that many of other nations and religion, joined themselves to their worship and ceremonies. For a great dread of the name of the Jews had fallen upon all.
13470 Esther Est 19 9 1 So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries.
13471 Esther Est 19 9 2 And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and place, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And no one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone through every people.
13472 Esther Est 19 9 3 And the judges of the provinces, and the governors, and lieutenants, and every one in dignity, that presided over every place and work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mardochai:
13473 Esther Est 19 9 4 For they knew him to be prince of the palace, and to have great power: and the fame of his name increased daily, and was spread abroad through all men’s mouths.
13474 Esther Est 19 9 5 So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:
13475 Esther Est 19 9 6 Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these:
13476 Esther Est 19 9 7 Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha
13477 Esther Est 19 9 8 And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
13478 Esther Est 19 9 9 And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha.
13479 Esther Est 19 9 10 And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.
13480 Esther Est 19 9 11 And presently the number of them that were killed in Susan was brought to the king.
13481 Esther Est 19 9 12 And he said to the queen: The Jews have killed five hundred men in the city of Susan, besides the ten sons of Aman: how many dost thou think they have slain in all the provinces? What askest thou more, and what wilt thou have me to command to be done?
13482 Esther Est 19 9 13 And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.
13483 Esther Est 19 9 14 And the king commanded that it should be so done. And forthwith the edict was hung up in Susan, and the ten sons of Aman were hanged.
13484 Esther Est 19 9 15 And on the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews gathered themselves together, and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but they took not their substance.
13485 Esther Est 19 9 16 Moreover through all the provinces which were subject to the king’s dominion the Jews stood for their lives, and slew their enemies and persecutors: insomuch that the number of them that were killed amounted to seventy-five thousand, and no man took any of their goods.
13486 Esther Est 19 9 17 Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with them all of the slaughter, and on the fourteenth day they left off. Which they ordained to be kept holy day, so that all times hereafter they should celebrate it with feasting, joy, and banquets.
13487 Esther Est 19 9 18 But they that were killing in the city of Susan, were employed in the slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month: and on the fifteenth day they rested. And therefore they appointed that day to be a holy day of feasting and gladness.
13488 Esther Est 19 9 19 But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats.
13489 Esther Est 19 9 20 And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in letters to the Jews that abode in all the king’s provinces, both those that lay near and those afar off,
13490 Esther Est 19 9 21 That they should receive the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always at the return of the year should celebrate them with solemn honour:
13491 Esther Est 19 9 22 Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to the poor.
13492 Esther Est 19 9 23 And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had begun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to be done.
13493 Esther Est 19 9 24 For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and destroy them; and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.
13494 Esther Est 19 9 25 And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavours might be made void by the king’s letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.
13495 Esther Est 19 9 26 And since that time these days are called Phurim, that is, of lots: because Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things that were done, are contained in the volume of this epistle, that is, of this book:
13496 Esther Est 19 9 27 And the things that they suffered, and that were afterwards changed, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all that had a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it should be lawful for none to pass these days without solemnity: which the writing testifieth, and certain times require, as the years continually succeed one another.
13497 Esther Est 19 9 28 These are the days which shall never be forgot: and which all provinces in the whole world shall celebrate throughout all generations: neither is there any city wherein the days of Phurim, that is, of lots, must not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity, which is bound to these ceremonies.
13498 Esther Est 19 9 29 And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mardochai the Jew, wrote also a second epistle, that with all diligence this day should be established a festival for the time to come.
13499 Esther Est 19 9 30 And they sent to all the Jews that were in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of king Assuerus, that they should have peace, and receive truth,
13500 Esther Est 19 9 31 And observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy in their proper time: as Mardochai and Esther had appointed, and they undertook them to be observed by themselves and by their seed, fasts, and cries, and the days of lots,
13501 Esther Est 19 9 32 And all things which are contained in the history of this book, which is called Esther.
13502 Esther Est 19 10 1 And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the islands of the sea tributary.
13503 Esther Est 19 10 2 And his strength and his empire, and the dignity and greatness wherewith he exalted Mardochai, are written in the books of the Medes, and of the Persians:
13504 Esther Est 19 10 3 And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews, was next after king Assuerus: and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking those things which were for the welfare of his seed.
13505 Esther Est 19 10 4 Then Mardochai said: God hath done these things.
13506 Esther Est 19 10 5 I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things: and nothing thereof hath failed.
13507 Esther Est 19 10 6 The little fountain which grew into a river, and was turned into a light, and into the sun, and abounded into many waters, is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.
13508 Esther Est 19 10 7 But the two dragons are I and Aman.
13509 Esther Est 19 10 8 The nations that were assembled are they that endeavoured to destroy the name of the Jews.
13510 Esther Est 19 10 9 And my nation is Israel, who cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved his people: and he delivered us from all evils, and hath wrought great signs and wonders among the nations:
13511 Esther Est 19 10 10 And he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the people of God, and the other of all the nations.
13512 Esther Est 19 10 11 And both lots came to the day appointed already from that time before God to all nations:
13513 Esther Est 19 10 12 And the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his inheritance.
13514 Esther Est 19 10 13 And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar on the fourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month, with all diligence, and joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.
13515 Esther Est 19 11 1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and Ptolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.
13516 Esther Est 19 11 2 In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:
13517 Esther Est 19 11 3 A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the first of the king’s court, had a dream.
13518 Esther Est 19 11 4 Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Juda:
13519 Esther Est 19 11 5 And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.
13520 Esther Est 19 11 6 And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one against another.
13521 Esther Est 19 11 7 And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the nation of the just.
13522 Esther Est 19 11 8 And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon the earth.
13523 Esther Est 19 11 9 And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.
13524 Esther Est 19 11 10 And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little fountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.
13525 Esther Est 19 11 11 The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the glorious.
13526 Esther Est 19 11 12 And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind, desirous to know what the dream should signify.
13527 Esther Est 19 12 1 And he abode at that time in the king’s court with Bagatha and Thara the king’s eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.
13528 Esther Est 19 12 2 And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched into their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent hands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.
13529 Esther Est 19 12 3 Then the king had them both examined, and after they had confessed, commanded them to be put to death.
13530 Esther Est 19 12 4 But the king made a record of what was done: and Mardochai also committed the memory of the thing to writing.
13531 Esther Est 19 12 5 And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace, and gave him presents for the information.
13532 Esther Est 19 12 6 But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with the king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king who were put to death.
13533 Esther Est 19 13 1 And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting.
13534 Esther Est 19 13 2 Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the world under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and that they might live quietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by all men,
13535 Esther Est 19 13 3 But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished, one that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after the king, Aman by name,
13536 Esther Est 19 13 4 Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole world, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all nations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their opposition the concord of all nations.
13537 Esther Est 19 13 5 Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us,
13538 Esther Est 19 13 6 We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that none shall have pity on them, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
13539 Esther Est 19 13 7 That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore to our empire the peace which they had disturbed.
13540 Esther Est 19 13 8 But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,
13541 Esther Est 19 13 9 And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel.
13542 Esther Est 19 13 10 Thou hast made heaven and earth and all things that are under the cope of heaven.
13543 Esther Est 19 13 11 Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy majesty.
13544 Esther Est 19 13 12 Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of pride and or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman,
13545 Esther Est 19 13 13 (For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of his feet,)
13546 Esther Est 19 13 14 But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God.
13547 Esther Est 19 13 15 And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance.
13548 Esther Est 19 13 16 Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.
13549 Esther Est 19 13 17 Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee.
13550 Esther Est 19 13 18 And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the Lord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.
13551 Esther Est 19 14 1 Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had recourse to the Lord.
13552 Esther Est 19 14 2 And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.
13553 Esther Est 19 14 3 And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other helper but thee.
13554 Esther Est 19 14 4 My danger is in my hands.
13555 Esther Est 19 14 5 I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
13556 Esther Est 19 14 6 We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies:
13557 Esther Est 19 14 7 For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.
13558 Esther Est 19 14 8 And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols.
13559 Esther Est 19 14 9 They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar,
13560 Esther Est 19 14 10 That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.
13561 Esther Est 19 14 11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us.
13562 Esther Est 19 14 12 Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our tribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all power:
13563 Esther Est 19 14 13 Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.
13564 Esther Est 19 14 14 But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other helper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.
13565 Esther Est 19 14 15 And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the wicked, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
13566 Esther Est 19 14 16 Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride and glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my silence,
13567 Esther Est 19 14 17 And that I have not eaten at Aman’s table, nor hath the king’s banquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink offerings:
13568 Esther Est 19 14 18 And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I was brought hither unto this day but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.
13569 Esther Est 19 14 19 O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that have no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and deliver me from my fear.
13570 Esther Est 19 15 1 And he commanded her (no doubt but he was Mardochai) to go to the king, and petition for her people, and for her country.
13571 Esther Est 19 15 2 Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast brought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath spoken against us unto death.
13572 Esther Est 19 15 3 And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king for us, and deliver us from death.
13573 Esther Est 19 15 4 And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put on her glorious apparel.
13574 Esther Est 19 15 5 And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the ruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her,
13575 Esther Est 19 15 6 And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.
13576 Esther Est 19 15 7 And the other maid followed her lady, bearing up her train flowing on the ground.
13577 Esther Est 19 15 8 But she with a rosy colour in her face, and with gracious and bright eyes hid a mind full of anguish, and exceeding great fear.
13578 Esther Est 19 15 9 So going in she passed through all doors in order, and stood before the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his royal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was terrible to behold.
13579 Esther Est 19 15 10 And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes had shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour turned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid.
13580 Esther Est 19 15 11 And God changed the king’s spirit into mildness, and all in haste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his arms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words:
13581 Esther Est 19 15 12 What is the matter, Esther? I am thy brother, fear not.
13582 Esther Est 19 15 13 Thou shalt not die: for this law is not made for thee, but for all others.
13583 Esther Est 19 15 14 Come near then, and touch the sceptre.
13584 Esther Est 19 15 15 And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me?
13585 Esther Est 19 15 16 She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.
13586 Esther Est 19 15 17 For thou, my lord, art very admirable, and thy face is full of graces.
13587 Esther Est 19 15 18 And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost in a swoon.
13588 Esther Est 19 15 19 But the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.
13589 Esther Est 19 16 1 The great king Artaxerxes, from India to Ethiopia, to the governors and princes of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, which obey our command, sendeth greeting.
13590 Esther Est 19 16 2 Many have abused unto pride the goodness of princes, and the honour that hath been bestowed upon them:
13591 Esther Est 19 16 3 And not only endeavour to oppress the king’s subjects, but not bearing the glory that is given them, take in hand, to practise also against them that gave it.
13592 Esther Est 19 16 4 Neither are they content not to return thanks for benefits received, and to violate in themselves the laws of humanity, but they think they can also escape the justice of God who seeth all things.
13593 Esther Est 19 16 5 And they break out into so great madness, as to endeavour to undermine by lies such as observe diligently the offices committed to them, and do all things in such manner as to be worthy of all men’s praise,
13594 Esther Est 19 16 6 While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears of princes that are well meaning, and judge of others by their own nature.
13595 Esther Est 19 16 7 Now this is proved both from ancient histories, and by the things which are done daily, how the good designs of kings are depraved by the evil suggestions of certain men.
13596 Esther Est 19 16 8 Wherefore we must provide for the peace of all provinces.
13597 Esther Est 19 16 9 Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it cometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according to the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the commonwealth requireth.
13598 Esther Est 19 16 10 Now that you may more plainly understand what we say, Aman the son of Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind and country, and having nothing of the Persian blood, but with his cruelty staining our goodness, was received being a stranger by us:
13599 Esther Est 19 16 11 And found our humanity so great towards him, that he was called our father, and was worshipped by all as the next man after the king:
13600 Esther Est 19 16 12 But he was so far puffed up with arrogancy, as to go about to deprive us of our kingdom and life.
13601 Esther Est 19 16 13 For with certain new and unheard of devices he hath sought the destruction of Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good services our life was saved, and of Esther the partner of our kingdom with all their nation:
13602 Esther Est 19 16 14 Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
13603 Esther Est 19 16 15 But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws,
13604 Esther Est 19 16 16 And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.
13605 Esther Est 19 16 17 Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect.
13606 Esther Est 19 16 18 For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.
13607 Esther Est 19 16 19 But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.
13608 Esther Est 19 16 20 And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared themselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
13609 Esther Est 19 16 21 For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and mourning into joy to them.
13610 Esther Est 19 16 22 Wherefore you shall also count this day among other festival days, and celebrate it with all joy, that it may be known also in times to come,
13611 Esther Est 19 16 23 That all they who faithfully obey the Persians, receive a worthy reward for their fidelity: but they that are traitors to their kingdom, are destroyed for their wickedness.
13612 Esther Est 19 16 24 And let every province and city, that will not be partaker of this solemnity, perish by the sword and by fire, and be destroyed in such manner as to be made unpassable, both to men and beasts, for an example of contempt, and disobedience.
13613 Job Job 20 1 1 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.
13614 Job Job 20 1 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
13615 Job Job 20 1 3 And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.
13616 Job Job 20 1 4 And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them.
13617 Job Job 20 1 5 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.
13618 Job Job 20 1 6 Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them.
13619 Job Job 20 1 7 And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.
13620 Job Job 20 1 8 And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?
13621 Job Job 20 1 9 And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain?
13622 Job Job 20 1 10 Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?
13623 Job Job 20 1 11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.
13624 Job Job 20 1 12 Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
13625 Job Job 20 1 13 Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother,
13626 Job Job 20 1 14 There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,
13627 Job Job 20 1 15 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
13628 Job Job 20 1 16 And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
13629 Job Job 20 1 17 And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
13630 Job Job 20 1 18 He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
13631 Job Job 20 1 19 A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
13632 Job Job 20 1 20 Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
13633 Job Job 20 1 21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.
13634 Job Job 20 1 22 In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.
13635 Job Job 20 2 1 And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, and stood before the Lord, and Satan came amongst them, and stood in his sight,
13636 Job Job 20 2 2 That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered, and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.
13637 Job Job 20 2 3 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.
13638 Job Job 20 2 4 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:
13639 Job Job 20 2 5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
13640 Job Job 20 2 6 And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.
13641 Job Job 20 2 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:
13642 Job Job 20 2 8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
13643 Job Job 20 2 9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.
13644 Job Job 20 2 10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
13645 Job Job 20 2 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite, and Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.
13646 Job Job 20 2 12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13647 Job Job 20 2 13 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
13648 Job Job 20 3 1 After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
13649 Job Job 20 3 2 And he said:
13650 Job Job 20 3 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
13651 Job Job 20 3 4 Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.
13652 Job Job 20 3 5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
13653 Job Job 20 3 6 Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
13654 Job Job 20 3 7 Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
13655 Job Job 20 3 8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
13656 Job Job 20 3 9 Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
13657 Job Job 20 3 10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
13658 Job Job 20 3 11 Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
13659 Job Job 20 3 12 Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
13660 Job Job 20 3 13 For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:
13661 Job Job 20 3 14 With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
13662 Job Job 20 3 15 Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:
13663 Job Job 20 3 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.
13664 Job Job 20 3 17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
13665 Job Job 20 3 18 And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.
13666 Job Job 20 3 19 The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
13667 Job Job 20 3 20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
13668 Job Job 20 3 21 That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
13669 Job Job 20 3 22 And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?
13670 Job Job 20 3 23 To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
13671 Job Job 20 3 24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
13672 Job Job 20 3 25 For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
13673 Job Job 20 3 26 Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.
13674 Job Job 20 4 1 Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:
13675 Job Job 20 4 2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
13676 Job Job 20 4 3 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
13677 Job Job 20 4 4 Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
13678 Job Job 20 4 5 But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
13679 Job Job 20 4 6 Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
13680 Job Job 20 4 7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
13681 Job Job 20 4 8 On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
13682 Job Job 20 4 9 Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
13683 Job Job 20 4 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:
13684 Job Job 20 4 11 The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
13685 Job Job 20 4 12 Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.
13686 Job Job 20 4 13 In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
13687 Job Job 20 4 14 Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
13688 Job Job 20 4 15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
13689 Job Job 20 4 16 There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.
13690 Job Job 20 4 17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
13691 Job Job 20 4 18 Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
13692 Job Job 20 4 19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
13693 Job Job 20 4 20 From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
13694 Job Job 20 4 21 And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
13695 Job Job 20 5 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
13696 Job Job 20 5 2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
13697 Job Job 20 5 3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
13698 Job Job 20 5 4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
13699 Job Job 20 5 5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
13700 Job Job 20 5 6 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
13701 Job Job 20 5 7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.
13702 Job Job 20 5 8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
13703 Job Job 20 5 9 Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
13704 Job Job 20 5 10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
13705 Job Job 20 5 11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
13706 Job Job 20 5 12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13707 Job Job 20 5 13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
13708 Job Job 20 5 14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
13709 Job Job 20 5 15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
13710 Job Job 20 5 16 And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
13711 Job Job 20 5 17 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.
13712 Job Job 20 5 18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
13713 Job Job 20 5 19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
13714 Job Job 20 5 20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
13715 Job Job 20 5 21 Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
13716 Job Job 20 5 22 In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
13717 Job Job 20 5 23 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.
13718 Job Job 20 5 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.
13719 Job Job 20 5 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
13720 Job Job 20 5 26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
13721 Job Job 20 5 27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
13722 Job Job 20 6 1 But Job answered, and said:
13723 Job Job 20 6 2 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
13724 Job Job 20 6 3 As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:
13725 Job Job 20 6 4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
13726 Job Job 20 6 5 Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?
13727 Job Job 20 6 6 Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?
13728 Job Job 20 6 7 The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.
13729 Job Job 20 6 8 Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
13730 Job Job 20 6 9 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
13731 Job Job 20 6 10 And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.
13732 Job Job 20 6 11 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?
13733 Job Job 20 6 12 My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
13734 Job Job 20 6 13 Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
13735 Job Job 20 6 14 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
13736 Job Job 20 6 15 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.
13737 Job Job 20 6 16 They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
13738 Job Job 20 6 17 At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.
13739 Job Job 20 6 18 The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
13740 Job Job 20 6 19 Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.
13741 Job Job 20 6 20 They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.
13742 Job Job 20 6 21 Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.
13743 Job Job 20 6 22 Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your substance?
13744 Job Job 20 6 23 Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?
13745 Job Job 20 6 24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.
13746 Job Job 20 6 25 Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
13747 Job Job 20 6 26 You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
13748 Job Job 20 6 27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
13749 Job Job 20 6 28 However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I lie.
13750 Job Job 20 6 29 Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.
13751 Job Job 20 6 30 And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.
13752 Job Job 20 7 1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
13753 Job Job 20 7 2 As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
13754 Job Job 20 7 3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
13755 Job Job 20 7 4 If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.
13756 Job Job 20 7 5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.
13757 Job Job 20 7 6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
13758 Job Job 20 7 7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.
13759 Job Job 20 7 8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.
13760 Job Job 20 7 9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.
13761 Job Job 20 7 10 Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more
13762 Job Job 20 7 11 Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.
13763 Job Job 20 7 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
13764 Job Job 20 7 13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:
13765 Job Job 20 7 14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.
13766 Job Job 20 7 15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
13767 Job Job 20 7 16 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
13768 Job Job 20 7 17 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
13769 Job Job 20 7 18 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.
13770 Job Job 20 7 19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?
13771 Job Job 20 7 20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?
13772 Job Job 20 7 21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.
13773 Job Job 20 8 1 Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:
13774 Job Job 20 8 2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
13775 Job Job 20 8 3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
13776 Job Job 20 8 4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
13777 Job Job 20 8 5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
13778 Job Job 20 8 6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
13779 Job Job 20 8 7 In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
13780 Job Job 20 8 8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
13781 Job Job 20 8 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow
13782 Job Job 20 8 10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
13783 Job Job 20 8 11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
13784 Job Job 20 8 12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13785 Job Job 20 8 13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
13786 Job Job 20 8 14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
13787 Job Job 20 8 15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
13788 Job Job 20 8 16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
13789 Job Job 20 8 17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
13790 Job Job 20 8 18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
13791 Job Job 20 8 19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
13792 Job Job 20 8 20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:
13793 Job Job 20 8 21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
13794 Job Job 20 8 22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
13795 Job Job 20 9 1 And Job answered, and said:
13796 Job Job 20 9 2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.
13797 Job Job 20 9 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
13798 Job Job 20 9 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
13799 Job Job 20 9 5 Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
13800 Job Job 20 9 6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
13801 Job Job 20 9 7 Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal:
13802 Job Job 20 9 8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea
13803 Job Job 20 9 9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.
13804 Job Job 20 9 10 Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.
13805 Job Job 20 9 11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand.
13806 Job Job 20 9 12 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
13807 Job Job 20 9 13 God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
13808 Job Job 20 9 14 What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
13809 Job Job 20 9 15 I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.
13810 Job Job 20 9 16 And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
13811 Job Job 20 9 17 For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
13812 Job Job 20 9 18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
13813 Job Job 20 9 19 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
13814 Job Job 20 9 20 If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
13815 Job Job 20 9 21 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
13816 Job Job 20 9 22 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
13817 Job Job 20 9 23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
13818 Job Job 20 9 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
13819 Job Job 20 9 25 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
13820 Job Job 20 9 26 They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
13821 Job Job 20 9 27 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
13822 Job Job 20 9 28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
13823 Job Job 20 9 29 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
13824 Job Job 20 9 30 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:
13825 Job Job 20 9 31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.
13826 Job Job 20 9 32 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
13827 Job Job 20 9 33 There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
13828 Job Job 20 9 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
13829 Job Job 20 9 35 I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
13830 Job Job 20 10 1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
13831 Job Job 20 10 2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
13832 Job Job 20 10 3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
13833 Job Job 20 10 4 Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?
13834 Job Job 20 10 5 Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
13835 Job Job 20 10 6 That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
13836 Job Job 20 10 7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?
13837 Job Job 20 10 8 Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
13838 Job Job 20 10 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust
13839 Job Job 20 10 10 Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
13840 Job Job 20 10 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me together with bones and sinews:
13841 Job Job 20 10 12 Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13842 Job Job 20 10 13 Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.
13843 Job Job 20 10 14 If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
13844 Job Job 20 10 15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
13845 Job Job 20 10 16 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.
13846 Job Job 20 10 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
13847 Job Job 20 10 18 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!
13848 Job Job 20 10 19 I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
13849 Job Job 20 10 20 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
13850 Job Job 20 10 21 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
13851 Job Job 20 10 22 A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
13852 Job Job 20 11 1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
13853 Job Job 20 11 2 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?
13854 Job Job 20 11 3 Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?
13855 Job Job 20 11 4 For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.
13856 Job Job 20 11 5 And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
13857 Job Job 20 11 6 That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.
13858 Job Job 20 11 7 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?
13859 Job Job 20 11 8 He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?
13860 Job Job 20 11 9 The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
13861 Job Job 20 11 10 If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?
13862 Job Job 20 11 11 For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it?
13863 Job Job 20 11 12 A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass’s colt.
13864 Job Job 20 11 13 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.
13865 Job Job 20 11 14 If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:
13866 Job Job 20 11 15 Then mayst thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not fear.
13867 Job Job 20 11 16 Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters that are passed away.
13868 Job Job 20 11 17 And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.
13869 Job Job 20 11 18 And thou shalt have confidence, hope being set before thee, and being buried thou shalt sleep secure.
13870 Job Job 20 11 19 Thou shalt rest, and there shall be none to make thee afraid: and many shall entreat thy face.
13871 Job Job 20 11 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.
13872 Job Job 20 12 1 Then Job answered, and said:
13873 Job Job 20 12 2 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
13874 Job Job 20 12 3 I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
13875 Job Job 20 12 4 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
13876 Job Job 20 12 5 The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
13877 Job Job 20 12 6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:
13878 Job Job 20 12 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.
13879 Job Job 20 12 8 Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.
13880 Job Job 20 12 9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?
13881 Job Job 20 12 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
13882 Job Job 20 12 11 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?
13883 Job Job 20 12 12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.
13884 Job Job 20 12 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
13885 Job Job 20 12 14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.
13886 Job Job 20 12 15 If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.
13887 Job Job 20 12 16 With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.
13888 Job Job 20 12 17 He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.
13889 Job Job 20 12 18 He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
13890 Job Job 20 12 19 He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.
13891 Job Job 20 12 20 He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
13892 Job Job 20 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.
13893 Job Job 20 12 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.
13894 Job Job 20 12 23 He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.
13895 Job Job 20 12 24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.
13896 Job Job 20 12 25 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
13897 Job Job 20 13 1 Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
13898 Job Job 20 13 2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
13899 Job Job 20 13 3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13900 Job Job 20 13 4 Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
13901 Job Job 20 13 5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
13902 Job Job 20 13 6 Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
13903 Job Job 20 13 7 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?
13904 Job Job 20 13 8 Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
13905 Job Job 20 13 9 Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?
13906 Job Job 20 13 10 He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
13907 Job Job 20 13 11 As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
13908 Job Job 20 13 12 Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
13909 Job Job 20 13 13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
13910 Job Job 20 13 14 Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
13911 Job Job 20 13 15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
13912 Job Job 20 13 16 And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
13913 Job Job 20 13 17 Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.
13914 Job Job 20 13 18 If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
13915 Job Job 20 13 19 Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
13916 Job Job 20 13 20 Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
13917 Job Job 20 13 21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
13918 Job Job 20 13 22 Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
13919 Job Job 20 13 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses.
13920 Job Job 20 13 24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
13921 Job Job 20 13 25 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
13922 Job Job 20 13 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.
13923 Job Job 20 13 27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
13924 Job Job 20 13 28 Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
13925 Job Job 20 14 1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
13926 Job Job 20 14 2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
13927 Job Job 20 14 3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?
13928 Job Job 20 14 4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
13929 Job Job 20 14 5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
13930 Job Job 20 14 6 Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
13931 Job Job 20 14 7 A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.
13932 Job Job 20 14 8 If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
13933 Job Job 20 14 9 At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
13934 Job Job 20 14 10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
13935 Job Job 20 14 11 As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;
13936 Job Job 20 14 12 So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.
13937 Job Job 20 14 13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?
13938 Job Job 20 14 14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
13939 Job Job 20 14 15 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
13940 Job Job 20 14 16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
13941 Job Job 20 14 17 Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
13942 Job Job 20 14 18 A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
13943 Job Job 20 14 19 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
13944 Job Job 20 14 20 Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
13945 Job Job 20 14 21 Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
13946 Job Job 20 14 22 But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.
13947 Job Job 20 15 1 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
13948 Job Job 20 15 2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
13949 Job Job 20 15 3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
13950 Job Job 20 15 4 As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
13951 Job Job 20 15 5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
13952 Job Job 20 15 6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
13953 Job Job 20 15 7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?
13954 Job Job 20 15 8 Hast thou heard God’s counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?
13955 Job Job 20 15 9 What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
13956 Job Job 20 15 10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.
13957 Job Job 20 15 11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
13958 Job Job 20 15 12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?
13959 Job Job 20 15 13 Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?
13960 Job Job 20 15 14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
13961 Job Job 20 15 15 Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
13962 Job Job 20 15 16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
13963 Job Job 20 15 17 I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen.
13964 Job Job 20 15 18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
13965 Job Job 20 15 19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.
13966 Job Job 20 15 20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
13967 Job Job 20 15 21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
13968 Job Job 20 15 22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
13969 Job Job 20 15 23 When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
13970 Job Job 20 15 24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
13971 Job Job 20 15 25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.
13972 Job Job 20 15 26 He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
13973 Job Job 20 15 27 Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
13974 Job Job 20 15 28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
13975 Job Job 20 15 29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
13976 Job Job 20 15 30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.
13977 Job Job 20 15 31 He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
13978 Job Job 20 15 32 Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
13979 Job Job 20 15 33 He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
13980 Job Job 20 15 34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
13981 Job Job 20 15 35 He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.
13982 Job Job 20 16 1 Then Job answered, and said:
13983 Job Job 20 16 2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
13984 Job Job 20 16 3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
13985 Job Job 20 16 4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
13986 Job Job 20 16 5 I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
13987 Job Job 20 16 6 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
13988 Job Job 20 16 7 But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
13989 Job Job 20 16 8 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
13990 Job Job 20 16 9 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
13991 Job Job 20 16 10 He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.
13992 Job Job 20 16 11 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.
13993 Job Job 20 16 12 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
13994 Job Job 20 16 13 I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.
13995 Job Job 20 16 14 He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,
13996 Job Job 20 16 15 He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
13997 Job Job 20 16 16 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.
13998 Job Job 20 16 17 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
13999 Job Job 20 16 18 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.
14000 Job Job 20 16 19 O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.
14001 Job Job 20 16 20 For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
14002 Job Job 20 16 21 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
14003 Job Job 20 16 22 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
14004 Job Job 20 16 23 For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
14005 Job Job 20 17 1 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.
14006 Job Job 20 17 2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.
14007 Job Job 20 17 3 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man’s hand fight against me.
14008 Job Job 20 17 4 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
14009 Job Job 20 17 5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
14010 Job Job 20 17 6 He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
14011 Job Job 20 17 7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
14012 Job Job 20 17 8 The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
14013 Job Job 20 17 9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
14014 Job Job 20 17 10 Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
14015 Job Job 20 17 11 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.
14016 Job Job 20 17 12 They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
14017 Job Job 20 17 13 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
14018 Job Job 20 17 14 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
14019 Job Job 20 17 15 Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
14020 Job Job 20 17 16 All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
14021 Job Job 20 18 1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
14022 Job Job 20 18 2 How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
14023 Job Job 20 18 3 Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
14024 Job Job 20 18 4 Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?
14025 Job Job 20 18 5 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
14026 Job Job 20 18 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
14027 Job Job 20 18 7 The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
14028 Job Job 20 18 8 For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.
14029 Job Job 20 18 9 The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.
14030 Job Job 20 18 10 A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.
14031 Job Job 20 18 11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.
14032 Job Job 20 18 12 Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
14033 Job Job 20 18 13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
14034 Job Job 20 18 14 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.
14035 Job Job 20 18 15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
14036 Job Job 20 18 16 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.
14037 Job Job 20 18 17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
14038 Job Job 20 18 18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
14039 Job Job 20 18 19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.
14040 Job Job 20 18 20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.
14041 Job Job 20 18 21 These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.
14042 Job Job 20 19 1 Then Job answered, and said:
14043 Job Job 20 19 2 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
14044 Job Job 20 19 3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
14045 Job Job 20 19 4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
14046 Job Job 20 19 5 But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
14047 Job Job 20 19 6 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
14048 Job Job 20 19 7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.
14049 Job Job 20 19 8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
14050 Job Job 20 19 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.
14051 Job Job 20 19 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.
14052 Job Job 20 19 11 His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his enemy.
14053 Job Job 20 19 12 His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
14054 Job Job 20 19 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.
14055 Job Job 20 19 14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
14056 Job Job 20 19 15 They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
14057 Job Job 20 19 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
14058 Job Job 20 19 17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.
14059 Job Job 20 19 18 Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.
14060 Job Job 20 19 19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.
14061 Job Job 20 19 20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
14062 Job Job 20 19 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
14063 Job Job 20 19 22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
14064 Job Job 20 19 23 Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
14065 Job Job 20 19 24 With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?
14066 Job Job 20 19 25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.
14067 Job Job 20 19 26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.
14068 Job Job 20 19 27 Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
14069 Job Job 20 19 28 Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?
14070 Job Job 20 19 29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.
14071 Job Job 20 20 1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
14072 Job Job 20 20 2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
14073 Job Job 20 20 3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
14074 Job Job 20 20 4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
14075 Job Job 20 20 5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
14076 Job Job 20 20 6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
14077 Job Job 20 20 7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?
14078 Job Job 20 20 8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
14079 Job Job 20 20 9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
14080 Job Job 20 20 10 His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.
14081 Job Job 20 20 11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
14082 Job Job 20 20 12 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
14083 Job Job 20 20 13 He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.
14084 Job Job 20 20 14 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,
14085 Job Job 20 20 15 The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.
14086 Job Job 20 20 16 He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper’s tongue shall kill him.
14087 Job Job 20 20 17 Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.
14088 Job Job 20 20 18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.
14089 Job Job 20 20 19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
14090 Job Job 20 20 20 And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.
14091 Job Job 20 20 21 There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:
14092 Job Job 20 20 22 When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.
14093 Job Job 20 20 23 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.
14094 Job Job 20 20 24 He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
14095 Job Job 20 20 25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.
14096 Job Job 20 20 26 All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.
14097 Job Job 20 20 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
14098 Job Job 20 20 28 The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.
14099 Job Job 20 20 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
14100 Job Job 20 21 1 Then Job answered, and said:
14101 Job Job 20 21 2 Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
14102 Job Job 20 21 3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
14103 Job Job 20 21 4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
14104 Job Job 20 21 5 Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
14105 Job Job 20 21 6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
14106 Job Job 20 21 7 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
14107 Job Job 20 21 8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
14108 Job Job 20 21 9 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
14109 Job Job 20 21 10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
14110 Job Job 20 21 11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
14111 Job Job 20 21 12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
14112 Job Job 20 21 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
14113 Job Job 20 21 14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
14114 Job Job 20 21 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
14115 Job Job 20 21 16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
14116 Job Job 20 21 17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
14117 Job Job 20 21 18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
14118 Job Job 20 21 19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
14119 Job Job 20 21 20 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
14120 Job Job 20 21 21 For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
14121 Job Job 20 21 22 Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
14122 Job Job 20 21 23 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
14123 Job Job 20 21 24 His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
14124 Job Job 20 21 25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
14125 Job Job 20 21 26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
14126 Job Job 20 21 27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
14127 Job Job 20 21 28 For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
14128 Job Job 20 21 29 Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
14129 Job Job 20 21 30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
14130 Job Job 20 21 31 Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
14131 Job Job 20 21 32 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
14132 Job Job 20 21 33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
14133 Job Job 20 21 34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
14134 Job Job 20 22 1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
14135 Job Job 20 22 2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
14136 Job Job 20 22 3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
14137 Job Job 20 22 4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
14138 Job Job 20 22 5 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?
14139 Job Job 20 22 6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
14140 Job Job 20 22 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
14141 Job Job 20 22 8 In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
14142 Job Job 20 22 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
14143 Job Job 20 22 10 Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
14144 Job Job 20 22 11 And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
14145 Job Job 20 22 12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
14146 Job Job 20 22 13 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14147 Job Job 20 22 14 The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
14148 Job Job 20 22 15 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
14149 Job Job 20 22 16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
14150 Job Job 20 22 17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
14151 Job Job 20 22 18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
14152 Job Job 20 22 19 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
14153 Job Job 20 22 20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
14154 Job Job 20 22 21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
14155 Job Job 20 22 22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
14156 Job Job 20 22 23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
14157 Job Job 20 22 24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
14158 Job Job 20 22 25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
14159 Job Job 20 22 26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
14160 Job Job 20 22 27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
14161 Job Job 20 22 28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
14162 Job Job 20 22 29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
14163 Job Job 20 22 30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
14164 Job Job 20 23 1 Then Job answered, and said:
14165 Job Job 20 23 2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
14166 Job Job 20 23 3 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
14167 Job Job 20 23 4 I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
14168 Job Job 20 23 5 That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
14169 Job Job 20 23 6 I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
14170 Job Job 20 23 7 Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
14171 Job Job 20 23 8 But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
14172 Job Job 20 23 9 If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.
14173 Job Job 20 23 10 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:
14174 Job Job 20 23 11 My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
14175 Job Job 20 23 12 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.
14176 Job Job 20 23 13 For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.
14177 Job Job 20 23 14 And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.
14178 Job Job 20 23 15 And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.
14179 Job Job 20 23 16 God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.
14180 Job Job 20 23 17 For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.
14181 Job Job 20 24 1 Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
14182 Job Job 20 24 2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
14183 Job Job 20 24 3 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow’s ox for a pledge.
14184 Job Job 20 24 4 They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
14185 Job Job 20 24 5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
14186 Job Job 20 24 6 They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
14187 Job Job 20 24 7 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
14188 Job Job 20 24 8 Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
14189 Job Job 20 24 9 They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
14190 Job Job 20 24 10 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
14191 Job Job 20 24 11 They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
14192 Job Job 20 24 12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
14193 Job Job 20 24 13 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
14194 Job Job 20 24 14 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.
14195 Job Job 20 24 15 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
14196 Job Job 20 24 16 He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
14197 Job Job 20 24 17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
14198 Job Job 20 24 18 He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
14199 Job Job 20 24 19 Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
14200 Job Job 20 24 20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
14201 Job Job 20 24 21 For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.
14202 Job Job 20 24 22 He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.
14203 Job Job 20 24 23 God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.
14204 Job Job 20 24 24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.
14205 Job Job 20 24 25 And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?
14206 Job Job 20 25 1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:
14207 Job Job 20 25 2 Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.
14208 Job Job 20 25 3 Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?
14209 Job Job 20 25 4 Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
14210 Job Job 20 25 5 Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.
14211 Job Job 20 25 6 How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?
14212 Job Job 20 26 1 Then Job answered, and said:
14213 Job Job 20 26 2 Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?
14214 Job Job 20 26 3 To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.
14215 Job Job 20 26 4 Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
14216 Job Job 20 26 5 Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
14217 Job Job 20 26 6 Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.
14218 Job Job 20 26 7 He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
14219 Job Job 20 26 8 He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.
14220 Job Job 20 26 9 He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.
14221 Job Job 20 26 10 He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.
14222 Job Job 20 26 11 The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.
14223 Job Job 20 26 12 By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.
14224 Job Job 20 26 13 His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.
14225 Job Job 20 26 14 Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?
14226 Job Job 20 27 1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
14227 Job Job 20 27 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
14228 Job Job 20 27 3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
14229 Job Job 20 27 4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
14230 Job Job 20 27 5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
14231 Job Job 20 27 6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
14232 Job Job 20 27 7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
14233 Job Job 20 27 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
14234 Job Job 20 27 9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
14235 Job Job 20 27 10 Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
14236 Job Job 20 27 11 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.
14237 Job Job 20 27 12 Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
14238 Job Job 20 27 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14239 Job Job 20 27 14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
14240 Job Job 20 27 15 They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
14241 Job Job 20 27 16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,
14242 Job Job 20 27 17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.
14243 Job Job 20 27 18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.
14244 Job Job 20 27 19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.
14245 Job Job 20 27 20 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:
14246 Job Job 20 27 21 A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
14247 Job Job 20 27 22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
14248 Job Job 20 27 23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.
14249 Job Job 20 28 1 Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.
14250 Job Job 20 28 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.
14251 Job Job 20 28 3 He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.
14252 Job Job 20 28 4 The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.
14253 Job Job 20 28 5 The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.
14254 Job Job 20 28 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.
14255 Job Job 20 28 7 The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.
14256 Job Job 20 28 8 The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.
14257 Job Job 20 28 9 He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.
14258 Job Job 20 28 10 In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.
14259 Job Job 20 28 11 The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.
14260 Job Job 20 28 12 But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?
14261 Job Job 20 28 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.
14262 Job Job 20 28 14 The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not with me.
14263 Job Job 20 28 15 The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
14264 Job Job 20 28 16 It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
14265 Job Job 20 28 17 Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.
14266 Job Job 20 28 18 High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.
14267 Job Job 20 28 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.
14268 Job Job 20 28 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
14269 Job Job 20 28 21 It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not.
14270 Job Job 20 28 22 Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.
14271 Job Job 20 28 23 God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.
14272 Job Job 20 28 24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.
14273 Job Job 20 28 25 Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure.
14274 Job Job 20 28 26 When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.
14275 Job Job 20 28 27 Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.
14276 Job Job 20 28 28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.
14277 Job Job 20 29 1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
14278 Job Job 20 29 2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
14279 Job Job 20 29 3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
14280 Job Job 20 29 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
14281 Job Job 20 29 5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
14282 Job Job 20 29 6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
14283 Job Job 20 29 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
14284 Job Job 20 29 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
14285 Job Job 20 29 9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
14286 Job Job 20 29 10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
14287 Job Job 20 29 11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
14288 Job Job 20 29 12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.
14289 Job Job 20 29 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
14290 Job Job 20 29 14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
14291 Job Job 20 29 15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
14292 Job Job 20 29 16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
14293 Job Job 20 29 17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
14294 Job Job 20 29 18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
14295 Job Job 20 29 19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
14296 Job Job 20 29 20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
14297 Job Job 20 29 21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
14298 Job Job 20 29 22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
14299 Job Job 20 29 23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
14300 Job Job 20 29 24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
14301 Job Job 20 29 25 If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
14302 Job Job 20 30 1 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
14303 Job Job 20 30 2 The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
14304 Job Job 20 30 3 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
14305 Job Job 20 30 4 And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
14306 Job Job 20 30 5 Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.
14307 Job Job 20 30 6 They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
14308 Job Job 20 30 7 They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
14309 Job Job 20 30 8 The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
14310 Job Job 20 30 9 Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
14311 Job Job 20 30 10 They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
14312 Job Job 20 30 11 For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
14313 Job Job 20 30 12 At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.
14314 Job Job 20 30 13 They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.
14315 Job Job 20 30 14 They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.
14316 Job Job 20 30 15 I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
14317 Job Job 20 30 16 And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.
14318 Job Job 20 30 17 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
14319 Job Job 20 30 18 With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
14320 Job Job 20 30 19 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
14321 Job Job 20 30 20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
14322 Job Job 20 30 21 Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
14323 Job Job 20 30 22 Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
14324 Job Job 20 30 23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
14325 Job Job 20 30 24 But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
14326 Job Job 20 30 25 I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
14327 Job Job 20 30 26 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
14328 Job Job 20 30 27 My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
14329 Job Job 20 30 28 I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
14330 Job Job 20 30 29 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
14331 Job Job 20 30 30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
14332 Job Job 20 30 31 My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
14333 Job Job 20 31 1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
14334 Job Job 20 31 2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?
14335 Job Job 20 31 3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
14336 Job Job 20 31 4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
14337 Job Job 20 31 5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
14338 Job Job 20 31 6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
14339 Job Job 20 31 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
14340 Job Job 20 31 8 Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.
14341 Job Job 20 31 9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:
14342 Job Job 20 31 10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
14343 Job Job 20 31 11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
14344 Job Job 20 31 12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
14345 Job Job 20 31 13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
14346 Job Job 20 31 14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
14347 Job Job 20 31 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
14348 Job Job 20 31 16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
14349 Job Job 20 31 17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
14350 Job Job 20 31 18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb:)
14351 Job Job 20 31 19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
14352 Job Job 20 31 20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
14353 Job Job 20 31 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
14354 Job Job 20 31 22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
14355 Job Job 20 31 23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.
14356 Job Job 20 31 24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
14357 Job Job 20 31 25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
14358 Job Job 20 31 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:
14359 Job Job 20 31 27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with, my mouth:
14360 Job Job 20 31 28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.
14361 Job Job 20 31 29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
14362 Job Job 20 31 30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
14363 Job Job 20 31 31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
14364 Job Job 20 31 32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
14365 Job Job 20 31 33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
14366 Job Job 20 31 34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.
14367 Job Job 20 31 35 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
14368 Job Job 20 31 36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
14369 Job Job 20 31 37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
14370 Job Job 20 31 38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
14371 Job Job 20 31 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:
14372 Job Job 20 31 40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.
14373 Job Job 20 32 1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.
14374 Job Job 20 32 2 And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.
14375 Job Job 20 32 3 And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.
14376 Job Job 20 32 4 So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his elders that were speaking.
14377 Job Job 20 32 5 But when he saw that the three were not able to answer, he was exceedingly angry.
14378 Job Job 20 32 6 Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am younger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.
14379 Job Job 20 32 7 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.
14380 Job Job 20 32 8 But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.
14381 Job Job 20 32 9 They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients understand judgment.
14382 Job Job 20 32 10 Therefore I will speak: Hearken to me, I also will shew you my wisdom.
14383 Job Job 20 32 11 For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your wisdom, as long as you were disputing in words.
14384 Job Job 20 32 12 And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but, as I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his words.
14385 Job Job 20 32 13 Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.
14386 Job Job 20 32 14 He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him according to your words.
14387 Job Job 20 32 15 They were afraid, and answered no more, and they left off speaking.
14388 Job Job 20 32 16 Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they stood, and answered no more:
14389 Job Job 20 32 17 I also will answer my part, and will shew my knowledge.
14390 Job Job 20 32 18 For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.
14391 Job Job 20 32 19 Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
14392 Job Job 20 32 20 I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.
14393 Job Job 20 32 21 I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.
14394 Job Job 20 32 22 For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.
14395 Job Job 20 33 1 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
14396 Job Job 20 33 2 Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
14397 Job Job 20 33 3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
14398 Job Job 20 33 4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
14399 Job Job 20 33 5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
14400 Job Job 20 33 6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
14401 Job Job 20 33 7 But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
14402 Job Job 20 33 8 Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:
14403 Job Job 20 33 9 I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
14404 Job Job 20 33 10 Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
14405 Job Job 20 33 11 He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
14406 Job Job 20 33 12 Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
14407 Job Job 20 33 13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
14408 Job Job 20 33 14 God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
14409 Job Job 20 33 15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
14410 Job Job 20 33 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
14411 Job Job 20 33 17 That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
14412 Job Job 20 33 18 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
14413 Job Job 20 33 19 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
14414 Job Job 20 33 20 Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.
14415 Job Job 20 33 21 His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.
14416 Job Job 20 33 22 His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
14417 Job Job 20 33 23 If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man’s uprightness,
14418 Job Job 20 33 24 He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.
14419 Job Job 20 33 25 His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.
14420 Job Job 20 33 26 He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.
14421 Job Job 20 33 27 He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
14422 Job Job 20 33 28 He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
14423 Job Job 20 33 29 Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.
14424 Job Job 20 33 30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
14425 Job Job 20 33 31 Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.
14426 Job Job 20 33 32 But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.
14427 Job Job 20 33 33 And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
14428 Job Job 20 34 1 And Eliu continued his discourse, and said:
14429 Job Job 20 34 2 Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me:
14430 Job Job 20 34 3 For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.
14431 Job Job 20 34 4 Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.
14432 Job Job 20 34 5 For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.
14433 Job Job 20 34 6 For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.
14434 Job Job 20 34 7 What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
14435 Job Job 20 34 8 Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh with wicked men?
14436 Job Job 20 34 9 For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
14437 Job Job 20 34 10 Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.
14438 Job Job 20 34 11 For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways of every one he will reward them.
14439 Job Job 20 34 12 For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
14440 Job Job 20 34 13 What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set over the world which he made?
14441 Job Job 20 34 14 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.
14442 Job Job 20 34 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.
14443 Job Job 20 34 16 If then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken to the voice of my words.
14444 Job Job 20 34 17 Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?
14445 Job Job 20 34 18 Who saith to the king: Thou art an apostate: who calleth rulers ungodly:
14446 Job Job 20 34 19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.
14447 Job Job 20 34 20 They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.
14448 Job Job 20 34 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.
14449 Job Job 20 34 22 There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.
14450 Job Job 20 34 23 For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.
14451 Job Job 20 34 24 He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.
14452 Job Job 20 34 25 For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.
14453 Job Job 20 34 26 He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight.
14454 Job Job 20 34 27 Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not understand all his ways:
14455 Job Job 20 34 28 So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
14456 Job Job 20 34 29 For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?
14457 Job Job 20 34 30 Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people?
14458 Job Job 20 34 31 Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.
14459 Job Job 20 34 32 If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.
14460 Job Job 20 34 33 Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? for thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing better, speak.
14461 Job Job 20 34 34 Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man hearken to me.
14462 Job Job 20 34 35 But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not discipline.
14463 Job Job 20 34 36 My father, let Job be tried even to the end: cease not from the man of iniquity.
14464 Job Job 20 34 37 Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.
14465 Job Job 20 35 1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:
14466 Job Job 20 35 2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?
14467 Job Job 20 35 3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?
14468 Job Job 20 35 4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
14469 Job Job 20 35 5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
14470 Job Job 20 35 6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
14471 Job Job 20 35 7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
14472 Job Job 20 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
14473 Job Job 20 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.
14474 Job Job 20 35 10 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?
14475 Job Job 20 35 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
14476 Job Job 20 35 12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.
14477 Job Job 20 35 13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
14478 Job Job 20 35 14 Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.
14479 Job Job 20 35 15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.
14480 Job Job 20 35 16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
14481 Job Job 20 36 1 Eliu also proceeded, and said:
14482 Job Job 20 36 2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.
14483 Job Job 20 36 3 I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
14484 Job Job 20 36 4 For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
14485 Job Job 20 36 5 God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
14486 Job Job 20 36 6 But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
14487 Job Job 20 36 7 He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
14488 Job Job 20 36 8 And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
14489 Job Job 20 36 9 He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
14490 Job Job 20 36 10 He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
14491 Job Job 20 36 11 If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
14492 Job Job 20 36 12 But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
14493 Job Job 20 36 13 Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14494 Job Job 20 36 14 Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
14495 Job Job 20 36 15 He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
14496 Job Job 20 36 16 Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.
14497 Job Job 20 36 17 Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
14498 Job Job 20 36 18 Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
14499 Job Job 20 36 19 Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
14500 Job Job 20 36 20 Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
14501 Job Job 20 36 21 Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
14502 Job Job 20 36 22 Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
14503 Job Job 20 36 23 Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?
14504 Job Job 20 36 24 Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
14505 Job Job 20 36 25 All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
14506 Job Job 20 36 26 Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.
14507 Job Job 20 36 27 He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
14508 Job Job 20 36 28 Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
14509 Job Job 20 36 29 If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
14510 Job Job 20 36 30 And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
14511 Job Job 20 36 31 For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
14512 Job Job 20 36 32 In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
14513 Job Job 20 36 33 He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.
14514 Job Job 20 37 1 At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
14515 Job Job 20 37 2 Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth.
14516 Job Job 20 37 3 He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.
14517 Job Job 20 37 4 After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.
14518 Job Job 20 37 5 God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.
14519 Job Job 20 37 6 He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.
14520 Job Job 20 37 7 He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.
14521 Job Job 20 37 8 Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.
14522 Job Job 20 37 9 Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.
14523 Job Job 20 37 10 When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.
14524 Job Job 20 37 11 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:
14525 Job Job 20 37 12 Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth:
14526 Job Job 20 37 13 Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.
14527 Job Job 20 37 14 Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.
14528 Job Job 20 37 15 Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?
14529 Job Job 20 37 16 Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?
14530 Job Job 20 37 17 Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?
14531 Job Job 20 37 18 Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.
14532 Job Job 20 37 19 Shew us what we may say to him: for we are wrapped up in darkness.
14533 Job Job 20 37 20 Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.
14534 Job Job 20 37 21 But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.
14535 Job Job 20 37 22 Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.
14536 Job Job 20 37 23 We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.
14537 Job Job 20 37 24 Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him.
14538 Job Job 20 38 1 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
14539 Job Job 20 38 2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?
14540 Job Job 20 38 3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
14541 Job Job 20 38 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.
14542 Job Job 20 38 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?
14543 Job Job 20 38 6 Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
14544 Job Job 20 38 7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
14545 Job Job 20 38 8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
14546 Job Job 20 38 9 When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
14547 Job Job 20 38 10 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
14548 Job Job 20 38 11 And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
14549 Job Job 20 38 12 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
14550 Job Job 20 38 13 And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?
14551 Job Job 20 38 14 The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.
14552 Job Job 20 38 15 From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
14553 Job Job 20 38 16 Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
14554 Job Job 20 38 17 Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
14555 Job Job 20 38 18 Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
14556 Job Job 20 38 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness?
14557 Job Job 20 38 20 That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
14558 Job Job 20 38 21 Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
14559 Job Job 20 38 22 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:
14560 Job Job 20 38 23 Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
14561 Job Job 20 38 24 By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
14562 Job Job 20 38 25 Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
14563 Job Job 20 38 26 That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
14564 Job Job 20 38 27 That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
14565 Job Job 20 38 28 Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
14566 Job Job 20 38 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
14567 Job Job 20 38 30 The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
14568 Job Job 20 38 31 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
14569 Job Job 20 38 32 Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
14570 Job Job 20 38 33 Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
14571 Job Job 20 38 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
14572 Job Job 20 38 35 Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?
14573 Job Job 20 38 36 Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
14574 Job Job 20 38 37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
14575 Job Job 20 38 38 When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
14576 Job Job 20 38 39 Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
14577 Job Job 20 38 40 When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
14578 Job Job 20 38 41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?
14579 Job Job 20 39 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
14580 Job Job 20 39 2 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
14581 Job Job 20 39 3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
14582 Job Job 20 39 4 Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
14583 Job Job 20 39 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
14584 Job Job 20 39 6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
14585 Job Job 20 39 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
14586 Job Job 20 39 8 He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing,
14587 Job Job 20 39 9 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
14588 Job Job 20 39 10 Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
14589 Job Job 20 39 11 Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
14590 Job Job 20 39 12 Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
14591 Job Job 20 39 13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14592 Job Job 20 39 14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
14593 Job Job 20 39 15 She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
14594 Job Job 20 39 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
14595 Job Job 20 39 17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
14596 Job Job 20 39 18 When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
14597 Job Job 20 39 19 Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with neighing?
14598 Job Job 20 39 20 Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
14599 Job Job 20 39 21 He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
14600 Job Job 20 39 22 He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword.
14601 Job Job 20 39 23 Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
14602 Job Job 20 39 24 Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.
14603 Job Job 20 39 25 When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
14604 Job Job 20 39 26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
14605 Job Job 20 39 27 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
14606 Job Job 20 39 28 She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
14607 Job Job 20 39 29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
14608 Job Job 20 39 30 Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
14609 Job Job 20 39 31 And the Lord went on, and said to Job:
14610 Job Job 20 39 32 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
14611 Job Job 20 39 33 Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
14612 Job Job 20 39 34 What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
14613 Job Job 20 39 35 One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.
14614 Job Job 20 40 1 And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:
14615 Job Job 20 40 2 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
14616 Job Job 20 40 3 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?
14617 Job Job 20 40 4 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
14618 Job Job 20 40 5 Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.
14619 Job Job 20 40 6 Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him.
14620 Job Job 20 40 7 Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,
14621 Job Job 20 40 8 Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
14622 Job Job 20 40 9 Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.
14623 Job Job 20 40 10 Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.
14624 Job Job 20 40 11 His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.
14625 Job Job 20 40 12 He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.
14626 Job Job 20 40 13 His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron.
14627 Job Job 20 40 14 He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will apply his sword.
14628 Job Job 20 40 15 To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
14629 Job Job 20 40 16 He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.
14630 Job Job 20 40 17 The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.
14631 Job Job 20 40 18 Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.
14632 Job Job 20 40 19 In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.
14633 Job Job 20 40 20 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?
14634 Job Job 20 40 21 Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?
14635 Job Job 20 40 22 Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
14636 Job Job 20 40 23 Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,
14637 Job Job 20 40 24 Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
14638 Job Job 20 40 25 Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
14639 Job Job 20 40 26 Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with his head?
14640 Job Job 20 40 27 Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.
14641 Job Job 20 40 28 Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall be cast down.
14642 Job Job 20 41 1 I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?
14643 Job Job 20 41 2 Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that are under heaven are mine.
14644 Job Job 20 41 3 I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
14645 Job Job 20 41 4 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the midst of his mouth?
14646 Job Job 20 41 5 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
14647 Job Job 20 41 6 His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.
14648 Job Job 20 41 7 One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:
14649 Job Job 20 41 8 They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and shall not be separated.
14650 Job Job 20 41 9 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.
14651 Job Job 20 41 10 Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
14652 Job Job 20 41 11 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and boiling.
14653 Job Job 20 41 12 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
14654 Job Job 20 41 13 In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.
14655 Job Job 20 41 14 The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.
14656 Job Job 20 41 15 His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil,
14657 Job Job 20 41 16 When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.
14658 Job Job 20 41 17 When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
14659 Job Job 20 41 18 For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
14660 Job Job 20 41 19 The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
14661 Job Job 20 41 20 As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
14662 Job Job 20 41 21 The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
14663 Job Job 20 41 22 He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
14664 Job Job 20 41 23 A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
14665 Job Job 20 41 24 There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one,
14666 Job Job 20 41 25 He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children of pride.
14667 Job Job 20 42 1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
14668 Job Job 20 42 2 I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee.
14669 Job Job 20 42 3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge.
14670 Job Job 20 42 4 Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
14671 Job Job 20 42 5 With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.
14672 Job Job 20 42 6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
14673 Job Job 20 42 7 And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.
14674 Job Job 20 42 8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.
14675 Job Job 20 42 9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
14676 Job Job 20 42 10 The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
14677 Job Job 20 42 11 And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.
14678 Job Job 20 42 12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
14679 Job Job 20 42 13 And he had seven sons, and three daughters.
14680 Job Job 20 42 14 And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii.
14681 Job Job 20 42 15 And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
14682 Job Job 20 42 16 And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.
14683 Psalms Psa 21 1 1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:
14684 Psalms Psa 21 1 2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.
14685 Psalms Psa 21 1 3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.
14686 Psalms Psa 21 1 4 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
14687 Psalms Psa 21 1 5 Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.
14688 Psalms Psa 21 1 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.
14689 Psalms Psa 21 2 1 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
14690 Psalms Psa 21 2 2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.
14691 Psalms Psa 21 2 3 Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.
14692 Psalms Psa 21 2 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.
14693 Psalms Psa 21 2 5 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.
14694 Psalms Psa 21 2 6 But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.
14695 Psalms Psa 21 2 7 The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
14696 Psalms Psa 21 2 8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.
14697 Psalms Psa 21 2 9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
14698 Psalms Psa 21 2 10 And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.
14699 Psalms Psa 21 2 11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.
14700 Psalms Psa 21 2 12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.
14701 Psalms Psa 21 2 13 When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.
14702 Psalms Psa 21 3 1 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.
14703 Psalms Psa 21 3 Why, O Lord, are they multipied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.
14704 Psalms Psa 21 3 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.
14705 Psalms Psa 21 3 4 But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
14706 Psalms Psa 21 3 5 I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.
14707 Psalms Psa 21 3 6 I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.
14708 Psalms Psa 21 3 7 I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
14709 Psalms Psa 21 3 8 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.
14710 Psalms Psa 21 3 9 Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.
14711 Psalms Psa 21 4 1 Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.
14712 Psalms Psa 21 4 2 When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.
14713 Psalms Psa 21 4 3 O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?
14714 Psalms Psa 21 4 4 Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.
14715 Psalms Psa 21 4 5 Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.
14716 Psalms Psa 21 4 6 Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things?
14717 Psalms Psa 21 4 7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.
14718 Psalms Psa 21 4 8 By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they are multiplied.
14719 Psalms Psa 21 4 9 In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest:
14720 Psalms Psa 21 4 10 For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.
14721 Psalms Psa 21 5 1 Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David.
14722 Psalms Psa 21 5 2 Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.
14723 Psalms Psa 21 5 3 Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.
14724 Psalms Psa 21 5 4 For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.
14725 Psalms Psa 21 5 5 In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.
14726 Psalms Psa 21 5 6 Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.
14727 Psalms Psa 21 5 7 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.
14728 Psalms Psa 21 5 8 But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.
14729 Psalms Psa 21 5 9 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.
14730 Psalms Psa 21 5 10 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.
14731 Psalms Psa 21 5 11 Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.
14732 Psalms Psa 21 5 12 But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee.
14733 Psalms Psa 21 5 13 For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.
14734 Psalms Psa 21 6 1 Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave.
14735 Psalms Psa 21 6 2 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.
14736 Psalms Psa 21 6 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
14737 Psalms Psa 21 6 4 And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?
14738 Psalms Psa 21 6 5 Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy’s sake.
14739 Psalms Psa 21 6 6 For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?
14740 Psalms Psa 21 6 7 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.
14741 Psalms Psa 21 6 8 My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.
14742 Psalms Psa 21 6 9 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
14743 Psalms Psa 21 6 10 The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.
14744 Psalms Psa 21 6 11 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.
14745 Psalms Psa 21 7 1 The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini.
14746 Psalms Psa 21 7 2 O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
14747 Psalms Psa 21 7 3 Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.
14748 Psalms Psa 21 7 4 O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:
14749 Psalms Psa 21 7 5 If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.
14750 Psalms Psa 21 7 6 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.
14751 Psalms Psa 21 7 7 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:
14752 Psalms Psa 21 7 8 And a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their sakes return thou on high.
14753 Psalms Psa 21 7 9 The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.
14754 Psalms Psa 21 7 10 The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
14755 Psalms Psa 21 7 11 Just is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.
14756 Psalms Psa 21 7 12 God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
14757 Psalms Psa 21 7 13 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
14758 Psalms Psa 21 7 14 And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
14759 Psalms Psa 21 7 15 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
14760 Psalms Psa 21 7 16 He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.
14761 Psalms Psa 21 7 17 His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.
14762 Psalms Psa 21 7 18 I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.
14763 Psalms Psa 21 8 1 Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.
14764 Psalms Psa 21 8 2 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
14765 Psalms Psa 21 8 3 Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.
14766 Psalms Psa 21 8 4 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
14767 Psalms Psa 21 8 5 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
14768 Psalms Psa 21 8 6 Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:
14769 Psalms Psa 21 8 7 And hast set him over the works of thy hands.
14770 Psalms Psa 21 8 8 Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover, the beasts also of the fields.
14771 Psalms Psa 21 8 9 The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.
14772 Psalms Psa 21 8 10 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!
14773 Psalms Psa 21 9 1 Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.
14774 Psalms Psa 21 9 2 I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.
14775 Psalms Psa 21 9 3 I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.
14776 Psalms Psa 21 9 4 When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.
14777 Psalms Psa 21 9 5 For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
14778 Psalms Psa 21 9 6 Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
14779 Psalms Psa 21 9 7 The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:
14780 Psalms Psa 21 9 8 But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:
14781 Psalms Psa 21 9 9 And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
14782 Psalms Psa 21 9 10 And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
14783 Psalms Psa 21 9 11 And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
14784 Psalms Psa 21 9 12 Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:
14785 Psalms Psa 21 9 13 For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.
14786 Psalms Psa 21 9 14 Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.
14787 Psalms Psa 21 9 15 Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
14788 Psalms Psa 21 9 16 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
14789 Psalms Psa 21 9 17 The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
14790 Psalms Psa 21 9 18 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.
14791 Psalms Psa 21 9 19 For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.
14792 Psalms Psa 21 9 20 Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.
14793 Psalms Psa 21 9 21 Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
14794 Psalms Psa 9a21 1 Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?
14795 Psalms Psa 9a21 2 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.
14796 Psalms Psa 9a21 3 For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.
14797 Psalms Psa 9a21 4 The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him:
14798 Psalms Psa 9a21 5 God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.
14799 Psalms Psa 9a21 6 For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.
14800 Psalms Psa 9a21 7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
14801 Psalms Psa 9a21 8 He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may kill the innocent.
14802 Psalms Psa 9a21 9 His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.
14803 Psalms Psa 9a21 10 In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
14804 Psalms Psa 9a21 11 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, not to see to the end.
14805 Psalms Psa 9a21 12 Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.
14806 Psalms Psa 9a21 13 Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.
14807 Psalms Psa 9a21 14 Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.
14808 Psalms Psa 9a21 15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
14809 Psalms Psa 9a21 16 The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.
14810 Psalms Psa 9a21 17 The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.
14811 Psalms Psa 9a21 18 To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.
14812 Psalms Psa 21 10 1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.
14813 Psalms Psa 21 10 2 In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.
14814 Psalms Psa 21 10 3 For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.
14815 Psalms Psa 21 10 4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?
14816 Psalms Psa 21 10 5 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.
14817 Psalms Psa 21 10 6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.
14818 Psalms Psa 21 10 7 He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.
14819 Psalms Psa 21 10 8 For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.
14820 Psalms Psa 21 11 1 Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David.
14821 Psalms Psa 21 11 2 Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.
14822 Psalms Psa 21 11 3 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
14823 Psalms Psa 21 11 4 May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
14824 Psalms Psa 21 11 5 Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?
14825 Psalms Psa 21 11 6 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.
14826 Psalms Psa 21 11 7 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
14827 Psalms Psa 21 11 8 Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.
14828 Psalms Psa 21 11 9 The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.
14829 Psalms Psa 21 12 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
14830 Psalms Psa 21 12 2 How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?
14831 Psalms Psa 21 12 3 How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me?
14832 Psalms Psa 21 12 4 Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:
14833 Psalms Psa 21 12 5 Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:
14834 Psalms Psa 21 12 6 But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I will sing to the name of the Lord, the most high.
14835 Psalms Psa 21 13 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.
14836 Psalms Psa 21 13 2 The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.
14837 Psalms Psa 21 13 3 They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.
14838 Psalms Psa 21 13 4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?
14839 Psalms Psa 21 13 5 They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.
14840 Psalms Psa 21 13 6 For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.
14841 Psalms Psa 21 13 7 Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
14842 Psalms Psa 21 14 1 A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?
14843 Psalms Psa 21 14 2 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:
14844 Psalms Psa 21 14 3 He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.
14845 Psalms Psa 21 14 4 In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;
14846 Psalms Psa 21 14 5 He that hath not put out his money to usury, nortaken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things, shall not be moved for ever.
14847 Psalms Psa 21 15 1 The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.
14848 Psalms Psa 21 15 2 I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.
14849 Psalms Psa 21 15 3 To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.
14850 Psalms Psa 21 15 4 Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.
14851 Psalms Psa 21 15 5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.
14852 Psalms Psa 21 15 6 The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.
14853 Psalms Psa 21 15 7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover, my reins also have corrected me even till night.
14854 Psalms Psa 21 15 8 I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.
14855 Psalms Psa 21 15 9 Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope.
14856 Psalms Psa 21 15 10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.
14857 Psalms Psa 21 15 11 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.
14858 Psalms Psa 21 16 1 The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
14859 Psalms Psa 21 16 2 Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
14860 Psalms Psa 21 16 3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.
14861 Psalms Psa 21 16 4 That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.
14862 Psalms Psa 21 16 5 Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
14863 Psalms Psa 21 16 6 I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.
14864 Psalms Psa 21 16 7 Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.
14865 Psalms Psa 21 16 8 From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
14866 Psalms Psa 21 16 9 From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:
14867 Psalms Psa 21 16 10 They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
14868 Psalms Psa 21 16 11 They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
14869 Psalms Psa 21 16 12 They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.
14870 Psalms Psa 21 16 13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one; thy sword
14871 Psalms Psa 21 16 14 From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
14872 Psalms Psa 21 16 15 But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.
14873 Psalms Psa 21 17 1 Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said:
14874 Psalms Psa 21 17 2 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
14875 Psalms Psa 21 17 3 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
14876 Psalms Psa 21 17 4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
14877 Psalms Psa 21 17 5 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
14878 Psalms Psa 21 17 6 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
14879 Psalms Psa 21 17 7 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.
14880 Psalms Psa 21 17 8 The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
14881 Psalms Psa 21 17 9 There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
14882 Psalms Psa 21 17 10 He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.
14883 Psalms Psa 21 17 11 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.
14884 Psalms Psa 21 17 12 And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
14885 Psalms Psa 21 17 13 At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
14886 Psalms Psa 21 17 14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.
14887 Psalms Psa 21 17 15 And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
14888 Psalms Psa 21 17 16 Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
14889 Psalms Psa 21 17 17 He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
14890 Psalms Psa 21 17 18 He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
14891 Psalms Psa 21 17 19 They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
14892 Psalms Psa 21 17 20 And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
14893 Psalms Psa 21 17 21 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
14894 Psalms Psa 21 17 22 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.
14895 Psalms Psa 21 17 23 For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.
14896 Psalms Psa 21 17 24 And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
14897 Psalms Psa 21 17 25 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
14898 Psalms Psa 21 17 26 With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:
14899 Psalms Psa 21 17 27 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
14900 Psalms Psa 21 17 28 For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
14901 Psalms Psa 21 17 29 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.
14902 Psalms Psa 21 17 30 For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
14903 Psalms Psa 21 17 31 As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.
14904 Psalms Psa 21 17 32 For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?
14905 Psalms Psa 21 17 33 God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
14906 Psalms Psa 21 17 34 Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.
14907 Psalms Psa 21 17 35 Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.
14908 Psalms Psa 21 17 36 And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.
14909 Psalms Psa 21 17 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.
14910 Psalms Psa 21 17 38 I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.
14911 Psalms Psa 21 17 39 I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
14912 Psalms Psa 21 17 40 And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
14913 Psalms Psa 21 17 41 And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.
14914 Psalms Psa 21 17 42 They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.
14915 Psalms Psa 21 17 43 And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.
14916 Psalms Psa 21 17 44 Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
14917 Psalms Psa 21 17 45 A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.
14918 Psalms Psa 21 17 46 The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.
14919 Psalms Psa 21 17 47 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
14920 Psalms Psa 21 17 48 O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.
14921 Psalms Psa 21 17 49 And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.
14922 Psalms Psa 21 17 50 Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.
14923 Psalms Psa 21 17 51 Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.
14924 Psalms Psa 21 18 1 Unto the end. A Psalm for David.
14925 Psalms Psa 21 18 2 The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.
14926 Psalms Psa 21 18 3 Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.
14927 Psalms Psa 21 18 4 There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard.
14928 Psalms Psa 21 18 5 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.
14929 Psalms Psa 21 18 6 He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom coming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:
14930 Psalms Psa 21 18 7 His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to the end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.
14931 Psalms Psa 21 18 8 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.
14932 Psalms Psa 21 18 9 The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.
14933 Psalms Psa 21 18 10 The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.
14934 Psalms Psa 21 18 11 More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
14935 Psalms Psa 21 18 12 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.
14936 Psalms Psa 21 18 13 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:
14937 Psalms Psa 21 18 14 And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.
14938 Psalms Psa 21 18 15 And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.
14939 Psalms Psa 21 19 1 Unto the end. A psalm for David.
14940 Psalms Psa 21 19 2 May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.
14941 Psalms Psa 21 19 3 May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of Sion.
14942 Psalms Psa 21 19 4 May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burntoffering be made fat.
14943 Psalms Psa 21 19 5 May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels.
14944 Psalms Psa 21 19 6 We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.
14945 Psalms Psa 21 19 7 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.
14946 Psalms Psa 21 19 8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God.
14947 Psalms Psa 21 19 9 They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.
14948 Psalms Psa 21 20 1 Unto the end. A psalm for David.
14949 Psalms Psa 21 20 2 In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.
14950 Psalms Psa 21 20 3 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.
14951 Psalms Psa 21 20 4 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.
14952 Psalms Psa 21 20 5 He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.
14953 Psalms Psa 21 20 6 His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.
14954 Psalms Psa 21 20 7 For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.
14955 Psalms Psa 21 20 8 For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
14956 Psalms Psa 21 20 9 Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.
14957 Psalms Psa 21 20 10 Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.
14958 Psalms Psa 21 20 11 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.
14959 Psalms Psa 21 20 12 For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.
14960 Psalms Psa 21 20 13 For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.
14961 Psalms Psa 21 20 14 Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and praise thy power.
14962 Psalms Psa 21 21 1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.
14963 Psalms Psa 21 21 2 O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
14964 Psalms Psa 21 21 3 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
14965 Psalms Psa 21 21 4 But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
14966 Psalms Psa 21 21 5 In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
14967 Psalms Psa 21 21 6 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
14968 Psalms Psa 21 21 7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
14969 Psalms Psa 21 21 8 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
14970 Psalms Psa 21 21 9 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
14971 Psalms Psa 21 21 10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.
14972 Psalms Psa 21 21 11 I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,
14973 Psalms Psa 21 21 12 Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
14974 Psalms Psa 21 21 13 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.
14975 Psalms Psa 21:14.They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
14976 Psalms Psa 21 21 15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.
14977 Psalms Psa 21 21 16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.
14978 Psalms Psa 21 21 17 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.
14979 Psalms Psa 21 21 18 They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
14980 Psalms Psa 21 21 19 They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
14981 Psalms Psa 21 21 20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.
14982 Psalms Psa 21 21 21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
14983 Psalms Psa 21 21 22 Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
14984 Psalms Psa 21 21 23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
14985 Psalms Psa 21 21 24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.
14986 Psalms Psa 21 21 25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.
14987 Psalms Psa 21 21 26 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
14988 Psalms Psa 21 21 27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
14989 Psalms Psa 21 21 28 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
14990 Psalms Psa 21 21 29 For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations.
14991 Psalms Psa 21 21 30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
14992 Psalms Psa 21 21 31 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
14993 Psalms Psa 21 21 32 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.
14994 Psalms Psa 21 22 1 A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
14995 Psalms Psa 21 22 2 He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:
14996 Psalms Psa 21 22 3 He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name’s sake.
14997 Psalms Psa 21 22 4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
14998 Psalms Psa 21 22 5 Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!
14999 Psalms Psa 21 22 6 And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.
15000 Psalms Psa 21 23 1 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.
15001 Psalms Psa 21 23 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.
15002 Psalms Psa 21 23 3 Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?
15003 Psalms Psa 21 23 4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
15004 Psalms Psa 21 23 5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.
15005 Psalms Psa 21 23 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.
15006 Psalms Psa 21 23 7 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
15007 Psalms Psa 21 23 8 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.
15008 Psalms Psa 21 23 9 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
15009 Psalms Psa 21 23 10 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.
15010 Psalms Psa 21 24 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.
15011 Psalms Psa 21 24 2 In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
15012 Psalms Psa 21 24 3 Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
15013 Psalms Psa 21 24 4 Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.
15014 Psalms Psa 21 24 5 Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
15015 Psalms Psa 21 24 6 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
15016 Psalms Psa 21 24 7 The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
15017 Psalms Psa 21 24 8 The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.
15018 Psalms Psa 21 24 9 He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.
15019 Psalms Psa 21 24 10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.
15020 Psalms Psa 21 24 11 For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.
15021 Psalms Psa 21 24 12 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.
15022 Psalms Psa 21 24 13 His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.
15023 Psalms Psa 21 24 14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.
15024 Psalms Psa 21 24 15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.
15025 Psalms Psa 21 24 16 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.
15026 Psalms Psa 21 24 17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.
15027 Psalms Psa 21 24 18 See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.
15028 Psalms Psa 21 24 19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.
15029 Psalms Psa 21 24 20 Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.
15030 Psalms Psa 21 24 21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
15031 Psalms Psa 21 24 22 Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.
15032 Psalms Psa 21 25 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.
15033 Psalms Psa 21 25 2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.
15034 Psalms Psa 21 25 3 For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.
15035 Psalms Psa 21 25 4 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.
15036 Psalms Psa 21 25 5 I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.
15037 Psalms Psa 21 25 6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
15038 Psalms Psa 21 25 7 That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.
15039 Psalms Psa 21 25 8 I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
15040 Psalms Psa 21 25 9 Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:
15041 Psalms Psa 21 25 10 In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
15042 Psalms Psa 21 25 11 But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.
15043 Psalms Psa 21 25 12 My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.
15044 Psalms Psa 21 26 1 The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?
15045 Psalms Psa 21 26 2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.
15046 Psalms Psa 21 26 3 If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.
15047 Psalms Psa 21 26 4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.
15048 Psalms Psa 21 26 5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.
15049 Psalms Psa 21 26 6 He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.
15050 Psalms Psa 21 26 7 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.
15051 Psalms Psa 21 26 8 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.
15052 Psalms Psa 21 26 9 Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.
15053 Psalms Psa 21 26 10 For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.
15054 Psalms Psa 21 26 11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.
15055 Psalms Psa 21 26 12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.
15056 Psalms Psa 21 26 13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
15057 Psalms Psa 21 26 14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.
15058 Psalms Psa 21 27 1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
15059 Psalms Psa 21 27 2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.
15060 Psalms Psa 21 27 3 Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.
15061 Psalms Psa 21 27 4 Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.
15062 Psalms Psa 21 27 5 Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.
15063 Psalms Psa 21 27 6 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my supplication.
15064 Psalms Psa 21 27 7 The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.
15065 Psalms Psa 21 27 8 The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
15066 Psalms Psa 21 27 9 Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.
15067 Psalms Psa 21 28 1 A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams.
15068 Psalms Psa 21 28 2 Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to his name: adore ye the Lord in his holy court.
15069 Psalms Psa 21 28 3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters.
15070 Psalms Psa 21 28 4 The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.
15071 Psalms Psa 21 28 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.
15072 Psalms Psa 21 28 6 And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.
15073 Psalms Psa 21 28 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire:
15074 Psalms Psa 21 28 8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades.
15075 Psalms Psa 21 28 9 The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.
15076 Psalms Psa 21 28 10 The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king for ever. The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will bless his people with peace.
15077 Psalms Psa 21 29 1 A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David’s house.
15078 Psalms Psa 21 29 2 I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
15079 Psalms Psa 21 29 3 O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.
15080 Psalms Psa 21 29 4 Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
15081 Psalms Psa 21 29 5 Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory of his holiness.
15082 Psalms Psa 21 29 6 For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.
15083 Psalms Psa 21 29 7 And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.
15084 Psalms Psa 21 29 8 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.
15085 Psalms Psa 21 29 9 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.
15086 Psalms Psa 21 29 10 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?
15087 Psalms Psa 21 29 11 The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my helper.
15088 Psalms Psa 21 29 12 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:
15089 Psalms Psa 21 29 13 To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.
15090 Psalms Psa 21 30 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
15091 Psalms Psa 21 30 2 In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.
15092 Psalms Psa 21 30 3 Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.
15093 Psalms Psa 21 30 4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
15094 Psalms Psa 21 30 5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.
15095 Psalms Psa 21 30 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.
15096 Psalms Psa 21 30 7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
15097 Psalms Psa 21 30 8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
15098 Psalms Psa 21 30 9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
15099 Psalms Psa 21 30 10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
15100 Psalms Psa 21 30 11 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
15101 Psalms Psa 21 30 12 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.
15102 Psalms Psa 21 30 13 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
15103 Psalms Psa 21 30 14 For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.
15104 Psalms Psa 21 30 15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
15105 Psalms Psa 21 30 16 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
15106 Psalms Psa 21 30 17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
15107 Psalms Psa 21 30 18 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.
15108 Psalms Psa 21 30 19 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
15109 Psalms Psa 21 30 20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
15110 Psalms Psa 21 30 21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.
15111 Psalms Psa 21 30 22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
15112 Psalms Psa 21 30 23 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.
15113 Psalms Psa 21 30 24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
15114 Psalms Psa 21 30 25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.
15115 Psalms Psa 21 31 1 To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
15116 Psalms Psa 21 31 2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
15117 Psalms Psa 21 31 3 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
15118 Psalms Psa 21 31 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.
15119 Psalms Psa 21 31 5 I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.
15120 Psalms Psa 21 31 6 For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.
15121 Psalms Psa 21 31 7 Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.
15122 Psalms Psa 21 31 8 I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.
15123 Psalms Psa 21 31 9 Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.
15124 Psalms Psa 21 31 10 Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.
15125 Psalms Psa 21 31 11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.
15126 Psalms Psa 21 32 1 A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright.
15127 Psalms Psa 21 32 2 Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.
15128 Psalms Psa 21 32 3 Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.
15129 Psalms Psa 21 32 4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.
15130 Psalms Psa 21 32 5 He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
15131 Psalms Psa 21 32 6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth:
15132 Psalms Psa 21 32 7 Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.
15133 Psalms Psa 21 32 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him.
15134 Psalms Psa 21 32 9 For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.
15135 Psalms Psa 21 32 10 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.
15136 Psalms Psa 21 32 11 But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
15137 Psalms Psa 21 32 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.
15138 Psalms Psa 21 32 13 The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.
15139 Psalms Psa 21 32 14 From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.
15140 Psalms Psa 21 32 15 He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works.
15141 Psalms Psa 21 32 16 The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.
15142 Psalms Psa 21 32 17 Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength.
15143 Psalms Psa 21 32 18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.
15144 Psalms Psa 21 32 19 To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
15145 Psalms Psa 21 32 20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.
15146 Psalms Psa 21 32 21 For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have trusted.
15147 Psalms Psa 21 32 22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.
15148 Psalms Psa 21 33 1 For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way. [1 Kings 21.]
15149 Psalms Psa 21 33 2 I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.
15150 Psalms Psa 21 33 3 In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.
15151 Psalms Psa 21 33 4 O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.
15152 Psalms Psa 21 33 5 I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.
15153 Psalms Psa 21 33 6 Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.
15154 Psalms Psa 21 33 7 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.
15155 Psalms Psa 21 33 8 The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.
15156 Psalms Psa 21 33 9 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
15157 Psalms Psa 21 33 10 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
15158 Psalms Psa 21 33 11 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.
15159 Psalms Psa 21 33 12 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
15160 Psalms Psa 21 33 13 Who is the man that desireth life: who loveth to see good days?
15161 Psalms Psa 21 33 14 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
15162 Psalms Psa 21 33 15 Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.
15163 Psalms Psa 21 33 16 The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.
15164 Psalms Psa 21 33 17 But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
15165 Psalms Psa 21 33 18 The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles.
15166 Psalms Psa 21 33 19 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.
15167 Psalms Psa 21 33 20 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.
15168 Psalms Psa 21 33 21 The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be broken.
15169 Psalms Psa 21 33 22 The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just shall be guilty.
15170 Psalms Psa 21 33 23 The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall offend.
15171 Psalms Psa 21 34 1 For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me.
15172 Psalms Psa 21 34 2 Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.
15173 Psalms Psa 21 34 3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.
15174 Psalms Psa 21 34 4 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.
15175 Psalms Psa 21 34 5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.
15176 Psalms Psa 21 34 6 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
15177 Psalms Psa 21 34 7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.
15178 Psalms Psa 21 34 8 Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.
15179 Psalms Psa 21 34 9 But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation.
15180 Psalms Psa 21 34 10 All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.
15181 Psalms Psa 21 34 11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
15182 Psalms Psa 21 34 12 They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.
15183 Psalms Psa 21 34 13 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.
15184 Psalms Psa 21 34 14 As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.
15185 Psalms Psa 21 34 15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.
15186 Psalms Psa 21 34 16 They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
15187 Psalms Psa 21 34 17 Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou my soul from their malice: my only one from the lions.
15188 Psalms Psa 21 34 18 I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee in a strong people.
15189 Psalms Psa 21 34 19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.
15190 Psalms Psa 21 34 20 For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.
15191 Psalms Psa 21 34 21 And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.
15192 Psalms Psa 21 34 22 Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.
15193 Psalms Psa 21 34 23 Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and my Lord.
15194 Psalms Psa 21 34 24 Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me.
15195 Psalms Psa 21 34 25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.
15196 Psalms Psa 21 34 26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.
15197 Psalms Psa 21 34 27 Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.
15198 Psalms Psa 21 34 28 And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long.
15199 Psalms Psa 21 35 1 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.
15200 Psalms Psa 21 35 2 The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes.
15201 Psalms Psa 21 35 3 For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.
15202 Psalms Psa 21 35 4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.
15203 Psalms Psa 21 35 5 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.
15204 Psalms Psa 21 35 6 O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.
15205 Psalms Psa 21 35 7 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:
15206 Psalms Psa 21 35 8 O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.
15207 Psalms Psa 21 35 9 They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.
15208 Psalms Psa 21 35 10 For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.
15209 Psalms Psa 21 35 11 Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them that are right in heart.
15210 Psalms Psa 21 35 12 Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me.
15211 Psalms Psa 21 35 13 There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.
15212 Psalms Psa 21 36 1 Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.
15213 Psalms Psa 21 36 2 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.
15214 Psalms Psa 21 36 3 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.
15215 Psalms Psa 21 36 4 Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.
15216 Psalms Psa 21 36 5 Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.
15217 Psalms Psa 21 36 6 And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
15218 Psalms Psa 21 36 7 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.
15219 Psalms Psa 21 36 8 Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.
15220 Psalms Psa 21 36 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
15221 Psalms Psa 21 36 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.
15222 Psalms Psa 21 36 11 But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace.
15223 Psalms Psa 21 36 12 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.
15224 Psalms Psa 21 36 13 But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.
15225 Psalms Psa 21 36 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.
15226 Psalms Psa 21 36 15 Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken.
15227 Psalms Psa 21 36 16 Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the wicked.
15228 Psalms Psa 21 36 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the Lord strengtheneth the just.
15229 Psalms Psa 21 36 18 The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance shall be for ever.
15230 Psalms Psa 21 36 19 They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled:
15231 Psalms Psa 21 36 20 Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.
15232 Psalms Psa 21 36 21 The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth mercy and shall give.
15233 Psalms Psa 21 36 22 For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.
15234 Psalms Psa 21 36 23 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.
15235 Psalms Psa 21 36 24 When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him.
15236 Psalms Psa 21 36 25 I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.
15237 Psalms Psa 21 36 26 He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed shall be in blessing.
15238 Psalms Psa 21 36 27 Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.
15239 Psalms Psa 21 36 28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.
15240 Psalms Psa 21 36 29 But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.
15241 Psalms Psa 21 36 30 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.
15242 Psalms Psa 21 36 31 The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted.
15243 Psalms Psa 21 36 32 The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,
15244 Psalms Psa 21 36 33 But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.
15245 Psalms Psa 21 36 34 Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.
15246 Psalms Psa 21 36 35 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.
15247 Psalms Psa 21 36 36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.
15248 Psalms Psa 21 36 37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.
15249 Psalms Psa 21 36 38 But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.
15250 Psalms Psa 21 36 39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.
15251 Psalms Psa 21 36 40 And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.
15252 Psalms Psa 21 37 1 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.
15253 Psalms Psa 21 37 2 Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.
15254 Psalms Psa 21 37 3 For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
15255 Psalms Psa 21 37 4 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.
15256 Psalms Psa 21 37 5 For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
15257 Psalms Psa 21 37 6 My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
15258 Psalms Psa 21 37 7 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.
15259 Psalms Psa 21 37 8 For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh.
15260 Psalms Psa 21 37 9 I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.
15261 Psalms Psa 21 37 10 Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.
15262 Psalms Psa 21 37 11 My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
15263 Psalms Psa 21 37 12 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:
15264 Psalms Psa 21 37 13 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.
15265 Psalms Psa 21 37 14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
15266 Psalms Psa 21 37 15 And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.
15267 Psalms Psa 21 37 16 For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.
15268 Psalms Psa 21 37 17 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.
15269 Psalms Psa 21 37 18 For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.
15270 Psalms Psa 21 37 19 For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think for my sin.
15271 Psalms Psa 21 37 20 But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
15272 Psalms Psa 21 37 21 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.
15273 Psalms Psa 21 37 22 For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.
15274 Psalms Psa 21 37 23 Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.
15275 Psalms Psa 21 38 1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
15276 Psalms Psa 21 38 2 I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.
15277 Psalms Psa 21 38 3 I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.
15278 Psalms Psa 21 38 4 My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
15279 Psalms Psa 21 38 5 I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.
15280 Psalms Psa 21 38 6 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.
15281 Psalms Psa 21 38 7 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.
15282 Psalms Psa 21 38 8 And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.
15283 Psalms Psa 21 38 9 Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
15284 Psalms Psa 21 38 10 I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
15285 Psalms Psa 21 38 11 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
15286 Psalms Psa 21 38 12 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.
15287 Psalms Psa 21 38 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
15288 Psalms Psa 21 38 14 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
15289 Psalms Psa 21 39 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
15290 Psalms Psa 21 39 2 With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
15291 Psalms Psa 21 39 3 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.
15292 Psalms Psa 21 39 4 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.
15293 Psalms Psa 21 39 5 Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
15294 Psalms Psa 21 39 6 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
15295 Psalms Psa 21 39 7 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:
15296 Psalms Psa 21 39 8 Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me
15297 Psalms Psa 21 39 9 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
15298 Psalms Psa 21 39 10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
15299 Psalms Psa 21 39 11 I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.
15300 Psalms Psa 21 39 12 Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
15301 Psalms Psa 21 39 13 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.
15302 Psalms Psa 21 39 14 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. look down, O Lord, to help me.
15303 Psalms Psa 21 39 15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.
15304 Psalms Psa 21 39 16 Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: ’Tis well, ’tis well.
15305 Psalms Psa 21 39 17 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
15306 Psalms Psa 21 39 18 But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.
15307 Psalms Psa 21 40 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
15308 Psalms Psa 21 40 2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
15309 Psalms Psa 21 40 3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
15310 Psalms Psa 21 40 4 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
15311 Psalms Psa 21 40 5 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
15312 Psalms Psa 21 40 6 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
15313 Psalms Psa 21 40 7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
15314 Psalms Psa 21 40 8 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
15315 Psalms Psa 21 40 9 They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
15316 Psalms Psa 21 40 10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
15317 Psalms Psa 21 40 11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
15318 Psalms Psa 21 40 12 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
15319 Psalms Psa 21 40 13 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
15320 Psalms Psa 21 40 14 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.
15321 Psalms Psa 21 41 1 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.
15322 Psalms Psa 21 41 2 As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
15323 Psalms Psa 21 41 3 My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
15324 Psalms Psa 21 41 4 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?
15325 Psalms Psa 21 41 5 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.
15326 Psalms Psa 21 41 6 Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,
15327 Psalms Psa 21 41 7 And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill.
15328 Psalms Psa 21 41 8 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
15329 Psalms Psa 21 41 9 In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.
15330 Psalms Psa 21 41 10 I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?
15331 Psalms Psa 21 41 11 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?
15332 Psalms Psa 21 41 12 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
15333 Psalms Psa 21 42 1 A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
15334 Psalms Psa 21 42 2 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?
15335 Psalms Psa 21 42 3 Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.
15336 Psalms Psa 21 42 4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.
15337 Psalms Psa 21 42 5 To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?
15338 Psalms Psa 21 42 6 Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
15339 Psalms Psa 21 43 1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.
15340 Psalms Psa 21 43 2 We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
15341 Psalms Psa 21 43 3 Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
15342 Psalms Psa 21 43 4 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
15343 Psalms Psa 21 43 5 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
15344 Psalms Psa 21 43 6 Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
15345 Psalms Psa 21 43 7 For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
15346 Psalms Psa 21 43 8 But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
15347 Psalms Psa 21 43 9 In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
15348 Psalms Psa 21 43 10 But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
15349 Psalms Psa 21 43 11 Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
15350 Psalms Psa 21 43 12 Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
15351 Psalms Psa 21 43 13 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
15352 Psalms Psa 21 43 14 Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
15353 Psalms Psa 21 43 15 Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15354 Psalms Psa 21 43 16 All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
15355 Psalms Psa 21 43 17 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
15356 Psalms Psa 21 43 18 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
15357 Psalms Psa 21 43 19 And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
15358 Psalms Psa 21 43 20 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
15359 Psalms Psa 21 43 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
15360 Psalms Psa 21 43 22 Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
15361 Psalms Psa 21 43 23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
15362 Psalms Psa 21 43 24 Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
15363 Psalms Psa 21 43 25 For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
15364 Psalms Psa 21 43 26 Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.
15365 Psalms Psa 21 44 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved.
15366 Psalms Psa 21 44 2 My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.
15367 Psalms Psa 21 44 3 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.
15368 Psalms Psa 21 44 4 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.
15369 Psalms Psa 21 44 5 With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully.
15370 Psalms Psa 21 44 6 Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king’s enemies.
15371 Psalms Psa 21 44 7 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness.
15372 Psalms Psa 21 44 8 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
15373 Psalms Psa 21 44 9 Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which
15374 Psalms Psa 21 44 10 The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.
15375 Psalms Psa 21 44 11 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father’s house.
15376 Psalms Psa 21 44 12 And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.
15377 Psalms Psa 21 44 13 And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the people, shall entreat thy countenance.
15378 Psalms Psa 21 44 14 All the glory of the king’s daughter is within in golden borders,
15379 Psalms Psa 21 44 15 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.
15380 Psalms Psa 21 44 16 They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king.
15381 Psalms Psa 21 44 17 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.
15382 Psalms Psa 21 44 18 They shall remember thy name throughout all generations. Therefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
15383 Psalms Psa 21 45 1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.
15384 Psalms Psa 21 45 2 Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.
15385 Psalms Psa 21 45 3 Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.
15386 Psalms Psa 21 45 4 Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength.
15387 Psalms Psa 21 45 5 The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.
15388 Psalms Psa 21 45 6 God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.
15389 Psalms Psa 21 45 7 Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.
15390 Psalms Psa 21 45 8 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.
15391 Psalms Psa 21 45 9 Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,
15392 Psalms Psa 21 45 10 Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.
15393 Psalms Psa 21 45 11 Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.
15394 Psalms Psa 21 45 12 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.
15395 Psalms Psa 21 46 1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core.
15396 Psalms Psa 21 46 2 O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy,
15397 Psalms Psa 21 46 3 For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.
15398 Psalms Psa 21 46 4 He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.
15399 Psalms Psa 21 46 5 He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.
15400 Psalms Psa 21 46 6 God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.
15401 Psalms Psa 21 46 7 Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.
15402 Psalms Psa 21 46 8 For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.
15403 Psalms Psa 21 46 9 God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.
15404 Psalms Psa 21 46 10 The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.
15405 Psalms Psa 21 47 1 A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.
15406 Psalms Psa 21 47 2 Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
15407 Psalms Psa 21 47 3 With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.
15408 Psalms Psa 21 47 4 In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.
15409 Psalms Psa 21 47 5 For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.
15410 Psalms Psa 21 47 6 So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:
15411 Psalms Psa 21 47 7 Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.
15412 Psalms Psa 21 47 8 With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
15413 Psalms Psa 21 47 9 As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.
15414 Psalms Psa 21 47 10 We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
15415 Psalms Psa 21 47 11 According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.
15416 Psalms Psa 21 47 12 Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.
15417 Psalms Psa 21 47 13 Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.
15418 Psalms Psa 21 47 14 Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.
15419 Psalms Psa 21 47 15 For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.
15420 Psalms Psa 21 48 1 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
15421 Psalms Psa 21 48 2 Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
15422 Psalms Psa 21 48 3 All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
15423 Psalms Psa 21 48 4 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
15424 Psalms Psa 21 48 5 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
15425 Psalms Psa 21 48 6 Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
15426 Psalms Psa 21 48 7 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
15427 Psalms Psa 21 48 8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
15428 Psalms Psa 21 48 9 Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
15429 Psalms Psa 21 48 10 And shall still live unto the end.
15430 Psalms Psa 21 48 11 He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:
15431 Psalms Psa 21 48 12 And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
15432 Psalms Psa 21 48 13 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
15433 Psalms Psa 21 48 14 This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
15434 Psalms Psa 21 48 15 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.
15435 Psalms Psa 21 48 16 But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
15436 Psalms Psa 21 48 17 Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
15437 Psalms Psa 21 48 18 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
15438 Psalms Psa 21 48 19 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
15439 Psalms Psa 21 48 20 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
15440 Psalms Psa 21 48 21 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
15441 Psalms Psa 21 49 1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
15442 Psalms Psa 21 49 2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
15443 Psalms Psa 21 49 3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
15444 Psalms Psa 21 49 4 He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
15445 Psalms Psa 21 49 5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
15446 Psalms Psa 21 49 6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
15447 Psalms Psa 21 49 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
15448 Psalms Psa 21 49 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
15449 Psalms Psa 21 49 9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
15450 Psalms Psa 21 49 10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
15451 Psalms Psa 21 49 11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
15452 Psalms Psa 21 49 12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
15453 Psalms Psa 21 49 13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
15454 Psalms Psa 21 49 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
15455 Psalms Psa 21 49 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
15456 Psalms Psa 21 49 16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
15457 Psalms Psa 21 49 17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
15458 Psalms Psa 21 49 18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
15459 Psalms Psa 21 49 19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
15460 Psalms Psa 21 49 20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
15461 Psalms Psa 21 49 21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
15462 Psalms Psa 21 49 22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
15463 Psalms Psa 21 49 23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
15464 Psalms Psa 21 50 1 Unto the end, a psalm of David,
15465 Psalms Psa 21 50 2 When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [2 Kings 12.]
15466 Psalms Psa 21 50 3 Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.
15467 Psalms Psa 21 50 4 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
15468 Psalms Psa 21 50 5 For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.
15469 Psalms Psa 21 50 6 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
15470 Psalms Psa 21 50 7 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.
15471 Psalms Psa 21 50 8 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
15472 Psalms Psa 21 50 9 Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
15473 Psalms Psa 21 50 10 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
15474 Psalms Psa 21 50 11 Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
15475 Psalms Psa 21 50 12 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
15476 Psalms Psa 21 50 13 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
15477 Psalms Psa 21 50 14 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.
15478 Psalms Psa 21 50 15 I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.
15479 Psalms Psa 21 50 16 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.
15480 Psalms Psa 21 50 17 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
15481 Psalms Psa 21 50 18 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
15482 Psalms Psa 21 50 19 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
15483 Psalms Psa 21 50 20 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
15484 Psalms Psa 21 50 21 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.
15485 Psalms Psa 21 51 1 Unto the end, understanding for David,
15486 Psalms Psa 21 51 2 When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech.
15487 Psalms Psa 21 51 3 Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?
15488 Psalms Psa 21 51 4 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
15489 Psalms Psa 21 51 5 Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
15490 Psalms Psa 21 51 6 Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
15491 Psalms Psa 21 51 7 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.
15492 Psalms Psa 21 51 8 The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:
15493 Psalms Psa 21 51 9 Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.
15494 Psalms Psa 21 51 10 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.
15495 Psalms Psa 21 51 11 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.
15496 Psalms Psa 21 52 1 Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God.
15497 Psalms Psa 21 52 2 They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.
15498 Psalms Psa 21 52 3 God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.
15499 Psalms Psa 21 52 4 All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.
15500 Psalms Psa 21 52 5 Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?
15501 Psalms Psa 21 52 6 They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.
15502 Psalms Psa 21 52 7 Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
15503 Psalms Psa 21 53 1 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.
15504 Psalms Psa 21 53 2 When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [1 Kings 23.19]
15505 Psalms Psa 21 53 3 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.
15506 Psalms Psa 21 53 4 O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.
15507 Psalms Psa 21 53 5 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.
15508 Psalms Psa 21 53 6 For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
15509 Psalms Psa 21 53 7 Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy truth.
15510 Psalms Psa 21 53 8 I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:
15511 Psalms Psa 21 53 9 For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.
15512 Psalms Psa 21 54 1 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.
15513 Psalms Psa 21 54 2 Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
15514 Psalms Psa 21 54 3 Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
15515 Psalms Psa 21 54 4 At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
15516 Psalms Psa 21 54 5 My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
15517 Psalms Psa 21 54 6 Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
15518 Psalms Psa 21 54 7 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
15519 Psalms Psa 21 54 8 Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
15520 Psalms Psa 21 54 9 I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
15521 Psalms Psa 21 54 10 Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
15522 Psalms Psa 21 54 11 Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
15523 Psalms Psa 21 54 12 And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.
15524 Psalms Psa 21 54 13 For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.
15525 Psalms Psa 21 54 14 But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,
15526 Psalms Psa 21 54 15 Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.
15527 Psalms Psa 21 54 16 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.
15528 Psalms Psa 21 54 17 But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.
15529 Psalms Psa 21 54 18 Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.
15530 Psalms Psa 21 54 19 He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.
15531 Psalms Psa 21 54 20 God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:
15532 Psalms Psa 21 54 21 He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,
15533 Psalms Psa 21 54 22 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.
15534 Psalms Psa 21 54 23 Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.
15535 Psalms Psa 21 54 24 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.
15536 Psalms Psa 21 55 1 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance form the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth.
15537 Psalms Psa 21 55 2 Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.
15538 Psalms Psa 21 55 3 My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many that make war against me.
15539 Psalms Psa 21 55 4 From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee.
15540 Psalms Psa 21 55 5 In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will not fear what flesh can do against me.
15541 Psalms Psa 21 55 6 All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.
15542 Psalms Psa 21 55 7 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,
15543 Psalms Psa 21 55 8 For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces. O God,
15544 Psalms Psa 21 55 9 I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set my tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.
15545 Psalms Psa 21 55 10 Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.
15546 Psalms Psa 21 55 11 In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.
15547 Psalms Psa 21 55 12 In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:
15548 Psalms Psa 21 55 13 Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
15549 Psalms Psa 21 56 1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24.]
15550 Psalms Psa 21 56 2 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away.
15551 Psalms Psa 21 56 3 I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.
15552 Psalms Psa 21 56 4 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,
15553 Psalms Psa 21 56 5 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
15554 Psalms Psa 21 56 6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.
15555 Psalms Psa 21 56 7 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.
15556 Psalms Psa 21 56 8 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and rehearse a psalm.
15557 Psalms Psa 21 56 9 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.
15558 Psalms Psa 21 56 10 I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing a psalm to thee among the nations.
15559 Psalms Psa 21 56 11 For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.
15560 Psalms Psa 21 56 12 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.
15561 Psalms Psa 21 57 1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
15562 Psalms Psa 21 57 2 If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
15563 Psalms Psa 21 57 3 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
15564 Psalms Psa 21 57 4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
15565 Psalms Psa 21 57 5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
15566 Psalms Psa 21 57 6 Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
15567 Psalms Psa 21 57 7 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
15568 Psalms Psa 21 57 8 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
15569 Psalms Psa 21 57 9 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
15570 Psalms Psa 21 57 10 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
15571 Psalms Psa 21 57 11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
15572 Psalms Psa 21 57 12 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
15573 Psalms Psa 21 58 1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Kings 19.]
15574 Psalms Psa 21 58 2 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
15575 Psalms Psa 21 58 3 Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
15576 Psalms Psa 21 58 4 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:
15577 Psalms Psa 21 58 5 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
15578 Psalms Psa 21 58 6 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
15579 Psalms Psa 21 58 7 They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
15580 Psalms Psa 21 58 8 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?
15581 Psalms Psa 21 58 9 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
15582 Psalms Psa 21 58 10 I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:
15583 Psalms Psa 21 58 11 My God, his mercy shall prevent me.
15584 Psalms Psa 21 58 12 God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
15585 Psalms Psa 21 58 13 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,
15586 Psalms Psa 21 58 14 When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.
15587 Psalms Psa 21 58 15 They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
15588 Psalms Psa 21 58 16 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
15589 Psalms Psa 21 58 17 But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
15590 Psalms Psa 21 58 18 Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.
15591 Psalms Psa 21 59 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine,
15592 Psalms Psa 21 59 2 When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men.
15593 Psalms Psa 21 59 3 O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.
15594 Psalms Psa 21 59 4 Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.
15595 Psalms Psa 21 59 5 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.
15596 Psalms Psa 21 59 6 Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.
15597 Psalms Psa 21 59 7 Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.
15598 Psalms Psa 21 59 8 God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.
15599 Psalms Psa 21 59 9 Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king:
15600 Psalms Psa 21 59 10 Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: to me the foreigners are made subject.
15601 Psalms Psa 21 59 11 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
15602 Psalms Psa 21 59 12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies?
15603 Psalms Psa 21 59 13 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.
15604 Psalms Psa 21 59 14 Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing them that afflict us.
15605 Psalms Psa 21 60 1 Unto the end, in hymns, for David.
15606 Psalms Psa 21 60 2 Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.
15607 Psalms Psa 21 60 3 To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;
15608 Psalms Psa 21 60 4 For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.
15609 Psalms Psa 21 60 5 In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.
15610 Psalms Psa 21 60 6 For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.
15611 Psalms Psa 21 60 7 Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.
15612 Psalms Psa 21 60 8 He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?
15613 Psalms Psa 21 60 9 So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.
15614 Psalms Psa 21 61 1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.
15615 Psalms Psa 21 61 2 Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.
15616 Psalms Psa 21 61 3 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more.
15617 Psalms Psa 21 61 4 How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.
15618 Psalms Psa 21 61 5 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.
15619 Psalms Psa 21 61 6 But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience.
15620 Psalms Psa 21 61 7 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved.
15621 Psalms Psa 21 61 8 In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.
15622 Psalms Psa 21 61 9 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.
15623 Psalms Psa 21 61 10 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.
15624 Psalms Psa 21 61 11 Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.
15625 Psalms Psa 21 61 12 God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,
15626 Psalms Psa 21 61 13 And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man according to his works.
15627 Psalms Psa 21 62 1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom.
15628 Psalms Psa 21 62 2 O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!
15629 Psalms Psa 21 62 3 In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.
15630 Psalms Psa 21 62 4 For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise.
15631 Psalms Psa 21 62 5 Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
15632 Psalms Psa 21 62 6 Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
15633 Psalms Psa 21 62 7 If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:
15634 Psalms Psa 21 62 8 Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings:
15635 Psalms Psa 21 62 9 My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.
15636 Psalms Psa 21 62 10 But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:
15637 Psalms Psa 21 62 11 They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.
15638 Psalms Psa 21 62 12 But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.
15639 Psalms Psa 21 63 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.
15640 Psalms Psa 21 63 2 Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.
15641 Psalms Psa 21 63 3 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
15642 Psalms Psa 21 63 4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,
15643 Psalms Psa 21 63 5 To shoot in secret the undefiled.
15644 Psalms Psa 21 63 6 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?
15645 Psalms Psa 21 63 7 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:
15646 Psalms Psa 21 63 8 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:
15647 Psalms Psa 21 63 9 And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;
15648 Psalms Psa 21 63 10 And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.
15649 Psalms Psa 21 63 11 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.
15650 Psalms Psa 21 64 1 To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and Ezechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out.
15651 Psalms Psa 21 64 2 A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.
15652 Psalms Psa 21 64 3 O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.
15653 Psalms Psa 21 64 4 The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.
15654 Psalms Psa 21 64 5 Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,
15655 Psalms Psa 21 64 6 Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.
15656 Psalms Psa 21 64 7 Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:
15657 Psalms Psa 21 64 8 Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,
15658 Psalms Psa 21 64 9 And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.
15659 Psalms Psa 21 64 10 Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.
15660 Psalms Psa 21 64 11 Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers.
15661 Psalms Psa 21 64 12 Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty.
15662 Psalms Psa 21 64 13 The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy,
15663 Psalms Psa 21 64 14 The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.
15664 Psalms Psa 21 65 1 Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout with joy to God, all the earth,
15665 Psalms Psa 21 65 2 Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.
15666 Psalms Psa 21 65 3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.
15667 Psalms Psa 21 65 4 Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name.
15668 Psalms Psa 21 65 5 Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.
15669 Psalms Psa 21 65 6 Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.
15670 Psalms Psa 21 65 7 Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves.
15671 Psalms Psa 21 65 8 O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to be heard.
15672 Psalms Psa 21 65 9 Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved:
15673 Psalms Psa 21 65 10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.
15674 Psalms Psa 21 65 11 Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:
15675 Psalms Psa 21 65 12 Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.
15676 Psalms Psa 21 65 13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
15677 Psalms Psa 21 65 14 Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15678 Psalms Psa 21 65 15 I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.
15679 Psalms Psa 21 65 16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul.
15680 Psalms Psa 21 65 17 I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.
15681 Psalms Psa 21 65 18 If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
15682 Psalms Psa 21 65 19 Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.
15683 Psalms Psa 21 65 20 Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
15684 Psalms Psa 21 66 1 Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David.
15685 Psalms Psa 21 66 2 May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.
15686 Psalms Psa 21 66 3 That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.
15687 Psalms Psa 21 66 4 Let people confess to thee, O God: let all people give praise to thee.
15688 Psalms Psa 21 66 5 Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people with justice, and directest the nations upon earth.
15689 Psalms Psa 21 66 6 Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give praise to thee:
15690 Psalms Psa 21 66 7 The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us,
15691 Psalms Psa 21 66 8 May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him.
15692 Psalms Psa 21 67 1 Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself.
15693 Psalms Psa 21 67 2 Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.
15694 Psalms Psa 21 67 3 As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
15695 Psalms Psa 21 67 4 And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.
15696 Psalms Psa 21 67 5 Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,
15697 Psalms Psa 21 67 6 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:
15698 Psalms Psa 21 67 7 God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.
15699 Psalms Psa 21 67 8 O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:
15700 Psalms Psa 21 67 9 The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.
15701 Psalms Psa 21 67 10 Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.
15702 Psalms Psa 21 67 11 In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.
15703 Psalms Psa 21 67 12 The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power.
15704 Psalms Psa 21 67 13 The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.
15705 Psalms Psa 21 67 14 If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.
15706 Psalms Psa 21 67 15 When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon.
15707 Psalms Psa 21 67 16 The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.
15708 Psalms Psa 21 67 17 Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.
15709 Psalms Psa 21 67 18 The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.
15710 Psalms Psa 21 67 19 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.
15711 Psalms Psa 21 67 20 Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us.
15712 Psalms Psa 21 67 21 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.
15713 Psalms Psa 21 67 22 But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.
15714 Psalms Psa 21 67 23 The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:
15715 Psalms Psa 21 67 24 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.
15716 Psalms Psa 21 67 25 They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.
15717 Psalms Psa 21 67 26 Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.
15718 Psalms Psa 21 67 27 In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of Israel.
15719 Psalms Psa 21 67 28 There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.
15720 Psalms Psa 21 67 29 Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.
15721 Psalms Psa 21 67 30 From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.
15722 Psalms Psa 21 67 31 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:
15723 Psalms Psa 21 67 32 Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
15724 Psalms Psa 21 67 33 Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God,
15725 Psalms Psa 21 67 34 Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power:
15726 Psalms Psa 21 67 35 Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds.
15727 Psalms Psa 21 67 36 God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.
15728 Psalms Psa 21 68 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
15729 Psalms Psa 21 68 2 Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
15730 Psalms Psa 21 68 3 I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
15731 Psalms Psa 21 68 4 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
15732 Psalms Psa 21 68 5 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
15733 Psalms Psa 21 68 6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
15734 Psalms Psa 21 68 7 Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
15735 Psalms Psa 21 68 8 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
15736 Psalms Psa 21 68 9 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
15737 Psalms Psa 21 68 10 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
15738 Psalms Psa 21 68 11 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
15739 Psalms Psa 21 68 12 And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
15740 Psalms Psa 21 68 13 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
15741 Psalms Psa 21 68 14 But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15742 Psalms Psa 21 68 15 Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15743 Psalms Psa 21 68 16 Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
15744 Psalms Psa 21 68 17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
15745 Psalms Psa 21 68 18 And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
15746 Psalms Psa 21 68 19 Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
15747 Psalms Psa 21 68 20 Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
15748 Psalms Psa 21 68 21 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
15749 Psalms Psa 21 68 22 And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
15750 Psalms Psa 21 68 23 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.
15751 Psalms Psa 21 68 24 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
15752 Psalms Psa 21 68 25 Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
15753 Psalms Psa 21 68 26 Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
15754 Psalms Psa 21 68 27 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
15755 Psalms Psa 21 68 28 Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
15756 Psalms Psa 21 68 29 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
15757 Psalms Psa 21 68 30 But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
15758 Psalms Psa 21 68 31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
15759 Psalms Psa 21 68 32 And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
15760 Psalms Psa 21 68 33 Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
15761 Psalms Psa 21 68 34 For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
15762 Psalms Psa 21 68 35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
15763 Psalms Psa 21 68 36 For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
15764 Psalms Psa 21 68 37 And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
15765 Psalms Psa 21 69 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him.
15766 Psalms Psa 21 69 2 O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.
15767 Psalms Psa 21 69 3 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:
15768 Psalms Psa 21 69 4 Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: ’Tis well, ’tis well.
15769 Psalms Psa 21 69 5 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
15770 Psalms Psa 21 69 6 But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O lord, make no delay.
15771 Psalms Psa 21 70 1 A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former captives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion:
15772 Psalms Psa 21 70 2 Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.
15773 Psalms Psa 21 70 3 Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.
15774 Psalms Psa 21 70 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.
15775 Psalms Psa 21 70 5 For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.
15776 Psalms Psa 21 70 6 By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother’s womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:
15777 Psalms Psa 21 70 7 I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.
15778 Psalms Psa 21 70 8 Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long.
15779 Psalms Psa 21 70 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.
15780 Psalms Psa 21 70 10 For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,
15781 Psalms Psa 21 70 11 Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.
15782 Psalms Psa 21 70 12 O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.
15783 Psalms Psa 21 70 13 Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and shame that seek my hurt.
15784 Psalms Psa 21 70 14 But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.
15785 Psalms Psa 21 70 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning,
15786 Psalms Psa 21 70 16 I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.
15787 Psalms Psa 21 70 17 Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.
15788 Psalms Psa 21 70 18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,
15789 Psalms Psa 21 70 19 And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?
15790 Psalms Psa 21 70 20 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:
15791 Psalms Psa 21 70 21 Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me.
15792 Psalms Psa 21 70 22 For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.
15793 Psalms Psa 21 70 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed.
15794 Psalms Psa 21 70 24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.
15795 Psalms Psa 21 71 1 A psalm on Solomon.
15796 Psalms Psa 21 71 2 Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
15797 Psalms Psa 21 71 3 Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.
15798 Psalms Psa 21 71 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.
15799 Psalms Psa 21 71 5 And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.
15800 Psalms Psa 21 71 6 He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth.
15801 Psalms Psa 21 71 7 In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away.
15802 Psalms Psa 21 71 8 And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
15803 Psalms Psa 21 71 9 Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.
15804 Psalms Psa 21 71 10 The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:
15805 Psalms Psa 21 71 11 And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.
15806 Psalms Psa 21 71 12 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.
15807 Psalms Psa 21 71 13 He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.
15808 Psalms Psa 21 71 14 He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight.
15809 Psalms Psa 21 71 15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day.
15810 Psalms Psa 21 71 16 And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.
15811 Psalms Psa 21 71 17 Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.
15812 Psalms Psa 21 71 18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.
15813 Psalms Psa 21 71 19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.
15814 Psalms Psa 21 71 20 The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
15815 Psalms Psa 21 72 1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
15816 Psalms Psa 21 72 2 But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
15817 Psalms Psa 21 72 3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
15818 Psalms Psa 21 72 4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
15819 Psalms Psa 21 72 5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
15820 Psalms Psa 21 72 6 Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
15821 Psalms Psa 21 72 7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
15822 Psalms Psa 21 72 8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
15823 Psalms Psa 21 72 9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
15824 Psalms Psa 21 72 10 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
15825 Psalms Psa 21 72 11 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
15826 Psalms Psa 21 72 12 Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
15827 Psalms Psa 21 72 13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
15828 Psalms Psa 21 72 14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15829 Psalms Psa 21 72 15 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
15830 Psalms Psa 21 72 16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
15831 Psalms Psa 21 72 17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
15832 Psalms Psa 21 72 18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
15833 Psalms Psa 21 72 19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
15834 Psalms Psa 21 72 20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
15835 Psalms Psa 21 72 21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
15836 Psalms Psa 21 72 22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
15837 Psalms Psa 21 72 23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
15838 Psalms Psa 21 72 24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
15839 Psalms Psa 21 72 25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
15840 Psalms Psa 21 72 26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
15841 Psalms Psa 21 72 27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
15842 Psalms Psa 21 72 28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
15843 Psalms Psa 21 73 1 Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
15844 Psalms Psa 21 73 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.
15845 Psalms Psa 21 73 3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
15846 Psalms Psa 21 73 4 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,
15847 Psalms Psa 21 73 5 And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
15848 Psalms Psa 21 73 6 They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
15849 Psalms Psa 21 73 7 They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
15850 Psalms Psa 21 73 8 They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
15851 Psalms Psa 21 73 9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.
15852 Psalms Psa 21 73 10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
15853 Psalms Psa 21 73 11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
15854 Psalms Psa 21 73 12 But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
15855 Psalms Psa 21 73 13 Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
15856 Psalms Psa 21 73 14 Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
15857 Psalms Psa 21 73 15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
15858 Psalms Psa 21 73 16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
15859 Psalms Psa 21 73 17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
15860 Psalms Psa 21 73 18 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
15861 Psalms Psa 21 73 19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
15862 Psalms Psa 21 73 20 Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
15863 Psalms Psa 21 73 21 Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
15864 Psalms Psa 21 73 22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
15865 Psalms Psa 21 73 23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.
15866 Psalms Psa 21 74 1 Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.
15867 Psalms Psa 21 74 2 We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:
15868 Psalms Psa 21 74 3 When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
15869 Psalms Psa 21 74 4 The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.
15870 Psalms Psa 21 74 5 I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
15871 Psalms Psa 21 74 6 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.
15872 Psalms Psa 21 74 7 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:
15873 Psalms Psa 21 74 8 For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:
15874 Psalms Psa 21 74 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
15875 Psalms Psa 21 74 10 But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.
15876 Psalms Psa 21 74 11 And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.
15877 Psalms Psa 21 75 1 Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the Assyrians.
15878 Psalms Psa 21 75 2 In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.
15879 Psalms Psa 21 75 3 And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:
15880 Psalms Psa 21 75 4 There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle.
15881 Psalms Psa 21 75 5 Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.
15882 Psalms Psa 21 75 6 All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.
15883 Psalms Psa 21 75 7 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
15884 Psalms Psa 21 75 8 Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.
15885 Psalms Psa 21 75 9 Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,
15886 Psalms Psa 21 75 10 When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
15887 Psalms Psa 21 75 11 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.
15888 Psalms Psa 21 75 12 Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,
15889 Psalms Psa 21 75 13 Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.
15890 Psalms Psa 21 76 1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.
15891 Psalms Psa 21 76 2 I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
15892 Psalms Psa 21 76 3 In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:
15893 Psalms Psa 21 76 4 I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
15894 Psalms Psa 21 76 5 My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.
15895 Psalms Psa 21 76 6 I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.
15896 Psalms Psa 21 76 7 And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
15897 Psalms Psa 21 76 8 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?
15898 Psalms Psa 21 76 9 Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation?
15899 Psalms Psa 21 76 10 Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
15900 Psalms Psa 21 76 11 And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
15901 Psalms Psa 21 76 12 I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
15902 Psalms Psa 21 76 13 And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions.
15903 Psalms Psa 21 76 14 Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God?
15904 Psalms Psa 21 76 15 Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power known among the nations:
15905 Psalms Psa 21 76 16 With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.
15906 Psalms Psa 21 76 17 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled.
15907 Psalms Psa 21 76 18 Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass:
15908 Psalms Psa 21 76 19 The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.
15909 Psalms Psa 21 76 20 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.
15910 Psalms Psa 21 76 21 Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
15911 Psalms Psa 21 77 1 Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
15912 Psalms Psa 21 77 2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
15913 Psalms Psa 21 77 3 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
15914 Psalms Psa 21 77 4 They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.
15915 Psalms Psa 21 77 5 And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:
15916 Psalms Psa 21 77 6 That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.
15917 Psalms Psa 21 77 7 That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.
15918 Psalms Psa 21 77 8 That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
15919 Psalms Psa 21 77 9 The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.
15920 Psalms Psa 21 77 10 They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
15921 Psalms Psa 21 77 11 And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.
15922 Psalms Psa 21 77 12 Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.
15923 Psalms Psa 21 77 13 He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.
15924 Psalms Psa 21 77 14 And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.
15925 Psalms Psa 21 77 15 He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
15926 Psalms Psa 21 77 16 He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
15927 Psalms Psa 21 77 17 And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
15928 Psalms Psa 21 77 18 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.
15929 Psalms Psa 21 77 19 And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
15930 Psalms Psa 21 77 20 Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?
15931 Psalms Psa 21 77 21 Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.
15932 Psalms Psa 21 77 22 Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.
15933 Psalms Psa 21 77 23 And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.
15934 Psalms Psa 21 77 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.
15935 Psalms Psa 21 77 25 Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.
15936 Psalms Psa 21 77 26 He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.
15937 Psalms Psa 21 77 27 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
15938 Psalms Psa 21 77 28 And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.
15939 Psalms Psa 21 77 29 So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:
15940 Psalms Psa 21 77 30 they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:
15941 Psalms Psa 21 77 31 And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.
15942 Psalms Psa 21 77 32 In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.
15943 Psalms Psa 21 77 33 And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.
15944 Psalms Psa 21 77 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.
15945 Psalms Psa 21 77 35 And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.
15946 Psalms Psa 21 77 36 And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:
15947 Psalms Psa 21 77 37 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.
15948 Psalms Psa 21 77 38 But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.
15949 Psalms Psa 21 77 39 And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
15950 Psalms Psa 21 77 40 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
15951 Psalms Psa 21 77 41 And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.
15952 Psalms Psa 21 77 42 They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:
15953 Psalms Psa 21 77 43 How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
15954 Psalms Psa 21 77 44 And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.
15955 Psalms Psa 21 77 45 He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.
15956 Psalms Psa 21 77 46 And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.
15957 Psalms Psa 21 77 47 And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
15958 Psalms Psa 21 77 48 And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.
15959 Psalms Psa 21 77 49 And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.
15960 Psalms Psa 21 77 50 He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.
15961 Psalms Psa 21 77 51 And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.
15962 Psalms Psa 21 77 52 And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
15963 Psalms Psa 21 77 53 And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
15964 Psalms Psa 21 77 54 And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.
15965 Psalms Psa 21 77 55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
15966 Psalms Psa 21 77 56 Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
15967 Psalms Psa 21 77 57 And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.
15968 Psalms Psa 21 77 58 They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
15969 Psalms Psa 21 77 59 God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
15970 Psalms Psa 21 77 60 And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
15971 Psalms Psa 21 77 61 And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
15972 Psalms Psa 21 77 62 And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.
15973 Psalms Psa 21 77 63 Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.
15974 Psalms Psa 21 77 64 Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.
15975 Psalms Psa 21 77 65 And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
15976 Psalms Psa 21 77 66 And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
15977 Psalms Psa 21 77 67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
15978 Psalms Psa 21 77 68 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
15979 Psalms Psa 21 77 69 And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
15980 Psalms Psa 21 77 70 And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
15981 Psalms Psa 21 77 71 To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.
15982 Psalms Psa 21 77 72 And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.
15983 Psalms Psa 21 78 1 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.
15984 Psalms Psa 21 78 2 They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.
15985 Psalms Psa 21 78 3 They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.
15986 Psalms Psa 21 78 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
15987 Psalms Psa 21 78 5 How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?
15988 Psalms Psa 21 78 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
15989 Psalms Psa 21 78 7 Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.
15990 Psalms Psa 21 78 8 Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
15991 Psalms Psa 21 78 9 Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name’s sake:
15992 Psalms Psa 21 78 10 Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:
15993 Psalms Psa 21 78 11 Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.
15994 Psalms Psa 21 78 12 And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
15995 Psalms Psa 21 78 13 But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.
15996 Psalms Psa 21 79 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.
15997 Psalms Psa 21 79 2 Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth
15998 Psalms Psa 21 79 3 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.
15999 Psalms Psa 21 79 4 Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.
16000 Psalms Psa 21 79 5 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?
16001 Psalms Psa 21 79 6 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
16002 Psalms Psa 21 79 7 Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.
16003 Psalms Psa 21 79 8 O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
16004 Psalms Psa 21 79 9 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.
16005 Psalms Psa 21 79 10 Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.
16006 Psalms Psa 21 79 11 The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
16007 Psalms Psa 21 79 12 It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
16008 Psalms Psa 21 79 13 Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?
16009 Psalms Psa 21 79 14 The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.
16010 Psalms Psa 21 79 15 Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:
16011 Psalms Psa 21 79 16 And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
16012 Psalms Psa 21 79 17 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
16013 Psalms Psa 21 79 18 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
16014 Psalms Psa 21 79 19 And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
16015 Psalms Psa 21 79 20 O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.
16016 Psalms Psa 21 80 1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.
16017 Psalms Psa 21 80 2 Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
16018 Psalms Psa 21 80 3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
16019 Psalms Psa 21 80 4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.
16020 Psalms Psa 21 80 5 For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
16021 Psalms Psa 21 80 6 He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
16022 Psalms Psa 21 80 7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.
16023 Psalms Psa 21 80 8 Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
16024 Psalms Psa 21 80 9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,
16025 Psalms Psa 21 80 10 there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
16026 Psalms Psa 21 80 11 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
16027 Psalms Psa 21 80 12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
16028 Psalms Psa 21 80 13 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
16029 Psalms Psa 21 80 14 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
16030 Psalms Psa 21 80 15 I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
16031 Psalms Psa 21 80 16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
16032 Psalms Psa 21 80 17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
16033 Psalms Psa 21 81 1 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.
16034 Psalms Psa 21 81 2 How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?
16035 Psalms Psa 21 81 3 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.
16036 Psalms Psa 21 81 4 Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.
16037 Psalms Psa 21 81 5 They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.
16038 Psalms Psa 21 81 6 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.
16039 Psalms Psa 21 81 7 But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.
16040 Psalms Psa 21 81 8 Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.
16041 Psalms Psa 21 82 1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.
16042 Psalms Psa 21 82 2 O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.
16043 Psalms Psa 21 82 3 For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
16044 Psalms Psa 21 82 4 They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
16045 Psalms Psa 21 82 5 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
16046 Psalms Psa 21 82 6 For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,
16047 Psalms Psa 21 82 7 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,
16048 Psalms Psa 21 82 8 Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
16049 Psalms Psa 21 82 9 Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.
16050 Psalms Psa 21 82 10 Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
16051 Psalms Psa 21 82 11 Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.
16052 Psalms Psa 21 82 12 Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,
16053 Psalms Psa 21 82 13 Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
16054 Psalms Psa 21 82 14 O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.
16055 Psalms Psa 21 82 15 As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:
16056 Psalms Psa 21 82 16 So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
16057 Psalms Psa 21 82 17 Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.
16058 Psalms Psa 21 82 18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.
16059 Psalms Psa 21 82 19 And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.
16060 Psalms Psa 21 83 1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core.
16061 Psalms Psa 21 83 2 How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
16062 Psalms Psa 21 83 3 my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.
16063 Psalms Psa 21 83 4 For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
16064 Psalms Psa 21 83 5 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.
16065 Psalms Psa 21 83 6 Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,
16066 Psalms Psa 21 83 7 In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.
16067 Psalms Psa 21 83 8 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
16068 Psalms Psa 21 83 9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
16069 Psalms Psa 21 83 10 Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.
16070 Psalms Psa 21 83 11 For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
16071 Psalms Psa 21 83 12 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.
16072 Psalms Psa 21 83 13 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
16073 Psalms Psa 21 84 1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.
16074 Psalms Psa 21 84 2 Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.
16075 Psalms Psa 21 84 3 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.
16076 Psalms Psa 21 84 4 Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.
16077 Psalms Psa 21 84 5 Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.
16078 Psalms Psa 21 84 6 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?
16079 Psalms Psa 21 84 7 Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.
16080 Psalms Psa 21 84 8 Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.
16081 Psalms Psa 21 84 9 I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.
16082 Psalms Psa 21 84 10 Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.
16083 Psalms Psa 21 84 11 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
16084 Psalms Psa 21 84 12 Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
16085 Psalms Psa 21 84 13 For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.
16086 Psalms Psa 21 84 14 Justice shall walk before him: and ,shall set his steps in the way.
16087 Psalms Psa 21 85 1 A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.
16088 Psalms Psa 21 85 2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.
16089 Psalms Psa 21 85 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.
16090 Psalms Psa 21 85 4 Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.
16091 Psalms Psa 21 85 5 For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.
16092 Psalms Psa 21 85 6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.
16093 Psalms Psa 21 85 7 I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.
16094 Psalms Psa 21 85 8 There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.
16095 Psalms Psa 21 85 9 All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.
16096 Psalms Psa 21 85 10 For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.
16097 Psalms Psa 21 85 11 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.
16098 Psalms Psa 21 85 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:
16099 Psalms Psa 21 85 13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.
16100 Psalms Psa 21 85 14 O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.
16101 Psalms Psa 21 85 15 And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.
16102 Psalms Psa 21 85 16 O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.
16103 Psalms Psa 21 85 17 Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.
16104 Psalms Psa 21 86 1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:
16105 Psalms Psa 21 86 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
16106 Psalms Psa 21 86 3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
16107 Psalms Psa 21 86 4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.
16108 Psalms Psa 21 86 5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
16109 Psalms Psa 21 86 6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.
16110 Psalms Psa 21 86 7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.
16111 Psalms Psa 21 87 1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.
16112 Psalms Psa 21 87 2 O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
16113 Psalms Psa 21 87 3 Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
16114 Psalms Psa 21 87 4 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
16115 Psalms Psa 21 87 5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
16116 Psalms Psa 21 87 6 Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
16117 Psalms Psa 21 87 7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
16118 Psalms Psa 21 87 8 Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
16119 Psalms Psa 21 87 9 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:
16120 Psalms Psa 21 87 10 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.
16121 Psalms Psa 21 87 11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
16122 Psalms Psa 21 87 12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?
16123 Psalms Psa 21 87 13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
16124 Psalms Psa 21 87 14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
16125 Psalms Psa 21 87 15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
16126 Psalms Psa 21 87 16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
16127 Psalms Psa 21 87 17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
16128 Psalms Psa 21 87 18 They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.
16129 Psalms Psa 21 87 19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.
16130 Psalms Psa 21 88 1 Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.
16131 Psalms Psa 21 88 2 The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
16132 Psalms Psa 21 88 3 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.
16133 Psalms Psa 21 88 4 I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
16134 Psalms Psa 21 88 5 Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.
16135 Psalms Psa 21 88 6 The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.
16136 Psalms Psa 21 88 7 For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
16137 Psalms Psa 21 88 8 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.
16138 Psalms Psa 21 88 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
16139 Psalms Psa 21 88 10 Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
16140 Psalms Psa 21 88 11 Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
16141 Psalms Psa 21 88 12 Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:
16142 Psalms Psa 21 88 13 The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
16143 Psalms Psa 21 88 14 Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:
16144 Psalms Psa 21 88 15 Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
16145 Psalms Psa 21 88 16 Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:
16146 Psalms Psa 21 88 17 And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
16147 Psalms Psa 21 88 18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
16148 Psalms Psa 21 88 19 For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
16149 Psalms Psa 21 88 20 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
16150 Psalms Psa 21 88 21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.
16151 Psalms Psa 21 88 22 For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.
16152 Psalms Psa 21 88 23 The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.
16153 Psalms Psa 21 88 24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.
16154 Psalms Psa 21 88 25 And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
16155 Psalms Psa 21 88 26 And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.
16156 Psalms Psa 21 88 27 He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.
16157 Psalms Psa 21 88 28 And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
16158 Psalms Psa 21 88 29 I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.
16159 Psalms Psa 21 88 30 And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.
16160 Psalms Psa 21 88 31 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:
16161 Psalms Psa 21 88 32 If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:
16162 Psalms Psa 21 88 33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.
16163 Psalms Psa 21 88 34 But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.
16164 Psalms Psa 21 88 35 Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
16165 Psalms Psa 21 88 36 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:
16166 Psalms Psa 21 88 37 His seed shall endure for ever.
16167 Psalms Psa 21 88 38 And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.
16168 Psalms Psa 21 88 39 But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed.
16169 Psalms Psa 21 88 40 Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.
16170 Psalms Psa 21 88 41 Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.
16171 Psalms Psa 21 88 42 All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
16172 Psalms Psa 21 88 43 Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
16173 Psalms Psa 21 88 44 Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.
16174 Psalms Psa 21 88 45 Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.
16175 Psalms Psa 21 88 46 Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.
16176 Psalms Psa 21 88 47 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
16177 Psalms Psa 21 88 48 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
16178 Psalms Psa 21 88 49 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?
16179 Psalms Psa 21 88 50 Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?
16180 Psalms Psa 21 88 51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:
16181 Psalms Psa 21 88 52 Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.
16182 Psalms Psa 21 88 53 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.
16183 Psalms Psa 21 89 1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
16184 Psalms Psa 21 89 2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.
16185 Psalms Psa 21 89 3 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.
16186 Psalms Psa 21 89 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,
16187 Psalms Psa 21 89 5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
16188 Psalms Psa 21 89 6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.
16189 Psalms Psa 21 89 7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
16190 Psalms Psa 21 89 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
16191 Psalms Psa 21 89 9 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:
16192 Psalms Psa 21 89 10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.
16193 Psalms Psa 21 89 11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear
16194 Psalms Psa 21 89 12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.
16195 Psalms Psa 21 89 13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.
16196 Psalms Psa 21 89 14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.
16197 Psalms Psa 21 89 15 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.
16198 Psalms Psa 21 89 16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.
16199 Psalms Psa 21 89 17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.
16200 Psalms Psa 21 90 1 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
16201 Psalms Psa 21 90 2 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.
16202 Psalms Psa 21 90 3 For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.
16203 Psalms Psa 21 90 4 He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.
16204 Psalms Psa 21 90 5 His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.
16205 Psalms Psa 21 90 6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.
16206 Psalms Psa 21 90 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.
16207 Psalms Psa 21 90 8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.
16208 Psalms Psa 21 90 9 Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge.
16209 Psalms Psa 21 90 10 There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.
16210 Psalms Psa 21 90 11 For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.
16211 Psalms Psa 21 90 12 In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
16212 Psalms Psa 21 90 13 Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.
16213 Psalms Psa 21 90 14 Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.
16214 Psalms Psa 21 90 15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
16215 Psalms Psa 21 90 16 I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.
16216 Psalms Psa 21 91 1 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.
16217 Psalms Psa 21 91 2 It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.
16218 Psalms Psa 21 91 3 To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:
16219 Psalms Psa 21 91 4 Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.
16220 Psalms Psa 21 91 5 For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.
16221 Psalms Psa 21 91 6 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.
16222 Psalms Psa 21 91 7 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.
16223 Psalms Psa 21 91 8 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:
16224 Psalms Psa 21 91 9 But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.
16225 Psalms Psa 21 91 10 For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
16226 Psalms Psa 21 91 11 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.
16227 Psalms Psa 21 91 12 My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.
16228 Psalms Psa 21 91 13 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.
16229 Psalms Psa 21 91 14 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.
16230 Psalms Psa 21 91 15 They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,
16231 Psalms Psa 21 91 16 That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.
16232 Psalms Psa 21 92 1 The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.
16233 Psalms Psa 21 92 2 My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting.
16234 Psalms Psa 21 92 3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,
16235 Psalms Psa 21 92 4 With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.
16236 Psalms Psa 21 92 5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.
16237 Psalms Psa 21 93 1 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.
16238 Psalms Psa 21 93 2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.
16239 Psalms Psa 21 93 3 How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?
16240 Psalms Psa 21 93 4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?
16241 Psalms Psa 21 93 5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
16242 Psalms Psa 21 93 6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.
16243 Psalms Psa 21 93 7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
16244 Psalms Psa 21 93 8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.
16245 Psalms Psa 21 93 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
16246 Psalms Psa 21 93 10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?
16247 Psalms Psa 21 93 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
16248 Psalms Psa 21 93 12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.
16249 Psalms Psa 21 93 13 That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked.
16250 Psalms Psa 21 93 14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.
16251 Psalms Psa 21 93 15 Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.
16252 Psalms Psa 21 93 16 Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?
16253 Psalms Psa 21 93 17 Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.
16254 Psalms Psa 21 93 18 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
16255 Psalms Psa 21 93 19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.
16256 Psalms Psa 21 93 20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?
16257 Psalms Psa 21 93 21 They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.
16258 Psalms Psa 21 93 22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.
16259 Psalms Psa 21 93 23 And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.
16260 Psalms Psa 21 94 1 Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
16261 Psalms Psa 21 94 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
16262 Psalms Psa 21 94 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
16263 Psalms Psa 21 94 4 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.
16264 Psalms Psa 21 94 5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
16265 Psalms Psa 21 94 6 Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.
16266 Psalms Psa 21 94 7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
16267 Psalms Psa 21 94 8 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
16268 Psalms Psa 21 94 9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
16269 Psalms Psa 21 94 10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.
16270 Psalms Psa 21 94 11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
16271 Psalms Psa 21 95 1 A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.
16272 Psalms Psa 21 95 2 Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.
16273 Psalms Psa 21 95 3 Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.
16274 Psalms Psa 21 95 4 For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
16275 Psalms Psa 21 95 5 For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.
16276 Psalms Psa 21 95 6 Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.
16277 Psalms Psa 21 95 7 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour:
16278 Psalms Psa 21 95 8 Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts:
16279 Psalms Psa 21 95 9 Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his presence.
16280 Psalms Psa 21 95 10 Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice.
16281 Psalms Psa 21 95 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:
16282 Psalms Psa 21 95 12 The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice
16283 Psalms Psa 21 95 13 before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.
16284 Psalms Psa 21 96 1 For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.
16285 Psalms Psa 21 96 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.
16286 Psalms Psa 21 96 3 A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.
16287 Psalms Psa 21 96 4 His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled.
16288 Psalms Psa 21 96 5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
16289 Psalms Psa 21 96 6 The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.
16290 Psalms Psa 21 96 7 Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:
16291 Psalms Psa 21 96 8 Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord.
16292 Psalms Psa 21 96 9 For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.
16293 Psalms Psa 21 96 10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.
16294 Psalms Psa 21 96 11 Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.
16295 Psalms Psa 21 96 12 Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.
16296 Psalms Psa 21 97 1 A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy.
16297 Psalms Psa 21 97 2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles.
16298 Psalms Psa 21 97 3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
16299 Psalms Psa 21 97 4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and sing.
16300 Psalms Psa 21 97 5 Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm:
16301 Psalms Psa 21 97 6 With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king:
16302 Psalms Psa 21 97 7 Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.
16303 Psalms Psa 21 97 8 The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together
16304 Psalms Psa 21 97 9 At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.
16305 Psalms Psa 21 98 1 A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.
16306 Psalms Psa 21 98 2 The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.
16307 Psalms Psa 21 98 3 Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and holy:
16308 Psalms Psa 21 98 4 And the king’s honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.
16309 Psalms Psa 21 98 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.
16310 Psalms Psa 21 98 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:
16311 Psalms Psa 21 98 7 He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.
16312 Psalms Psa 21 98 8 Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.
16313 Psalms Psa 21 98 9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.
16314 Psalms Psa 21 99 1 A psalm of praise.
16315 Psalms Psa 21 99 2 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.
16316 Psalms Psa 21 99 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
16317 Psalms Psa 21 99 4 Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name:
16318 Psalms Psa 21 99 5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.
16319 Psalms Psa 21 100 1 A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,
16320 Psalms Psa 21 100 2 And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.
16321 Psalms Psa 21 100 3 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.
16322 Psalms Psa 21 100 4 The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.
16323 Psalms Psa 21 100 5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.
16324 Psalms Psa 21 100 6 My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.
16325 Psalms Psa 21 100 7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.
16326 Psalms Psa 21 100 8 In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.
16327 Psalms Psa 21 101 1 The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.
16328 Psalms Psa 21 101 2 Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.
16329 Psalms Psa 21 101 3 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.
16330 Psalms Psa 21 101 4 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
16331 Psalms Psa 21 101 5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
16332 Psalms Psa 21 101 6 Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.
16333 Psalms Psa 21 101 7 I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.
16334 Psalms Psa 21 101 8 I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.
16335 Psalms Psa 21 101 9 All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.
16336 Psalms Psa 21 101 10 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
16337 Psalms Psa 21 101 11 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
16338 Psalms Psa 21 101 12 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
16339 Psalms Psa 21 101 13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.
16340 Psalms Psa 21 101 14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
16341 Psalms Psa 21 101 15 For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
16342 Psalms Psa 21 101 16 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16343 Psalms Psa 21 101 17 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.
16344 Psalms Psa 21 101 18 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.
16345 Psalms Psa 21 101 19 Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
16346 Psalms Psa 21 101 20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.
16347 Psalms Psa 21 101 21 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:
16348 Psalms Psa 21 101 22 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;
16349 Psalms Psa 21 101 23 When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.
16350 Psalms Psa 21 101 24 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.
16351 Psalms Psa 21 101 25 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.
16352 Psalms Psa 21 101 26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
16353 Psalms Psa 21 101 27 They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.
16354 Psalms Psa 21 101 28 But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.
16355 Psalms Psa 21 101 29 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.
16356 Psalms Psa 21 102 1 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.
16357 Psalms Psa 21 102 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.
16358 Psalms Psa 21 102 3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.
16359 Psalms Psa 21 102 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.
16360 Psalms Psa 21 102 5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle’s.
16361 Psalms Psa 21 102 6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.
16362 Psalms Psa 21 102 7 He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel.
16363 Psalms Psa 21 102 8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.
16364 Psalms Psa 21 102 9 He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.
16365 Psalms Psa 21 102 10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
16366 Psalms Psa 21 102 11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.
16367 Psalms Psa 21 102 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.
16368 Psalms Psa 21 102 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:
16369 Psalms Psa 21 102 14 For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:
16370 Psalms Psa 21 102 15 Man’s days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.
16371 Psalms Psa 21 102 16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.
16372 Psalms Psa 21 102 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children’s children,
16373 Psalms Psa 21 102 18 To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them.
16374 Psalms Psa 21 102 19 The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom shall rule over all.
16375 Psalms Psa 21 102 20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.
16376 Psalms Psa 21 102 21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will.
16377 Psalms Psa 21 102 22 Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord.
16378 Psalms Psa 21 103 1 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:
16379 Psalms Psa 21 103 2 And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:
16380 Psalms Psa 21 103 3 Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
16381 Psalms Psa 21 103 4 Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.
16382 Psalms Psa 21 103 5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
16383 Psalms Psa 21 103 6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.
16384 Psalms Psa 21 103 7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.
16385 Psalms Psa 21 103 8 The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.
16386 Psalms Psa 21 103 9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.
16387 Psalms Psa 21 103 10 Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
16388 Psalms Psa 21 103 11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.
16389 Psalms Psa 21 103 12 Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.
16390 Psalms Psa 21 103 13 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:
16391 Psalms Psa 21 103 14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:
16392 Psalms Psa 21 103 15 And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.
16393 Psalms Psa 21 103 16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:
16394 Psalms Psa 21 103 17 There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them is the house of the heron.
16395 Psalms Psa 21 103 18 The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.
16396 Psalms Psa 21 103 19 He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
16397 Psalms Psa 21 103 20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:
16398 Psalms Psa 21 103 21 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God.
16399 Psalms Psa 21 103 22 The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.
16400 Psalms Psa 21 103 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.
16401 Psalms Psa 21 103 24 How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.
16402 Psalms Psa 21 103 25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.
16403 Psalms Psa 21 103 26 There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein.
16404 Psalms Psa 21 103 27 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.
16405 Psalms Psa 21 103 28 What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.
16406 Psalms Psa 21 103 29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.
16407 Psalms Psa 21 103 30 Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
16408 Psalms Psa 21 103 31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
16409 Psalms Psa 21 103 32 He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
16410 Psalms Psa 21 103 33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
16411 Psalms Psa 21 103 34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord.
16412 Psalms Psa 21 103 35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.
16413 Psalms Psa 21 104 1 Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
16414 Psalms Psa 21 104 2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.
16415 Psalms Psa 21 104 3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
16416 Psalms Psa 21 104 4 Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
16417 Psalms Psa 21 104 5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
16418 Psalms Psa 21 104 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
16419 Psalms Psa 21 104 7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
16420 Psalms Psa 21 104 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
16421 Psalms Psa 21 104 9 Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:
16422 Psalms Psa 21 104 10 And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:
16423 Psalms Psa 21 104 11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.
16424 Psalms Psa 21 104 12 When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
16425 Psalms Psa 21 104 13 And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
16426 Psalms Psa 21 104 14 He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.
16427 Psalms Psa 21 104 15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
16428 Psalms Psa 21 104 16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
16429 Psalms Psa 21 104 17 He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
16430 Psalms Psa 21 104 18 They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,
16431 Psalms Psa 21 104 19 Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.
16432 Psalms Psa 21 104 20 The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.
16433 Psalms Psa 21 104 21 He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.
16434 Psalms Psa 21 104 22 That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.
16435 Psalms Psa 21 104 23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
16436 Psalms Psa 21 104 24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.
16437 Psalms Psa 21 104 25 He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.
16438 Psalms Psa 21 104 26 He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
16439 Psalms Psa 21 104 27 He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
16440 Psalms Psa 21 104 28 He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.
16441 Psalms Psa 21 104 29 He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
16442 Psalms Psa 21 104 30 Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.
16443 Psalms Psa 21 104 31 He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.
16444 Psalms Psa 21 104 32 He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.
16445 Psalms Psa 21 104 33 And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.
16446 Psalms Psa 21 104 34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.
16447 Psalms Psa 21 104 35 And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.
16448 Psalms Psa 21 104 36 And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
16449 Psalms Psa 21 104 37 And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.
16450 Psalms Psa 21 104 38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.
16451 Psalms Psa 21 104 39 He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.
16452 Psalms Psa 21 104 40 They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
16453 Psalms Psa 21 104 41 He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.
16454 Psalms Psa 21 104 42 Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
16455 Psalms Psa 21 104 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
16456 Psalms Psa 21 104 44 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:
16457 Psalms Psa 21 104 45 That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.
16458 Psalms Psa 21 105 1 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16459 Psalms Psa 21 105 2 Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?
16460 Psalms Psa 21 105 3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.
16461 Psalms Psa 21 105 4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.
16462 Psalms Psa 21 105 5 That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.
16463 Psalms Psa 21 105 6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
16464 Psalms Psa 21 105 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
16465 Psalms Psa 21 105 8 And he saved them for his own name’s sake: that he might make his power known.
16466 Psalms Psa 21 105 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
16467 Psalms Psa 21 105 10 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
16468 Psalms Psa 21 105 11 And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.
16469 Psalms Psa 21 105 12 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
16470 Psalms Psa 21 105 13 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.
16471 Psalms Psa 21 105 14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.
16472 Psalms Psa 21 105 15 And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.
16473 Psalms Psa 21 105 16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
16474 Psalms Psa 21 105 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.
16475 Psalms Psa 21 105 18 And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.
16476 Psalms Psa 21 105 19 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.
16477 Psalms Psa 21 105 20 And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
16478 Psalms Psa 21 105 21 They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
16479 Psalms Psa 21 105 22 Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
16480 Psalms Psa 21 105 23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
16481 Psalms Psa 21 105 24 And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
16482 Psalms Psa 21 105 25 And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
16483 Psalms Psa 21 105 26 And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;
16484 Psalms Psa 21 105 27 And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
16485 Psalms Psa 21 105 28 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
16486 Psalms Psa 21 105 29 And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
16487 Psalms Psa 21 105 30 Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.
16488 Psalms Psa 21 105 31 And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.
16489 Psalms Psa 21 105 32 They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:
16490 Psalms Psa 21 105 33 Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.
16491 Psalms Psa 21 105 34 They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
16492 Psalms Psa 21 105 35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:
16493 Psalms Psa 21 105 36 And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.
16494 Psalms Psa 21 105 37 And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.
16495 Psalms Psa 21 105 38 And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,
16496 Psalms Psa 21 105 39 And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.
16497 Psalms Psa 21 105 40 And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.
16498 Psalms Psa 21 105 41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.
16499 Psalms Psa 21 105 42 And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:
16500 Psalms Psa 21 105 43 Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.
16501 Psalms Psa 21 105 44 And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.
16502 Psalms Psa 21 105 45 And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
16503 Psalms Psa 21 105 46 And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.
16504 Psalms Psa 21 105 47 Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.
16505 Psalms Psa 21 105 48 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
16506 Psalms Psa 21 106 1 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16507 Psalms Psa 21 106 2 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.
16508 Psalms Psa 21 106 3 From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.
16509 Psalms Psa 21 106 4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
16510 Psalms Psa 21 106 5 They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.
16511 Psalms Psa 21 106 6 And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
16512 Psalms Psa 21 106 7 And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
16513 Psalms Psa 21 106 8 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
16514 Psalms Psa 21 106 9 For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.
16515 Psalms Psa 21 106 10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.
16516 Psalms Psa 21 106 11 Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:
16517 Psalms Psa 21 106 12 And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and there was none to help them.
16518 Psalms Psa 21 106 13 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
16519 Psalms Psa 21 106 14 And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.
16520 Psalms Psa 21 106 15 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
16521 Psalms Psa 21 106 16 Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.
16522 Psalms Psa 21 106 17 He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.
16523 Psalms Psa 21 106 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.
16524 Psalms Psa 21 106 19 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
16525 Psalms Psa 21 106 20 He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.
16526 Psalms Psa 21 106 21 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
16527 Psalms Psa 21 106 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.
16528 Psalms Psa 21 106 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:
16529 Psalms Psa 21 106 24 These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
16530 Psalms Psa 21 106 25 He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.
16531 Psalms Psa 21 106 26 They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.
16532 Psalms Psa 21 106 27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
16533 Psalms Psa 21 106 28 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.
16534 Psalms Psa 21 106 29 And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.
16535 Psalms Psa 21 106 30 And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.
16536 Psalms Psa 21 106 31 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
16537 Psalms Psa 21 106 32 And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients.
16538 Psalms Psa 21 106 33 He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of waters into dry ground:
16539 Psalms Psa 21 106 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
16540 Psalms Psa 21 106 35 He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land into water springs.
16541 Psalms Psa 21 106 36 And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.
16542 Psalms Psa 21 106 37 And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.
16543 Psalms Psa 21 106 38 And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
16544 Psalms Psa 21 106 39 Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
16545 Psalms Psa 21 106 40 Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.
16546 Psalms Psa 21 106 41 And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.
16547 Psalms Psa 21 106 42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
16548 Psalms Psa 21 106 43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?
16549 Psalms Psa 21 107 1 A canticle of a psalm for David himself.
16550 Psalms Psa 21 107 2 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.
16551 Psalms Psa 21 107 3 Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.
16552 Psalms Psa 21 107 4 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the nations.
16553 Psalms Psa 21 107 5 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.
16554 Psalms Psa 21 107 6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth:
16555 Psalms Psa 21 107 7 That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me.
16556 Psalms Psa 21 107 8 God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.
16557 Psalms Psa 21 107 9 Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my king:
16558 Psalms Psa 21 107 10 Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become my friends.
16559 Psalms Psa 21 107 11 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
16560 Psalms Psa 21 107 12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off ? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?
16561 Psalms Psa 21 107 13 O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
16562 Psalms Psa 21 107 14 Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies to nothing.
16563 Psalms Psa 21 108 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.
16564 Psalms Psa 21 108 2 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
16565 Psalms Psa 21 108 3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
16566 Psalms Psa 21 108 4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
16567 Psalms Psa 21 108 5 And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
16568 Psalms Psa 21 108 6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
16569 Psalms Psa 21 108 7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
16570 Psalms Psa 21 108 8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
16571 Psalms Psa 21 108 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
16572 Psalms Psa 21 108 10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
16573 Psalms Psa 21 108 11 May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
16574 Psalms Psa 21 108 12 May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
16575 Psalms Psa 21 108 13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
16576 Psalms Psa 21 108 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
16577 Psalms Psa 21 108 15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
16578 Psalms Psa 21 108 16 because he remembered not to shew mercy,
16579 Psalms Psa 21 108 17 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
16580 Psalms Psa 21 108 18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
16581 Psalms Psa 21 108 19 May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
16582 Psalms Psa 21 108 20 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
16583 Psalms Psa 21 108 21 But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
16584 Psalms Psa 21 108 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
16585 Psalms Psa 21 108 23 I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
16586 Psalms Psa 21 108 24 My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
16587 Psalms Psa 21 108 25 And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.
16588 Psalms Psa 21 108 26 Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.
16589 Psalms Psa 21 108 27 And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
16590 Psalms Psa 21 108 28 They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
16591 Psalms Psa 21 108 29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.
16592 Psalms Psa 21 108 30 I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
16593 Psalms Psa 21 108 31 Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
16594 Psalms Psa 21 109 1 A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
16595 Psalms Psa 21 109 2 The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
16596 Psalms Psa 21 109 3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.
16597 Psalms Psa 21 109 4 The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
16598 Psalms Psa 21 109 5 The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.
16599 Psalms Psa 21 109 6 He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.
16600 Psalms Psa 21 109 7 He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
16601 Psalms Psa 21 110 1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just, and in the congregation.
16602 Psalms Psa 21 110 2 Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills.
16603 Psalms Psa 21 110 3 His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever.
16604 Psalms Psa 21 110 4 He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord:
16605 Psalms Psa 21 110 5 He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:
16606 Psalms Psa 21 110 6 He will shew forth to his people the power of his works.
16607 Psalms Psa 21 110 7 That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth and judgment.
16608 Psalms Psa 21 110 8 All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, made in truth and equity.
16609 Psalms Psa 21 110 9 He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:
16610 Psalms Psa 21 110 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.
16611 Psalms Psa 21 111 1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.
16612 Psalms Psa 21 111 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.
16613 Psalms Psa 21 111 3 Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.
16614 Psalms Psa 21 111 4 To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.
16615 Psalms Psa 21 111 5 Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:
16616 Psalms Psa 21 111 6 Because he shall not be moved for ever.
16617 Psalms Psa 21 111 7 The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:
16618 Psalms Psa 21 111 8 His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.
16619 Psalms Psa 21 111 9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.
16620 Psalms Psa 21 111 10 The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
16621 Psalms Psa 21 112 1 Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.
16622 Psalms Psa 21 112 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.
16623 Psalms Psa 21 112 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.
16624 Psalms Psa 21 112 4 The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.
16625 Psalms Psa 21 112 5 Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:
16626 Psalms Psa 21 112 6 and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?
16627 Psalms Psa 21 112 7 Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:
16628 Psalms Psa 21 112 8 That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.
16629 Psalms Psa 21 112 9 Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
16630 Psalms Psa 21 113 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:
16631 Psalms Psa 21 113 2 Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
16632 Psalms Psa 21 113 3 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
16633 Psalms Psa 21 113 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.
16634 Psalms Psa 21 113 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
16635 Psalms Psa 21 113 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?
16636 Psalms Psa 21 113 7 At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:
16637 Psalms Psa 21 113 8 Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.
16638 Psalms Psa 21 113 1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.
16639 Psalms Psa 21 113 2 For thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?
16640 Psalms Psa 21 113 3 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.
16641 Psalms Psa 21 113 4 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.
16642 Psalms Psa 21 113 5 They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.
16643 Psalms Psa 21 113 6 They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.
16644 Psalms Psa 21 113 7 They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.
16645 Psalms Psa 21 113 8 Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.
16646 Psalms Psa 21 113 9 The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
16647 Psalms Psa 21 113 10 The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
16648 Psalms Psa 21 113 11 They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
16649 Psalms Psa 21 113 12 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.
16650 Psalms Psa 21 113 13 He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.
16651 Psalms Psa 21 113 14 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.
16652 Psalms Psa 21 113 15 Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
16653 Psalms Psa 21 113 16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord’s: but the earth he has given to the children of men.
16654 Psalms Psa 21 113 17 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.
16655 Psalms Psa 21 113 18 But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.
16656 Psalms Psa 21 114 1 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
16657 Psalms Psa 21 114 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.
16658 Psalms Psa 21 114 3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
16659 Psalms Psa 21 114 4 And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
16660 Psalms Psa 21 114 5 The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
16661 Psalms Psa 21 114 6 The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.
16662 Psalms Psa 21 114 7 Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.
16663 Psalms Psa 21 114 8 For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
16664 Psalms Psa 21 114 9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
16665 Psalms Psa 21 115 10 I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.
16666 Psalms Psa 21 115 11 I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.
16667 Psalms Psa 21 115 12 What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath rendered to me?
16668 Psalms Psa 21 115 13 I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord.
16669 Psalms Psa 21 115 14 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:
16670 Psalms Psa 21 115 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
16671 Psalms Psa 21 115 16 O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:
16672 Psalms Psa 21 115 17 I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.
16673 Psalms Psa 21 115 18 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:
16674 Psalms Psa 21 115 19 In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
16675 Psalms Psa 21 116 1 O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
16676 Psalms Psa 21 116 2 For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.
16677 Psalms Psa 21 117 1 Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16678 Psalms Psa 21 117 2 Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever.
16679 Psalms Psa 21 117 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
16680 Psalms Psa 21 117 4 Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
16681 Psalms Psa 21 117 5 In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.
16682 Psalms Psa 21 117 6 The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me.
16683 Psalms Psa 21 117 7 The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.
16684 Psalms Psa 21 117 8 It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.
16685 Psalms Psa 21 117 9 It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.
16686 Psalms Psa 21 117 10 All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
16687 Psalms Psa 21 117 11 Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
16688 Psalms Psa 21 117 12 They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.
16689 Psalms Psa 21 117 13 Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord supported me.
16690 Psalms Psa 21 117 14 The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my salvation.
16691 Psalms Psa 21 117 15 The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of the just.
16692 Psalms Psa 21 117 16 The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength.
16693 Psalms Psa 21 117 17 I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.
16694 Psalms Psa 21 117 18 The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered me over to death.
16695 Psalms Psa 21 117 19 Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and give praise to the Lord.
16696 Psalms Psa 21 117 20 This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.
16697 Psalms Psa 21 117 21 I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation.
16698 Psalms Psa 21 117 22 The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.
16699 Psalms Psa 21 117 23 This is the Lord’s doing , and it is wonderful in our eyes.
16700 Psalms Psa 21 117 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.
16701 Psalms Psa 21 117 25 O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.
16702 Psalms Psa 21 117 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
16703 Psalms Psa 21 117 27 The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.
16704 Psalms Psa 21 117 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
16705 Psalms Psa 21 117 29 O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16706 Psalms Psa 21 118 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
16707 Psalms Psa 21 118 2 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.
16708 Psalms Psa 21 118 3 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.
16709 Psalms Psa 21 118 4 Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
16710 Psalms Psa 21 118 5 O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
16711 Psalms Psa 21 118 6 Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.
16712 Psalms Psa 21 118 7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.
16713 Psalms Psa 21 118 8 I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
16714 Psalms Psa 21 118 9 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.
16715 Psalms Psa 21 118 10 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.
16716 Psalms Psa 21 118 11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.
16717 Psalms Psa 21 118 12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.
16718 Psalms Psa 21 118 13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.
16719 Psalms Psa 21 118 14 I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.
16720 Psalms Psa 21 118 15 I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.
16721 Psalms Psa 21 118 16 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.
16722 Psalms Psa 21 118 17 Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.
16723 Psalms Psa 21 118 18 Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
16724 Psalms Psa 21 118 19 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
16725 Psalms Psa 21 118 20 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.
16726 Psalms Psa 21 118 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.
16727 Psalms Psa 21 118 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.
16728 Psalms Psa 21 118 23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
16729 Psalms Psa 21 118 24 For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.
16730 Psalms Psa 21 118 25 My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.
16731 Psalms Psa 21 118 26 I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.
16732 Psalms Psa 21 118 27 Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.
16733 Psalms Psa 21 118 28 My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
16734 Psalms Psa 21 118 29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.
16735 Psalms Psa 21 118 30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten.
16736 Psalms Psa 21 118 31 I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.
16737 Psalms Psa 21 118 32 I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.
16738 Psalms Psa 21 118 33 Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.
16739 Psalms Psa 21 118 34 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.
16740 Psalms Psa 21 118 35 Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.
16741 Psalms Psa 21 118 36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.
16742 Psalms Psa 21 118 37 Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.
16743 Psalms Psa 21 118 38 Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.
16744 Psalms Psa 21 118 39 Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.
16745 Psalms Psa 21 118 40 Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.
16746 Psalms Psa 21 118 41 Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.
16747 Psalms Psa 21 118 42 So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.
16748 Psalms Psa 21 118 43 And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.
16749 Psalms Psa 21 118 44 So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.
16750 Psalms Psa 21 118 45 And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.
16751 Psalms Psa 21 118 46 And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed.
16752 Psalms Psa 21 118 47 I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.
16753 Psalms Psa 21 118 48 And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.
16754 Psalms Psa 21 118 49 Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope.
16755 Psalms Psa 21 118 50 This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.
16756 Psalms Psa 21 118 51 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.
16757 Psalms Psa 21 118 52 I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.
16758 Psalms Psa 21 118 53 A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
16759 Psalms Psa 21 118 54 Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.
16760 Psalms Psa 21 118 55 In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.
16761 Psalms Psa 21 118 56 This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications.
16762 Psalms Psa 21 118 57 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.
16763 Psalms Psa 21 118 58 I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.
16764 Psalms Psa 21 118 59 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
16765 Psalms Psa 21 118 60 I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.
16766 Psalms Psa 21 118 61 The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
16767 Psalms Psa 21 118 62 I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.
16768 Psalms Psa 21 118 63 I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.
16769 Psalms Psa 21 118 64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications.
16770 Psalms Psa 21 118 65 Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.
16771 Psalms Psa 21 118 66 Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.
16772 Psalms Psa 21 118 67 Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.
16773 Psalms Psa 21 118 68 Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.
16774 Psalms Psa 21 118 69 The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.
16775 Psalms Psa 21 118 70 Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.
16776 Psalms Psa 21 118 71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.
16777 Psalms Psa 21 118 72 The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver.
16778 Psalms Psa 21 118 73 Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.
16779 Psalms Psa 21 118 74 They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words.
16780 Psalms Psa 21 118 75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.
16781 Psalms Psa 21 118 76 O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
16782 Psalms Psa 21 118 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.
16783 Psalms Psa 21 118 78 Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.
16784 Psalms Psa 21 118 79 Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy testimonies.
16785 Psalms Psa 21 118 80 Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded.
16786 Psalms Psa 21 118 81 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.
16787 Psalms Psa 21 118 82 My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?
16788 Psalms Psa 21 118 83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.
16789 Psalms Psa 21 118 84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
16790 Psalms Psa 21 118 85 The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.
16791 Psalms Psa 21 118 86 All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.
16792 Psalms Psa 21 118 87 They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.
16793 Psalms Psa 21 118 88 Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
16794 Psalms Psa 21 118 89 For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.
16795 Psalms Psa 21 118 90 Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.
16796 Psalms Psa 21 118 91 By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.
16797 Psalms Psa 21 118 92 Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
16798 Psalms Psa 21 118 93 Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life.
16799 Psalms Psa 21 118 94 I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.
16800 Psalms Psa 21 118 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.
16801 Psalms Psa 21 118 96 I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
16802 Psalms Psa 21 118 97 O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
16803 Psalms Psa 21 118 98 Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.
16804 Psalms Psa 21 118 99 I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.
16805 Psalms Psa 21 118 100 I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.
16806 Psalms Psa 21 118 101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.
16807 Psalms Psa 21 118 102 I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.
16808 Psalms Psa 21 118 103 How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.
16809 Psalms Psa 21 118 104 By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity.
16810 Psalms Psa 21 118 105 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
16811 Psalms Psa 21 118 106 I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.
16812 Psalms Psa 21 118 107 I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word.
16813 Psalms Psa 21 118 108 The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments.
16814 Psalms Psa 21 118 109 My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.
16815 Psalms Psa 21 118 110 Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.
16816 Psalms Psa 21 118 111 I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.
16817 Psalms Psa 21 118 112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward.
16818 Psalms Psa 21 118 113 I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.
16819 Psalms Psa 21 118 114 Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped.
16820 Psalms Psa 21 118 115 Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.
16821 Psalms Psa 21 118 116 Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation.
16822 Psalms Psa 21 118 117 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications.
16823 Psalms Psa 21 118 118 Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.
16824 Psalms Psa 21 118 119 I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.
16825 Psalms Psa 21 118 120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.
16826 Psalms Psa 21 118 121 I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me.
16827 Psalms Psa 21 118 122 Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.
16828 Psalms Psa 21 118 123 My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.
16829 Psalms Psa 21 118 124 Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.
16830 Psalms Psa 21 118 125 I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies.
16831 Psalms Psa 21 118 126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.
16832 Psalms Psa 21 118 127 Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz.
16833 Psalms Psa 21 118 128 Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways.
16834 Psalms Psa 21 118 129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them.
16835 Psalms Psa 21 118 130 The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones.
16836 Psalms Psa 21 118 131 I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.
16837 Psalms Psa 21 118 132 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the judgment of them that love thy name.
16838 Psalms Psa 21 118 133 Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
16839 Psalms Psa 21 118 134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.
16840 Psalms Psa 21 118 135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.
16841 Psalms Psa 21 118 136 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.
16842 Psalms Psa 21 118 137 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.
16843 Psalms Psa 21 118 138 Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly.
16844 Psalms Psa 21 118 139 My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.
16845 Psalms Psa 21 118 140 Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it.
16846 Psalms Psa 21 118 141 I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy justifications.
16847 Psalms Psa 21 118 142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.
16848 Psalms Psa 21 118 143 Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.
16849 Psalms Psa 21 118 144 Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.
16850 Psalms Psa 21 118 145 I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications.
16851 Psalms Psa 21 118 146 I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.
16852 Psalms Psa 21 118 147 I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.
16853 Psalms Psa 21 118 148 My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.
16854 Psalms Psa 21 118 149 Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy judgment.
16855 Psalms Psa 21 118 150 They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from thy law.
16856 Psalms Psa 21 118 151 Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.
16857 Psalms Psa 21 118 152 I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever.
16858 Psalms Psa 21 118 153 See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.
16859 Psalms Psa 21 118 154 Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word’s sake.
16860 Psalms Psa 21 118 155 Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.
16861 Psalms Psa 21 118 156 Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment.
16862 Psalms Psa 21 118 157 Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.
16863 Psalms Psa 21 118 158 I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.
16864 Psalms Psa 21 118 159 Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.
16865 Psalms Psa 21 118 160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.
16866 Psalms Psa 21 118 161 Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.
16867 Psalms Psa 21 118 162 I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.
16868 Psalms Psa 21 118 163 I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.
16869 Psalms Psa 21 118 164 Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.
16870 Psalms Psa 21 118 165 Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling. block.
16871 Psalms Psa 21 118 166 I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.
16872 Psalms Psa 21 118 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them exceedingly.
16873 Psalms Psa 21 118 168 I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.
16874 Psalms Psa 21 118 169 Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.
16875 Psalms Psa 21 118 170 Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word.
16876 Psalms Psa 21 118 171 My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.
16877 Psalms Psa 21 118 172 My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.
16878 Psalms Psa 21 118 173 Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
16879 Psalms Psa 21 118 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.
16880 Psalms Psa 21 118 175 My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.
16881 Psalms Psa 21 118 176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.
16882 Psalms Psa 21 119 1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.
16883 Psalms Psa 21 119 2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
16884 Psalms Psa 21 119 3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?
16885 Psalms Psa 21 119 4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.
16886 Psalms Psa 21 119 5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:
16887 Psalms Psa 21 119 6 My soul hath been long a sojourner.
16888 Psalms Psa 21 119 7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.
16889 Psalms Psa 21 120 1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.
16890 Psalms Psa 21 120 2 My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
16891 Psalms Psa 21 120 3 May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.
16892 Psalms Psa 21 120 4 Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.
16893 Psalms Psa 21 120 5 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.
16894 Psalms Psa 21 120 6 The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.
16895 Psalms Psa 21 120 7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.
16896 Psalms Psa 21 120 8 May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.
16897 Psalms Psa 21 121 1 A gradual canticle.
16898 Psalms Psa 21 121 2 Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.
16899 Psalms Psa 21 121 3 Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
16900 Psalms Psa 21 121 4 For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.
16901 Psalms Psa 21 121 5 Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.
16902 Psalms Psa 21 121 6 Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.
16903 Psalms Psa 21 121 7 Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.
16904 Psalms Psa 21 121 8 For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.
16905 Psalms Psa 21 121 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.
16906 Psalms Psa 21 122 1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.
16907 Psalms Psa 21 122 2 Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.
16908 Psalms Psa 21 122 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.
16909 Psalms Psa 21 122 4 For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
16910 Psalms Psa 21 123 1 A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:
16911 Psalms Psa 21 123 2 If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,
16912 Psalms Psa 21 123 3 Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,
16913 Psalms Psa 21 123 4 Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.
16914 Psalms Psa 21 123 5 Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.
16915 Psalms Psa 21 123 6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.
16916 Psalms Psa 21 123 7 Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
16917 Psalms Psa 21 123 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
16918 Psalms Psa 21 124 1 A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth
16919 Psalms Psa 21 124 2 In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.
16920 Psalms Psa 21 124 3 For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.
16921 Psalms Psa 21 124 4 Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.
16922 Psalms Psa 21 124 5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.
16923 Psalms Psa 21 125 1 A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.
16924 Psalms Psa 21 125 2 Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.
16925 Psalms Psa 21 125 3 The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.
16926 Psalms Psa 21 125 4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.
16927 Psalms Psa 21 125 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
16928 Psalms Psa 21 125 6 Going they went and wept, casting their seeds.
16929 Psalms Psa 21 125 7 But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves.
16930 Psalms Psa 21 126 1 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
16931 Psalms Psa 21 126 2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,
16932 Psalms Psa 21 126 3 Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
16933 Psalms Psa 21 126 4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.
16934 Psalms Psa 21 126 5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.
16935 Psalms Psa 21 127 1 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
16936 Psalms Psa 21 127 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.
16937 Psalms Psa 21 127 3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.
16938 Psalms Psa 21 127 4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
16939 Psalms Psa 21 127 5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
16940 Psalms Psa 21 127 6 And mayst thou see thy children’s children, peace upon Israel.
16941 Psalms Psa 21 128 1 A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
16942 Psalms Psa 21 128 2 Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.
16943 Psalms Psa 21 128 3 The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
16944 Psalms Psa 21 128 4 The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
16945 Psalms Psa 21 128 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.
16946 Psalms Psa 21 128 6 Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:
16947 Psalms Psa 21 128 7 Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.
16948 Psalms Psa 21 128 8 And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.
16949 Psalms Psa 21 129 1 A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:
16950 Psalms Psa 21 129 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
16951 Psalms Psa 21 129 3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.
16952 Psalms Psa 21 129 4 For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:
16953 Psalms Psa 21 129 5 my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
16954 Psalms Psa 21 129 6 From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.
16955 Psalms Psa 21 129 7 Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption.
16956 Psalms Psa 21 129 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
16957 Psalms Psa 21 130 1 A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.
16958 Psalms Psa 21 130 2 If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.
16959 Psalms Psa 21 130 3 Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.
16960 Psalms Psa 21 131 1 A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness.
16961 Psalms Psa 21 131 2 How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:
16962 Psalms Psa 21 131 3 If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie:
16963 Psalms Psa 21 131 4 If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
16964 Psalms Psa 21 131 5 Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
16965 Psalms Psa 21 131 6 Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood.
16966 Psalms Psa 21 131 7 We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where his feet stood.
16967 Psalms Psa 21 131 8 Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.
16968 Psalms Psa 21 131 9 Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints rejoice.
16969 Psalms Psa 21 131 10 For thy servant David’s sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed.
16970 Psalms Psa 21 131 11 The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne.
16971 Psalms Psa 21 131 12 If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.
16972 Psalms Psa 21 131 13 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.
16973 Psalms Psa 21 131 14 This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have chosen it.
16974 Psalms Psa 21 131 15 Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16975 Psalms Psa 21 131 16 I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall rejoice with exceeding great joy.
16976 Psalms Psa 21 131 17 There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
16977 Psalms Psa 21 131 18 His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish.
16978 Psalms Psa 21 132 1 A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:
16979 Psalms Psa 21 132 2 Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:
16980 Psalms Psa 21 132 3 As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.
16981 Psalms Psa 21 133 1 A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.
16982 Psalms Psa 21 133 2 In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.
16983 Psalms Psa 21 133 3 May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and earth.
16984 Psalms Psa 21 134 1 Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants, praise the Lord:
16985 Psalms Psa 21 134 2 You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.
16986 Psalms Psa 21 134 3 Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, for it is sweet.
16987 Psalms Psa 21 134 4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own possession.
16988 Psalms Psa 21 134 5 For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all gods.
16989 Psalms Psa 21 134 6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the deeps.
16990 Psalms Psa 21 134 7 He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:
16991 Psalms Psa 21 134 8 He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast.
16992 Psalms Psa 21 134 9 He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt: upon Pharao, and upon all his servants.
16993 Psalms Psa 21 134 10 He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings:
16994 Psalms Psa 21 134 11 Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan.
16995 Psalms Psa 21 134 12 And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to his people Israel.
16996 Psalms Psa 21 134 13 Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all generations.
16997 Psalms Psa 21 134 14 For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in favour of his servants.
16998 Psalms Psa 21 134 15 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men’s hands.
16999 Psalms Psa 21 134 16 They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they see not.
17000 Psalms Psa 21 134 17 They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath in their mouths.
17001 Psalms Psa 21 134 18 Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that trusteth in them.
17002 Psalms Psa 21 134 19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of Aaron.
17003 Psalms Psa 21 134 20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.
17004 Psalms Psa 21 134 21 Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem.
17005 Psalms Psa 21 135 1 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17006 Psalms Psa 21 135 2 Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17007 Psalms Psa 21 135 3 Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17008 Psalms Psa 21 135 4 Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17009 Psalms Psa 21 135 5 Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17010 Psalms Psa 21 135 6 Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17011 Psalms Psa 21 135 7 Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17012 Psalms Psa 21 135 8 The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17013 Psalms Psa 21 135 9 The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17014 Psalms Psa 21 135 10 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17015 Psalms Psa 21 135 11 Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17016 Psalms Psa 21 135 12 With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17017 Psalms Psa 21 135 13 Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17018 Psalms Psa 21 135 14 And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17019 Psalms Psa 21 135 15 And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17020 Psalms Psa 21 135 16 Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17021 Psalms Psa 21 135 17 Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17022 Psalms Psa 21 135 18 And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17023 Psalms Psa 21 135 19 Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17024 Psalms Psa 21 135 20 And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17025 Psalms Psa 21 135 21 And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17026 Psalms Psa 21 135 22 For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17027 Psalms Psa 21 135 23 For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17028 Psalms Psa 21 135 24 And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17029 Psalms Psa 21 135 25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17030 Psalms Psa 21 135 26 Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17031 Psalms Psa 21 135 27 Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17032 Psalms Psa 21 136 1 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
17033 Psalms Psa 21 136 2 On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
17034 Psalms Psa 21 136 3 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
17035 Psalms Psa 21 136 4 How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
17036 Psalms Psa 21 136 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
17037 Psalms Psa 21 136 6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
17038 Psalms Psa 21 136 7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
17039 Psalms Psa 21 136 8 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
17040 Psalms Psa 21 136 9 Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.
17041 Psalms Psa 21 137 1 For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of the angels:
17042 Psalms Psa 21 137 2 I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.
17043 Psalms Psa 21 137 3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.
17044 Psalms Psa 21 137 4 May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.
17045 Psalms Psa 21 137 5 And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
17046 Psalms Psa 21 137 6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.
17047 Psalms Psa 21 137 7 If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.
17048 Psalms Psa 21 137 8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.
17049 Psalms Psa 21 138 1 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
17050 Psalms Psa 21 138 2 Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.
17051 Psalms Psa 21 138 3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
17052 Psalms Psa 21 138 4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
17053 Psalms Psa 21 138 5 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
17054 Psalms Psa 21 138 6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
17055 Psalms Psa 21 138 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
17056 Psalms Psa 21 138 8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
17057 Psalms Psa 21 138 9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
17058 Psalms Psa 21 138 10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
17059 Psalms Psa 21 138 11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
17060 Psalms Psa 21 138 12 But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
17061 Psalms Psa 21 138 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
17062 Psalms Psa 21 138 14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
17063 Psalms Psa 21 138 15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
17064 Psalms Psa 21 138 16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
17065 Psalms Psa 21 138 17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
17066 Psalms Psa 21 138 18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee.
17067 Psalms Psa 21 138 19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
17068 Psalms Psa 21 138 20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
17069 Psalms Psa 21 138 21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?
17070 Psalms Psa 21 138 22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
17071 Psalms Psa 21 138 23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
17072 Psalms Psa 21 138 24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
17073 Psalms Psa 21 139 1 Unto the end, a psalm of David.
17074 Psalms Psa 21 139 2 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
17075 Psalms Psa 21 139 3 Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
17076 Psalms Psa 21 139 4 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.
17077 Psalms Psa 21 139 5 Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:
17078 Psalms Psa 21 139 6 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.
17079 Psalms Psa 21 139 7 I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
17080 Psalms Psa 21 139 8 O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.
17081 Psalms Psa 21 139 9 Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.
17082 Psalms Psa 21 139 10 The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
17083 Psalms Psa 21 139 11 Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
17084 Psalms Psa 21 139 12 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
17085 Psalms Psa 21 139 13 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
17086 Psalms Psa 21 139 14 But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.
17087 Psalms Psa 21 140 1 I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
17088 Psalms Psa 21 140 2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
17089 Psalms Psa 21 140 3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
17090 Psalms Psa 21 140 4 Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.
17091 Psalms Psa 21 140 5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
17092 Psalms Psa 21 140 6 Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:
17093 Psalms Psa 21 140 7 As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.
17094 Psalms Psa 21 140 8 But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
17095 Psalms Psa 21 140 9 Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
17096 Psalms Psa 21 140 10 The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.
17097 Psalms Psa 21 141 1 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 Kings 24.]
17098 Psalms Psa 21 141 2 I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.
17099 Psalms Psa 21 141 3 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:
17100 Psalms Psa 21 141 4 When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.
17101 Psalms Psa 21 141 5 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.
17102 Psalms Psa 21 141 6 I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.
17103 Psalms Psa 21 141 7 Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
17104 Psalms Psa 21 141 8 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.
17105 Psalms Psa 21 142 1 A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Kings 17.] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
17106 Psalms Psa 21 142 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
17107 Psalms Psa 21 142 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:
17108 Psalms Psa 21 142 4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.
17109 Psalms Psa 21 142 5 I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.
17110 Psalms Psa 21 142 6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
17111 Psalms Psa 21 142 7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
17112 Psalms Psa 21 142 8 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.
17113 Psalms Psa 21 142 9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:
17114 Psalms Psa 21 142 10 Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:
17115 Psalms Psa 21 142 11 for thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble:
17116 Psalms Psa 21 142 12 And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
17117 Psalms Psa 21 143 1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
17118 Psalms Psa 21 143 2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
17119 Psalms Psa 21 143 3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
17120 Psalms Psa 21 143 4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
17121 Psalms Psa 21 143 5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
17122 Psalms Psa 21 143 6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
17123 Psalms Psa 21 143 7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
17124 Psalms Psa 21 143 8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
17125 Psalms Psa 21 143 9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
17126 Psalms Psa 21 143 10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
17127 Psalms Psa 21 143 11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
17128 Psalms Psa 21 143 12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
17129 Psalms Psa 21 143 13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
17130 Psalms Psa 21 143 14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
17131 Psalms Psa 21 143 15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
17132 Psalms Psa 21 144 1 Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
17133 Psalms Psa 21 144 2 Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
17134 Psalms Psa 21 144 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.
17135 Psalms Psa 21 144 4 Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.
17136 Psalms Psa 21 144 5 They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.
17137 Psalms Psa 21 144 6 And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness.
17138 Psalms Psa 21 144 7 They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.
17139 Psalms Psa 21 144 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.
17140 Psalms Psa 21 144 9 The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
17141 Psalms Psa 21 144 10 Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.
17142 Psalms Psa 21 144 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power:
17143 Psalms Psa 21 144 12 To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.
17144 Psalms Psa 21 144 13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.
17145 Psalms Psa 21 144 14 The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down.
17146 Psalms Psa 21 144 15 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season.
17147 Psalms Psa 21 144 16 Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.
17148 Psalms Psa 21 144 17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.
17149 Psalms Psa 21 144 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.
17150 Psalms Psa 21 144 19 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.
17151 Psalms Psa 21 144 20 The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.
17152 Psalms Psa 21 144 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.
17153 Psalms Psa 21 145 1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.
17154 Psalms Psa 21 145 2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:
17155 Psalms Psa 21 145 3 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.
17156 Psalms Psa 21 145 4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.
17157 Psalms Psa 21 145 5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
17158 Psalms Psa 21 145 6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.
17159 Psalms Psa 21 145 7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
17160 Psalms Psa 21 145 8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
17161 Psalms Psa 21 145 9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
17162 Psalms Psa 21 145 10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
17163 Psalms Psa 21 146 1 Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.
17164 Psalms Psa 21 146 2 The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
17165 Psalms Psa 21 146 3 Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.
17166 Psalms Psa 21 146 4 Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.
17167 Psalms Psa 21 146 5 Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.
17168 Psalms Psa 21 146 6 The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.
17169 Psalms Psa 21 146 7 Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.
17170 Psalms Psa 21 146 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.
17171 Psalms Psa 21 146 9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.
17172 Psalms Psa 21 146 10 He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.
17173 Psalms Psa 21 146 11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.
17174 Psalms Psa 21 147 12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
17175 Psalms Psa 21 147 13 Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.
17176 Psalms Psa 21 147 14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.
17177 Psalms Psa 21 147 15 Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
17178 Psalms Psa 21 147 16 Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.
17179 Psalms Psa 21 147 17 He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?
17180 Psalms Psa 21 147 18 He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.
17181 Psalms Psa 21 147 19 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.
17182 Psalms Psa 21 147 20 He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.
17183 Psalms Psa 21 148 1 Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places.
17184 Psalms Psa 21 148 2 Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.
17185 Psalms Psa 21 148 3 Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light.
17186 Psalms Psa 21 148 4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens
17187 Psalms Psa 21 148 5 Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created.
17188 Psalms Psa 21 148 6 He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.
17189 Psalms Psa 21 148 7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:
17190 Psalms Psa 21 148 8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:
17191 Psalms Psa 21 148 9 Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:
17192 Psalms Psa 21 148 10 Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:
17193 Psalms Psa 21 148 11 Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth:
17194 Psalms Psa 21 148 12 Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord:
17195 Psalms Psa 21 148 13 For his name alone is exalted.
17196 Psalms Psa 21 148 14 The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.
17197 Psalms Psa 21 149 1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints.
17198 Psalms Psa 21 149 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.
17199 Psalms Psa 21 149 3 Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.
17200 Psalms Psa 21 149 4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
17201 Psalms Psa 21 149 5 The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds.
17202 Psalms Psa 21 149 6 The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:
17203 Psalms Psa 21 149 7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people:
17204 Psalms Psa 21 149 8 To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron.
17205 Psalms Psa 21 149 9 To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.
17206 Psalms Psa 21 150 1 Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.
17207 Psalms Psa 21 150 2 Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness.
17208 Psalms Psa 21 150 3 Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.
17209 Psalms Psa 21 150 4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.
17210 Psalms Psa 21 150 5 Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.
17211 Proverbs Pro 22 1 1 The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
17212 Proverbs Pro 22 1 2 To know wisdom, and instruction:
17213 Proverbs Pro 22 1 3 To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
17214 Proverbs Pro 22 1 4 To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
17215 Proverbs Pro 22 1 5 A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
17216 Proverbs Pro 22 1 6 He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
17217 Proverbs Pro 22 1 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
17218 Proverbs Pro 22 1 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
17219 Proverbs Pro 22 1 9 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
17220 Proverbs Pro 22 1 10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
17221 Proverbs Pro 22 1 11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
17222 Proverbs Pro 22 1 12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
17223 Proverbs Pro 22 1 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
17224 Proverbs Pro 22 1 14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
17225 Proverbs Pro 22 1 15 My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
17226 Proverbs Pro 22 1 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17227 Proverbs Pro 22 1 17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
17228 Proverbs Pro 22 1 18 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
17229 Proverbs Pro 22 1 19 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
17230 Proverbs Pro 22 1 20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
17231 Proverbs Pro 22 1 21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
17232 Proverbs Pro 22 1 22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
17233 Proverbs Pro 22 1 23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
17234 Proverbs Pro 22 1 24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
17235 Proverbs Pro 22 1 25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
17236 Proverbs Pro 22 1 26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
17237 Proverbs Pro 22 1 27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
17238 Proverbs Pro 22 1 28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
17239 Proverbs Pro 22 1 29 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
17240 Proverbs Pro 22 1 30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
17241 Proverbs Pro 22 1 31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
17242 Proverbs Pro 22 1 32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
17243 Proverbs Pro 22 1 33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
17244 Proverbs Pro 22 2 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
17245 Proverbs Pro 22 2 2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.
17246 Proverbs Pro 22 2 3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
17247 Proverbs Pro 22 2 4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
17248 Proverbs Pro 22 2 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:
17249 Proverbs Pro 22 2 6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
17250 Proverbs Pro 22 2 7 He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,
17251 Proverbs Pro 22 2 8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
17252 Proverbs Pro 22 2 9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
17253 Proverbs Pro 22 2 10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
17254 Proverbs Pro 22 2 11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
17255 Proverbs Pro 22 2 12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
17256 Proverbs Pro 22 2 13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
17257 Proverbs Pro 22 2 14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:
17258 Proverbs Pro 22 2 15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
17259 Proverbs Pro 22 2 16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;
17260 Proverbs Pro 22 2 17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
17261 Proverbs Pro 22 2 18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
17262 Proverbs Pro 22 2 19 None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.
17263 Proverbs Pro 22 2 20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
17264 Proverbs Pro 22 2 21 For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.
17265 Proverbs Pro 22 2 22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.
17266 Proverbs Pro 22 3 1 My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.
17267 Proverbs Pro 22 3 2 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.
17268 Proverbs Pro 22 3 3 Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.
17269 Proverbs Pro 22 3 4 And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.
17270 Proverbs Pro 22 3 5 Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.
17271 Proverbs Pro 22 3 6 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.
17272 Proverbs Pro 22 3 7 Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:
17273 Proverbs Pro 22 3 8 For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.
17274 Proverbs Pro 22 3 9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;
17275 Proverbs Pro 22 3 10 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine.
17276 Proverbs Pro 22 3 11 My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him:
17277 Proverbs Pro 22 3 12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.
17278 Proverbs Pro 22 3 13 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:
17279 Proverbs Pro 22 3 14 The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief and purest gold:
17280 Proverbs Pro 22 3 15 She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are desired, are not to be compared to her.
17281 Proverbs Pro 22 3 16 Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory.
17282 Proverbs Pro 22 3 17 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.
17283 Proverbs Pro 22 3 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.
17284 Proverbs Pro 22 3 19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.
17285 Proverbs Pro 22 3 20 By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew.
17286 Proverbs Pro 22 3 21 My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel:
17287 Proverbs Pro 22 3 22 And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.
17288 Proverbs Pro 22 3 23 Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:
17289 Proverbs Pro 22 3 24 If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
17290 Proverbs Pro 22 3 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked falling upon thee.
17291 Proverbs Pro 22 3 26 For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken.
17292 Proverbs Pro 22 3 27 Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.
17293 Proverbs Pro 22 3 28 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.
17294 Proverbs Pro 22 3 29 Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in thee.
17295 Proverbs Pro 22 3 30 Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no evil.
17296 Proverbs Pro 22 3 31 Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways.
17297 Proverbs Pro 22 3 32 For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is with the simple.
17298 Proverbs Pro 22 3 33 Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.
17299 Proverbs Pro 22 3 34 He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.
17300 Proverbs Pro 22 3 35 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.
17301 Proverbs Pro 22 4 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.
17302 Proverbs Pro 22 4 2 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
17303 Proverbs Pro 22 4 3 For I also was my father’s son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
17304 Proverbs Pro 22 4 4 And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
17305 Proverbs Pro 22 4 5 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
17306 Proverbs Pro 22 4 6 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
17307 Proverbs Pro 22 4 7 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
17308 Proverbs Pro 22 4 8 Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
17309 Proverbs Pro 22 4 9 She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
17310 Proverbs Pro 22 4 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
17311 Proverbs Pro 22 4 11 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
17312 Proverbs Pro 22 4 12 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
17313 Proverbs Pro 22 4 13 Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
17314 Proverbs Pro 22 4 14 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
17315 Proverbs Pro 22 4 15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
17316 Proverbs Pro 22 4 16 For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
17317 Proverbs Pro 22 4 17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
17318 Proverbs Pro 22 4 18 But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.
17319 Proverbs Pro 22 4 19 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
17320 Proverbs Pro 22 4 20 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
17321 Proverbs Pro 22 4 21 Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
17322 Proverbs Pro 22 4 22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
17323 Proverbs Pro 22 4 23 With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
17324 Proverbs Pro 22 4 24 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
17325 Proverbs Pro 22 4 25 Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
17326 Proverbs Pro 22 4 26 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
17327 Proverbs Pro 22 4 27 Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
17328 Proverbs Pro 22 5 1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,
17329 Proverbs Pro 22 5 2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
17330 Proverbs Pro 22 5 3 For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
17331 Proverbs Pro 22 5 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
17332 Proverbs Pro 22 5 5 Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
17333 Proverbs Pro 22 5 6 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
17334 Proverbs Pro 22 5 7 Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
17335 Proverbs Pro 22 5 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
17336 Proverbs Pro 22 5 9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
17337 Proverbs Pro 22 5 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
17338 Proverbs Pro 22 5 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
17339 Proverbs Pro 22 5 12 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
17340 Proverbs Pro 22 5 13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
17341 Proverbs Pro 22 5 14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
17342 Proverbs Pro 22 5 15 Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
17343 Proverbs Pro 22 5 16 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
17344 Proverbs Pro 22 5 17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
17345 Proverbs Pro 22 5 18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
17346 Proverbs Pro 22 5 19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.
17347 Proverbs Pro 22 5 20 Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
17348 Proverbs Pro 22 5 21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
17349 Proverbs Pro 22 5 22 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
17350 Proverbs Pro 22 5 23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
17351 Proverbs Pro 22 6 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,
17352 Proverbs Pro 22 6 2 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
17353 Proverbs Pro 22 6 3 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:
17354 Proverbs Pro 22 6 4 Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
17355 Proverbs Pro 22 6 5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
17356 Proverbs Pro 22 6 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
17357 Proverbs Pro 22 6 7 Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,
17358 Proverbs Pro 22 6 8 Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
17359 Proverbs Pro 22 6 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
17360 Proverbs Pro 22 6 10 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:
17361 Proverbs Pro 22 6 11 And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
17362 Proverbs Pro 22 6 12 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
17363 Proverbs Pro 22 6 13 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.
17364 Proverbs Pro 22 6 14 With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.
17365 Proverbs Pro 22 6 15 To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
17366 Proverbs Pro 22 6 16 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:
17367 Proverbs Pro 22 6 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
17368 Proverbs Pro 22 6 18 A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
17369 Proverbs Pro 22 6 19 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
17370 Proverbs Pro 22 6 20 My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
17371 Proverbs Pro 22 6 21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
17372 Proverbs Pro 22 6 22 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.
17373 Proverbs Pro 22 6 23 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
17374 Proverbs Pro 22 6 24 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.
17375 Proverbs Pro 22 6 25 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:
17376 Proverbs Pro 22 6 26 For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
17377 Proverbs Pro 22 6 27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?
17378 Proverbs Pro 22 6 28 Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?
17379 Proverbs Pro 22 6 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
17380 Proverbs Pro 22 6 30 The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:
17381 Proverbs Pro 22 6 31 And if he be taken, he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.
17382 Proverbs Pro 22 6 32 But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
17383 Proverbs Pro 22 6 33 He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:
17384 Proverbs Pro 22 6 34 Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,
17385 Proverbs Pro 22 6 35 Nor will he yield to any man’s prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.
17386 Proverbs Pro 22 7 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
17387 Proverbs Pro 22 7 2 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
17388 Proverbs Pro 22 7 3 Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
17389 Proverbs Pro 22 7 4 Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
17390 Proverbs Pro 22 7 5 That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
17391 Proverbs Pro 22 7 6 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,
17392 Proverbs Pro 22 7 7 And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
17393 Proverbs Pro 22 7 8 Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,
17394 Proverbs Pro 22 7 9 In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.
17395 Proverbs Pro 22 7 10 And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot’s attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering,
17396 Proverbs Pro 22 7 11 Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
17397 Proverbs Pro 22 7 12 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
17398 Proverbs Pro 22 7 13 And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
17399 Proverbs Pro 22 7 14 I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.
17400 Proverbs Pro 22 7 15 Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
17401 Proverbs Pro 22 7 16 I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
17402 Proverbs Pro 22 7 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
17403 Proverbs Pro 22 7 18 Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
17404 Proverbs Pro 22 7 19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
17405 Proverbs Pro 22 7 20 He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.
17406 Proverbs Pro 22 7 21 She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
17407 Proverbs Pro 22 7 22 Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,
17408 Proverbs Pro 22 7 23 Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.
17409 Proverbs Pro 22 7 24 Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
17410 Proverbs Pro 22 7 25 Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.
17411 Proverbs Pro 22 7 26 For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
17412 Proverbs Pro 22 7 27 Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
17413 Proverbs Pro 22 8 1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?
17414 Proverbs Pro 22 8 2 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,
17415 Proverbs Pro 22 8 3 Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
17416 Proverbs Pro 22 8 4 O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
17417 Proverbs Pro 22 8 5 O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.
17418 Proverbs Pro 22 8 6 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
17419 Proverbs Pro 22 8 7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.
17420 Proverbs Pro 22 8 8 All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.
17421 Proverbs Pro 22 8 9 They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
17422 Proverbs Pro 22 8 10 Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.
17423 Proverbs Pro 22 8 11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.
17424 Proverbs Pro 22 8 12 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.
17425 Proverbs Pro 22 8 13 The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
17426 Proverbs Pro 22 8 14 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.
17427 Proverbs Pro 22 8 15 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.
17428 Proverbs Pro 22 8 16 By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.
17429 Proverbs Pro 22 8 17 I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.
17430 Proverbs Pro 22 8 18 With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.
17431 Proverbs Pro 22 8 19 For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
17432 Proverbs Pro 22 8 20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
17433 Proverbs Pro 22 8 21 That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.
17434 Proverbs Pro 22 8 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
17435 Proverbs Pro 22 8 23 I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.
17436 Proverbs Pro 22 8 24 The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.
17437 Proverbs Pro 22 8 25 The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:
17438 Proverbs Pro 22 8 26 He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
17439 Proverbs Pro 22 8 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:
17440 Proverbs Pro 22 8 28 When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
17441 Proverbs Pro 22 8 29 When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;
17442 Proverbs Pro 22 8 30 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;
17443 Proverbs Pro 22 8 31 Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
17444 Proverbs Pro 22 8 32 Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.
17445 Proverbs Pro 22 8 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
17446 Proverbs Pro 22 8 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
17447 Proverbs Pro 22 8 35 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.
17448 Proverbs Pro 22 8 36 But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
17449 Proverbs Pro 22 9 1 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.
17450 Proverbs Pro 22 9 2 She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her table.
17451 Proverbs Pro 22 9 3 She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:
17452 Proverbs Pro 22 9 4 Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise she said:
17453 Proverbs Pro 22 9 5 Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.
17454 Proverbs Pro 22 9 6 Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.
17455 Proverbs Pro 22 9 7 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.
17456 Proverbs Pro 22 9 8 Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
17457 Proverbs Pro 22 9 9 Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.
17458 Proverbs Pro 22 9 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.
17459 Proverbs Pro 22 9 11 For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
17460 Proverbs Pro 22 9 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.
17461 Proverbs Pro 22 9 13 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
17462 Proverbs Pro 22 9 14 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,
17463 Proverbs Pro 22 9 15 To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:
17464 Proverbs Pro 22 9 16 He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said:
17465 Proverbs Pro 22 9 17 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
17466 Proverbs Pro 22 9 18 And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
17467 Proverbs Pro 22 10 1 A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
17468 Proverbs Pro 22 10 2 Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
17469 Proverbs Pro 22 10 3 The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.
17470 Proverbs Pro 22 10 4 The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.
17471 Proverbs Pro 22 10 5 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.
17472 Proverbs Pro 22 10 6 The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked.
17473 Proverbs Pro 22 10 7 The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.
17474 Proverbs Pro 22 10 8 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.
17475 Proverbs Pro 22 10 9 He that walketh sincerely, walketh confidently: but he that perverteth his ways, shall be manifest.
17476 Proverbs Pro 22 10 10 He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.
17477 Proverbs Pro 22 10 11 The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.
17478 Proverbs Pro 22 10 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.
17479 Proverbs Pro 22 10 13 In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.
17480 Proverbs Pro 22 10 14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.
17481 Proverbs Pro 22 10 15 The substance of a rich man is the city of his strength: the fear of the poor is their poverty.
17482 Proverbs Pro 22 10 16 The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.
17483 Proverbs Pro 22 10 17 The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.
17484 Proverbs Pro 22 10 18 Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth reproach, is foolish.
17485 Proverbs Pro 22 10 19 In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips, is most wise.
17486 Proverbs Pro 22 10 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.
17487 Proverbs Pro 22 10 21 The lips of the just teach many: but they that are ignorant, shall die in the want of understanding.
17488 Proverbs Pro 22 10 22 The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them.
17489 Proverbs Pro 22 10 23 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.
17490 Proverbs Pro 22 10 24 That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.
17491 Proverbs Pro 22 10 25 As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.
17492 Proverbs Pro 22 10 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.
17493 Proverbs Pro 22 10 27 The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
17494 Proverbs Pro 22 10 28 The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.
17495 Proverbs Pro 22 10 29 The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.
17496 Proverbs Pro 22 10 30 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.
17497 Proverbs Pro 22 10 31 The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.
17498 Proverbs Pro 22 10 32 The lips of the just consider what is acceptable: and the mouth of the wicked uttereth perverse things.
17499 Proverbs Pro 22 11 1 A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
17500 Proverbs Pro 22 11 2 Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.
17501 Proverbs Pro 22 11 3 The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.
17502 Proverbs Pro 22 11 4 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
17503 Proverbs Pro 22 11 5 The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
17504 Proverbs Pro 22 11 6 The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.
17505 Proverbs Pro 22 11 7 When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.
17506 Proverbs Pro 22 11 8 The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.
17507 Proverbs Pro 22 11 9 The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.
17508 Proverbs Pro 22 11 10 When it goeth well with the just, the city shall rejoice: and when the wicked perish, there shall be praise.
17509 Proverbs Pro 22 11 11 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.
17510 Proverbs Pro 22 11 12 He that despiseth his friend, is mean of heart: but the wise man will hold his peace.
17511 Proverbs Pro 22 11 13 He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth secrets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the thing committed to him by his friend.
17512 Proverbs Pro 22 11 14 Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.
17513 Proverbs Pro 22 11 15 He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.
17514 Proverbs Pro 22 11 16 A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.
17515 Proverbs Pro 22 11 17 A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel casteth off even his own kindred.
17516 Proverbs Pro 22 11 18 The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.
17517 Proverbs Pro 22 11 19 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.
17518 Proverbs Pro 22 11 20 A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.
17519 Proverbs Pro 22 11 21 Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.
17520 Proverbs Pro 22 11 22 A golden ring in a swine’s snout, a woman fair and foolish.
17521 Proverbs Pro 22 11 23 The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.
17522 Proverbs Pro 22 11 24 Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.
17523 Proverbs Pro 22 11 25 The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.
17524 Proverbs Pro 22 11 26 He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.
17525 Proverbs Pro 22 11 27 Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.
17526 Proverbs Pro 22 11 28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.
17527 Proverbs Pro 22 11 29 He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.
17528 Proverbs Pro 22 11 30 The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.
17529 Proverbs Pro 22 11 31 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.
17530 Proverbs Pro 22 12 1 He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.
17531 Proverbs Pro 22 12 2 He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.
17532 Proverbs Pro 22 12 3 Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.
17533 Proverbs Pro 22 12 4 A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.
17534 Proverbs Pro 22 12 5 The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
17535 Proverbs Pro 22 12 6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.
17536 Proverbs Pro 22 12 7 Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.
17537 Proverbs Pro 22 12 8 A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt.
17538 Proverbs Pro 22 12 9 Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.
17539 Proverbs Pro 22 12 10 The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.
17540 Proverbs Pro 22 12 11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.
17541 Proverbs Pro 22 12 12 He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.
17542 Proverbs Pro 22 12 12 The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.
17543 Proverbs Pro 22 12 13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.
17544 Proverbs Pro 22 12 14 By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.
17545 Proverbs Pro 22 12 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.
17546 Proverbs Pro 22 12 16 A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.
17547 Proverbs Pro 22 12 17 He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a deceitful witness.
17548 Proverbs Pro 22 12 18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
17549 Proverbs Pro 22 12 19 The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.
17550 Proverbs Pro 22 12 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that think evil things: but joy followeth them that take counsels of peace.
17551 Proverbs Pro 22 12 21 Whatsoever shall befall the just man, shall not make him sad: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
17552 Proverbs Pro 22 12 22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.
17553 Proverbs Pro 22 12 23 A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools publisheth folly.
17554 Proverbs Pro 22 12 24 The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is slothful shall be under tribute.
17555 Proverbs Pro 22 12 25 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.
17556 Proverbs Pro 22 12 26 He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.
17557 Proverbs Pro 22 12 27 The deceitful man shall not find gain: but the substance of a just man shall be precious gold.
17558 Proverbs Pro 22 12 28 In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to death.
17559 Proverbs Pro 22 13 1 A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father: but he that is a scorner, heareth not when he is reproved.
17560 Proverbs Pro 22 13 2 Of the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.
17561 Proverbs Pro 22 13 3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.
17562 Proverbs Pro 22 13 4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.
17563 Proverbs Pro 22 13 5 The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.
17564 Proverbs Pro 22 13 6 Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
17565 Proverbs Pro 22 13 7 One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.
17566 Proverbs Pro 22 13 8 The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.
17567 Proverbs Pro 22 13 9 The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
17568 Proverbs Pro 22 13 10 Among the proud there are always contentions: but they that do all things with counsel, are ruled by wisdom.
17569 Proverbs Pro 22 13 11 Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.
17570 Proverbs Pro 22 13 12 Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.
17571 Proverbs Pro 22 13 13 Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing, bindeth himself for the time to come: but he that feareth the commandment, shall dwell in peace. Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the just are merciful, and shew mercy.
17572 Proverbs Pro 22 13 14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
17573 Proverbs Pro 22 13 15 Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.
17574 Proverbs Pro 22 13 16 The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.
17575 Proverbs Pro 22 13 17 The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
17576 Proverbs Pro 22 13 18 Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.
17577 Proverbs Pro 22 13 19 The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate them that flee from evil things.
17578 Proverbs Pro 22 13 20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.
17579 Proverbs Pro 22 13 21 Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.
17580 Proverbs Pro 22 13 22 The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.
17581 Proverbs Pro 22 13 23 Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment.
17582 Proverbs Pro 22 13 24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.
17583 Proverbs Pro 22 13 25 The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.
17584 Proverbs Pro 22 14 1 A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.
17585 Proverbs Pro 22 14 2 He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.
17586 Proverbs Pro 22 14 3 In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.
17587 Proverbs Pro 22 14 4 Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.
17588 Proverbs Pro 22 14 5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.
17589 Proverbs Pro 22 14 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.
17590 Proverbs Pro 22 14 7 Go against a foolish man, and he knoweth not the lips of prudence.
17591 Proverbs Pro 22 14 8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.
17592 Proverbs Pro 22 14 9 A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide.
17593 Proverbs Pro 22 14 10 The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.
17594 Proverbs Pro 22 14 11 The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles of the just shall flourish.
17595 Proverbs Pro 22 14 12 There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death.
17596 Proverbs Pro 22 14 13 Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.
17597 Proverbs Pro 22 14 14 A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.
17598 Proverbs Pro 22 14 15 The innocent believeth every word: the discreet man considereth his steps. No good shall come to the deceitful son: but the wise servant shall prosper in his dealings, and his way shall be made straight.
17599 Proverbs Pro 22 14 16 A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over, and is confident.
17600 Proverbs Pro 22 14 17 The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.
17601 Proverbs Pro 22 14 18 The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for knowledge.
17602 Proverbs Pro 22 14 19 The evil shall fall down before the good: and the wicked before the gates of the just.
17603 Proverbs Pro 22 14 20 The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.
17604 Proverbs Pro 22 14 21 He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth mercy.
17605 Proverbs Pro 22 14 22 They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.
17606 Proverbs Pro 22 14 23 In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.
17607 Proverbs Pro 22 14 24 The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools, imprudence.
17608 Proverbs Pro 22 14 25 A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the double dealer uttereth lies.
17609 Proverbs Pro 22 14 26 In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.
17610 Proverbs Pro 22 14 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.
17611 Proverbs Pro 22 14 28 In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of the people the dishonour of the prince.
17612 Proverbs Pro 22 14 29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.
17613 Proverbs Pro 22 14 30 Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
17614 Proverbs Pro 22 14 31 He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor, honoureth him.
17615 Proverbs Pro 22 14 32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.
17616 Proverbs Pro 22 14 33 In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant.
17617 Proverbs Pro 22 14 34 Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.
17618 Proverbs Pro 22 14 35 A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.
17619 Proverbs Pro 22 15 1 A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.
17620 Proverbs Pro 22 15 2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.
17621 Proverbs Pro 22 15 3 The eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.
17622 Proverbs Pro 22 15 4 A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
17623 Proverbs Pro 22 15 5 A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.
17624 Proverbs Pro 22 15 6 The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.
17625 Proverbs Pro 22 15 7 The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
17626 Proverbs Pro 22 15 8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.
17627 Proverbs Pro 22 15 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.
17628 Proverbs Pro 22 15 10 Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.
17629 Proverbs Pro 22 15 11 Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?
17630 Proverbs Pro 22 15 12 A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.
17631 Proverbs Pro 22 15 13 A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast down.
17632 Proverbs Pro 22 15 14 The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
17633 Proverbs Pro 22 15 15 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a continual feast.
17634 Proverbs Pro 22 15 16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.
17635 Proverbs Pro 22 15 17 It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
17636 Proverbs Pro 22 15 18 A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.
17637 Proverbs Pro 22 15 19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.
17638 Proverbs Pro 22 15 20 A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother.
17639 Proverbs Pro 22 15 21 Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps.
17640 Proverbs Pro 22 15 22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
17641 Proverbs Pro 22 15 23 A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.
17642 Proverbs Pro 22 15 24 The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.
17643 Proverbs Pro 22 15 25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.
17644 Proverbs Pro 22 15 26 Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be confirmed by him.
17645 Proverbs Pro 22 15 27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.
17646 Proverbs Pro 22 15 28 The mind of the just studieth obedience: the mouth of the wicked overfloweth with evils.
17647 Proverbs Pro 22 15 29 The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.
17648 Proverbs Pro 22 15 30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name maketh the bones fat.
17649 Proverbs Pro 22 15 31 The ear that heareth the reproofs of life, shall abide in the midst of the wise.
17650 Proverbs Pro 22 15 32 He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.
17651 Proverbs Pro 22 15 33 The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.
17652 Proverbs Pro 22 16 1 It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.
17653 Proverbs Pro 22 16 2 All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.
17654 Proverbs Pro 22 16 3 Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.
17655 Proverbs Pro 22 16 4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.
17656 Proverbs Pro 22 16 5 Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice: and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.
17657 Proverbs Pro 22 16 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
17658 Proverbs Pro 22 16 7 When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
17659 Proverbs Pro 22 16 8 Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
17660 Proverbs Pro 22 16 9 The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.
17661 Proverbs Pro 22 16 10 Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
17662 Proverbs Pro 22 16 11 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
17663 Proverbs Pro 22 16 12 They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.
17664 Proverbs Pro 22 16 13 Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved.
17665 Proverbs Pro 22 16 14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.
17666 Proverbs Pro 22 16 15 In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.
17667 Proverbs Pro 22 16 16 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.
17668 Proverbs Pro 22 16 17 The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.
17669 Proverbs Pro 22 16 18 Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.
17670 Proverbs Pro 22 16 19 It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
17671 Proverbs Pro 22 16 20 The learned in word shall find good things: and he that trusteth in the Lord is blessed.
17672 Proverbs Pro 22 16 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things.
17673 Proverbs Pro 22 16 22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.
17674 Proverbs Pro 22 16 23 The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.
17675 Proverbs Pro 22 16 24 Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
17676 Proverbs Pro 22 16 25 There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.
17677 Proverbs Pro 22 16 26 The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.
17678 Proverbs Pro 22 16 27 The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.
17679 Proverbs Pro 22 16 28 A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.
17680 Proverbs Pro 22 16 29 An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good.
17681 Proverbs Pro 22 16 30 He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips, bringeth evil to pass.
17682 Proverbs Pro 22 16 31 Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
17683 Proverbs Pro 22 16 32 The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.
17684 Proverbs Pro 22 16 33 Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.
17685 Proverbs Pro 22 17 1 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
17686 Proverbs Pro 22 17 2 A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.
17687 Proverbs Pro 22 17 3 As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.
17688 Proverbs Pro 22 17 4 The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.
17689 Proverbs Pro 22 17 5 He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man’s ruin, shall not be unpunished.
17690 Proverbs Pro 22 17 6 Children’s children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
17691 Proverbs Pro 22 17 7 Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
17692 Proverbs Pro 22 17 8 The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.
17693 Proverbs Pro 22 17 9 He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.
17694 Proverbs Pro 22 17 10 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.
17695 Proverbs Pro 22 17 11 An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.
17696 Proverbs Pro 22 17 12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
17697 Proverbs Pro 22 17 13 He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
17698 Proverbs Pro 22 17 14 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.
17699 Proverbs Pro 22 17 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.
17700 Proverbs Pro 22 17 16 What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.
17701 Proverbs Pro 22 17 17 He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.
17702 Proverbs Pro 22 17 18 A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.
17703 Proverbs Pro 22 17 19 He that studieth discords, loveth quarrels: and he that exalteth his door, seeketh ruin.
17704 Proverbs Pro 22 17 20 He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.
17705 Proverbs Pro 22 17 21 A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.
17706 Proverbs Pro 22 17 22 A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.
17707 Proverbs Pro 22 17 23 The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.
17708 Proverbs Pro 22 17 24 Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.
17709 Proverbs Pro 22 17 25 A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
17710 Proverbs Pro 22 17 26 It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.
17711 Proverbs Pro 22 17 27 He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and the man of understanding is of a precious spirit.
17712 Proverbs Pro 22 17 28 Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man of understanding.
17713 Proverbs Pro 22 18 1 He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.
17714 Proverbs Pro 22 18 2 A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart.
17715 Proverbs Pro 22 18 3 The wicked man, when he is come into the depth of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.
17716 Proverbs Pro 22 18 4 Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.
17717 Proverbs Pro 22 18 5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.
17718 Proverbs Pro 22 18 6 The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.
17719 Proverbs Pro 22 18 7 The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
17720 Proverbs Pro 22 18 8 The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.
17721 Proverbs Pro 22 18 9 He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.
17722 Proverbs Pro 22 18 10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.
17723 Proverbs Pro 22 18 11 The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.
17724 Proverbs Pro 22 18 12 Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.
17725 Proverbs Pro 22 18 13 He that answereth before he heareth, sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion.
17726 Proverbs Pro 22 18 14 The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?
17727 Proverbs Pro 22 18 15 A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh instruction.
17728 Proverbs Pro 22 18 16 A man’s gift enlargeth his way, and maketh him room before princes.
17729 Proverbs Pro 22 18 17 The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.
17730 Proverbs Pro 22 18 18 The lot suppresseth contentions, and determineth even between the mighty.
17731 Proverbs Pro 22 18 19 A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.
17732 Proverbs Pro 22 18 20 Of the fruit of a man’s mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him.
17733 Proverbs Pro 22 18 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.
17734 Proverbs Pro 22 18 22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.
17735 Proverbs Pro 22 18 23 The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.
17736 Proverbs Pro 22 18 24 A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.
17737 Proverbs Pro 22 19 1 Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.
17738 Proverbs Pro 22 19 2 Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.
17739 Proverbs Pro 22 19 3 The folly of a man supplanteth his steps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.
17740 Proverbs Pro 22 19 4 Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
17741 Proverbs Pro 22 19 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape.
17742 Proverbs Pro 22 19 6 Many honour the person of him that is mighty, and are friends of him that giveth gifts.
17743 Proverbs Pro 22 19 7 The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.
17744 Proverbs Pro 22 19 8 But he that possesseth a mind, loveth his own soul, and he that keepeth prudence, shall find good things.
17745 Proverbs Pro 22 19 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
17746 Proverbs Pro 22 19 10 Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.
17747 Proverbs Pro 22 19 11 The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.
17748 Proverbs Pro 22 19 12 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.
17749 Proverbs Pro 22 19 13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
17750 Proverbs Pro 22 19 14 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
17751 Proverbs Pro 22 19 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
17752 Proverbs Pro 22 19 16 He that keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul: but he that neglecteth his own way, shall die.
17753 Proverbs Pro 22 19 17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.
17754 Proverbs Pro 22 19 18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.
17755 Proverbs Pro 22 19 19 He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing.
17756 Proverbs Pro 22 19 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
17757 Proverbs Pro 22 19 21 There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
17758 Proverbs Pro 22 19 22 A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.
17759 Proverbs Pro 22 19 23 The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.
17760 Proverbs Pro 22 19 24 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.
17761 Proverbs Pro 22 19 25 The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.
17762 Proverbs Pro 22 19 26 He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.
17763 Proverbs Pro 22 19 27 Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.
17764 Proverbs Pro 22 19 28 An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
17765 Proverbs Pro 22 19 29 Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.
17766 Proverbs Pro 22 20 1 Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.
17767 Proverbs Pro 22 20 2 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.
17768 Proverbs Pro 22 20 3 It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.
17769 Proverbs Pro 22 20 4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
17770 Proverbs Pro 22 20 5 Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.
17771 Proverbs Pro 22 20 6 Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?
17772 Proverbs Pro 22 20 7 The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.
17773 Proverbs Pro 22 20 8 The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look.
17774 Proverbs Pro 22 20 9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
17775 Proverbs Pro 22 20 10 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
17776 Proverbs Pro 22 20 11 By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.
17777 Proverbs Pro 22 20 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.
17778 Proverbs Pro 22 20 13 Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
17779 Proverbs Pro 22 20 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
17780 Proverbs Pro 22 20 15 There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
17781 Proverbs Pro 22 20 16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.
17782 Proverbs Pro 22 20 17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
17783 Proverbs Pro 22 20 18 Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.
17784 Proverbs Pro 22 20 19 Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.
17785 Proverbs Pro 22 20 20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
17786 Proverbs Pro 22 20 21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
17787 Proverbs Pro 22 20 22 Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.
17788 Proverbs Pro 22 20 23 Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.
17789 Proverbs Pro 22 20 24 The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?
17790 Proverbs Pro 22 20 25 It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.
17791 Proverbs Pro 22 20 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.
17792 Proverbs Pro 22 20 27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.
17793 Proverbs Pro 22 20 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.
17794 Proverbs Pro 22 20 29 The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.
17795 Proverbs Pro 22 20 30 The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
17796 Proverbs Pro 22 21 1 As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.
17797 Proverbs Pro 22 21 2 Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.
17798 Proverbs Pro 22 21 3 To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
17799 Proverbs Pro 22 21 4 Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
17800 Proverbs Pro 22 21 5 The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.
17801 Proverbs Pro 22 21 6 He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
17802 Proverbs Pro 22 21 7 The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
17803 Proverbs Pro 22 21 8 The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
17804 Proverbs Pro 22 21 9 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
17805 Proverbs Pro 22 21 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.
17806 Proverbs Pro 22 21 11 When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.
17807 Proverbs Pro 22 21 12 The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.
17808 Proverbs Pro 22 21 13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.
17809 Proverbs Pro 22 21 14 A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.
17810 Proverbs Pro 22 21 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.
17811 Proverbs Pro 22 21 16 A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.
17812 Proverbs Pro 22 21 17 He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.
17813 Proverbs Pro 22 21 18 The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
17814 Proverbs Pro 22 21 19 It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
17815 Proverbs Pro 22 21 20 There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.
17816 Proverbs Pro 22 21 21 He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.
17817 Proverbs Pro 22 21 22 The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.
17818 Proverbs Pro 22 21 23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.
17819 Proverbs Pro 22 21 24 The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.
17820 Proverbs Pro 22 21 25 Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.
17821 Proverbs Pro 22 21 26 He longeth and desireth all the day: but he that is just, will give, and will not cease.
17822 Proverbs Pro 22 21 27 The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.
17823 Proverbs Pro 22 21 28 A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak of victory.
17824 Proverbs Pro 22 21 29 The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.
17825 Proverbs Pro 22 21 30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.
17826 Proverbs Pro 22 21 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle: but the Lord giveth safety.
17827 Proverbs Pro 22 22 1 A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.
17828 Proverbs Pro 22 22 2 The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.
17829 Proverbs Pro 22 22 3 The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.
17830 Proverbs Pro 22 22 4 The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.
17831 Proverbs Pro 22 22 5 Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.
17832 Proverbs Pro 22 22 6 It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
17833 Proverbs Pro 22 22 7 The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
17834 Proverbs Pro 22 22 8 He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
17835 Proverbs Pro 22 22 9 He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.
17836 Proverbs Pro 22 22 10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
17837 Proverbs Pro 22 22 11 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.
17838 Proverbs Pro 22 22 12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.
17839 Proverbs Pro 22 22 13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.
17840 Proverbs Pro 22 22 14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
17841 Proverbs Pro 22 22 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
17842 Proverbs Pro 22 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.
17843 Proverbs Pro 22 22 17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:
17844 Proverbs Pro 22 22 18 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
17845 Proverbs Pro 22 22 19 That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.
17846 Proverbs Pro 22 22 20 Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:
17847 Proverbs Pro 22 22 21 That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.
17848 Proverbs Pro 22 22 22 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
17849 Proverbs Pro 22 22 23 Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.
17850 Proverbs Pro 22 22 24 Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:
17851 Proverbs Pro 22 22 25 Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
17852 Proverbs Pro 22 22 26 Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
17853 Proverbs Pro 22 22 27 For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?
17854 Proverbs Pro 22 22 28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.
17855 Proverbs Pro 22 22 29 Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.
17856 Proverbs Pro 22 23 1 When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:
17857 Proverbs Pro 22 23 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
17858 Proverbs Pro 22 23 3 Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
17859 Proverbs Pro 22 23 4 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
17860 Proverbs Pro 22 23 5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
17861 Proverbs Pro 22 23 6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
17862 Proverbs Pro 22 23 7 Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
17863 Proverbs Pro 22 23 8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
17864 Proverbs Pro 22 23 9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
17865 Proverbs Pro 22 23 10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
17866 Proverbs Pro 22 23 11 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
17867 Proverbs Pro 22 23 12 Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.
17868 Proverbs Pro 22 23 13 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
17869 Proverbs Pro 22 23 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
17870 Proverbs Pro 22 23 15 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
17871 Proverbs Pro 22 23 16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
17872 Proverbs Pro 22 23 17 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
17873 Proverbs Pro 22 23 18 Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
17874 Proverbs Pro 22 23 19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
17875 Proverbs Pro 22 23 20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
17876 Proverbs Pro 22 23 21 Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
17877 Proverbs Pro 22 23 22 Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
17878 Proverbs Pro 22 23 23 Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
17879 Proverbs Pro 22 23 24 The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
17880 Proverbs Pro 22 23 25 Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
17881 Proverbs Pro 22 23 26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
17882 Proverbs Pro 22 23 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
17883 Proverbs Pro 22 23 28 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
17884 Proverbs Pro 22 23 29 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
17885 Proverbs Pro 22 23 30 Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.
17886 Proverbs Pro 22 23 31 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
17887 Proverbs Pro 22 23 32 But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
17888 Proverbs Pro 22 23 33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
17889 Proverbs Pro 22 23 34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.
17890 Proverbs Pro 22 23 35 And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?
17891 Proverbs Pro 22 24 1 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:
17892 Proverbs Pro 22 24 2 Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
17893 Proverbs Pro 22 24 3 By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
17894 Proverbs Pro 22 24 4 By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
17895 Proverbs Pro 22 24 5 A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.
17896 Proverbs Pro 22 24 6 Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
17897 Proverbs Pro 22 24 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
17898 Proverbs Pro 22 24 8 He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.
17899 Proverbs Pro 22 24 9 The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.
17900 Proverbs Pro 22 24 10 If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
17901 Proverbs Pro 22 24 11 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver.
17902 Proverbs Pro 22 24 12 If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.
17903 Proverbs Pro 22 24 13 Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
17904 Proverbs Pro 22 24 14 So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.
17905 Proverbs Pro 22 24 15 Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
17906 Proverbs Pro 22 24 16 For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
17907 Proverbs Pro 22 24 17 When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:
17908 Proverbs Pro 22 24 18 Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
17909 Proverbs Pro 22 24 19 Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.
17910 Proverbs Pro 22 24 20 For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
17911 Proverbs Pro 22 24 21 My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with detractors.
17912 Proverbs Pro 22 24 22 For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
17913 Proverbs Pro 22 24 23 These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
17914 Proverbs Pro 22 24 24 They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
17915 Proverbs Pro 22 24 25 They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
17916 Proverbs Pro 22 24 26 He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
17917 Proverbs Pro 22 24 27 Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
17918 Proverbs Pro 22 24 28 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
17919 Proverbs Pro 22 24 29 Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
17920 Proverbs Pro 22 24 30 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
17921 Proverbs Pro 22 24 31 And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
17922 Proverbs Pro 22 24 32 Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
17923 Proverbs Pro 22 24 33 Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.
17924 Proverbs Pro 22 24 34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
17925 Proverbs Pro 22 25 1 These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.
17926 Proverbs Pro 22 25 2 It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.
17927 Proverbs Pro 22 25 3 The heaven above and the earth beneath, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
17928 Proverbs Pro 22 25 4 Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most pure vessel:
17929 Proverbs Pro 22 25 5 Take away wickedness from the face of the king, and his throne shall be established with justice.
17930 Proverbs Pro 22 25 6 Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place of great men.
17931 Proverbs Pro 22 25 7 For it is better that it should be said to thee: Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be humbled before the prince.
17932 Proverbs Pro 22 25 8 The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.
17933 Proverbs Pro 22 25 9 Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:
17934 Proverbs Pro 22 25 10 Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thyself, lest thou fall under reproach.
17935 Proverbs Pro 22 25 11 To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
17936 Proverbs Pro 22 25 12 As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.
17937 Proverbs Pro 22 25 13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him, for he refresheth his soul.
17938 Proverbs Pro 22 25 14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.
17939 Proverbs Pro 22 25 15 By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
17940 Proverbs Pro 22 25 16 Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
17941 Proverbs Pro 22 25 17 Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.
17942 Proverbs Pro 22 25 18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.
17943 Proverbs Pro 22 25 19 To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,
17944 Proverbs Pro 22 25 20 And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.
17945 Proverbs Pro 22 25 21 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:
17946 Proverbs Pro 22 25 22 For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will reward thee.
17947 Proverbs Pro 22 25 23 The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.
17948 Proverbs Pro 22 25 24 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
17949 Proverbs Pro 22 25 25 As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far country.
17950 Proverbs Pro 22 25 26 A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a corrupted spring.
17951 Proverbs Pro 22 25 27 As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.
17952 Proverbs Pro 22 25 28 As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.
17953 Proverbs Pro 22 26 1 As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool.
17954 Proverbs Pro 22 26 2 As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.
17955 Proverbs Pro 22 26 3 A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
17956 Proverbs Pro 22 26 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.
17957 Proverbs Pro 22 26 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to be wise.
17958 Proverbs Pro 22 26 6 He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.
17959 Proverbs Pro 22 26 7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
17960 Proverbs Pro 22 26 8 As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
17961 Proverbs Pro 22 26 9 As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
17962 Proverbs Pro 22 26 10 Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.
17963 Proverbs Pro 22 26 11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.
17964 Proverbs Pro 22 26 12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.
17965 Proverbs Pro 22 26 13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.
17966 Proverbs Pro 22 26 14 As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
17967 Proverbs Pro 22 26 15 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.
17968 Proverbs Pro 22 26 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.
17969 Proverbs Pro 22 26 17 As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so is he that passeth by in anger, and meddleth with another man’s quarrel.
17970 Proverbs Pro 22 26 18 As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.
17971 Proverbs Pro 22 26 19 So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.
17972 Proverbs Pro 22 26 20 When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
17973 Proverbs Pro 22 26 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife.
17974 Proverbs Pro 22 26 22 The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.
17975 Proverbs Pro 22 26 23 Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.
17976 Proverbs Pro 22 26 24 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.
17977 Proverbs Pro 22 26 25 When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.
17978 Proverbs Pro 22 26 26 He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.
17979 Proverbs Pro 22 26 27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.
17980 Proverbs Pro 22 26 28 A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.
17981 Proverbs Pro 22 27 1 Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.
17982 Proverbs Pro 22 27 2 Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
17983 Proverbs Pro 22 27 3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
17984 Proverbs Pro 22 27 4 Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
17985 Proverbs Pro 22 27 5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
17986 Proverbs Pro 22 27 6 Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
17987 Proverbs Pro 22 27 7 A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.
17988 Proverbs Pro 22 27 8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.
17989 Proverbs Pro 22 27 9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
17990 Proverbs Pro 22 27 10 Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off.
17991 Proverbs Pro 22 27 11 Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
17992 Proverbs Pro 22 27 12 The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
17993 Proverbs Pro 22 27 13 Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
17994 Proverbs Pro 22 27 14 He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
17995 Proverbs Pro 22 27 15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
17996 Proverbs Pro 22 27 16 He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right hand.
17997 Proverbs Pro 22 27 17 Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
17998 Proverbs Pro 22 27 18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.
17999 Proverbs Pro 22 27 19 As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
18000 Proverbs Pro 22 27 20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.
18001 Proverbs Pro 22 27 21 As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.
18002 Proverbs Pro 22 27 22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
18003 Proverbs Pro 22 27 23 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks:
18004 Proverbs Pro 22 27 24 For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
18005 Proverbs Pro 22 27 25 The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered out of the mountains.
18006 Proverbs Pro 22 27 26 Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.
18007 Proverbs Pro 22 27 27 Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
18008 Proverbs Pro 22 28 1 The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.
18009 Proverbs Pro 22 28 2 For the sins of the land many are the princes thereof: and for the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the prince shall be prolonged.
18010 Proverbs Pro 22 28 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.
18011 Proverbs Pro 22 28 4 They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.
18012 Proverbs Pro 22 28 5 Evil men think not on judgment: but they that seek after the Lord, take notice of all things.
18013 Proverbs Pro 22 28 6 Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.
18014 Proverbs Pro 22 28 7 He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.
18015 Proverbs Pro 22 28 8 He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.
18016 Proverbs Pro 22 28 9 He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.
18017 Proverbs Pro 22 28 10 He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.
18018 Proverbs Pro 22 28 11 The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but the poor man that is prudent shall search him out.
18019 Proverbs Pro 22 28 12 In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.
18020 Proverbs Pro 22 28 13 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.
18021 Proverbs Pro 22 28 14 Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into evil.
18022 Proverbs Pro 22 28 15 As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.
18023 Proverbs Pro 22 28 16 A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days.
18024 Proverbs Pro 22 28 17 A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
18025 Proverbs Pro 22 28 18 He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.
18026 Proverbs Pro 22 28 19 He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.
18027 Proverbs Pro 22 28 20 A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.
18028 Proverbs Pro 22 28 21 He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.
18029 Proverbs Pro 22 28 22 A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.
18030 Proverbs Pro 22 28 23 He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.
18031 Proverbs Pro 22 28 24 He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer.
18032 Proverbs Pro 22 28 26 He that boasteth and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.
18033 Proverbs Pro 22 28 26 He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.
18034 Proverbs Pro 22 28 27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.
18035 Proverbs Pro 22 28 28 When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the just shall be multiplied.
18036 Proverbs Pro 22 29 1 The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.
18037 Proverbs Pro 22 29 2 When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.
18038 Proverbs Pro 22 29 3 A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.
18039 Proverbs Pro 22 29 4 A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it.
18040 Proverbs Pro 22 29 5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.
18041 Proverbs Pro 22 29 6 A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.
18042 Proverbs Pro 22 29 7 The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.
18043 Proverbs Pro 22 29 8 Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.
18044 Proverbs Pro 22 29 9 If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.
18045 Proverbs Pro 22 29 10 Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.
18046 Proverbs Pro 22 29 11 A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.
18047 Proverbs Pro 22 29 12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.
18048 Proverbs Pro 22 29 13 The poor man and the creditor have met one another: the Lord is the enlightener of them both.
18049 Proverbs Pro 22 29 14 The king that judgeth the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for ever.
18050 Proverbs Pro 22 29 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.
18051 Proverbs Pro 22 29 16 When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.
18052 Proverbs Pro 22 29 17 Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul.
18053 Proverbs Pro 22 29 18 When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.
18054 Proverbs Pro 22 29 19 A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.
18055 Proverbs Pro 22 29 20 Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.
18056 Proverbs Pro 22 29 21 He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.
18057 Proverbs Pro 22 29 22 A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.
18058 Proverbs Pro 22 29 23 Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.
18059 Proverbs Pro 22 29 24 He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.
18060 Proverbs Pro 22 29 25 He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.
18061 Proverbs Pro 22 29 26 Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord.
18062 Proverbs Pro 22 29 27 The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.
18063 Proverbs Pro 22 30 1 The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the man spoke, with whom God is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding with him, said:
18064 Proverbs Pro 22 30 2 I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
18065 Proverbs Pro 22 30 3 I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.
18066 Proverbs Pro 22 30 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?
18067 Proverbs Pro 22 30 5 Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
18068 Proverbs Pro 22 30 6 Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:
18069 Proverbs Pro 22 30 7 Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.
18070 Proverbs Pro 22 30 8 Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
18071 Proverbs Pro 22 30 9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.
18072 Proverbs Pro 22 30 10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.
18073 Proverbs Pro 22 30 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
18074 Proverbs Pro 22 30 12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
18075 Proverbs Pro 22 30 13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
18076 Proverbs Pro 22 30 14 A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.
18077 Proverbs Pro 22 30 15 The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.
18078 Proverbs Pro 22 30 16 Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.
18079 Proverbs Pro 22 30 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
18080 Proverbs Pro 22 30 18 Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
18081 Proverbs Pro 22 30 19 The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.
18082 Proverbs Pro 22 30 20 Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
18083 Proverbs Pro 22 30 21 By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.
18084 Proverbs Pro 22 30 22 By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:
18085 Proverbs Pro 22 30 23 By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
18086 Proverbs Pro 22 30 24 There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.
18087 Proverbs Pro 22 30 25 The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
18088 Proverbs Pro 22 30 26 The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:
18089 Proverbs Pro 22 30 27 The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands:
18090 Proverbs Pro 22 30 28 The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings’ houses.
18091 Proverbs Pro 22 30 19 There are three things, which go well, and the fourth that walketh happily:
18092 Proverbs Pro 22 30 30 A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of any thing he meeteth:
18093 Proverbs Pro 22 30 31 A cock girded about the loins: and a ram: and a king, whom none can resist.
18094 Proverbs Pro 22 30 32 There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.
18095 Proverbs Pro 22 30 33 And he that strongly squeezeth the paps to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth out blood: and he that provoketh wrath, bringeth forth strife.
18096 Proverbs Pro 22 31 1 The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him.
18097 Proverbs Pro 22 31 2 What, O my beloved, what, O the beloved of my womb, what, O the beloved of my vows?
18098 Proverbs Pro 22 31 3 Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings.
18099 Proverbs Pro 22 31 4 Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:
18100 Proverbs Pro 22 31 5 And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.
18101 Proverbs Pro 22 31 6 Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:
18102 Proverbs Pro 22 31 7 Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more.
18103 Proverbs Pro 22 31 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.
18104 Proverbs Pro 22 31 9 Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.
18105 Proverbs Pro 22 31 10 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
18106 Proverbs Pro 22 31 11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.
18107 Proverbs Pro 22 31 12 She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.
18108 Proverbs Pro 22 31 13 She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.
18109 Proverbs Pro 22 31 14 She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar.
18110 Proverbs Pro 22 31 15 And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.
18111 Proverbs Pro 22 31 16 She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.
18112 Proverbs Pro 22 31 17 She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.
18113 Proverbs Pro 22 31 18 She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night.
18114 Proverbs Pro 22 31 19 She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.
18115 Proverbs Pro 22 31 20 She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor.
18116 Proverbs Pro 22 31 21 She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments.
18117 Proverbs Pro 22 31 22 She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering.
18118 Proverbs Pro 22 31 23 Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.
18119 Proverbs Pro 22 31 24 She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.
18120 Proverbs Pro 22 31 25 Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.
18121 Proverbs Pro 22 31 26 She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.
18122 Proverbs Pro 22 31 27 She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.
18123 Proverbs Pro 22 31 28 Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.
18124 Proverbs Pro 22 31 29 Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all.
18125 Proverbs Pro 22 31 30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
18126 Proverbs Pro 22 31 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.
18127 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 1 The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.
18128 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 2 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.
18129 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 3 What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
18130 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.
18131 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 5 The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,
18132 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 6 Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.
18133 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.
18134 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 8 All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
18135 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 9 What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.
18136 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 10 Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.
18137 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 11 There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.
18138 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 12 I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem,
18139 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 13 And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.
18140 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 14 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
18141 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 15 The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
18142 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 16 I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and have gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and my mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.
18143 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 17 And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,
18144 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 1 18 Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.
18145 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 1 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
18146 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 2 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
18147 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 3 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
18148 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 4 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
18149 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 5 I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
18150 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 6 And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,
18151 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 7 I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:
18152 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:
18153 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 9 And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.
18154 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
18155 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
18156 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 12 I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)
18157 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 13 And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
18158 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 14 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
18159 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
18160 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
18161 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 17 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
18162 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 18 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
18163 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?
18164 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 20 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.
18165 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 21 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
18166 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
18167 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 23 All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
18168 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 24 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
18169 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 25 Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
18170 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 2 26 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.
18171 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
18172 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
18173 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
18174 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
18175 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
18176 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
18177 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
18178 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
18179 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 9 What hath man more of his labour?
18180 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
18181 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
18182 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
18183 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
18184 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.
18185 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
18186 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
18187 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 17 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
18188 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
18189 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.
18190 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
18191 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
18192 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 3 22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?
18193 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 1 I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.
18194 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 2 And I praised the dead rather than the living:
18195 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 3 And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.
18196 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 4 Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.
18197 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh, saying:
18198 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 6 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.
18199 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 7 Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:
18200 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 8 There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.
18201 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 9 It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society:
18202 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 10 If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up.
18203 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 11 And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?
18204 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 12 And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.
18205 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 13 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
18206 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 14 Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.
18207 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 15 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.
18208 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 16 The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
18209 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 4 17 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.
18210 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 1 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
18211 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 2 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
18212 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 3 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.
18213 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 4 And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
18214 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 5 Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
18215 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 6 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.
18216 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 7 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
18217 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 8 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
18218 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 9 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
18219 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 10 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
18220 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 11 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
18221 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 12 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
18222 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 13 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
18223 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 14 As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
18224 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 15 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
18225 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 16 All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
18226 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 17 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
18227 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 18 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
18228 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 5 19 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight.
18229 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
18230 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
18231 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
18232 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
18233 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
18234 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
18235 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
18236 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 8 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
18237 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
18238 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
18239 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 6 11 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
18240 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 1 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
18241 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 2 A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
18242 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 3 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.
18243 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 4 Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.
18244 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 5 The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.
18245 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 6 It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.
18246 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 7 For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.
18247 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 8 Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.
18248 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 9 Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
18249 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 10 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
18250 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 11 Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
18251 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 12 Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
18252 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 13 For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.
18253 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 14 Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
18254 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 15 In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
18255 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 16 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.
18256 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 17 Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.
18257 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 18 Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.
18258 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 19 It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.
18259 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 20 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
18260 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 21 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
18261 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 22 But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
18262 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 23 For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.
18263 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 24 I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
18264 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 25 Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
18265 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 26 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
18266 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 27 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter’s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
18267 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 28 Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
18268 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 29 Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
18269 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 7 30 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?
18270 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 1 The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.
18271 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 2 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.
18272 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 3 Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:
18273 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 4 And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?
18274 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 5 He that keepeth the commandment, shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.
18275 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 6 There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:
18276 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 7 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.
18277 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 8 It is not in man’s power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
18278 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 9 All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
18279 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.
18280 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
18281 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 12 But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.
18282 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.
18283 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 14 There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
18284 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 15 Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.
18285 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 16 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.
18286 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 8 17 And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.
18287 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 1 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:
18288 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 2 But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.
18289 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 3 This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.
18290 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 4 There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.
18291 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.
18292 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 6 Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
18293 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
18294 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 8 At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.
18295 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.
18296 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
18297 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.
18298 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.
18299 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 13 This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:
18300 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 14 A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
18301 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 15 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.
18302 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 16 And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
18303 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 17 The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.
18304 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 9 18 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.
18305 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 1 Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.
18306 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 2 The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand.
18307 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 3 Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.
18308 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 4 If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.
18309 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 5 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:
18310 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 6 A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.
18311 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 7 I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.
18312 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 8 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
18313 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 9 He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them.
18314 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 10 If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom.
18315 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 11 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.
18316 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 12 The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.
18317 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 13 The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.
18318 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 14 A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
18319 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 15 The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.
18320 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.
18321 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 17 Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
18322 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 18 By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.
18323 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 19 For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.
18324 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 10 20 Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.
18325 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 1 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.
18326 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
18327 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 3 If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be.
18328 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 4 He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.
18329 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.
18330 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better.
18331 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 7 The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun.
18332 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 8 If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.
18333 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 9 Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.
18334 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 11 10 Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain.
18335 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 1 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:
18336 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 2 Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:
18337 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 3 When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:
18338 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 4 And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder’s voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf.
18339 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.
18340 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 6 Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,
18341 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.
18342 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 8 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.
18343 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 9 And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he taught the people, and declared the things that he had done: and seeking out, he set forth many parables.
18344 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 10 He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full of truth.
18345 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.
18346 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 12 More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.
18347 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 13 Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:
18348 Ecclesiastes Eccl 23 12 14 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.
18349 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 1 Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,
18350 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 2 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.
18351 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 3 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love thee.
18352 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 4 I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
18353 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 5 Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.
18354 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 6 Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.
18355 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 7 If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.
18356 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 8 To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.
18357 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 9 Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.
18358 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 10 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.
18359 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 11 While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
18360 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 12 A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.
18361 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 13 A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.
18362 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 14 Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.
18363 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 15 Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.
18364 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 1 16 The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
18365 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 1 I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.
18366 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
18367 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.
18368 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 4 He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.
18369 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 5 Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.
18370 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
18371 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
18372 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 8 The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills.
18373 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.
18374 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 10 Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.
18375 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 11 For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.
18376 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 12 The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:
18377 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 13 The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:
18378 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.
18379 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 15 Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard hath flourished.
18380 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 16 My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies,
18381 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 2 17 Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
18382 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 1 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.
18383 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 2 I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.
18384 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 3 The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?
18385 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 4 When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
18386 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
18387 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?
18388 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 7 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?
18389 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 8 All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man’s sword upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.
18390 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 9 King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
18391 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 10 The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of Jerusalem.
18392 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 3 11 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the joy of his heart.
18393 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 1 How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves’ eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.
18394 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 2 Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.
18395 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 3 Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.
18396 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 4 Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.
18397 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 5 Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
18398 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 6 Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
18399 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 7 Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.
18400 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 8 Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from Libanus, come: thou shalt be crowned from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
18401 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 9 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.
18402 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.
18403 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.
18404 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 12 My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.
18405 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 13 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
18406 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 14 Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.
18407 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 15 The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus.
18408 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 4 16 Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.
18409 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.
18410 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.
18411 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 3 I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
18412 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 4 My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.
18413 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 5 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.
18414 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 6 I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.
18415 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 7 The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
18416 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.
18417 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 9 What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?
18418 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.
18419 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 11 His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.
18420 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 12 His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.
18421 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 13 His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.
18422 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 14 His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.
18423 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 15 His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.
18424 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 16 His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.
18425 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 5 17 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?
18426 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 1 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
18427 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 2 I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies.
18428 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 3 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.
18429 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 4 Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.
18430 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 5 Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.
18431 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 6 Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.
18432 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 7 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
18433 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 8 One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.
18434 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 9 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
18435 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 10 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
18436 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 11 I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.
18437 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 6 12 Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold thee.
18438 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 1 What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince’s daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful workman.
18439 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
18440 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
18441 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.
18442 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
18443 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!
18444 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
18445 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 8 I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples.
18446 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.
18447 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 10 I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.
18448 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
18449 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard flourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts.
18450 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 7 13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
18451 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 1 Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?
18452 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 2 I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
18453 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
18454 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
18455 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 5 Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
18456 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
18457 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 7 Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
18458 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
18459 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 9 If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.
18460 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 10 I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
18461 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
18462 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 12 My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
18463 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.
18464 Canticle of Canticles Cant 24 8 14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
18465 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 1 Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart:
18466 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 2 For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him.
18467 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 3 For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise:
18468 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 4 For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.
18469 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 5 For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.
18470 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 6 For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
18471 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 7 For the Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.
18472 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 8 Therefore he that speaketh unjust things, cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judgment pass him by.
18473 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 9 For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the ungodly, and the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the chastising of his iniquities.
18474 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 10 For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid.
18475 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
18476 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 12 Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands.
18477 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 13 For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
18478 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.
18479 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 15 For justice is perpetual and immortal.
18480 Wisdom Wisd 25 1 16 But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and esteeming it a friend, have fallen away and have made a covenant with it: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof.
18481 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 1 For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is no remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell:
18482 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 2 For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart,
18483 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 3 Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:
18484 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 4 And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.
18485 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 5 For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:
18486 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 6 Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.
18487 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.
18488 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.
18489 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 9 Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.
18490 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 10 Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the widow, nor honour the ancient grey hairs of the aged.
18491 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 11 But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.
18492 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 12 Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life.
18493 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 13 He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God.
18494 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 14 He is become a censurer of our thoughts.
18495 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 15 He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, and his ways are very different.
18496 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 16 We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.
18497 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.
18498 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 18 For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.
18499 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience.
18500 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.
18501 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 21 These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them.
18502 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 22 And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.
18503 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 23 For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him.
18504 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 24 But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world:
18505 Wisdom Wisd 25 2 25 And they follow him that are of his side.
18506 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 1 But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.
18507 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:
18508 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 3 And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.
18509 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 4 And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.
18510 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 5 Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.
18511 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 6 As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.
18512 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 7 The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.
18513 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 8 They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
18514 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 9 They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.
18515 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 10 But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.
18516 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 11 For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.
18517 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 12 Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.
18518 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 13 Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.
18519 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 14 And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.
18520 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 15 For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.
18521 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 16 But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.
18522 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 17 And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.
18523 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 18 And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.
18524 Wisdom Wisd 25 3 19 For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.
18525 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 1 How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.
18526 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 2 When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.
18527 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 3 But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.
18528 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 4 And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.
18529 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 5 For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.
18530 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 6 For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
18531 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 7 But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.
18532 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 8 For venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs.
18533 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 9 And a spotless life is old age.
18534 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 10 He pleased God, and was beloved, and living among sinners, he was translated.
18535 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 11 He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.
18536 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 12 For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind.
18537 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 13 Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time.
18538 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 14 For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts:
18539 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 15 That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.
18540 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 16 But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.
18541 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 17 For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.
18542 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.
18543 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 19 And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.
18544 Wisdom Wisd 25 4 20 They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.
18545 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.
18546 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation,
18547 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 3 Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach.
18548 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 4 We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.
18549 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 5 Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
18550 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 6 Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.
18551 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 7 We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known.
18552 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?
18553 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on,
18554 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 10 And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters:
18555 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 11 Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way:
18556 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:
18557 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 13 So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.
18558 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell:
18559 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 15 For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by.
18560 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 16 But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the most High.
18561 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 17 Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the Lord: for with his right hand he will cover them, and with his holy arm he will defend them.
18562 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 18 And his zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature for the revenge of his enemies.
18563 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 19 He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet:
18564 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 20 He will take equity for an invincible shield:
18565 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 21 And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise.
18566 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 22 Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark.
18567 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 23 And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner.
18568 Wisdom Wisd 25 5 24 A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.
18569 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 1 Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man.
18570 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 2 Hear, therefore, ye kings, and understand, learn ye that are judges of the ends of the earth.
18571 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 3 Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations:
18572 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 4 For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works: and search out your thoughts:
18573 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 6 Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God.
18574 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 6 Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule.
18575 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 7 For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented.
18576 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 8 For God will not except any man’s person, neither will he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all.
18577 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 9 But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.
18578 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 10 To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it.
18579 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 11 For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.
18580 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 12 Covet ye, therefore, my words, and love them, and you shall have instruction.
18581 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 13 Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away, and is easily seen by them that love her, and is found by them that seek her.
18582 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 14 She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth herself unto them.
18583 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 15 He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not labour: for he shall find her sitting at his door.
18584 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 16 To think, therefore, upon her, is perfect understanding: and he that watcheth for her, shall quickly be secure.
18585 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 17 For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, and she sheweth herself to them cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with all providence.
18586 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 18 For the beginning of her is the most true desire of discipline.
18587 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 19 And the care of discipline is love: and love is the keeping of her laws: and the keeping of her laws is the firm foundation of incorruption:
18588 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 20 And incorruption bringeth near to God.
18589 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 21 Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom.
18590 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 22 If then your delight be in thrones, and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, love wisdom, that you may reign for ever.
18591 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 23 Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear rule over peoples.
18592 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 24 Now what wisdom is, and what was her origin, I will declare: and I will not hide from you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out from the beginning of her birth, and bring the knowledge of her to light, and will not pass over the truth:
18593 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 25 Neither will I go with consuming envy: for such a man shall not be partaker of wisdom.
18594 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 26 Now the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the whole world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people.
18595 Wisdom Wisd 25 6 27 Receive, therefore, instruction by my words, and it shall be profitable to you.
18596 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 1 I myself also am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned to be flesh.
18597 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 2 In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.
18598 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 3 And being born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
18599 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 4 I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares.
18600 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 5 For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth.
18601 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 6 For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
18602 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 7 Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:
18603 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 8 And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
18604 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 9 Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold, in comparison of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to her, shall be counted as clay.
18605 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 10 I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for her light cannot be put out.
18606 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 11 Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands,
18607 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 12 And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all.
18608 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 13 Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy, and her riches I hide not.
18609 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 14 For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline.
18610 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 15 And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:
18611 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 16 For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works.
18612 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 17 For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,
18613 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 18 The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons,
18614 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 19 The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,
18615 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 20 The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots,
18616 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 21 And all such things as are hid, and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.
18617 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 22 For in her is the spirit of understanding; holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,
18618 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 23 Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits: intelligible, pure, subtile:
18619 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 24 For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth everywhere, by reason of her purity.
18620 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 25 For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.
18621 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 26 For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God’s majesty, and the image of his goodness.
18622 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 27 And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.
18623 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 28 For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
18624 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
18625 Wisdom Wisd 25 7 30 For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom.
18626 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 1 She reacheth, therefore, from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly.
18627 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 2 Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth, and have desired to take for my spouse, and I became a lover of her beauty.
18628 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 3 She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with God: yea, and the Lord of all things hath loved her.
18629 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 4 For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God and is the chooser of his works.
18630 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 5 And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things?
18631 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 6 And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?
18632 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 7 And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.
18633 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 8 And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.
18634 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 9 I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.
18635 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 10 For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:
18636 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 11 And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me.
18637 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 12 They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak; and if I talk much, they shall lay their hands on their mouth.
18638 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 13 Moreover, by the means of her I shall have immortality: and shall leave behind me an everlasting memory to them that come after me.
18639 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 14 I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me.
18640 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 15 Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.
18641 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 16 When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness.
18642 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 17 Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,
18643 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 18 And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.
18644 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 19 And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul.
18645 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 20 And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled.
18646 Wisdom Wisd 25 8 21 And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was, I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart:
18647 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 1 God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,
18648 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 2 And by thy wisdom hast appointed man, that he should have dominion over the creature that was made by thee,
18649 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 3 That he should order the world according to equity and justice, and execute justice with an upright heart:
18650 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 4 Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne, and cast me not off from among thy children:
18651 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 5 For I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid, a weak man, and of short time, and falling short of the understanding of judgment and laws.
18652 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 6 For if one be perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.
18653 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 7 Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy people, and a judge of thy sons and daughters:
18654 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 8 And hast commanded me to build a temple on thy holy mount, and an altar in the city of thy dwelling place, a resemblance of thy holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning:
18655 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 9 And thy wisdom with thee, which knoweth thy works, which then also was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was agreeable to thy eyes, and what was right in thy commandments.
18656 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 10 Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee:
18657 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 11 For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me soberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power.
18658 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 12 So shall my works be acceptable, and I shall govern thy people justly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father.
18659 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 13 For who among men is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of God is?
18660 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 14 For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain.
18661 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 15 For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.
18662 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 16 And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things that are in heaven, who shall search out?
18663 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 17 And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send thy holy Spirit from above:
18664 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 18 And so the ways of them that are upon earth may be corrected, and men may learn the things that please thee?
18665 Wisdom Wisd 25 9 19 For by wisdom they were healed, whosoever have pleased thee, O Lord, from the beginning.
18666 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 1 She preserved him, that was first formed by God, the father of the world, when he was created alone,
18667 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 2 And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things.
18668 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 3 But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.
18669 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 4 For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.
18670 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 5 Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son.
18671 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 6 She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:
18672 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 7 Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.
18673 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 8 For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.
18674 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 9 But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her.
18675 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 10 She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother’s wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours.
18676 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 11 In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable.
18677 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 12 She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all.
18678 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 13 She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.
18679 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 14 And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.
18680 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 15 She delivered the just people, and blameless seed, from the nations that oppressed them.
18681 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 16 She entered into the soul of the servant of God and stood against dreadful kings in wonders and signs.
18682 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 17 And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by day, and for the light of stars by night:
18683 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 18 And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over through a great water.
18684 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 19 But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked.
18685 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 20 And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand.
18686 Wisdom Wisd 25 10 21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of infants eloquent.
18687 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 1 She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet.
18688 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 2 They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents.
18689 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 3 They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries.
18690 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 4 They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.
18691 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 5 For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced:
18692 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 6 By the same things they in their need were benefited.
18693 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 7 For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.
18694 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 8 And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:
18695 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 9 Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.
18696 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 10 For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.
18697 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 11 For thou didst admonish and try them as a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou didst examine and condemn.
18698 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 12 For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike.
18699 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 13 For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
18700 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 14 For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass.
18701 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 15 For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just.
18702 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 16 But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance:
18703 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.
18704 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 18 For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without form, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
18705 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 19 Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes:
18706 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 20 Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear.
18707 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 21 Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.
18708 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 22 For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm?
18709 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 23 For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth.
18710 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 24 But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.
18711 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 25 For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.
18712 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 26 And how could any thing endure, if thou wouldst not? or be preserved, if not called by thee?
18713 Wisdom Wisd 25 11 27 But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls.
18714 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 1 O how good and sweet is thy Spirit, O Lord, in all things!
18715 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 2 And therefore thou chastisest them that err, by little and little: and admonishest them, and speakest to them, concerning the things wherein they offend: that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord.
18716 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 3 For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor,
18717 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 4 Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices,
18718 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 5 And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men’s bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration,
18719 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 6 And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,
18720 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 7 That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.
18721 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 8 Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.
18722 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 9 Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once:
18723 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 10 But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.
18724 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 11 For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.
18725 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 12 For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ?
18726 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 13 For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.
18727 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 14 Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed.
18728 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 15 For so much then, as thou art just, thou orderest all things justly: thinking it not agreeable to the power, to condemn him who deserveth not to be punished.
18729 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 16 For thy power is the beginning of justice: and because thou art Lord of all, thou makest thyself gracious to all.
18730 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 17 For thou shewest thy power, when men will not believe thee to be absolute in power, and thou convincest the boldness of them that know thee not.
18731 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 18 But thou being master of power, judgest with tranquillity, and with great favour disposest of us: for thy power is at hand when thou wilt.
18732 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 19 But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: because in judging, thou givest place for repentance for sins.
18733 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 20 For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that deserved to die, with so great deliberation, giving them time and place whereby they might be changed from their wickedness:
18734 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 21 With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to whose parents thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?
18735 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 22 Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy.
18736 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 23 Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them, who, in their life, have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they worshipped.
18737 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 24 For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding.
18738 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 25 Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them.
18739 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 26 But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God.
18740 Wisdom Wisd 25 12 27 For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them.
18741 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 1 But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:
18742 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 2 But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.
18743 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 3 With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.
18744 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 4 Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:
18745 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 5 For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.
18746 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 6 But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.
18747 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 7 For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.
18748 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 8 But then again they are not to be pardoned.
18749 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 9 For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?
18750 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 10 But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.
18751 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 11 Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,
18752 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 12 And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:
18753 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 13 And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image of a man:
18754 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 14 Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:
18755 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 15 And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron,
18756 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 16 Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.
18757 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 17 And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring concerning his substance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life:
18758 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 18 And for health he maketh supplication to the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is unprofitable:
18759 Wisdom Wisd 25 13 19 And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and for getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh him that is unable to do any thing.
18760 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 1 Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him.
18761 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 2 For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill.
18762 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 3 But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,
18763 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 4 Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though a man went to sea without art.
18764 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 5 But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved.
18765 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 6 And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.
18766 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 7 For blessed is the wood, by which justice cometh
18767 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 8 But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he because he made it; and it because being frail it is called a god.
18768 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 9 But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike.
18769 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 10 For that which is made, together with him that made it, shall suffer torments.
18770 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 11 Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.
18771 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 12 For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.
18772 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 13 For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.
18773 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 14 For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore they shall be found to come shortly to an end.
18774 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 15 For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son, who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants.
18775 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 16 Then, in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of tyrants.
18776 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 17 And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent.
18777 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 18 And to the worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.
18778 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 19 For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.
18779 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 20 And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a man.
18780 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 21 And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.
18781 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 22 And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.
18782 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 23 For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,
18783 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 24 So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:
18784 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 25 And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,
18785 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 26 Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.
18786 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 27 For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.
18787 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 28 For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.
18788 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 29 For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though they swear amiss, they look not to be hurt.
18789 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 30 But for both these things they shall be justly punished, because they have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice.
18790 Wisdom Wisd 25 14 31 For it is not the power of them, by whom they swear, but the just vengeance of sinners always punisheth the transgression of the unjust.
18791 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 1 But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy.
18792 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee.
18793 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 3 For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.
18794 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 4 For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,
18795 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.
18796 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.
18797 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 7 The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge.
18798 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again.
18799 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 9 But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things.
18800 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 10 For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay:
18801 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 11 Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit.
18802 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 12 Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.
18803 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 13 For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods.
18804 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 14 But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:
18805 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 15 For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk.
18806 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 16 For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself.
18807 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 17 For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.
18808 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 18 Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.
18809 Wisdom Wisd 25 15 19 Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.
18810 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 1 For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.
18811 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 2 Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:
18812 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 3 To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.
18813 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 4 For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.
18814 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 5 For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.
18815 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 6 But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they were troubled for a short time for their correction, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.
18816 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 7 For he that turned to it, was not healed by that which he saw, but by thee, the Saviour of all.
18817 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 8 And in this thou didst shew to our enemies, that thou art he who deliverest from all evil.
18818 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 9 For the bitings of locusts, and of flies, killed them, and there was found no remedy for their life: because they were worthy to be destroyed by such things.
18819 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 10 But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came and healed them.
18820 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 11 For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and were quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might not be able to use thy help.
18821 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 12 For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster, that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.
18822 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 13 For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:
18823 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 14 A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received:
18824 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 15 But it is impossible to escape thy hand:
18825 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 16 For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.
18826 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 17 And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.
18827 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 18 For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.
18828 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 19 And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.
18829 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 20 Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.
18830 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 21 For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man’s will, it was turned to what every man liked.
18831 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 22 But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.
18832 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 23 But this same again, that the just might be nourished, did even forget its own strength.
18833 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 24 For the creature serving thee, the Creator, is made fierce against the unjust for their punishment: and abateth its strength for the benefit of them that trust in thee.
18834 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 25 Therefore even then it was transformed into all things, and was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all, according to the will of them that desired it of thee:
18835 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 26 That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee.
18836 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 27 For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, presently melted away:
18837 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 28 That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.
18838 Wisdom Wisd 25 16 29 For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter’s ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.
18839 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 1 For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.
18840 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.
18841 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.
18842 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 4 For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.
18843 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 5 And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.
18844 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 6 But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse:
18845 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 7 And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.
18846 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 8 For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.
18847 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 9 For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided.
18848 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 10 For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things.
18849 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.
18850 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 12 And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.
18851 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 13 But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep,
18852 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 14 Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.
18853 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 15 Moreover, if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.
18854 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 16 For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.
18855 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 17 For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,
18856 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 18 Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.
18857 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 19 For the whole world was enlightened, with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours.
18858 Wisdom Wisd 25 17 20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.
18859 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 1 But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee:
18860 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 2 And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference.
18861 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 3 Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.
18862 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 4 The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.
18863 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 5 And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.
18864 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 6 For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.
18865 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 7 So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust.
18866 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 8 For as thou didst punish the adversaries so thou didst also encourage and glorify us.
18867 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 9 For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers.
18868 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 10 But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed.
18869 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 11 And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.
18870 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
18871 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 13 For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.
18872 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 14 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
18873 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 15 Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction,
18874 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 16 With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven.
18875 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 17 Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.
18876 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 18 And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.
18877 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 19 For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils.
18878 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 20 But the just also were afterwards touched by an assault of death, and there was a disturbance of the multitude in the wilderness: but thy wrath did not long continue;
18879 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 21 For a blameless man made haste to pry for the people, bringing forth the shield of his ministry, prayer, and by incense making supplication, withstood the wrath, and put an end to the calamity, shewing that he was thy servant.
18880 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 22 And he overcame the disturbance, not by strength of body nor with force of arms, but with a word he subdued him that punished them, alleging the oath and covenant made with the fathers.
18881 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 23 For when they were now fallen down dead by heaps one upon another, he stood between and stayed the assault, and cut off the way to the living.
18882 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 24 For in the priestly robe which he wore, was the whole world: and in the four rows of the stones, the glory of the fathers was graven, and thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his head.
18883 Wisdom Wisd 25 18 26 And to these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for the proof only of wrath was enough.
18884 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 1 But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:
18885 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 2 For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them.
18886 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 3 For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:
18887 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 4 For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:
18888 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 5 And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.
18889 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 6 For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
18890 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 7 For a cloud overshadowed their camps and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
18891 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 8 Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
18892 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 9 For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
18893 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 10 For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
18894 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 11 And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.
18895 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 12 For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.
18896 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 13 For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.
18897 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 14 And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.
18898 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 15 But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.
18899 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door.
18900 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 17 For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.
18901 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 18 For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things that before swam in the water passed upon the land.
18902 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 19 The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature.
18903 Wisdom Wisd 25 19 20 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.
18904 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 1 All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been always with him, and is before all time.
18905 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 2 Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of the world? Who hath measured the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss?
18906 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 3 Who hath searched out the wisdom of God that goeth before all things?
18907 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 4 Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.
18908 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 5 The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom, and her ways are everlasting commandments.
18909 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 6 To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known her wise counsels?
18910 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 7 To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been revealed and made manifest? and who hath understood the multiplicity of her steps?
18911 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 8 There is one most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of dominion.
18912 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 9 He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, and measured her.
18913 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 10 And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh according to his gift, and hath given her to them that love him.
18914 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 11 The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of joy.
18915 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 12 The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy, and gladness, and length of days.
18916 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 13 With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go well in the latter end, and in the day of his death he shall be blessed.
18917 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 14 The love of God is honourable wisdom.
18918 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 15 And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her great works.
18919 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 16 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was created with the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is known with the just and faithful.
18920 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 17 The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge.
18921 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 18 Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy and gladness.
18922 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 19 It shall go well with him that feareth the Lord, and in the days of his end he shall be blessed.
18923 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 20 To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and fulness is from the fruits thereof.
18924 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 21 She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the storehouses with her treasures.
18925 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 22 The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and the fruit of salvation:
18926 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 23 And it hath seen, and numbered her: but both are the gifts of God.
18927 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 24 Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and understanding of prudence: and exalteth the glory of them that hold her.
18928 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 25 The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and the branches thereof are long-lived.
18929 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 26 In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sinners wisdom is an abomination.
18930 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 27 The fear of the Lord driveth out sin:
18931 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 28 For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath of his high spirits is his ruin.
18932 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 29 A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be restored to him.
18933 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 30 A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.
18934 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 31 In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline:
18935 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 32 But the worship of God is an abomination to a sinner.
18936 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 33 Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice, and God will give her to thee.
18937 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 34 For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which is agreeable to him,
18938 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 35 Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures.
18939 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 36 Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him with a double heart.
18940 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 37 Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a stumblingblock to thee.
18941 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 38 Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul,
18942 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 39 And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation.
18943 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 1 40 Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile and deceit.
18944 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 1 Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.
18945 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 2 Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the words of understanding: and make not haste in the time of clouds.
18946 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 3 Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that thy life may be increased in the latter end.
18947 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 4 Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation keep patience.
18948 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 5 For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
18949 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 6 Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and trust in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein.
18950 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 7 Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from him lest ye fall.
18951 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 8 Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be made void.
18952 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 9 Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and mercy shall come to you for your delight.
18953 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 10 Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened.
18954 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 11 My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.
18955 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 12 For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?
18956 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 13 For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.
18957 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 14 Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.
18958 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 15 Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him.
18959 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 16 Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.
18960 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 17 And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine?
18961 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 18 They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and they that love him, will keep his way.
18962 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 19 They that fear the Lord, will seek after the things that are well pleasing to him: and they that love him, shall be filled with his law.
18963 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 20 They that fear the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his sight will sanctify their souls,
18964 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 21 They that fear the Lord, keep his commandments, and will have patience even until his visitation,
18965 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 22 Saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.
18966 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 2 23 For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him.
18967 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 1 The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their generation, obedience and love.
18968 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 2 Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved.
18969 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 3 For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children.
18970 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 4 He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.
18971 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 5 And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure.
18972 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 6 He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, and in the day of his prayer he shall be heard.
18973 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 7 He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother.
18974 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 8 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brought him into the world.
18975 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 9 Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,
18976 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 10 That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.
18977 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 11 The father’s blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother’s curse rooteth up the foundation.
18978 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 12 Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee.
18979 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 13 For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a father without honour is the disgrace of the son.
18980 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 14 Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life;
18981 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 15 And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten.
18982 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 16 For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.
18983 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 17 And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather.
18984 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 18 Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother.
18985 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 19 My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above the glory of men.
18986 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 20 The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and thou shalt find grace before God:
18987 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 21 For great is the power of God alone, and he is honoured by the humble.
18988 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 22 Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not into things above thy ability: but the things that God hath commanded thee, think on them always, and in many of his works be not curious.
18989 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 23 For it is not necessary for thee to see with thy eyes those things that are hid.
18990 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 24 In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his works thou shalt not be inquisitive.
18991 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 25 For many things are shewn to thee above the understanding of men.
18992 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 26 And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained their minds in vanity.
18993 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 27 A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and he that loveth danger shall perish in it.
18994 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 28 A heart that goeth two ways shall not have success, and the perverse of heart shall be scandalized therein.
18995 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 29 A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows, and the sinner will add sin to sin.
18996 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 30 The congregation of the proud shall not be healed: for the plant of wickedness shall take root in them, and it shall not be perceived.
18997 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 31 The heart of the wise is understood in wisdom, and a good ear will hear wisdom with all desire.
18998 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 32 A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from sins, and in the works of justice shall have success.
18999 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 33 Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins:
19000 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 3 34 And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him afterwards, and in the time of his fall he shall find a sure stay.
19001 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 1 Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the poor.
19002 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 2 Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want.
19003 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 3 Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to give to him that is in distress.
19004 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 4 Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy face from the needy.
19005 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 5 Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back.
19006 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 6 For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him.
19007 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 7 Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man.
19008 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 8 Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness.
19009 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 9 Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul.
19010 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 10 In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.
19011 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 11 And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother.
19012 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 12 Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice.
19013 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 13 And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetness.
19014 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 14 They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing.
19015 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 15 They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her.
19016 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 16 He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure.
19017 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 17 If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.
19018 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 18 For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.
19019 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 19 She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.
19020 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 20 Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,
19021 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 21 And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.
19022 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 22 But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
19023 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 23 Son, observe the time, and fly from evil.
19024 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 24 For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth.
19025 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 25 For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace.
19026 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 26 Accept no person against thy own person, nor against thy soul a lie.
19027 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 27 Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall:
19028 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 28 And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.
19029 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 29 For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice.
19030 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 30 In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance.
19031 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 31 Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin.
19032 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 32 Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river.
19033 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 33 Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for justice, and God will overthrow thy enemies for thee.
19034 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 34 Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works.
19035 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 35 Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that are under thee.
19036 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 4 36 Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldst give.
19037 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 1 Set not thy heart upon unjust possessions, and say not: I have enough to live on: for it shall be of no service in the time of vengeance and darkness.
19038 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 2 Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy heart:
19039 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 3 And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will surely take revenge.
19040 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 4 Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the most High is a patient rewarder.
19041 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 5 Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin:
19042 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 6 And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great, he will have mercy on the multitude of my sins.
19043 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 7 For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh upon sinners.
19044 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 8 Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day.
19045 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 9 For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee.
19046 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 10 Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge.
19047 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 11 Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is every sinner proved by a double tongue.
19048 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 12 Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy judgment, and in knowledge, and let the word of peace and justice keep with thee.
19049 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 13 Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return a true answer with wisdom.
19050 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 14 If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, and be confounded.
19051 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 15 Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin.
19052 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 16 Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.
19053 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 17 For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach.
19054 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 5 18 Justify alike the small and the great.
19055 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 1 Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued.
19056 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 2 Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,
19057 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 3 And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness.
19058 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 4 For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.
19059 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 5 A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.
19060 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 6 Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.
19061 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 7 If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.
19062 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 8 For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.
19063 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 9 And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.
19064 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 10 And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.
19065 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 11 A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, and shall act with confidence among them of thy household.
19066 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 12 If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face, thou shalt have unanimous friendship for good.
19067 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 13 Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends.
19068 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 14 A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.
19069 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 15 Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.
19070 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 16 A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shall find him.
19071 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 17 He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because according to him shall his friend be.
19072 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 18 My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy grey hairs thou shalt find wisdom.
19073 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 19 Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:
19074 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 20 For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.
19075 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 21 How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not continue with her.
19076 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 22 She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it be long.
19077 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 23 For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many, but with them to whom she is known, she continueth even to the sight of God.
19078 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 24 Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my advice.
19079 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 25 Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains:
19080 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 26 Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bands.
19081 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 27 Come to her with all thy mind, and keep her ways with all thy power.
19082 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 28 Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her, let her not go:
19083 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 29 For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall be turned to thy joy.
19084 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 30 Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory:
19085 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 31 For in her is the beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful binding.
19086 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 32 Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her upon thee as a crown of joy.
19087 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 33 My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou shalt learn: and if thou wilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be wise.
19088 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 34 If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt receive instruction: and if thou love to hear, thou shalt be wise.
19089 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 35 Stand in the multitude of ancients that are wise, and join thyself from thy heart to their wisdom, that thou mayst hear every discourse of God, and the sayings of praise may not escape thee.
19090 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 36 And if thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, and let thy foot wear the steps of his doors.
19091 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 6 37 Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate continually on his commandments: and he will give thee a heart, and the desire of wisdom shall be given to thee.
19092 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 1 Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee.
19093 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 2 Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee.
19094 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 3 My son, sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.
19095 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 4 Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour.
19096 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 5 Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.
19097 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 6 Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.
19098 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 7 Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,
19099 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 8 Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.
19100 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 9 Be not fainthearted in thy mind:
19101 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 10 Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.
19102 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 11 Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.
19103 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 12 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.
19104 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 13 Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.
19105 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 14 Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.
19106 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 15 Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.
19107 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 16 Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.
19108 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 17 Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.
19109 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 18 Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long.
19110 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 19 Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms.
19111 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 20 Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold.
19112 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 21 Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.
19113 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 22 Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.
19114 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 23 Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy.
19115 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 24 Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.
19116 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 25 Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their childhood.
19117 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 26 Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thy countenance gay towards them.
19118 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 27 Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt do a great work, and give her to a wise man.
19119 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 28 If thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off: and to her that is hateful, trust not thyself. With thy whole heart,
19120 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 29 Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother:
19121 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 30 Remember that thou hadst not been born but through them: and make a return to them as they have done for thee.
19122 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 31 With all thy soul fear the Lord, and reverence his priests.
19123 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 32 With all thy strength love him that made thee: and forsake not his ministers.
19124 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 33 Honour God with all thy soul and give honour to the priests, and purify thyself with thy arms.
19125 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 34 Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself with a few.
19126 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 35 Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things:
19127 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 36 And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that thy expiation and thy blessing may be perfected.
19128 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 37 A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain not grace from the dead.
19129 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 38 Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them that mourn.
19130 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 39 Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these things thou shalt be confirmed in love.
19131 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 7 40 In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.
19132 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 1 Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall into his hands.
19133 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 2 Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee.
19134 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 3 For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and perverted them.
19135 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 4 Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.
19136 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 5 Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy family.
19137 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 6 Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof.
19138 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 7 Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old.
19139 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 8 Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; knowing that we all die, and are not willing that others should rejoice at our death.
19140 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 9 Despise not the discourse of them that are ancient and wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs.
19141 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 10 For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of understanding, and to serve great men without blame.
19142 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 11 Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers:
19143 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 12 For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.
19144 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 13 Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be burnt with the flame of the fire of their sins.
19145 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 14 Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words.
19146 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 15 Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou lendest, count it as lost.
19147 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 16 Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if thou wert to pay it.
19148 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 17 Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which is just.
19149 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 18 Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish together with his folly.
19150 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 19 Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help he will overthrow thee.
19151 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 20 Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them.
19152 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 21 Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.
19153 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 8 22 Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee.
19154 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 1 Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson.
19155 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 2 Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded.
19156 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 3 Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.
19157 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 4 Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.
19158 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 5 Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to thee.
19159 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 6 Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.
19160 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 7 Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof.
19161 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 8 Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another’s beauty.
19162 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 9 For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire.
19163 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 10 Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way.
19164 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 11 Many by admiring the beauty of another man’s wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire.
19165 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 12 Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor repose upon the bed with her:
19166 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 13 And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.
19167 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 14 Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.
19168 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 15 A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
19169 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 16 Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.
19170 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 17 Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please.
19171 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 18 Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear of death.
19172 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 19 And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy life.
19173 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 20 Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in the midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of them that are grieved.
19174 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 21 According to thy power beware of thy neighbour, and treat with the wise and prudent.
19175 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 22 Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of God.
19176 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 23 And let the thought of God be in thy mind, and all thy discourse on the commandments of the Highest.
19177 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 24 Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the prince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the ancients for the sense.
19178 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 9 25 A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash in his word shall be hateful.
19179 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 1 A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.
19180 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 2 As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein.
19181 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 3 An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.
19182 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 4 The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it.
19183 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 5 The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour.
19184 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 6 Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury.
19185 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 7 Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable.
19186 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 8 A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.
19187 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud?
19188 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 10 There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.
19189 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.
19190 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 12 The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.
19191 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.
19192 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 14 The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:
19193 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 15 Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.
19194 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.
19195 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 17 God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.
19196 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 18 God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.
19197 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 19 The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.
19198 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 20 He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.
19199 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 21 God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.
19200 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 22 Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.
19201 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 23 That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.
19202 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 24 In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.
19203 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 25 The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor.
19204 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 26 Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.
19205 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 27 The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.
19206 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 28 They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.
19207 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 29 Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress;
19208 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 30 Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.
19209 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 31 My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.
19210 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 32 Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?
19211 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 33 The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.
19212 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 10 34 But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.
19213 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 1 The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great men.
19214 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 2 Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his look.
19215 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 3 The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.
19216 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 4 Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his works are glorious, and secret, and hidden.
19217 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 5 Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown.
19218 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 6 Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious have been delivered into the hand of others.
19219 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 7 Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.
19220 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 8 Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discourse.
19221 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 9 Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.
19222 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 10 My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.
19223 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 11 There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.
19224 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 12 Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:
19225 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 13 Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.
19226 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 14 Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.
19227 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 15 Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him.
19228 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 16 Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil.
19229 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 17 The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever.
19230 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 18 There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward.
19231 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 19 In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone:
19232 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 20 And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die.
19233 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 21 Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments.
19234 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 22 Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place,
19235 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 23 For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich.
19236 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 24 The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit.
19237 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 25 Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?
19238 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 26 Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?
19239 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 27 In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:
19240 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 28 For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.
19241 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 29 The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.
19242 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 30 Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.
19243 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 31 Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.
19244 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 32 For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.
19245 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 33 For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.
19246 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 34 Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.
19247 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 35 Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.
19248 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 11 36 Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.
19249 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 1 If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.
19250 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 2 Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord.
19251 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 3 For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent.
19252 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 4 Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance.
19253 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 5 Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.
19254 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 6 Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee.
19255 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 7 For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly.
19256 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 8 A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.
19257 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 9 In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.
19258 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 10 Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:
19259 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 11 Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him.
19260 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 12 Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings.
19261 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 13 Who will pity an enchanter struck by a serpent, or any that come near wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked man, and is involved in his sins.
19262 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 14 For an hour he will abide with thee: but if thou begin to decline, he will not endure it.
19263 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 15 An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he lieth in wait, to throw thee into a pit.
19264 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 16 An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he find an opportunity he will not be satisfied with blood:
19265 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 17 And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first.
19266 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet.
19267 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 12 19 He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.
19268 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 1 He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that hath fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride.
19269 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 2 He shall take a burden upon him that hath fellowship with one more honourable than himself. And have no fellowship with one that is richer than thyself.
19270 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 3 What agreement shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? for if they knock one against the other, it shall be broken.
19271 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 4 The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold his peace.
19272 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 5 If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee.
19273 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 6 If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee.
19274 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 7 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou?
19275 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.
19276 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 9 Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands.
19277 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 10 Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.
19278 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly.
19279 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 12 If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself: for so he will invite thee the more.
19280 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 13 Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not far from him, lest thou be forgotten.
19281 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 14 Affect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his many words: for by much talk he will sift thee, and smiling will examine thee concerning thy secrets.
19282 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 15 His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and he will not spare to do thee hurt, and to cast thee into prison.
19283 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 16 Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou hearest: for thou walkest in danger of thy ruin.
19284 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 17 When thou hearest those things, see as it were in sleep, and thou shalt awake.
19285 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 18 Love God all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation.
19286 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 19 Every beast loveth its like: so also every man him that is nearest to himself.
19287 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 20 All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man shall associate himself to his like.
19288 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 21 If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner with the just.
19289 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 22 What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor?
19290 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 23 The wild ass is the lion’s prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich.
19291 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 24 And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor.
19292 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 25 When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance.
19293 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 26 When a rich man hath been deceived, he hath many helpers: he hath spoken proud things, and they have justified him.
19294 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 27 The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he hath spoken wisely, and could have no place.
19295 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 28 The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said they extol even to the clouds.
19296 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 29 The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? and if he stumble, they will overthrow him.
19297 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 30 Riches are good to him that hath no sin in his conscience: and poverty is very wicked in the mouth of the ungodly.
19298 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 31 The heart of a man changeth his countenance, either for good, or for evil.
19299 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 13 32 The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt hardly find, and with labour.
19300 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 1 Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a word out of his mouth, and is not pricked with the remorse of sin.
19301 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 2 Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not fallen from his hope.
19302 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 3 Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold?
19303 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 4 He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting.
19304 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 5 He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods.
19305 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness:
19306 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 7 And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth his wickedness.
19307 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 8 The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul.
19308 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 9 The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up.
19309 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 10 An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his fill of bread, but shall be needy and pensive at his own table.
19310 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 11 My son, if thou have any thing, do good to thyself, and offer to God worthy offerings.
19311 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 12 Remember that death is not slow, and that the covenant of hell hath been shewn to thee: for the covenant of this world shall surely die.
19312 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 13 Do good to thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability, stretching out thy hand give to the poor.
19313 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 14 Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good gift overpass thee.
19314 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 15 Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by lot thy sorrows and labours?
19315 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 16 Give and take, and justify thy soul.
19316 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 17 Before thy death work justice: for in hell there is no finding food.
19317 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 18 All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth out on a green tree.
19318 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 19 Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.
19319 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 20 Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the worker thereof shall go with it.
19320 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 21 And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker thereof shall be honoured therein.
19321 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 22 Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall meditate in his justice, and in his mind shall think of the all seeing eye of God.
19322 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 23 He that considereth her ways in his heart, and hath understanding in her secrets, who goeth after her as one that traceth, and stayeth in her ways.
19323 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 24 He who looketh in at her windows, and hearkeneth at her door.
19324 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 25 He that lodgeth near her house, and fastening a pin in her walls shall set up his tent high unto her, where good things shall rest in his lodging for ever.
19325 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 26 He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches:
19326 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 14 27 He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall rest in her glory.
19327 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 1 He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her,
19328 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 2 And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin.
19329 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 3 With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.
19330 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 4 And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among his neighbours.
19331 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 5 And in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth, and shall fill him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe him with a robe of glory.
19332 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 6 She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name.
19333 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 7 But foolish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet her, foolish men shall not see her: for she is far from pride and deceit.
19334 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 8 Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men that speak truth shall be found with her, and shall advance, even till they come to the sight of God.
19335 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 9 Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner:
19336 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 10 For wisdom came forth from God: for praise shall be with the wisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign Lord will give praise unto it.
19337 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 11 Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth.
19338 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 12 Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of wicked men.
19339 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 13 The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him shall not love it.
19340 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 14 God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel.
19341 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 15 He added his commandments and precepts.
19342 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 16 If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee.
19343 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 17 He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.
19344 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 18 Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him:
19345 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 19 For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing.
19346 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 20 The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he knoweth al the work of man.
19347 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 21 He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no man license to sin;
19348 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 15 22 For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children.
19349 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 1 Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them.
19350 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 2 Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.
19351 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 3 For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.
19352 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
19353 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 5 By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.
19354 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 6 Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.
19355 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 7 In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out.
19356 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 8 The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength:
19357 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 9 And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word.
19358 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 10 He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sins.
19359 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 11 So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:
19360 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 12 For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:
19361 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 13 According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works.
19362 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 14 The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off.
19363 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 15 All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment.
19364 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 16 Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me from on high?
19365 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 17 In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation?
19366 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 18 Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight,
19367 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 19 The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.
19368 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 20 And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him.
19369 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 21 And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see?
19370 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 22 For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end.
19371 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 23 He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.
19372 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 24 Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my words in thy heart.
19373 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 25 And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge.
19374 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 26 The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in their generations.
19375 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 27 He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works.
19376 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 28 Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time.
19377 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 29 Be not thou incredulous to his word.
19378 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 30 After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods.
19379 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 16 31 The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again.
19380 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 1 God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.
19381 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 2 And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.
19382 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 3 He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upon the earth.
19383 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 4 He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.
19384 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 5 He created of him a helpmate like to himself, he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and he filled them with the knowledge of understanding.
19385 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 6 He created in them the science of the spirit, he filled their heart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil.
19386 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 7 He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of his works:
19387 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 8 That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and glory in his wondrous acts that they might declare the glorious things of his works.
19388 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 9 Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an inheritance.
19389 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 10 He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his justice and judgments.
19390 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 11 And their eye saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he said to them: Beware of all iniquity.
19391 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 12 And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his neighbour.
19392 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 13 Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his eyes.
19393 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 14 Over every nation he set a ruler.
19394 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 15 And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.
19395 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 16 And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
19396 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 17 Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God.
19397 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 18 The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye:
19398 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 19 And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth.
19399 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 20 But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth.
19400 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 21 Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:
19401 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 22 Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less.
19402 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 23 Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.
19403 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 24 And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God.
19404 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 25 Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.
19405 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 26 Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.
19406 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 27 Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.
19407 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 28 How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him !
19408 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 29 For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.
19409 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 30 What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.
19410 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 17 31 He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.
19411 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 1 He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only shall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever.
19412 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 2 Who is able to declare his works?
19413 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 3 For who shall search out his glorious acts?
19414 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 4 And who shall show forth the power of his majesty? or who shall be able to declare his mercy?
19415 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 5 Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is it possible to find out the glorious works of God.
19416 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 6 When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth off, he shall be at a loss.
19417 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 7 What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?
19418 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 8 The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.
19419 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 9 Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.
19420 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 10 He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, and hath known their end that it is evil.
19421 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 11 Therefore hath he filled up his mercy in their favour, and hath shewn them the way of justice.
19422 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 12 The compassion of man is toward his neighbour: but the mercy of God is upon all flesh.
19423 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 13 He hath mercy, and teacheth, and correcteth, as a shepherd doth his flock.
19424 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 14 He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and that maketh haste in his judgments.
19425 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 15 My son, in thy good deeds, make no complaint, and when thou givest any thing, add not grief by an evil word.
19426 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 16 Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is better than the gift.
19427 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 17 Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a justified man.
19428 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 18 A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught consumeth the eyes.
19429 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 19 Before judgment prepare thee justice, and learn before thou speak.
19430 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 20 Before sickness take a medicine, and before judgment examine thyself, and thou shalt find mercy in the sight of God.
19431 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 21 Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in the time of sickness shew thy conversation.
19432 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 22 Let nothing hinder thee from praying always, and be not afraid to be justified even to death: for the reward of God continueth for ever.
19433 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 23 Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God.
19434 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 24 Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall turn away his face.
19435 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 25 Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of riches.
19436 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 26 From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in the eyes of God.
19437 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 27 A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will beware of sloth.
19438 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 28 Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise to him that findeth her.
19439 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 29 They that were of good understanding in words, have also done wisely themselves: and have understood truth and justice, and have poured forth proverbs and judgments.
19440 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 30 Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will.
19441 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 31 If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.
19442 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 32 Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual.
19443 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 18 33 Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life.
19444 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 1 A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.
19445 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:
19446 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 3 And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number.
19447 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 4 He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised.
19448 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 5 He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil.
19449 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 6 He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that is delighted with wickedness, shall be condemned.
19450 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 7 Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.
19451 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 8 Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.
19452 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 9 For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.
19453 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 10 Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.
19454 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 11 At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.
19455 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.
19456 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 13 Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.
19457 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 14 Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.
19458 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 15 Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed.
19459 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 16 And believe not every word. There is one, that slippeth with the tongue, but not from his heart.
19460 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 17 For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him.
19461 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 18 And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom.
19462 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 19 But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.
19463 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 20 There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.
19464 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 21 Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.
19465 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 22 There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.
19466 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 23 And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth. There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of deceit:
19467 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 24 And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance, and maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown:
19468 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 25 And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it.
19469 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 26 A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest him, is known by his countenance.
19470 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 27 The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is.
19471 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 19 28 There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise.
19472 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 1 How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.
19473 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 2 The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden:
19474 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 3 So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.
19475 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 4 How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful sin.
19476 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 5 There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech.
19477 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 6 There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what to say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper time.
19478 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 7 A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard no time.
19479 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 8 He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that taketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated.
19480 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 9 There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss.
19481 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 10 There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.
19482 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 11 There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate.
19483 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 12 There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.
19484 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 13 A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.
19485 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 14 The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold.
19486 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 15 He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire.
19487 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 16 To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful.
19488 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 17 A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds.
19489 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 18 For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, and how many will laugh him to scorn!
19490 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 19 For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had.
19491 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 20 The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.
19492 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 21 A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.
19493 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 22 A parable coming out of a fool’s mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.
19494 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 23 There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.
19495 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 24 There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself.
19496 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 25 There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.
19497 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 26 A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline.
19498 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 27 A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.
19499 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 28 The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing.
19500 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 29 A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones.
19501 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 30 He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men shall escape iniquity.
19502 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 31 Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they cannot correct.
19503 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 32 O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit is there in them both?
19504 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 20 33 Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.
19505 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 1 My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins also pray that they may be forgiven thee.
19506 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 2 Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee.
19507 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 3 The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men.
19508 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 4 All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof.
19509 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 5 Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud shall be rooted out.
19510 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 6 The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.
19511 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 7 He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.
19512 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 8 He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.
19513 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 9 He that buildeth his house at other men’s charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter.
19514 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 10 The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire.
19515 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 11 The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains.
19516 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 12 He that keepeth justice shall get the understanding thereof.
19517 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 13 The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding.
19518 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 14 He that is not wise in good, will not be taught.
19519 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 15 But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in evil: and there is no understanding where there is bitterness.
19520 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 16 The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood, and his counsel continueth like a fountain of life.
19521 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 17 The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold.
19522 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 18 A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall displease him, and he will cast it behind his back.
19523 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 19 The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but in the lips of the wise, grace shall be found.
19524 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 20 The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they will think upon his words in their hearts.
19525 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 21 As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense.
19526 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 22 Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.
19527 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 23 A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will scarce laugh low to himself.
19528 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 24 Learning to the prudent is as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.
19529 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 25 The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour’s house: but a man of experience will be abashed at the person of the mighty.
19530 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 26 A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that is well taught will stand without.
19531 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 27 It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.
19532 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 28 The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the words of the wise shall be weighed in a balance.
19533 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 29 The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men is in their heart.
19534 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 30 While the ungodly curseth the devil, he curseth his own soul.
19535 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 21 31 The talebearer shall defile his own soul, and shall be hated by all: and he that shall abide with him shall be hateful: the silent and wise man shall be honoured.
19536 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 1 The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak of his disgrace.
19537 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 2 The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that toucheth him will shake his hands.
19538 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 3 A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish daughter shall be to his loss.
19539 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 4 A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father.
19540 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 5 She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both.
19541 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 6 A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are never out of time.
19542 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 7 He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together.
19543 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 8 He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep sleep.
19544 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 9 He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this?
19545 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 10 Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.
19546 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 11 Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.
19547 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 12 For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.
19548 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 13 The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.
19549 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 14 Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense.
19550 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 15 Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and thou shalt not be defiled with his sin.
19551 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 16 Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.
19552 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 17 What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool?
19553 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 18 Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man without sense, that is both foolish and wicked.
19554 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 19 A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building, shall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by advised counsel.
19555 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 20 The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be depraved by fear.
19556 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 21 As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, will not stand against the face of the wind:
19557 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 22 So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not resist against the violence of fear.
19558 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 23 As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will not fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the commandments of God.
19559 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 24 He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.
19560 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 25 He that flingeth a stone at birds, shall drive them away: so he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.
19561 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 26 Although thou hast drawn a sword at a friend, despair not: for there may be a returning. To a friend,
19562 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 27 If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a friend will flee away.
19563 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 28 Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice.
19564 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 29 In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou mayst also be heir with him in his inheritance.
19565 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 30 As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up before the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats, before blood.
19566 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 31 I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide myself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear it.
19567 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 32 But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him.
19568 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 22 33 Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?
19569 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 1 O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them.
19570 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear:
19571 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 3 Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me?
19572 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.
19573 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.
19574 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 6 Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.
19575 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.
19576 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.
19577 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls.
19578 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 10 And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them.
19579 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 11 For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin.
19580 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 12 A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart from his house.
19581 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 13 And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he dissemble it, he offendeth double:
19582 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 14 And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house shall be filled with his punishment.
19583 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 15 There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob.
19584 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 16 For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins.
19585 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 17 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.
19586 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 18 Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:
19587 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 19 Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.
19588 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 20 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life.
19589 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 21 Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.
19590 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 22 A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.
19591 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 23 And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire.
19592 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 24 To a man that is a fornicator all bread is sweet, he will not be weary of sinning unto the end.
19593 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 25 Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me?
19594 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 26 Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins.
19595 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 27 And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such a man’s fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men fearing him:
19596 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 28 And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are far brighter than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden parts.
19597 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 29 For all things were known to the Lord God, before they were created: so also after they were perfected he beholdeth all things.
19598 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 30 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he shall be chased as a colt: and where he suspected not, he shall be taken.
19599 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 31 And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood not the fear of the Lord.
19600 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 32 So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another:
19601 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 33 For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High: and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man.
19602 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 34 This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition shall be made of her children.
19603 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 35 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.
19604 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 36 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted out.
19605 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 37 And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better than the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have regard to the commandments of the Lord.
19606 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 23 38 It is great glory to follow the Lord: for length of days shall be received from him.
19607 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 1 Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people,
19608 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 2 And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power,
19609 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 3 And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly.
19610 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 4 And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:
19611 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 5 I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:
19612 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 6 I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:
19613 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 7 I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.
19614 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 8 I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea,
19615 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 9 And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,
19616 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 10 And in every nation I have had the chief rule:
19617 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 11 And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.
19618 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 12 Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,
19619 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 13 And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.
19620 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 14 From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.
19621 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 15 And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.
19622 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 16 And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.
19623 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.
19624 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:
19625 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 19 As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted.
19626 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 20 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:
19627 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.
19628 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 22 I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.
19629 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 23 As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
19630 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 24 I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.
19631 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 25 In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
19632 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 26 Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.
19633 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 27 For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.
19634 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 28 My memory is unto everlasting generations.
19635 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 29 They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.
19636 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 30 He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.
19637 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 31 They that explain me shall have life everlasting.
19638 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 32 All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.
19639 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 33 Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.
19640 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 34 He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever.
19641 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 35 Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.
19642 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 36 Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest.
19643 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 37 Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.
19644 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 38 Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out.
19645 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 39 For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.
19646 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 40 I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.
19647 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 41 I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise.
19648 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 42 I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow.
19649 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 43 And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea:
19650 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 44 For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off.
19651 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 45 I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord.
19652 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 46 I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age.
19653 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 24 47 See ye that I have not laboured myself only, but for all that seek out the truth.
19654 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 1 With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men:
19655 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 2 The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and man and wife that agree well together.
19656 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 3 Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their life:
19657 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 4 A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.
19658 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 5 The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt thou find them in thy old age?
19659 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 6 O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to know counsel!
19660 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 7 O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and counsel to men of honour!
19661 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 8 Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.
19662 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 9 Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I magnified, and the tenth I will utter to men with my tongue.
19663 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 10 A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and seeth the fall of his enemies.
19664 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 11 Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served such as are unworthy of him.
19665 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 12 Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth.
19666 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 13 How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is none above him that feareth the Lord.
19667 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 14 The fear of God hath set itself above all things:
19668 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 15 Blessed is the man, to whom it is given to have the fear of God: he that holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened?
19669 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 16 The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined unto it.
19670 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 17 The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of a woman is all evil.
19671 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 18 And a man will choose any plague, but the plague of the heart:
19672 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 19 And any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:
19673 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 20 And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate him:
19674 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 21 And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.
19675 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 22 There is no head worse than the head of a serpent:
19676 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 23 And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked woman.
19677 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 24 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours,
19678 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 25 Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little.
19679 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 26 All malice is short to the malice of a woman, let the lot of sinners fall upon her.
19680 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 27 As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of tongue to a quiet man.
19681 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 28 Look not upon a woman’s beauty, and desire not a woman for beauty.
19682 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 29 A woman’s anger, and impudence, and confusion is great.
19683 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 30 A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband.
19684 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 31 A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy countenance, and a wounded heart.
19685 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 32 Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make her husband happy.
19686 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 33 From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die.
19687 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 34 Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little: nor to a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
19688 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 35 If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight of thy enemies.
19689 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 25 36 Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee.
19690 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 1 Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years is double.
19691 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 2 A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.
19692 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 3 A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds.
19693 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 4 Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be cheerful at all times.
19694 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 5 Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my face hath trembled:
19695 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 6 The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the people:
19696 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 7 And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death.
19697 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 8 A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.
19698 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 9 With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.
19699 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 10 As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.
19700 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 11 A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.
19701 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 12 The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.
19702 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 13 On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself.
19703 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 14 Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.
19704 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 15 She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.
19705 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 16 The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.
19706 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 17 Her discipline is the gift of God.
19707 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 18 Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.
19708 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 19 A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.
19709 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 20 And no price is worthy of a continent soul.
19710 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 21 As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.
19711 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 22 As the lamp shining upon the holy candlestick, so is the beauty of the face in a ripe age,
19712 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 23 As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet upon the soles of a steady woman.
19713 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 24 As everlasting foundations upon a solid rock, so the commandments of God in the heart of a holy woman.
19714 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 25 At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger upon me.
19715 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 26 A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised:
19716 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 27 And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword.
19717 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 26 28 Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.
19718 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 1 Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.
19719 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.
19720 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.
19721 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 4 Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.
19722 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 5 As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.
19723 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 6 The furnace trieth the potter’s vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.
19724 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 7 As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.
19725 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 8 Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men.
19726 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 9 If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation.
19727 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 10 Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her.
19728 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 11 The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities.
19729 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 12 A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon.
19730 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 13 In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think.
19731 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 14 The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.
19732 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 15 The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.
19733 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 16 In the quarrels of the proud is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.
19734 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 17 He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.
19735 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 18 Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.
19736 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 19 But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.
19737 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 20 For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.
19738 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 21 And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.
19739 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 22 Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.
19740 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 23 Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:
19741 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.
19742 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 25 He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:
19743 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 26 In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.
19744 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 27 I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.
19745 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 28 If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.
19746 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 29 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it.
19747 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 30 A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him.
19748 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 31 Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him.
19749 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 32 They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.
19750 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 27 33 Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.
19751 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 1 He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.
19752 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 2 Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest.
19753 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 3 Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God?
19754 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 4 He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and doth he entreat for his own sins?
19755 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 5 He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger, and doth he ask forgiveness of God? who shall obtain pardon for his sins?
19756 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 6 Remember thy last things, and let enmity cease:
19757 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 7 For corruption and death hang over in his commandments.
19758 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 8 Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour.
19759 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 9 Remember the covenant of the most High, and overlook the ignorance of thy neighbour.
19760 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 10 Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins.
19761 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 11 For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will trouble his friends, and bring in debate in the midst of them that are at peace.
19762 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 12 For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a man’s strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he shall increase his anger.
19763 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 13 A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death.
19764 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 14 If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth.
19765 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 15 The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that were at peace.
19766 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 16 The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered them from nation to nation.
19767 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 17 It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath overthrown the houses of great men.
19768 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 18 It hath cut in pieces the forces of people, and undone strong nations.
19769 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 19 The tongue of a third person hath cast out valiant women, and deprived them of their labours.
19770 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 20 He that hearkeneth to it, shall never have rest, neither shall he have a friend in whom he may repose.
19771 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 21 The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the tongue will break the bones.
19772 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 22 Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.
19773 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 23 Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.
19774 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.
19775 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.
19776 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame.
19777 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.
19778 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 28 Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mouth.
19779 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 29 Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a balance for thy words, and a just bridle for thy mouth:
19780 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 28 30 And take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the sight of thy enemies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be incurable unto death.
19781 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 1 He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that is stronger in hand, keepeth the commandments.
19782 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 2 Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due time.
19783 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 3 Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him: and thou shalt always find that which is necessary for thee.
19784 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 4 Many have looked upon a thing lent as a thing found, and have given trouble to them that helped them.
19785 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 5 Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the lender, and in promises they humble their voice:
19786 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 6 But when they should repay, they will ask time, and will return tedious and murmuring words, and will complain of the time:
19787 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 7 And if he be able to pay, he will stand off, he will scarce pay one half, and will count it as if he had found it:
19788 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 8 But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without cause.
19789 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 9 And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will repay him injuries.
19790 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 10 Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.
19791 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 11 But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.
19792 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 12 Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty.
19793 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 13 Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.
19794 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 14 Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.
19795 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 15 Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help for thee against all evil.
19796 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 16 Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear:
19797 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 17 It shall fight for thee against thy enemy.
19798 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 18 A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to himself.
19799 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 19 Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his life for thee.
19800 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 20 The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.
19801 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 21 A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him.
19802 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 22 A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.
19803 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 23 Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.
19804 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 24 It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.
19805 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 25 A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.
19806 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 26 Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.
19807 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 27 The chief thing for man’s life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.
19808 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 28 Better is the poor man’s fare under a roof of boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another man’s house.
19809 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 29 Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not hear the reproach of going abroad.
19810 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 30 It is a miserable life to go as a guest from house to house: for where a man is a stranger, he shall not deal confidently, nor open his mouth.
19811 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 31 He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful, and moreover he shall hear bitter words.
19812 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 32 Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and give others to eat what thou hast in thy hand.
19813 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 33 Give place to the honourable presence of my friends: for I want my house, my brother being to be lodged with me.
19814 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 29 34 These things are grievous to a man of understanding: the upbraiding of houseroom, and the reproaching of the lender.
19815 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 1 He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may rejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the doors of his neighbours.
19816 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 2 He that instructeth his son shall be praised in him, and shall glory in him in the midst of them of his household.
19817 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 3 He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy jealous, and in the midst of his friends he shall glory in him.
19818 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 4 His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.
19819 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 5 While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died he was not sorrowful, neither was he confounded before his enemies.
19820 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 6 For he left behind him a defender of his house against his enemies, and one that will requite kindness to his friends.
19821 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 7 For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be troubled.
19822 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 8 A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong.
19823 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 9 Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee sorrowful.
19824 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 10 Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.
19825 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 11 Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices.
19826 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 12 Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he is a child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a sorrow of heart to thee.
19827 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 13 Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee.
19828 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 14 Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution, than a rich man who is weak and afflicted with evils.
19829 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 15 Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues.
19830 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 16 There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.
19831 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 17 Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.
19832 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 18 Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.
19833 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:
19834 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 20 So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity:
19835 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 21 He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.
19836 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 22 Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.
19837 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 23 The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life.
19838 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 24 Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee.
19839 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 25 For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.
19840 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 26 Envy and anger shorten a man’s days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time.
19841 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 30 27 A cheerful and good heart is always feasting: for his banquets are prepared with diligence.
19842 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 1 Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof driveth away sleep.
19843 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 2 The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh the soul sober.
19844 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 3 The rich man hath laboured in gathering riches together, and when he resteth he shall be filled with his goods.
19845 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 4 The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end he is still poor.
19846 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 5 He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth after corruption, shall be filled with it.
19847 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 6 Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin.
19848 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 7 Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it.
19849 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 8 Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures.
19850 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 9 Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life.
19851 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 10 Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them:
19852 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 11 Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.
19853 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 12 Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it.
19854 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 13 Say not: There are many things which are upon it.
19855 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 14 Remember that a wicked eye is evil.
19856 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 15 What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see.
19857 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 16 Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.
19858 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 17 Be not hasty in a feast.
19859 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 18 Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself.
19860 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 19 Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated.
19861 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 20 Leave off first, for manners’ sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend.
19862 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 21 And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first to ask for drink.
19863 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 22 How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.
19864 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 23 Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man:
19865 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 24 Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate man: he shall sleep till morning, and his soul shall be delighted with him.
19866 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 25 And if thou hast been forced to eat much, arise, go out, and vomit: and it shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring sickness upon thy body.
19867 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 26 Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt find my words.
19868 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 27 In all thy works be quick, and no infirmity shall come to thee.
19869 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 28 The lips of many shall bless him that is liberal of his bread, and the testimony of his truth is faithful.
19870 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 29 Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true.
19871 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 30 Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many.
19872 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 31 Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud.
19873 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 32 Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober.
19874 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 33 What is his life, who is diminished with wine?
19875 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 34 What taketh away life? death.
19876 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 35 Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk.
19877 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 36 Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart.
19878 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 37 Sober drinking is health to soul and body.
19879 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 38 Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels, and wrath, and many ruins.
19880 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 39 Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of the soul.
19881 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 40 The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds.
19882 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 41 Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him not in his mirth.
19883 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 31 42 Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again.
19884 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 1 Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.
19885 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 2 Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:
19886 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 3 That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution.
19887 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 4 Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,
19888 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 5 To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.
19889 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 6 Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.
19890 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 7 A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.
19891 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.
19892 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 9 Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.
19893 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 10 Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.
19894 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 11 If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short.
19895 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 12 In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence and withal seeking.
19896 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 13 In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the ancients are present, speak not much.
19897 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 14 Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.
19898 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 15 And at the time of rising be not slack: but be first to run home to thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy pastime.
19899 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 16 And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech.
19900 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 17 And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and that replenisheth thee with all his good things.
19901 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 18 He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they that will seek him early, shall find a blessing.
19902 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 19 He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
19903 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 20 They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light.
19904 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 21 A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according to his will.
19905 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 22 A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and proud man will not dread fear:
19906 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 23 Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of his own seeking.
19907 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 24 My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.
19908 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 25 Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul.
19909 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 26 And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy household.
19910 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 27 In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the keeping of the commandments.
19911 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 32 28 He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he that trusteth in him, shall fare never the worse.
19912 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 1 No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils.
19913 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 2 A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
19914 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 3 A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him.
19915 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 4 He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer.
19916 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 5 The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.
19917 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 6 A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
19918 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 7 Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun?
19919 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 8 By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment.
19920 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.
19921 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
19922 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 11 With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways.
19923 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 12 Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station.
19924 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 13 As the potter’s clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:
19925 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 14 All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.
19926 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 15 Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.
19927 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 16 And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.
19928 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 17 In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.
19929 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 18 See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline.
19930 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 19 Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the church.
19931 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 20 Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou entreat for the same.
19932 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 21 As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee.
19933 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 22 For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.
19934 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 23 In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.
19935 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 24 Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheritance.
19936 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 25 Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.
19937 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
19938 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 27 The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.
19939 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:
19940 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 29 For idleness hath taught much evil.
19941 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 30 Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment.
19942 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 31 If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him.
19943 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:
19944 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 33 33 And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.
19945 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 1 The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
19946 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 2 The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
19947 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 3 The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man’s likeness is before the face of a man.
19948 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 4 What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
19949 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 5 Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:
19950 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 6 And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.
19951 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 7 For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.
19952 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 8 The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful.
19953 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 9 What doth he know, that hath not been tried? A man that hath much experience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learned many things, shall shew forth understanding.
19954 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 10 He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath been experienced in many things, multiplieth prudence.
19955 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 11 He that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know? he that hath been surprised, shall abound with subtlety.
19956 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 12 I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of things.
19957 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 13 Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I have been delivered by the grace of God.
19958 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 14 The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his regard shall be blessed.
19959 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 15 For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God are upon them that love him.
19960 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 16 He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his hope.
19961 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 17 The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed.
19962 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 18 To whom doth he look, and who is his strength?
19963 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 19 The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him, he is their powerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a cover from the sun at noon,
19964 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 20 A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and blessing.
19965 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 21 The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable.
19966 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 22 The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth and justice.
19967 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 23 The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for sins by the multitude of their sacrifices.
19968 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 24 He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
19969 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 25 The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.
19970 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 26 He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.
19971 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 27 He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.
19972 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 28 When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?
19973 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 29 When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?
19974 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 30 He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?
19975 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 34 31 So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?
19976 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 1 He that keepeth the law, multiplieth offerings.
19977 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 2 It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from all iniquity.
19978 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 3 And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins.
19979 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 4 He shall return thanks, that offereth fine flour: and he that doth mercy, offereth sacrifice.
19980 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 5 To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to depart from injustice, is an entreaty for sins.
19981 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 6 Thou shalt not appear empty in the sight of the Lord.
19982 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 7 For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of God.
19983 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 8 The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of sweetness in the sight of the most High.
19984 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 9 The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will not forget the memorial thereof.
19985 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 10 Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the firstfruits of thy hands.
19986 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 11 In every gift shew a cheerful countenance, and sanctify thy tithes with joy.
19987 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 12 Give to the most High according to what he hath given to thee, and with a good eye do according to the ability of thy hands:
19988 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 13 For the Lord maketh recompense, and will give thee seven times as much.
19989 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 14 Do not offer wicked gifts, for such he will not receive.
19990 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 15 And look not upon an unjust sacrifice, for the Lord is judge, and there is not with him respect of person.
19991 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 16 The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer of him that is wronged.
19992 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 17 He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.
19993 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 18 Do not the widow’s tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
19994 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 19 For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delighted with them.
19995 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 20 He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the clouds.
19996 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 21 The prayer of him that humbleth himself, shall pierce the clouds: and till it come nigh he will not be comforted: and he will not depart till the most High behold.
19997 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 22 And the Lord will not be slack, but will judge for the just, and will do judgment: and the Almighty will not have patience with them, that he may crush their back:
19998 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 23 And he will repay vengeance to the Gentiles, till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust,
19999 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 24 Till he have rendered to men according to their deeds: and according to the works of Adam, and according to his presumption,
20000 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 25 Till he have judged the cause of his people, and he shall delight the just with his mercy.
20001 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 35 26 The mercy of God is beautiful in the time of affliction, as a cloud of rain in the time of drought.
20002 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies:
20003 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 2 And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders.
20004 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 3 Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power.
20005 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 4 For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence,
20006 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 5 That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord.
20007 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 6 Renew thy signs, and work new miracles.
20008 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 7 Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.
20009 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 8 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath.
20010 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 9 Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy.
20011 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 10 Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.
20012 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 11 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.
20013 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 12 Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is no other beside us.
20014 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 13 Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that there no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou shalt inherit them as from the beginning.
20015 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 14 Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.
20016 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 15 Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified, the city of thy rest.
20017 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 16 Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy glory.
20018 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 17 Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in thy name.
20019 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 18 Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants,
20020 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 19 According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth, that thou art God the beholder of all ages.
20021 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 20 The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.
20022 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 21 The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.
20023 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 22 A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.
20024 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 23 A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another.
20025 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 24 The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more.
20026 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 25 If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
20027 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 26 He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.
20028 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 27 Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.
20029 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 36 28 Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city.
20030 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 1 Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?
20031 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 2 But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.
20032 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 3 O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?
20033 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 4 There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys, but in the time of trouble, he will be against him.
20034 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 5 There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly’s sake, and he will take up a shield against the enemy.
20035 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 6 Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches.
20036 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 7 Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy thee.
20037 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 8 Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but there is one that is a counsellor for himself.
20038 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 9 Beware of a counsellor. And know before what need he hath: for he will devise to his own mind:
20039 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 10 Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee:
20040 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 11 Thy way is good; and then stand on the other side to see what shall befall thee.
20041 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 12 Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor with an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a merchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious man of giving thanks,
20042 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 13 Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of honesty, nor with the field laborer of every work,
20043 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 14 Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel.
20044 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 15 But be continually with a holy man, whomsoever thou shalt know to observe the fear of God,
20045 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 16 Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.
20046 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 17 And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel: for there is no other thing of more worth to thee than it.
20047 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 18 The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch.
20048 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 19 But above all these things pray to the most High, that he may direct thy way in truth.
20049 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 20 In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady counsel before every action.
20050 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 21 A wicked word shall change the heart: out of which four manner of things arise, good and evil, life and death: and the tongue is continually the ruler of them. There is a man that is subtle and a teacher of many, and yet is unprofitable to his own soul.
20051 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 22 A skilful man hath taught many, and is sweet to his own soul.
20052 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 23 He that speaketh sophistically, is hateful: he shall be destitute of every thing.
20053 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 24 Grace is not given him from the Lord: for he is deprived of all wisdom.
20054 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 25 There is a wise man that is wise to his own soul: and the fruit of his understanding is commendable.
20055 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 26 A wise man instructeth his own people, and the fruits of his understanding are faithful.
20056 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 27 A wise man shall be filled with blessings, and they that see shall praise him.
20057 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 28 The life of a man is in the number of his days: but the days of Israel are innumerable.
20058 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 29 A wise man shall inherit honour among his people, and his name shall live for ever.
20059 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 30 My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if it be wicked, give it no power:
20060 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 31 For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth not every soul.
20061 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 32 Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour not out thyself upon any meat:
20062 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 33 For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will turn to choler.
20063 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 37 34 By surfeiting many have perished, but he that is temperate, shall prolong life.
20064 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 1 Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.
20065 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 2 For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the king.
20066 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be praised.
20067 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 4 The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
20068 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 5 Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?
20069 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 6 The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and the most High hath given knowledge to men, that he may be honoured in his wonders.
20070 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 7 By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these the apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up ointments of health, and of his works there shall be no end.
20071 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 8 For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth.
20072 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 9 My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee.
20073 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 10 Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
20074 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 11 Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
20075 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 12 For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary.
20076 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 13 For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands:
20077 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 14 And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation.
20078 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 15 He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the hands of the physician.
20079 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 16 My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his body, and neglect not his burial.
20080 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 17 And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
20081 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 18 And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or two, for fear of detraction.
20082 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 19 For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.
20083 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 20 In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.
20084 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 21 Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
20085 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 22 Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thyself.
20086 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 23 Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so: yesterday for me, and to day for thee.
20087 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 24 When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort him in the departing of his spirit.
20088 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 25 The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.
20089 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 26 With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of bulls?
20090 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 27 He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
20091 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 28 So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
20092 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 29 So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron work. The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace.
20093 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 30 The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
20094 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 31 He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to polish them to perfection.
20095 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 32 So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work by number:
20096 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 33 He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet:
20097 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 34 He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
20098 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 35 All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own art.
20099 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 36 Without these a city is not built.
20100 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 37 And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall not go up into the assembly.
20101 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 38 Upon the judges’ seat they shall not sit, and the ordinance of judgment they shall not understand, neither shall they declare discipline and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken:
20102 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 38 39 But they shall strengthen the state of the world, and their prayer shall be in the work of their craft, applying their soul, and searching in the law of the most High.
20103 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 1 The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and will be occupied in the prophets.
20104 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 2 He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal into the subtilties of parables.
20105 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 3 He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of parables.
20106 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 4 He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor.
20107 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 5 He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.
20108 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 6 He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight of the most High.
20109 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 7 He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins.
20110 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 8 For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the spirit of understanding:
20111 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 9 And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess to the Lord.
20112 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 10 And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.
20113 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 11 He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.
20114 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 12 Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall never be forgotten.
20115 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 13 The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation.
20116 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 14 Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew forth his praise.
20117 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 15 If he continue, he shall leave a name above a thousand: and if he rest, it shall be to his advantage.
20118 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 16 I will yet meditate that I may declare: for I am filled as with a holy transport.
20119 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 17 By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters.
20120 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 18 Give ye a sweet odour as frankincense.
20121 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 19 Send forth flowers, as the lily, and yield a smell, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works.
20122 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 20 Magnify his name, and give glory to him with the voice of your lips, and with the canticles of your mouths, and with harps, and in praising him, you shall say in this manner:
20123 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 21 All the works of the Lord are exceeding good.
20124 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 22 At his word the waters stood as a heap: and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters:
20125 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 23 For at his commandment favour is shewn, and there is no diminishing of his salvation.
20126 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 24 The works of all flesh are before him, and there is nothing hid from his eyes.
20127 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 25 He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.
20128 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 26 There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things shall be sought in their time.
20129 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 27 His blessing hath overflowed like a river.
20130 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 28 And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him.
20131 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 29 Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.
20132 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 30 Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things.
20133 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 31 The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
20134 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 32 All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil.
20135 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 33 There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their fury they lay on grievous torments.
20136 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 34 In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.
20137 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 35 Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance.
20138 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 36 The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction.
20139 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 37 In his commandments they shall feast, and they shall be ready upon earth when need is, and when their time is come they shall not transgress his word.
20140 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 38 Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and I have meditated, and thought on these things and left them in writing,
20141 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 39 All the works of the Lord are good, and he will furnish every work in due time.
20142 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 40 It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be well approved in their time.
20143 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 39 41 Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord.
20144 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 1 Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother’s womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.
20145 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 2 Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:
20146 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 3 From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:
20147 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 4 From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,
20148 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 5 And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.
20149 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 6 A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.
20150 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 7 He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear.
20151 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 8 Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.
20152 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 9 Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, famine, and affliction, and scourges:
20153 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 10 All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.
20154 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 11 All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.
20155 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 12 All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.
20156 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 13 The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.
20157 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 14 While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away in the end.
20158 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 15 The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
20159 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 16 The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
20160 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 17 Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever.
20161 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 18 The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure.
20162 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 19 Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both.
20163 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 20 Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.
20164 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 21 The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
20165 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 22 Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.
20166 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 23 A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.
20167 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 24 Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall deliver more than they.
20168 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 25 Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both.
20169 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 26 Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the fear of the Lord.
20170 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 27 There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help.
20171 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 28 The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.
20172 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 29 My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.
20173 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 30 The life of him that looketh toward another man’s table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man’s meat.
20174 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 31 But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.
20175 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 40 32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.
20176 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
20177 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 2 To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!
20178 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:
20179 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!
20180 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 5 Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.
20181 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 6 And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.
20182 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life.
20183 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.
20184 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 9 The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.
20185 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.
20186 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.
20187 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 12 And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.
20188 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 13 All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.
20189 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 14 The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.
20190 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 15 Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
20191 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 16 A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.
20192 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 17 My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?
20193 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.
20194 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 19 Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.
20195 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 20 For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.
20196 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 21 Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:
20197 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 22 Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:
20198 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 23 Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,
20199 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 24 Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:
20200 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 25 Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.
20201 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 26 Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
20202 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 27 Gaze not upon another man’s wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
20203 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 41 28 Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.
20204 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 1 Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these things, and accept no person to sin thereby:
20205 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 2 Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly:
20206 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 3 Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:
20207 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 4 Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:
20208 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 5 Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.
20209 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 6 Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.
20210 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 7 Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.
20211 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.
20212 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 9 The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful:
20213 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 10 In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father’s house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren.
20214 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.
20215 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 12 Behold not everybody’s beauty: and tarry not among women.
20216 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 13 For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of a man.
20217 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 14 For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.
20218 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 15 I will now remember the works of the Lord, and I will declare the things I have seen. By the words of the Lord are his works.
20219 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 16 The sun giving light hath looked upon all things, and full of the glory of the Lord is his work.
20220 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 17 Hath not the Lord made the saints to declare all his wonderful works, which the Lord Almighty hath firmly settled to be established for his glory?
20221 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 18 He hath searched out the deep, and the heart of men: and considered their crafty devices.
20222 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 19 For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of the world, he declareth the things that are past, and the things that are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things.
20223 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 20 No thought escapeth him, and no word can hide itself from him.
20224 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 21 He hath beautified the glorious works of his wisdom: and he is from eternity to eternity, and to him nothing may be added,
20225 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 22 Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.
20226 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 23 O how desirable are all his works, and what we can know is but as a spark!
20227 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 24 All these things live, and remain for ever, and for every use all things obey him.
20228 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 25 All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.
20229 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 42 26 He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?
20230 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 1 The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.
20231 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 2 The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.
20232 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 3 At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:
20233 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 4 The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.
20234 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 5 Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.
20235 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world.
20236 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 7 From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
20237 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 8 The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her perfection.
20238 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 9 Being an instrument of the armies on high, shining gloriously in the firmament of heaven.
20239 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 10 The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven; the Lord enlighteneth the world on high.
20240 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 11 By the words of the holy one they stand in judgment, and shall never fall in their watches.
20241 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 12 Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that made it: it is very beautiful in its brightness.
20242 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 13 It encompasseth the heaven about with the circle of its glory, the hands of the most High have displayed it.
20243 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 14 By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
20244 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 15 Through this are the treasures opened, and the clouds fly out like birds.
20245 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 16 By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones are broken.
20246 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 17 At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the south wind shall blow.
20247 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 18 The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirlwind:
20248 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 19 And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.
20249 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 20 The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.
20250 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 21 He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.
20251 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 22 The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate.
20252 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 23 And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.
20253 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 24 A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.
20254 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 25 At his word the wind is still, and with his thought he appeaseth the deep, and the Lord hath planted islands therein.
20255 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 26 Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.
20256 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 27 There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of all living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales.
20257 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 28 Through him is established the end of their journey, and by his word all things are regulated.
20258 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 29 We shall say much, and yet shall want words: but the sum of our words is, He is all.
20259 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 30 What shall we be able to do to glorify him? for the Almighty himself is above all his works.
20260 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 31 The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great, and his power is admirable.
20261 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 32 Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful.
20262 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 33 Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can; for he is above all praise.
20263 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 34 When you exalt him put forth all your strength, and be not weary: for you can never go far enough.
20264 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 35 Who shall see him, and declare him? and who shall magnify him as he is from the beginning?
20265 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 36 There are many things hidden from us that are greater than these: for we have seen but a few of his works.
20266 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 43 37 But the Lord hath made all things, and to the godly he hath given wisdom.
20267 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 1 Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their generation.
20268 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 2 The Lord hath wrought great glory through his magnificence from the beginning.
20269 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 3 Such as have borne rule in their dominions, men of great power, and endued with their wisdom, shewing forth in the prophets the dignity of prophets,
20270 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 4 And ruling over the present people, and by the strength of wisdom instructing the people in most holy words.
20271 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 5 Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published canticles of the scriptures.
20272 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 6 Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness: living at peace in their houses.
20273 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 7 All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days.
20274 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 8 They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related:
20275 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 9 And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them.
20276 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 10 But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:
20277 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 11 Good things continue with their seed,
20278 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 12 Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in the covenants.
20279 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 13 And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed and their glory shall not be forsaken.
20280 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 14 Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto generation and generation.
20281 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 15 Let the people shew forth their wisdom, and the church declare their praise.
20282 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 16 Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations.
20283 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 17 Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation.
20284 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 18 Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came.
20285 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 19 The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood.
20286 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 20 Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him.
20287 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 21 In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful.
20288 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 22 Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth,
20289 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 23 And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
20290 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 24 And he did in like manner with Isaac for the sake of Abraham his father.
20291 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 25 The Lord gave him the blessing of all nations, and confirmed his covenant upon the head of Jacob.
20292 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 26 He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an inheritance, and divided him his portion in twelve tribes.
20293 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 44 27 And he preserved for him men of mercy, that found grace in the eyes of all flesh.
20294 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 1 Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction.
20295 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 2 He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease.
20296 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 3 He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory.
20297 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 4 He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh.
20298 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 5 For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud.
20299 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 6 And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his judgments.
20300 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 7 He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi:
20301 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 8 He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory,
20302 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 9 And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire.
20303 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 10 He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about,
20304 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 11 That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people.
20305 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 12 He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth:
20306 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 13 Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
20307 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 14 And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for its beauty.
20308 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 15 Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning.
20309 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 16 No stranger was ever clothed with them, but only his children alone, and his grandchildren for ever.
20310 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 17 His sacrifices were consumed with fire every day.
20311 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 18 Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil.
20312 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 19 This was made to him for an everlasting testament, and to his seed as the days of heaven, to execute the office of the priesthood, and to have praise, and to glorify his people in his name.
20313 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 20 He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a good savour, for a memorial to make reconciliation for his people:
20314 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 21 And he gave him power in his commandments, in the covenants of his judgments, that he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give light to Israel in his law.
20315 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 22 And strangers stood up against him, and through envy the men that were with Dathan and Abiron, compassed him about in the wilderness, and the congregation of Core in their wrath.
20316 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 23 The Lord God saw and it pleased him not, and they were consumed in his wrathful indignation.
20317 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 24 He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of fire.
20318 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 25 And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.
20319 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 26 He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed.
20320 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 27 But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and inheritance.
20321 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 28 Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating him in the fear of the Lord:
20322 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 29 And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.
20323 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 30 Therefore he made to him a covenant of peace, to be the prince of the sanctuary, and of his people, that the dignity of priesthood should be to him and to his seed for ever.
20324 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 45 31 And a covenant to David the king, the son of Jesse of the tribe of Juda, an inheritance to him and to his seed, that he might give wisdom into our heart to judge his people in justice, that their good things might not be abolished, and he made their glory in their nation everlasting.
20325 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 1 Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name,
20326 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 2 Very great for the saving the elect of God, to overthrow the enemies that rose up against them, that he might get the inheritance for Israel.
20327 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 3 How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against the cities?
20328 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 4 Who before him hath so resisted? for the Lord himself brought the enemies.
20329 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 5 Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two?
20330 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 6 He called upon the most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted him on every side, and the great and holy God heard him by hailstones of exceeding great force.
20331 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 7 He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.
20332 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 8 That the nations might know his power, that it is not easy to fight against God. And he followed the mighty one:
20333 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 9 And in the days of Moses he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withholding the people from sins, and appeasing the wicked murmuring.
20334 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 10 And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey.
20335 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 11 And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance:
20336 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 12 That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God.
20337 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 13 Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord,
20338 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 14 That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out of their place,
20339 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 15 And their name continue for ever, the glory of the holy men remaining unto their children.
20340 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 16 Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God, established a new government, and anointed princes over his people.
20341 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 17 By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God of Jacob beheld, and by his fidelity he was proved a prophet.
20342 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 18 And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the God of light:
20343 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 19 And called upon the name of the Lord Almighty, in fighting against the enemies who beset him on every side, when he offered a lamb without blemish.
20344 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 20 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard.
20345 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 21 And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians, and all the lords of the Philistines:
20346 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 22 And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him.
20347 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 46 23 And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and shewed him the end of his life, and he lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the nation.
20348 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 1 Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of David.
20349 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 2 And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the children of Israel.
20350 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 3 He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like manner as with the lambs of the flock, in his youth.
20351 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 4 Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people?
20352 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 5 In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he beat down the boasting of Goliath:
20353 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 6 For he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in his right hand, to take away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn of his nation.
20354 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 7 So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in offering to him a crown of glory:
20355 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 8 For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and extirpated the Philistines the adversaries unto this day: he broke their horn for ever.
20356 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 9 In all his works he gave thanks to the holy one, and to the most High, with words of glory.
20357 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 10 With his whole heart he praised the Lord, and loved God that made him: and he gave him power against his enemies:
20358 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 11 And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made sweet melody.
20359 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 12 And to the festivals he added beauty, and set in order the solemn times even to the end of his life, that they should praise the holy name of the Lord, and magnify the holiness of God in the morning.
20360 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 13 The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: and he gave him a covenant of the kingdom, and a throne of glory in Israel.
20361 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 14 After him arose up a wise son, and for his sake he cast down all the power of the enemies.
20362 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 15 Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God brought all his enemies under him, that he might build a house in his name, and prepare a sanctuary for ever: O how wise wast thou in thy youth!
20363 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 16 And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul covered the earth.
20364 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 17 And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.
20365 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 18 The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations,
20366 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 19 And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel.
20367 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 20 Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as lead,
20368 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 21 And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.
20369 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 22 Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled,
20370 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 23 That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.
20371 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 24 But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the roots the offspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of him that loveth the Lord.
20372 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 25 Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same stock.
20373 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 26 And Solomon had an end with his fathers.
20374 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 27 And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation,
20375 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 28 Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who turned away the people through his counsel:
20376 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 29 And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin, and their sins were multiplied exceedingly.
20377 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 30 They removed them far away from their land.
20378 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 47 31 And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon them, and put an end to all their sins.
20379 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 1 And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch.
20380 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 2 He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure the commandments of the Lord.
20381 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down fire from heaven thrice.
20382 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 4 Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory like to thee?
20383 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 5 Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot of death, by the word of the Lord God.
20384 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 6 Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily their power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed.
20385 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 7 Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.
20386 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 8 Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee.
20387 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 9 Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.
20388 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 10 Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
20389 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 11 Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.
20390 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 12 For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such.
20391 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 13 Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he.
20392 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 14 No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied.
20393 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 15 In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought miracles.
20394 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 16 For all this the people repented not, neither did they depart from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth.
20395 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 17 And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house of David.
20396 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 18 Some of these did that which pleased God: but others committed many sins.
20397 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 19 Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for water.
20398 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 20 In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against Sion, and became proud through his power.
20399 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 21 Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as women in travail.
20400 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 22 And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading their hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God quickly heard their voice.
20401 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 23 He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he deliver them up to their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias, the holy prophet.
20402 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 24 He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the Lord destroyed them.
20403 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 25 For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in the way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and faithful in the sight of God, had commanded him.
20404 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 26 In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king’s life.
20405 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 27 With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass at last, and comforted the mourners in Sion.
20406 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 48 28 He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things before they came.
20407 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 1 The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer:
20408 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 2 His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine.
20409 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 3 He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations of wickedness.
20410 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 4 And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of sinners he strengthened godliness.
20411 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 5 Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin.
20412 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 6 For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God.
20413 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 7 So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation,
20414 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 8 They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.
20415 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 9 For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother’s womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew.
20416 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 10 It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn him upon the chariot of cherubims.
20417 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 11 For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and of doing good to them that shewed right ways.
20418 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 12 And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up out of their place: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong faith.
20419 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 13 How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he was as a signet on the right hand;
20420 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 14 In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built the house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.
20421 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 15 And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who rebuilt our houses.
20422 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 16 No man was born upon earth like Henoch: for he also was taken up from the earth.
20423 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 17 Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince of his brethren, the support of his family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the people:
20424 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 18 And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.
20425 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 49 19 Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam in the beginning,
20426 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 1 Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple.
20427 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 2 By him also the height of the temple was founded, the double building and the high walls of the temple.
20428 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 3 In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled as the sea above measure.
20429 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 4 He took care of his nation, and delivered it from destruction.
20430 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 5 He prevailed to enlarge the city, and obtained glory in his conversation with the people: and enlarged the entrance of the house and the court.
20431 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 6 He shone in his days as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full.
20432 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 7 And as the sun when it shineth, so did he shine in the temple of God.
20433 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 8 And as the rainbow giving light in bright clouds, and as the flower of roses in the days of the spring, and as the lilies that are on the brink of the water, and as the sweet smelling frankincense in the time of summer.
20434 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 9 As a bright fire, and frankincense burning in the fire.
20435 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 10 As a massy vessel of gold, adorned with every precious stone.
20436 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 11 As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing itself on high, when he put on the robe of glory, and was clothed with the perfection of power.
20437 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 12 When he went up to the holy altar, he honoured the vesture of holiness.
20438 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 13 And when he took the portions out of the hands of the priests, he himself stood by the altar. And about him was the ring of his brethren: and as the cedar planted in mount Libanus,
20439 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 14 And as branches of palm trees, they stood round about him, and all the sons of Aaron in their glory.
20440 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 15 And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to honour the offering of the most high King,
20441 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 16 He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape.
20442 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 17 He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most high Prince.
20443 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 18 Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.
20444 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 19 Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the earth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the Almighty God the most High.
20445 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 20 And the singers lifted up their voices, and in the great house the sound of sweet melody was increased.
20446 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 21 And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their office.
20447 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 22 Then coming down, he lifted up his hands over all the congregation of the children of Israel, to give glory to God with his lips, and to glory in his name:
20448 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 23 And he repeated his prayer, willing to shew the power of God.
20449 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 24 And now pray ye to the God of all, who hath done great things in all the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother’s womb, and hath done with us according to his mercy.
20450 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 25 May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and that there be peace in our days in Israel for ever:
20451 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 26 That Israel may believe that the mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in his days.
20452 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 27 There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is no nation: which I hate:
20453 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 28 They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.
20454 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 29 Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book the doctrine of wisdom and instruction, who renewed wisdom from his heart.
20455 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 30 Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always.
20456 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 50 31 For if he do them, he shall be strong to do all things: because the light of God guideth his steps.
20457 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 1 A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give glory to thee, O Lord, O King, and I will praise thee, O God my Saviour.
20458 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 2 I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and protector to me.
20459 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 3 And hast preserved my body from destruction, from the snare of an unjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the sight of them that stood by, thou hast been my helper.
20460 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 4 And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour.
20461 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 5 Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compassed me about:
20462 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 6 From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not burnt.
20463 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 7 From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue, and from lying words, from an unjust king, and from a slanderous tongue:
20464 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 8 My soul shall praise the Lord even to death.
20465 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 9 And my life was drawing near to hell beneath.
20466 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 10 They compassed me on every side, and there was no one that would help me. I looked for the succour of men, and there was none.
20467 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 11 I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the beginning of the world.
20468 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 12 How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest them out of the hands of the nations.
20469 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 13 Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have prayed for death to pass away.
20470 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 14 I called upon the Lord, the father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud without help.
20471 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 15 I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with thanksgiving, and my prayer was heard.
20472 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 16 And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me from the evil time.
20473 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 17 Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the name of the Lord.
20474 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 18 When I was yet young, before I wandered about, I sought for wisdom openly in my prayer.
20475 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 19 I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe.
20476 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 20 My heart delighted in her, my foot walked in the right way, from my youth up I sought after her.
20477 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 21 I bowed down my ear a little, and received her.
20478 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 22 I found much wisdom in myself, and profited much therein.
20479 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 23 To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give glory.
20480 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 24 For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounded.
20481 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 25 My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed.
20482 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 26 I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her.
20483 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 27 I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.
20484 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 28 I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I shall not be forsaken.
20485 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 29 My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I possess a good possession.
20486 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 30 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward: and with it I will praise him.
20487 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 31 Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the house of discipline.
20488 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 32 Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls are exceeding thirsty.
20489 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 33 I have opened my mouth, and have spoken: buy her for yourselves without silver,
20490 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 34 And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive discipline: for she is near at hand to be found.
20491 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 35 Behold with your eyes how I have laboured a little, and have found much rest to myself.
20492 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 36 Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess abundance of gold by her.
20493 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 37 Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you shall not be confounded in his praise.
20494 Ecclesiasticus Eccls 26 51 38 Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time.
20495 Isaias Isa 27 1 1 The vision of Isaias the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.
20496 Isaias Isa 27 1 2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
20497 Isaias Isa 27 1 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
20498 Isaias Isa 27 1 4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.
20499 Isaias Isa 27 1 5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
20500 Isaias Isa 27 1 6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.
20501 Isaias Isa 27 1 7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
20502 Isaias Isa 27 1 8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.
20503 Isaias Isa 27 1 9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
20504 Isaias Isa 27 1 10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
20505 Isaias Isa 27 1 11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
20506 Isaias Isa 27 1 12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
20507 Isaias Isa 27 1 13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
20508 Isaias Isa 27 1 14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
20509 Isaias Isa 27 1 15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
20510 Isaias Isa 27 1 16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,
20511 Isaias Isa 27 1 17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
20512 Isaias Isa 27 1 18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
20513 Isaias Isa 27 1 19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20514 Isaias Isa 27 1 20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
20515 Isaias Isa 27 1 21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
20516 Isaias Isa 27 1 22 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.
20517 Isaias Isa 27 1 23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cause cometh not in to them.
20518 Isaias Isa 27 1 24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.
20519 Isaias Isa 27 1 25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
20520 Isaias Isa 27 1 26 And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.
20521 Isaias Isa 27 1 27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
20522 Isaias Isa 27 1 28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
20523 Isaias Isa 27 1 29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.
20524 Isaias Isa 27 1 30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
20525 Isaias Isa 27 1 31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.
20526 Isaias Isa 27 2 1 The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.
20527 Isaias Isa 27 2 2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
20528 Isaias Isa 27 2 3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
20529 Isaias Isa 27 2 4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.
20530 Isaias Isa 27 2 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
20531 Isaias Isa 27 2 6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.
20532 Isaias Isa 27 2 7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.
20533 Isaias Isa 27 2 8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.
20534 Isaias Isa 27 2 9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.
20535 Isaias Isa 27 2 10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
20536 Isaias Isa 27 2 11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
20537 Isaias Isa 27 2 12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
20538 Isaias Isa 27 2 13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.
20539 Isaias Isa 27 2 14 And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills.
20540 Isaias Isa 27 2 15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.
20541 Isaias Isa 27 2 16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.
20542 Isaias Isa 27 2 17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
20543 Isaias Isa 27 2 18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
20544 Isaias Isa 27 2 19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
20545 Isaias Isa 27 2 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
20546 Isaias Isa 27 2 21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
20547 Isaias Isa 27 2 22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
20548 Isaias Isa 27 3 1 For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water.
20549 Isaias Isa 27 3 2 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and the cunning man, and the ancient.
20550 Isaias Isa 27 3 3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.
20551 Isaias Isa 27 3 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.
20552 Isaias Isa 27 3 5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
20553 Isaias Isa 27 3 6 For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.
20554 Isaias Isa 27 3 7 In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.
20555 Isaias Isa 27 3 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.
20556 Isaias Isa 27 3 9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.
20557 Isaias Isa 27 3 10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.
20558 Isaias Isa 27 3 11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
20559 Isaias Isa 27 3 12 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.
20560 Isaias Isa 27 3 13 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.
20561 Isaias Isa 27 3 14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.
20562 Isaias Isa 27 3 15 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.
20563 Isaias Isa 27 3 16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:
20564 Isaias Isa 27 3 17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
20565 Isaias Isa 27 3 18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and little moons,
20566 Isaias Isa 27 3 19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,
20567 Isaias Isa 27 3 20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings,
20568 Isaias Isa 27 3 21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,
20569 Isaias Isa 27 3 22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins,
20570 Isaias Isa 27 3 23 And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.
20571 Isaias Isa 27 3 24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.
20572 Isaias Isa 27 3 25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.
20573 Isaias Isa 27 3 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
20574 Isaias Isa 27 4 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.
20575 Isaias Isa 27 4 2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.
20576 Isaias Isa 27 4 3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem.
20577 Isaias Isa 27 4 4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
20578 Isaias Isa 27 4 5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.
20579 Isaias Isa 27 4 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.
20580 Isaias Isa 27 5 1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.
20581 Isaias Isa 27 5 2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
20582 Isaias Isa 27 5 3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.
20583 Isaias Isa 27 5 4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
20584 Isaias Isa 27 5 5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
20585 Isaias Isa 27 5 6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
20586 Isaias Isa 27 5 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
20587 Isaias Isa 27 5 8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?
20588 Isaias Isa 27 5 9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.
20589 Isaias Isa 27 5 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
20590 Isaias Isa 27 5 11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.
20591 Isaias Isa 27 5 12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
20592 Isaias Isa 27 5 13 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.
20593 Isaias Isa 27 5 14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.
20594 Isaias Isa 27 5 15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
20595 Isaias Isa 27 5 16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
20596 Isaias Isa 27 5 17 And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
20597 Isaias Isa 27 5 18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.
20598 Isaias Isa 27 5 19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
20599 Isaias Isa 27 5 20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
20600 Isaias Isa 27 5 21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.
20601 Isaias Isa 27 5 22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
20602 Isaias Isa 27 5 23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.
20603 Isaias Isa 27 5 24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.
20604 Isaias Isa 27 5 25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
20605 Isaias Isa 27 5 26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
20606 Isaias Isa 27 5 27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.
20607 Isaias Isa 27 5 28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.
20608 Isaias Isa 27 5 29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.
20609 Isaias Isa 27 5 30 And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.
20610 Isaias Isa 27 6 1 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.
20611 Isaias Isa 27 6 2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.
20612 Isaias Isa 27 6 3 And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory,
20613 Isaias Isa 27 6 4 And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
20614 Isaias Isa 27 6 5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
20615 Isaias Isa 27 6 6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.
20616 Isaias Isa 27 6 7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.
20617 Isaias Isa 27 6 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.
20618 Isaias Isa 27 6 9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.
20619 Isaias Isa 27 6 10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.
20620 Isaias Isa 27 6 11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
20621 Isaias Isa 27 6 12 And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.
20622 Isaias Isa 27 6 13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.
20623 Isaias Isa 27 7 1 And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it.
20624 Isaias Isa 27 7 2 And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
20625 Isaias Isa 27 7 3 And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller’s field.
20626 Isaias Isa 27 7 4 And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.
20627 Isaias Isa 27 7 5 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
20628 Isaias Isa 27 7 6 Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.
20629 Isaias Isa 27 7 7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.
20630 Isaias Isa 27 7 8 But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:
20631 Isaias Isa 27 7 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.
20632 Isaias Isa 27 7 10 And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:
20633 Isaias Isa 27 7 11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.
20634 Isaias Isa 27 7 12 And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.
20635 Isaias Isa 27 7 13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?
20636 Isaias Isa 27 7 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
20637 Isaias Isa 27 7 15 He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
20638 Isaias Isa 27 7 16 For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings.
20639 Isaias Isa 27 7 17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days that have not come since the time of the separation of Ephraim from Juda with the king of the Assyrians.
20640 Isaias Isa 27 7 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
20641 Isaias Isa 27 7 19 And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow places.
20642 Isaias Isa 27 7 20 In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.
20643 Isaias Isa 27 7 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
20644 Isaias Isa 27 7 22 And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.
20645 Isaias Isa 27 7 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.
20646 Isaias Isa 27 7 24 With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land.
20647 Isaias Isa 27 7 25 And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.
20648 Isaias Isa 27 8 1 And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man’s pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.
20649 Isaias Isa 27 8 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
20650 Isaias Isa 27 8 3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.
20651 Isaias Isa 27 8 4 For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians.
20652 Isaias Isa 27 8 5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:
20653 Isaias Isa 27 8 6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:
20654 Isaias Isa 27 8 7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks.
20655 Isaias Isa 27 8 8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.
20656 Isaias Isa 27 8 9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
20657 Isaias Isa 27 8 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
20658 Isaias Isa 27 8 11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
20659 Isaias Isa 27 8 12 Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
20660 Isaias Isa 27 8 13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
20661 Isaias Isa 27 8 14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
20662 Isaias Isa 27 8 15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
20663 Isaias Isa 27 8 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
20664 Isaias Isa 27 8 17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
20665 Isaias Isa 27 8 18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.
20666 Isaias Isa 27 8 19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?
20667 Isaias Isa 27 8 20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.
20668 Isaias Isa 27 8 21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
20669 Isaias Isa 27 8 22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
20670 Isaias Isa 27 9 1 At the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephtali was lightly touched: and at the last the way of the sea beyond the Jordan of the Galilee of the Gentiles was heavily loaded.
20671 Isaias Isa 27 9 2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.
20672 Isaias Isa 27 9 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.
20673 Isaias Isa 27 9 4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.
20674 Isaias Isa 27 9 5 For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.
20675 Isaias Isa 27 9 6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
20676 Isaias Isa 27 9 7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
20677 Isaias Isa 27 9 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
20678 Isaias Isa 27 9 9 And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart:
20679 Isaias Isa 27 9 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.
20680 Isaias Isa 27 9 11 And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:
20681 Isaias Isa 27 9 12 The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
20682 Isaias Isa 27 9 13 And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.
20683 Isaias Isa 27 9 14 And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.
20684 Isaias Isa 27 9 15 The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
20685 Isaias Isa 27 9 16 And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.
20686 Isaias Isa 27 9 17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
20687 Isaias Isa 27 9 18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.
20688 Isaias Isa 27 9 19 By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20689 Isaias Isa 27 9 20 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be against Juda.
20690 Isaias Isa 27 9 21 After all these things his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
20691 Isaias Isa 27 10 1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
20692 Isaias Isa 27 10 2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
20693 Isaias Isa 27 10 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
20694 Isaias Isa 27 10 4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
20695 Isaias Isa 27 10 5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
20696 Isaias Isa 27 10 6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
20697 Isaias Isa 27 10 7 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
20698 Isaias Isa 27 10 8 For he shall say:
20699 Isaias Isa 27 10 9 Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
20700 Isaias Isa 27 10 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
20701 Isaias Isa 27 10 11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
20702 Isaias Isa 27 10 12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
20703 Isaias Isa 27 10 13 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.
20704 Isaias Isa 27 10 14 And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.
20705 Isaias Isa 27 10 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.
20706 Isaias Isa 27 10 16 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.
20707 Isaias Isa 27 10 17 And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
20708 Isaias Isa 27 10 18 And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through fear.
20709 Isaias Isa 27 10 19 And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
20710 Isaias Isa 27 10 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
20711 Isaias Isa 27 10 21 The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.
20712 Isaias Isa 27 10 22 For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.
20713 Isaias Isa 27 10 23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.
20714 Isaias Isa 27 10 24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
20715 Isaias Isa 27 10 25 For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.
20716 Isaias Isa 27 10 26 And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.
20717 Isaias Isa 27 10 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify at the presence of the oil.
20718 Isaias Isa 27 10 28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
20719 Isaias Isa 27 10 29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
20720 Isaias Isa 27 10 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.
20721 Isaias Isa 27 10 31 Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.
20722 Isaias Isa 27 10 32 It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.
20723 Isaias Isa 27 10 33 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
20724 Isaias Isa 27 10 34 And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.
20725 Isaias Isa 27 11 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
20726 Isaias Isa 27 11 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.
20727 Isaias Isa 27 11 3 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.
20728 Isaias Isa 27 11 4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
20729 Isaias Isa 27 11 5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.
20730 Isaias Isa 27 11 6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.
20731 Isaias Isa 27 11 7 The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
20732 Isaias Isa 27 11 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.
20733 Isaias Isa 27 11 9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.
20734 Isaias Isa 27 11 10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.
20735 Isaias Isa 27 11 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.
20736 Isaias Isa 27 11 12 And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.
20737 Isaias Isa 27 11 13 And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.
20738 Isaias Isa 27 11 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, and Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.
20739 Isaias Isa 27 11 15 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.
20740 Isaias Isa 27 11 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people, which shall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
20741 Isaias Isa 27 12 1 And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
20742 Isaias Isa 27 12 2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.
20743 Isaias Isa 27 12 3 Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour’s fountains:
20744 Isaias Isa 27 12 4 And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name is high.
20745 Isaias Isa 27 12 5 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this forth in all the earth.
20746 Isaias Isa 27 12 6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.
20747 Isaias Isa 27 13 1 The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of Amos saw.
20748 Isaias Isa 27 13 2 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.
20749 Isaias Isa 27 13 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.
20750 Isaias Isa 27 13 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.
20751 Isaias Isa 27 13 5 To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.
20752 Isaias Isa 27 13 6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.
20753 Isaias Isa 27 13 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,
20754 Isaias Isa 27 13 8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.
20755 Isaias Isa 27 13 9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
20756 Isaias Isa 27 13 10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.
20757 Isaias Isa 27 13 11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.
20758 Isaias Isa 27 13 12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.
20759 Isaias Isa 27 13 13 For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrath.
20760 Isaias Isa 27 13 14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
20761 Isaias Isa 27 13 15 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.
20762 Isaias Isa 27 13 16 Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.
20763 Isaias Isa 27 13 17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:
20764 Isaias Isa 27 13 18 But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
20765 Isaias Isa 27 13 19 And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
20766 Isaias Isa 27 13 20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.
20767 Isaias Isa 27 13 21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:
20768 Isaias Isa 27 13 22 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.
20769 Isaias Isa 27 14 1 Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.
20770 Isaias Isa 27 14 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall subdue their oppressors.
20771 Isaias Isa 27 14 3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,
20772 Isaias Isa 27 14 4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
20773 Isaias Isa 27 14 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,
20774 Isaias Isa 27 14 6 That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
20775 Isaias Isa 27 14 7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.
20776 Isaias Isa 27 14 8 The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut us down.
20777 Isaias Isa 27 14 9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.
20778 Isaias Isa 27 14 10 All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
20779 Isaias Isa 27 14 11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.
20780 Isaias Isa 27 14 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?
20781 Isaias Isa 27 14 13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.
20782 Isaias Isa 27 14 14 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.
20783 Isaias Isa 27 14 15 But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.
20784 Isaias Isa 27 14 16 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,
20785 Isaias Isa 27 14 17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
20786 Isaias Isa 27 14 18 All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.
20787 Isaias Isa 27 14 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.
20788 Isaias Isa 27 14 20 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.
20789 Isaias Isa 27 14 21 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
20790 Isaias Isa 27 14 22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.
20791 Isaias Isa 27 14 23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.
20792 Isaias Isa 27 14 24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,
20793 Isaias Isa 27 14 25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.
20794 Isaias Isa 27 14 26 This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.
20795 Isaias Isa 27 14 27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?
20796 Isaias Isa 27 14 28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
20797 Isaias Isa 27 14 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.
20798 Isaias Isa 27 14 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.
20799 Isaias Isa 27 14 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.
20800 Isaias Isa 27 14 32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.
20801 Isaias Isa 27 15 1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.
20802 Isaias Isa 27 15 2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
20803 Isaias Isa 27 15 3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.
20804 Isaias Isa 27 15 4 Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl to itself.
20805 Isaias Isa 27 15 5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
20806 Isaias Isa 27 15 6 For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.
20807 Isaias Isa 27 15 7 According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.
20808 Isaias Isa 27 15 8 For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.
20809 Isaias Isa 27 15 9 For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
20810 Isaias Isa 27 16 1 Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.
20811 Isaias Isa 27 16 2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.
20812 Isaias Isa 27 16 3 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.
20813 Isaias Isa 27 16 4 My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.
20814 Isaias Isa 27 16 5 And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.
20815 Isaias Isa 27 16 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength.
20816 Isaias Isa 27 16 7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.
20817 Isaias Isa 27 16 8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea.
20818 Isaias Isa 27 16 9 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
20819 Isaias Isa 27 16 10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.
20820 Isaias Isa 27 16 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.
20821 Isaias Isa 27 16 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail.
20822 Isaias Isa 27 16 13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:
20823 Isaias Isa 27 16 14 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.
20824 Isaias Isa 27 17 1 The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
20825 Isaias Isa 27 17 2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.
20826 Isaias Isa 27 17 3 And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of the children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts.
20827 Isaias Isa 27 17 4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.
20828 Isaias Isa 27 17 5 And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that which remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it shall be as he that seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim.
20829 Isaias Isa 27 17 6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.
20830 Isaias Isa 27 17 7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
20831 Isaias Isa 27 17 8 And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
20832 Isaias Isa 27 17 9 In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.
20833 Isaias Isa 27 17 10 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.
20834 Isaias Isa 27 17 11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.
20835 Isaias Isa 27 17 12 Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.
20836 Isaias Isa 27 17 13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.
20837 Isaias Isa 27 17 14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.
20838 Isaias Isa 27 18 1 Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
20839 Isaias Isa 27 18 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
20840 Isaias Isa 27 18 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.
20841 Isaias Isa 27 18 4 For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
20842 Isaias Isa 27 18 5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.
20843 Isaias Isa 27 18 6 And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
20844 Isaias Isa 27 18 7 At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.
20845 Isaias Isa 27 19 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
20846 Isaias Isa 27 19 2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
20847 Isaias Isa 27 19 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.
20848 Isaias Isa 27 19 4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
20849 Isaias Isa 27 19 5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.
20850 Isaias Isa 27 19 6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.
20851 Isaias Isa 27 19 7 The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.
20852 Isaias Isa 27 19 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.
20853 Isaias Isa 27 19 9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen.
20854 Isaias Isa 27 19 10 And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes.
20855 Isaias Isa 27 19 11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
20856 Isaias Isa 27 19 12 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
20857 Isaias Isa 27 19 13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.
20858 Isaias Isa 27 19 14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.
20859 Isaias Isa 27 19 15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.
20860 Isaias Isa 27 19 16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it.
20861 Isaias Isa 27 19 17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: everyone that shall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined concerning it.
20862 Isaias Isa 27 19 18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt, speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of the sun.
20863 Isaias Isa 27 19 19 In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof:
20864 Isaias Isa 27 19 20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them.
20865 Isaias Isa 27 19 21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them.
20866 Isaias Isa 27 19 22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.
20867 Isaias Isa 27 19 23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.
20868 Isaias Isa 27 19 24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,
20869 Isaias Isa 27 19 25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.
20870 Isaias Isa 27 20 1 In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had taken it:
20871 Isaias Isa 27 20 2 At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot.
20872 Isaias Isa 27 20 3 And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia,
20873 Isaias Isa 27 20 4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.
20874 Isaias Isa 27 20 5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.
20875 Isaias Isa 27 20 6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?
20876 Isaias Isa 27 21 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
20877 Isaias Isa 27 21 2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
20878 Isaias Isa 27 21 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
20879 Isaias Isa 27 21 4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
20880 Isaias Isa 27 21 5 Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
20881 Isaias Isa 27 21 6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
20882 Isaias Isa 27 21 7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
20883 Isaias Isa 27 21 8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
20884 Isaias Isa 27 21 9 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
20885 Isaias Isa 27 21 10 O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
20886 Isaias Isa 27 21 11 The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?
20887 Isaias Isa 27 21 12 The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
20888 Isaias Isa 27 21 13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
20889 Isaias Isa 27 21 14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
20890 Isaias Isa 27 21 15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
20891 Isaias Isa 27 21 16 For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
20892 Isaias Isa 27 21 17 And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.
20893 Isaias Isa 27 22 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
20894 Isaias Isa 27 22 2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
20895 Isaias Isa 27 22 3 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.
20896 Isaias Isa 27 22 4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.
20897 Isaias Isa 27 22 5 For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.
20898 Isaias Isa 27 22 6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.
20899 Isaias Isa 27 22 7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall place themselves in the gate.
20900 Isaias Isa 27 22 8 And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.
20901 Isaias Isa 27 22 9 And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,
20902 Isaias Isa 27 22 10 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.
20903 Isaias Isa 27 22 11 And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.
20904 Isaias Isa 27 22 12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
20905 Isaias Isa 27 22 13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
20906 Isaias Isa 27 22 14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
20907 Isaias Isa 27 22 15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:
20908 Isaias Isa 27 22 16 What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.
20909 Isaias Isa 27 22 17 Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.
20910 Isaias Isa 27 22 18 He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.
20911 Isaias Isa 27 22 19 And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.
20912 Isaias Isa 27 22 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
20913 Isaias Isa 27 22 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.
20914 Isaias Isa 27 22 22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.
20915 Isaias Isa 27 22 23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
20916 Isaias Isa 27 22 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.
20917 Isaias Isa 27 22 25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.
20918 Isaias Isa 27 23 1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.
20919 Isaias Isa 27 23 2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.
20920 Isaias Isa 27 23 3 The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.
20921 Isaias Isa 27 23 4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.
20922 Isaias Isa 27 23 5 When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they shall hear of Tyre:
20923 Isaias Isa 27 23 6 Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.
20924 Isaias Isa 27 23 7 Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
20925 Isaias Isa 27 23 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth?
20926 Isaias Isa 27 23 9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.
20927 Isaias Isa 27 23 10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.
20928 Isaias Isa 27 23 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.
20929 Isaias Isa 27 23 12 And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of Sidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to Cethim, there also thou shalt have no rest.
20930 Isaias Isa 27 23 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people, the Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have, brought it to ruin.
20931 Isaias Isa 27 23 14 Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.
20932 Isaias Isa 27 23 15 And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot.
20933 Isaias Isa 27 23 16 Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.
20934 Isaias Isa 27 23 17 And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
20935 Isaias Isa 27 23 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a continuance.
20936 Isaias Isa 27 24 1 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.
20937 Isaias Isa 27 24 2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.
20938 Isaias Isa 27 24 3 With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
20939 Isaias Isa 27 24 4 The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.
20940 Isaias Isa 27 24 5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
20941 Isaias Isa 27 24 6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.
20942 Isaias Isa 27 24 7 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry-hearted have sighed.
20943 Isaias Isa 27 24 8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.
20944 Isaias Isa 27 24 9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
20945 Isaias Isa 27 24 10 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
20946 Isaias Isa 27 24 11 There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
20947 Isaias Isa 27 24 12 Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
20948 Isaias Isa 27 24 13 For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.
20949 Isaias Isa 27 24 14 These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.
20950 Isaias Isa 27 24 15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
20951 Isaias Isa 27 24 16 From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.
20952 Isaias Isa 27 24 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.
20953 Isaias Isa 27 24 18 And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
20954 Isaias Isa 27 24 19 With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.
20955 Isaias Isa 27 24 20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
20956 Isaias Isa 27 24 21 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.
20957 Isaias Isa 27 24 22 And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.
20958 Isaias Isa 27 24 23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.
20959 Isaias Isa 27 25 1 O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.
20960 Isaias Isa 27 25 2 For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever.
20961 Isaias Isa 27 25 3 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.
20962 Isaias Isa 27 25 4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.
20963 Isaias Isa 27 25 5 Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst: and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of the mighty to wither away.
20964 Isaias Isa 27 25 6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.
20965 Isaias Isa 27 25 7 And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.
20966 Isaias Isa 27 25 8 He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
20967 Isaias Isa 27 25 9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.
20968 Isaias Isa 27 25 10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.
20969 Isaias Isa 27 25 11 And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.
20970 Isaias Isa 27 25 12 And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.
20971 Isaias Isa 27 26 1 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.
20972 Isaias Isa 27 26 2 Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.
20973 Isaias Isa 27 26 3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.
20974 Isaias Isa 27 26 4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.
20975 Isaias Isa 27 26 5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.
20976 Isaias Isa 27 26 6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
20977 Isaias Isa 27 26 7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.
20978 Isaias Isa 27 26 8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.
20979 Isaias Isa 27 26 9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
20980 Isaias Isa 27 26 10 Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.
20981 Isaias Isa 27 26 11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.
20982 Isaias Isa 27 26 12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.
20983 Isaias Isa 27 26 13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.
20984 Isaias Isa 27 26 14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.
20985 Isaias Isa 27 26 15 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.
20986 Isaias Isa 27 26 16 Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.
20987 Isaias Isa 27 26 17 As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.
20988 Isaias Isa 27 26 18 We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.
20989 Isaias Isa 27 26 19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.
20990 Isaias Isa 27 26 20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.
20991 Isaias Isa 27 26 21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.
20992 Isaias Isa 27 27 1 In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.
20993 Isaias Isa 27 27 2 In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.
20994 Isaias Isa 27 27 3 I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.
20995 Isaias Isa 27 27 4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?
20996 Isaias Isa 27 27 5 Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?
20997 Isaias Isa 27 27 6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.
20998 Isaias Isa 27 27 7 Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?
20999 Isaias Isa 27 27 8 In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.
21000 Isaias Isa 27 27 9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.
21001 Isaias Isa 27 27 10 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.
21002 Isaias Isa 27 27 11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.
21003 Isaias Isa 27 27 12 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.
21004 Isaias Isa 27 27 13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.
21005 Isaias Isa 27 28 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
21006 Isaias Isa 27 28 2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.
21007 Isaias Isa 27 28 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.
21008 Isaias Isa 27 28 4 And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.
21009 Isaias Isa 27 28 5 In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:
21010 Isaias Isa 27 28 6 And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.
21011 Isaias Isa 27 28 7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.
21012 Isaias Isa 27 28 8 For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.
21013 Isaias Isa 27 28 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.
21014 Isaias Isa 27 28 10 For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.
21015 Isaias Isa 27 28 11 For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.
21016 Isaias Isa 27 28 12 To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.
21017 Isaias Isa 27 28 13 And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
21018 Isaias Isa 27 28 14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.
21019 Isaias Isa 27 28 15 For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.
21020 Isaias Isa 27 28 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.
21021 Isaias Isa 27 28 17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.
21022 Isaias Isa 27 28 18 And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
21023 Isaias Isa 27 28 19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.
21024 Isaias Isa 27 28 20 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.
21025 Isaias Isa 27 28 21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.
21026 Isaias Isa 27 28 22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.
21027 Isaias Isa 27 28 23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
21028 Isaias Isa 27 28 24 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?
21029 Isaias Isa 27 28 25 Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?
21030 Isaias Isa 27 28 26 For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.
21031 Isaias Isa 27 28 27 For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff.
21032 Isaias Isa 27 28 28 But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.
21033 Isaias Isa 27 28 29 This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.
21034 Isaias Isa 27 29 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to year. the solemnities are at an end.
21035 Isaias Isa 27 29 2 And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
21036 Isaias Isa 27 29 3 And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.
21037 Isaias Isa 27 29 4 Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall mutter.
21038 Isaias Isa 27 29 5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.
21039 Isaias Isa 27 29 6 And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire.
21040 Isaias Isa 27 29 7 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.
21041 Isaias Isa 27 29 8 And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.
21042 Isaias Isa 27 29 9 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.
21043 Isaias Isa 27 29 10 For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.
21044 Isaias Isa 27 29 11 And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.
21045 Isaias Isa 27 29 12 And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters.
21046 Isaias Isa 27 29 13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:
21047 Isaias Isa 27 29 14 Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
21048 Isaias Isa 27 29 15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?
21049 Isaias Isa 27 29 16 This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.
21050 Isaias Isa 27 29 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?
21051 Isaias Isa 27 29 18 And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.
21052 Isaias Isa 27 29 19 And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
21053 Isaias Isa 27 29 20 For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:
21054 Isaias Isa 27 29 21 That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.
21055 Isaias Isa 27 29 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he that redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded, neither shall his countenance now be ashamed:
21056 Isaias Isa 27 29 23 But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:
21057 Isaias Isa 27 29 24 And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding, and they that murmured, shall learn the law.
21058 Isaias Isa 27 30 1 Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:
21059 Isaias Isa 27 30 2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of Egypt.
21060 Isaias Isa 27 30 3 And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.
21061 Isaias Isa 27 30 4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.
21062 Isaias Isa 27 30 5 They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.
21063 Isaias Isa 27 30 6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.
21064 Isaias Isa 27 30 7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.
21065 Isaias Isa 27 30 8 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.
21066 Isaias Isa 27 30 9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.
21067 Isaias Isa 27 30 10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.
21068 Isaias Isa 27 30 11 Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.
21069 Isaias Isa 27 30 12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it:
21070 Isaias Isa 27 30 13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.
21071 Isaias Isa 27 30 14 And it shall be broken small, as the potter’s vessel is broken all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found of the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from the hearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit.
21072 Isaias Isa 27 30 15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not:
21073 Isaias Isa 27 30 16 But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be swifter that shall pursue after you.
21074 Isaias Isa 27 30 17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.
21075 Isaias Isa 27 30 18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
21076 Isaias Isa 27 30 19 For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy cry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee.
21077 Isaias Isa 27 30 20 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.
21078 Isaias Isa 27 30 21 And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
21079 Isaias Isa 27 30 22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.
21080 Isaias Isa 27 30 23 And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:
21081 Isaias Isa 27 30 24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.
21082 Isaias Isa 27 30 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.
21083 Isaias Isa 27 30 26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.
21084 Isaias Isa 27 30 27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.
21085 Isaias Isa 27 30 28 His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people.
21086 Isaias Isa 27 30 29 You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified solemnity, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe, to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.
21087 Isaias Isa 27 30 30 And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard, and shall shew the terror of his arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the flame of devouring fire: he shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and hailstones.
21088 Isaias Isa 27 30 31 For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being struck with the rod.
21089 Isaias Isa 27 30 32 And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded, which the Lord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great battles he shall overthrow them.
21090 Isaias Isa 27 30 33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.
21091 Isaias Isa 27 31 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in horsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord.
21092 Isaias Isa 27 31 2 But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity.
21093 Isaias Isa 27 31 3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.
21094 Isaias Isa 27 31 4 For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the lion’s whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount Sion, and upon the hill thereof.
21095 Isaias Isa 27 31 5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.
21096 Isaias Isa 27 31 6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
21097 Isaias Isa 27 31 7 For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.
21098 Isaias Isa 27 31 8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.
21099 Isaias Isa 27 31 9 And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
21100 Isaias Isa 27 32 1 Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.
21101 Isaias Isa 27 32 2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.
21102 Isaias Isa 27 32 3 The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken diligently.
21103 Isaias Isa 27 32 4 And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.
21104 Isaias Isa 27 32 5 The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:
21105 Isaias Isa 27 32 6 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.
21106 Isaias Isa 27 32 7 The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.
21107 Isaias Isa 27 32 8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.
21108 Isaias Isa 27 32 9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.
21109 Isaias Isa 27 32 10 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.
21110 Isaias Isa 27 32 11 Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.
21111 Isaias Isa 27 32 12 Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.
21112 Isaias Isa 27 32 13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
21113 Isaias Isa 27 32 14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.
21114 Isaias Isa 27 32 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.
21115 Isaias Isa 27 32 16 And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel.
21116 Isaias Isa 27 32 17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.
21117 Isaias Isa 27 32 18 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.
21118 Isaias Isa 27 32 19 But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.
21119 Isaias Isa 27 32 20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.
21120 Isaias Isa 27 33 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.
21121 Isaias Isa 27 33 2 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.
21122 Isaias Isa 27 33 3 At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.
21123 Isaias Isa 27 33 4 And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.
21124 Isaias Isa 27 33 5 The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled Sion with judgment and justice.
21125 Isaias Isa 27 33 6 And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
21126 Isaias Isa 27 33 7 Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall weep bitterly.
21127 Isaias Isa 27 33 8 The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded the men.
21128 Isaias Isa 27 33 9 The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.
21129 Isaias Isa 27 33 10 Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift up myself.
21130 Isaias Isa 27 33 11 You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.
21131 Isaias Isa 27 33 12 And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.
21132 Isaias Isa 27 33 13 Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are near know my strength.
21133 Isaias Isa 27 33 14 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
21134 Isaias Isa 27 33 15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.
21135 Isaias Isa 27 33 16 He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.
21136 Isaias Isa 27 33 17 His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off.
21137 Isaias Isa 27 33 18 Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he that pondereth the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?
21138 Isaias Isa 27 33 19 The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.
21139 Isaias Isa 27 33 20 Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21140 Isaias Isa 27 33 21 Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass through it.
21141 Isaias Isa 27 33 22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.
21142 Isaias Isa 27 33 23 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy mast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread the flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall take the spoil.
21143 Isaias Isa 27 33 24 Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.
21144 Isaias Isa 27 34 1 Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.
21145 Isaias Isa 27 34 2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to slaughter.
21146 Isaias Isa 27 34 3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
21147 Isaias Isa 27 34 4 And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree.
21148 Isaias Isa 27 34 5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.
21149 Isaias Isa 27 34 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
21150 Isaias Isa 27 34 7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
21151 Isaias Isa 27 34 8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
21152 Isaias Isa 27 34 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
21153 Isaias Isa 27 34 10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
21154 Isaias Isa 27 34 11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.
21155 Isaias Isa 27 34 12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.
21156 Isaias Isa 27 34 13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
21157 Isaias Isa 27 34 14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself.
21158 Isaias Isa 27 34 15 There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.
21159 Isaias Isa 27 34 16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
21160 Isaias Isa 27 34 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.
21161 Isaias Isa 27 35 1 The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily.
21162 Isaias Isa 27 35 2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God.
21163 Isaias Isa 27 35 3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.
21164 Isaias Isa 27 35 4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save you.
21165 Isaias Isa 27 35 5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
21166 Isaias Isa 27 35 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the wilderness.
21167 Isaias Isa 27 35 7 And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.
21168 Isaias Isa 27 35 8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.
21169 Isaias Isa 27 35 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be delivered.
21170 Isaias Isa 27 35 10 And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
21171 Isaias Isa 27 36 1 And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.
21172 Isaias Isa 27 36 2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller’s field.
21173 Isaias Isa 27 36 3 And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder.
21174 Isaias Isa 27 36 4 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest?
21175 Isaias Isa 27 36 5 Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war? on whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me?
21176 Isaias Isa 27 36 6 Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
21177 Isaias Isa 27 36 7 But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath said to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar?
21178 Isaias Isa 27 36 8 And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them.
21179 Isaias Isa 27 36 9 And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one place, of the least of my master’s servants? But if thou trust in Egypt, in chariots and in horsemen:
21180 Isaias Isa 27 36 10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.
21181 Isaias Isa 27 36 11 And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the wall.
21182 Isaias Isa 27 36 12 And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that sit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?
21183 Isaias Isa 27 36 13 Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.
21184 Isaias Isa 27 36 14 Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you.
21185 Isaias Isa 27 36 15 And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
21186 Isaias Isa 27 36 16 Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the water of his cistern,
21187 Isaias Isa 27 36 17 Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
21188 Isaias Isa 27 36 18 Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
21189 Isaias Isa 27 36 19 Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
21190 Isaias Isa 27 36 20 Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21191 Isaias Isa 27 36 21 And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not.
21192 Isaias Isa 27 36 22 And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.
21193 Isaias Isa 27 37 1 And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that he rent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
21194 Isaias Isa 27 37 2 And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the son of Amos the prophet.
21195 Isaias Isa 27 37 3 And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
21196 Isaias Isa 27 37 4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.
21197 Isaias Isa 27 37 5 And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias.
21198 Isaias Isa 27 37 6 And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
21199 Isaias Isa 27 37 7 Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.
21200 Isaias Isa 27 37 8 And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna. For he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.
21201 Isaias Isa 27 37 9 And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come forth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:
21202 Isaias Isa 27 37 10 Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
21203 Isaias Isa 27 37 11 Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered?
21204 Isaias Isa 27 37 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?
21205 Isaias Isa 27 37 13 Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava?
21206 Isaias Isa 27 37 14 And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it before the Lord.
21207 Isaias Isa 27 37 15 And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:
21208 Isaias Isa 27 37 16 Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth.
21209 Isaias Isa 27 37 17 Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.
21210 Isaias Isa 27 37 18 For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries.
21211 Isaias Isa 27 37 19 And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men’s hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.
21212 Isaias Isa 27 37 20 And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all the kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord.
21213 Isaias Isa 27 37 21 And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians:
21214 Isaias Isa 27 37 22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee.
21215 Isaias Isa 27 37 23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
21216 Isaias Isa 27 37 24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord: and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its height, to the forest of its Carmel.
21217 Isaias Isa 27 37 25 I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
21218 Isaias Isa 27 37 26 Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the days of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it hath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities should be destroyed.
21219 Isaias Isa 27 37 27 The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.
21220 Isaias Isa 27 37 28 I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
21221 Isaias Isa 27 37 29 When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
21222 Isaias Isa 27 37 30 But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that spring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
21223 Isaias Isa 27 37 31 And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:
21224 Isaias Isa 27 37 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and salvation from mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
21225 Isaias Isa 27 37 33 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.
21226 Isaias Isa 27 37 34 By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
21227 Isaias Isa 27 37 35 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
21228 Isaias Isa 27 37 36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.
21229 Isaias Isa 27 37 37 And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.
21230 Isaias Isa 27 37 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
21231 Isaias Isa 27 38 1 In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.
21232 Isaias Isa 27 38 2 And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
21233 Isaias Isa 27 38 3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.
21234 Isaias Isa 27 38 4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:
21235 Isaias Isa 27 38 5 Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years:
21236 Isaias Isa 27 38 6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
21237 Isaias Isa 27 38 7 And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:
21238 Isaias Isa 27 38 8 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.
21239 Isaias Isa 27 38 9 The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
21240 Isaias Isa 27 38 10 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.
21241 Isaias Isa 27 38 11 I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.
21242 Isaias Isa 27 38 12 My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd’s tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
21243 Isaias Isa 27 38 13 I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
21244 Isaias Isa 27 38 14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.
21245 Isaias Isa 27 38 15 What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
21246 Isaias Isa 27 38 16 O Lord, if man’s life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.
21247 Isaias Isa 27 38 17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
21248 Isaias Isa 27 38 18 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.
21249 Isaias Isa 27 38 19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.
21250 Isaias Isa 27 38 20 O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
21251 Isaias Isa 27 38 21 Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.
21252 Isaias Isa 27 38 22 And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
21253 Isaias Isa 27 39 1 At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.
21254 Isaias Isa 27 39 2 And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the storehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the gold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all the storehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that Ezechias shewed them not.
21255 Isaias Isa 27 39 3 Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon.
21256 Isaias Isa 27 39 4 And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All things that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing which I have not shewn them in my treasures.
21257 Isaias Isa 27 39 5 And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord of hosts.
21258 Isaias Isa 27 39 6 Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.
21259 Isaias Isa 27 39 7 And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
21260 Isaias Isa 27 39 8 And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.
21261 Isaias Isa 27 40 1 Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.
21262 Isaias Isa 27 40 2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.
21263 Isaias Isa 27 40 3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.
21264 Isaias Isa 27 40 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain.
21265 Isaias Isa 27 40 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.
21266 Isaias Isa 27 40 6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.
21267 Isaias Isa 27 40 7 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:
21268 Isaias Isa 27 40 8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.
21269 Isaias Isa 27 40 9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God:
21270 Isaias Isa 27 40 10 Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.
21271 Isaias Isa 27 40 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.
21272 Isaias Isa 27 40 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
21273 Isaias Isa 27 40 13 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?
21274 Isaias Isa 27 40 14 With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
21275 Isaias Isa 27 40 15 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.
21276 Isaias Isa 27 40 16 And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
21277 Isaias Isa 27 40 17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.
21278 Isaias Isa 27 40 18 To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him?
21279 Isaias Isa 27 40 19 Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
21280 Isaias Isa 27 40 20 He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.
21281 Isaias Isa 27 40 21 Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
21282 Isaias Isa 27 40 22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
21283 Isaias Isa 27 40 23 He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.
21284 Isaias Isa 27 40 24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
21285 Isaias Isa 27 40 25 And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?
21286 Isaias Isa 27 40 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.
21287 Isaias Isa 27 40 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
21288 Isaias Isa 27 40 28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.
21289 Isaias Isa 27 40 29 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.
21290 Isaias Isa 27 40 30 Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.
21291 Isaias Isa 27 40 31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
21292 Isaias Isa 27 41 1 Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.
21293 Isaias Isa 27 41 2 Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.
21294 Isaias Isa 27 41 3 He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear after his feet.
21295 Isaias Isa 27 41 4 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.
21296 Isaias Isa 27 41 5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.
21297 Isaias Isa 27 41 6 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.
21298 Isaias Isa 27 41 7 The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
21299 Isaias Isa 27 41 8 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:
21300 Isaias Isa 27 41 9 In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.
21301 Isaias Isa 27 41 10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.
21302 Isaias Isa 27 41 11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.
21303 Isaias Isa 27 41 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war against thee.
21304 Isaias Isa 27 41 13 For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee.
21305 Isaias Isa 27 41 14 Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.
21306 Isaias Isa 27 41 15 I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.
21307 Isaias Isa 27 41 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.
21308 Isaias Isa 27 41 17 The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
21309 Isaias Isa 27 41 18 I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.
21310 Isaias Isa 27 41 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:
21311 Isaias Isa 27 41 20 That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21312 Isaias Isa 27 41 21 Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.
21313 Isaias Isa 27 41 22 Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come.
21314 Isaias Isa 27 41 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.
21315 Isaias Isa 27 41 24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
21316 Isaias Isa 27 41 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.
21317 Isaias Isa 27 41 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.
21318 Isaias Isa 27 41 27 The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.
21319 Isaias Isa 27 41 28 And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.
21320 Isaias Isa 27 41 29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
21321 Isaias Isa 27 42 1 Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
21322 Isaias Isa 27 42 2 He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad.
21323 Isaias Isa 27 42 3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
21324 Isaias Isa 27 42 4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.
21325 Isaias Isa 27 42 5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.
21326 Isaias Isa 27 42 6 I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:
21327 Isaias Isa 27 42 7 That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
21328 Isaias Isa 27 42 8 I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.
21329 Isaias Isa 27 42 9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.
21330 Isaias Isa 27 42 10 Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them.
21331 Isaias Isa 27 42 11 Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains.
21332 Isaias Isa 27 42 12 They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands.
21333 Isaias Isa 27 42 13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.
21334 Isaias Isa 27 42 14 I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.
21335 Isaias Isa 27 42 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.
21336 Isaias Isa 27 42 16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.
21337 Isaias Isa 27 42 17 They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.
21338 Isaias Isa 27 42 18 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.
21339 Isaias Isa 27 42 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?
21340 Isaias Isa 27 42 20 Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?
21341 Isaias Isa 27 42 21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.
21342 Isaias Isa 27 42 22 But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.
21343 Isaias Isa 27 42 23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
21344 Isaias Isa 27 42 24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.
21345 Isaias Isa 27 42 25 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.
21346 Isaias Isa 27 43 1 And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine.
21347 Isaias Isa 27 43 2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:
21348 Isaias Isa 27 43 3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.
21349 Isaias Isa 27 43 4 Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I have loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life.
21350 Isaias Isa 27 43 5 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.
21351 Isaias Isa 27 43 6 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
21352 Isaias Isa 27 43 7 And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him.
21353 Isaias Isa 27 43 8 Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.
21354 Isaias Isa 27 43 9 All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth.
21355 Isaias Isa 27 43 10 You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.
21356 Isaias Isa 27 43 11 I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.
21357 Isaias Isa 27 43 12 I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.
21358 Isaias Isa 27 43 13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it away?
21359 Isaias Isa 27 43 14 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.
21360 Isaias Isa 27 43 15 I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
21361 Isaias Isa 27 43 16 Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.
21362 Isaias Isa 27 43 17 Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.
21363 Isaias Isa 27 43 18 Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.
21364 Isaias Isa 27 43 19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
21365 Isaias Isa 27 43 20 The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.
21366 Isaias Isa 27 43 21 This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise.
21367 Isaias Isa 27 43 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast thou laboured about me, O Israel.
21368 Isaias Isa 27 43 23 Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense.
21369 Isaias Isa 27 43 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.
21370 Isaias Isa 27 43 25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
21371 Isaias Isa 27 43 26 Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself.
21372 Isaias Isa 27 43 27 Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
21373 Isaias Isa 27 43 28 And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.
21374 Isaias Isa 27 44 1 And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.
21375 Isaias Isa 27 44 2 Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have chosen.
21376 Isaias Isa 27 44 3 For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock.
21377 Isaias Isa 27 44 4 And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.
21378 Isaias Isa 27 44 5 One shall say: I am the Lord’s, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, To the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
21379 Isaias Isa 27 44 6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
21380 Isaias Isa 27 44 7 Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set before me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the things to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them.
21381 Isaias Isa 27 44 8 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?
21382 Isaias Isa 27 44 9 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
21383 Isaias Isa 27 44 10 Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing?
21384 Isaias Isa 27 44 11 Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.
21385 Isaias Isa 27 44 12 The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary.
21386 Isaias Isa 27 44 13 The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a house.
21387 Isaias Isa 27 44 14 He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the rain hath nourished.
21388 Isaias Isa 27 44 15 And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed himself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a god, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it.
21389 Isaias Isa 27 44 16 Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
21390 Isaias Isa 27 44 17 But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.
21391 Isaias Isa 27 44 18 They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.
21392 Isaias Isa 27 44 19 They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?
21393 Isaias Isa 27 44 20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.
21394 Isaias Isa 27 44 21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not.
21395 Isaias Isa 27 44 22 I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
21396 Isaias Isa 27 44 23 Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.
21397 Isaias Isa 27 44 24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, that establish the earth, and there is none with me.
21398 Isaias Isa 27 44 25 That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.
21399 Isaias Isa 27 44 26 That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.
21400 Isaias Isa 27 44 27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
21401 Isaias Isa 27 44 28 Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.
21402 Isaias Isa 27 45 1 Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.
21403 Isaias Isa 27 45 2 I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.
21404 Isaias Isa 27 45 3 And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.
21405 Isaias Isa 27 45 4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not known me.
21406 Isaias Isa 27 45 5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:
21407 Isaias Isa 27 45 6 That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else:
21408 Isaias Isa 27 45 7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.
21409 Isaias Isa 27 45 8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.
21410 Isaias Isa 27 45 9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?
21411 Isaias Isa 27 45 10 Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?
21412 Isaias Isa 27 45 11 Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.
21413 Isaias Isa 27 45 12 I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.
21414 Isaias Isa 27 45 13 I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
21415 Isaias Isa 27 45 14 Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.
21416 Isaias Isa 27 45 15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.
21417 Isaias Isa 27 45 16 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.
21418 Isaias Isa 27 45 17 Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.
21419 Isaias Isa 27 45 18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
21420 Isaias Isa 27 45 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.
21421 Isaias Isa 27 45 20 Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.
21422 Isaias Isa 27 45 21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.
21423 Isaias Isa 27 45 22 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
21424 Isaias Isa 27 45 23 I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:
21425 Isaias Isa 27 45 24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.
21426 Isaias Isa 27 45 25 Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: they shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.
21427 Isaias Isa 27 45 26 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised.
21428 Isaias Isa 27 46 1 Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.
21429 Isaias Isa 27 46 2 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
21430 Isaias Isa 27 46 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
21431 Isaias Isa 27 46 4 Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
21432 Isaias Isa 27 46 5 To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?
21433 Isaias Isa 27 46 6 You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.
21434 Isaias Isa 27 46 7 They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.
21435 Isaias Isa 27 46 8 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.
21436 Isaias Isa 27 46 9 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:
21437 Isaias Isa 27 46 10 Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
21438 Isaias Isa 27 46 11 Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice.
21439 Isaias Isa 27 46 12 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.
21440 Isaias Isa 27 47 1 Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.
21441 Isaias Isa 27 47 2 Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
21442 Isaias Isa 27 47 3 Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.
21443 Isaias Isa 27 47 4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
21444 Isaias Isa 27 47 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.
21445 Isaias Isa 27 47 6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.
21446 Isaias Isa 27 47 7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.
21447 Isaias Isa 27 47 8 And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.
21448 Isaias Isa 27 47 9 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
21449 Isaias Isa 27 47 10 And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.
21450 Isaias Isa 27 47 11 Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
21451 Isaias Isa 27 47 12 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.
21452 Isaias Isa 27 47 13 Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee.
21453 Isaias Isa 27 47 14 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.
21454 Isaias Isa 27 47 15 Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.
21455 Isaias Isa 27 48 1 Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.
21456 Isaias Isa 27 48 2 For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.
21457 Isaias Isa 27 48 3 The former things of old, I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass.
21458 Isaias Isa 27 48 4 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.
21459 Isaias Isa 27 48 5 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.
21460 Isaias Isa 27 48 6 See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things are kept which thou knowest not:
21461 Isaias Isa 27 48 7 They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.
21462 Isaias Isa 27 48 8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.
21463 Isaias Isa 27 48 9 For my name’s sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.
21464 Isaias Isa 27 48 10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
21465 Isaias Isa 27 48 11 For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.
21466 Isaias Isa 27 48 12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
21467 Isaias Isa 27 48 13 My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.
21468 Isaias Isa 27 48 14 Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
21469 Isaias Isa 27 48 15 I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.
21470 Isaias Isa 27 48 16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.
21471 Isaias Isa 27 48 17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.
21472 Isaias Isa 27 48 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,
21473 Isaias Isa 27 48 19 And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.
21474 Isaias Isa 27 48 20 Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21475 Isaias Isa 27 48 21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.
21476 Isaias Isa 27 48 22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.
21477 Isaias Isa 27 49 1 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name.
21478 Isaias Isa 27 49 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his quiver he hath hidden me.
21479 Isaias Isa 27 49 3 And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee will I glory.
21480 Isaias Isa 27 49 4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
21481 Isaias Isa 27 49 5 And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be gathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my God is made my strength.
21482 Isaias Isa 27 49 6 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.
21483 Isaias Isa 27 49 7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord’s sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
21484 Isaias Isa 27 49 8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:
21485 Isaias Isa 27 49 9 That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth: and to them that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in every plain.
21486 Isaias Isa 27 49 10 They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.
21487 Isaias Isa 27 49 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall be exalted.
21488 Isaias Isa 27 49 12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.
21489 Isaias Isa 27 49 13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.
21490 Isaias Isa 27 49 14 And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
21491 Isaias Isa 27 49 15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.
21492 Isaias Isa 27 49 16 Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always before my eyes.
21493 Isaias Isa 27 49 17 Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.
21494 Isaias Isa 27 49 18 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.
21495 Isaias Isa 27 49 19 For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.
21496 Isaias Isa 27 49 20 The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
21497 Isaias Isa 27 49 21 And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?
21498 Isaias Isa 27 49 22 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their shoulders.
21499 Isaias Isa 27 49 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.
21500 Isaias Isa 27 49 24 Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was taken by the mighty, be delivered?
21501 Isaias Isa 27 49 25 For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity shall be taken away from the strong: and that which was taken by the mighty, shall be delivered. But I will judge those that have judged thee, and thy children I will save.
21502 Isaias Isa 27 49 26 And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they shall be made drunk with their own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh shall know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob.
21503 Isaias Isa 27 50 1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.
21504 Isaias Isa 27 50 2 Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.
21505 Isaias Isa 27 50 3 I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.
21506 Isaias Isa 27 50 4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
21507 Isaias Isa 27 50 5 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.
21508 Isaias Isa 27 50 6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.
21509 Isaias Isa 27 50 7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.
21510 Isaias Isa 27 50 8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
21511 Isaias Isa 27 50 9 Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
21512 Isaias Isa 27 50 10 Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.
21513 Isaias Isa 27 50 11 Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled: this is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.
21514 Isaias Isa 27 51 1 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.
21515 Isaias Isa 27 51 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.
21516 Isaias Isa 27 51 3 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.
21517 Isaias Isa 27 51 4 Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.
21518 Isaias Isa 27 51 5 My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.
21519 Isaias Isa 27 51 6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.
21520 Isaias Isa 27 51 7 Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.
21521 Isaias Isa 27 51 8 For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation.
21522 Isaias Isa 27 51 9 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon?
21523 Isaias Isa 27 51 10 Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over?
21524 Isaias Isa 27 51 11 And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
21525 Isaias Isa 27 51 12 I, I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?
21526 Isaias Isa 27 51 13 And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?
21527 Isaias Isa 27 51 14 He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and he shall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall his bread fail.
21528 Isaias Isa 27 51 15 But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.
21529 Isaias Isa 27 51 16 I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.
21530 Isaias Isa 27 51 17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.
21531 Isaias Isa 27 51 18 There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.
21532 Isaias Isa 27 51 19 There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?
21533 Isaias Isa 27 51 20 Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, as the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.
21534 Isaias Isa 27 51 21 Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art drunk but not with wine.
21535 Isaias Isa 27 51 22 Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord, and thy God, who will fight for his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead sleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it again any more.
21536 Isaias Isa 27 51 23 And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.
21537 Isaias Isa 27 52 1 Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the uncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee.
21538 Isaias Isa 27 52 2 Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.
21539 Isaias Isa 27 52 3 For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.
21540 Isaias Isa 27 52 4 For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without any cause at all.
21541 Isaias Isa 27 52 5 And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.
21542 Isaias Isa 27 52 6 Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I myself that spoke, behold I am here.
21543 Isaias Isa 27 52 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that sheweth forth good, that preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign!
21544 Isaias Isa 27 52 8 The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they shall praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall convert Sion.
21545 Isaias Isa 27 52 9 Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
21546 Isaias Isa 27 52 10 The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
21547 Isaias Isa 27 52 11 Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.
21548 Isaias Isa 27 52 12 For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.
21549 Isaias Isa 27 52 13 Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted, and extolled, and shall be exceeding high.
21550 Isaias Isa 27 52 14 As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.
21551 Isaias Isa 27 52 15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.
21552 Isaias Isa 27 53 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
21553 Isaias Isa 27 53 2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:
21554 Isaias Isa 27 53 3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
21555 Isaias Isa 27 53 4 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.
21556 Isaias Isa 27 53 5 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.
21557 Isaias Isa 27 53 6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
21558 Isaias Isa 27 53 7 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.
21559 Isaias Isa 27 53 8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.
21560 Isaias Isa 27 53 9 And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth.
21561 Isaias Isa 27 53 10 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.
21562 Isaias Isa 27 53 11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.
21563 Isaias Isa 27 53 12 Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.
21564 Isaias Isa 27 54 1 Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord.
21565 Isaias Isa 27 54 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
21566 Isaias Isa 27 54 3 For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left: and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate cities.
21567 Isaias Isa 27 54 4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.
21568 Isaias Isa 27 54 5 For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.
21569 Isaias Isa 27 54 6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God.
21570 Isaias Isa 27 54 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.
21571 Isaias Isa 27 54 8 In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer.
21572 Isaias Isa 27 54 9 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.
21573 Isaias Isa 27 54 10 For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
21574 Isaias Isa 27 54 11 O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with sapphires,
21575 Isaias Isa 27 54 12 And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.
21576 Isaias Isa 27 54 13 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be the peace of thy children.
21577 Isaias Isa 27 54 14 And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.
21578 Isaias Isa 27 54 15 Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that was a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee.
21579 Isaias Isa 27 54 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the killer to destroy.
21580 Isaias Isa 27 54 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.
21581 Isaias Isa 27 55 1 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.
21582 Isaias Isa 27 55 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.
21583 Isaias Isa 27 55 3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.
21584 Isaias Isa 27 55 4 Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.
21585 Isaias Isa 27 55 5 Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
21586 Isaias Isa 27 55 6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
21587 Isaias Isa 27 55 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.
21588 Isaias Isa 27 55 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
21589 Isaias Isa 27 55 9 For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
21590 Isaias Isa 27 55 10 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
21591 Isaias Isa 27 55 11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.
21592 Isaias Isa 27 55 12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands.
21593 Isaias Isa 27 55 13 Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.
21594 Isaias Isa 27 56 1 Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.
21595 Isaias Isa 27 56 2 Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.
21596 Isaias Isa 27 56 3 And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.
21597 Isaias Isa 27 56 4 For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold fast my covenant:
21598 Isaias Isa 27 56 5 I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.
21599 Isaias Isa 27 56 6 And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:
21600 Isaias Isa 27 56 7 I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.
21601 Isaias Isa 27 56 8 The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.
21602 Isaias Isa 27 56 9 All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the forest.
21603 Isaias Isa 27 56 10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.
21604 Isaias Isa 27 56 11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.
21605 Isaias Isa 27 56 12 Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.
21606 Isaias Isa 27 57 1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.
21607 Isaias Isa 27 57 2 Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness.
21608 Isaias Isa 27 57 3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.
21609 Isaias Isa 27 57 4 Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false seed,
21610 Isaias Isa 27 57 5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?
21611 Isaias Isa 27 57 6 In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things?
21612 Isaias Isa 27 57 7 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.
21613 Isaias Isa 27 57 8 And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.
21614 Isaias Isa 27 57 9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.
21615 Isaias Isa 27 57 10 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked.
21616 Isaias Isa 27 57 11 For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart? for I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me.
21617 Isaias Isa 27 57 12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.
21618 Isaias Isa 27 57 13 When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount.
21619 Isaias Isa 27 57 14 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.
21620 Isaias Isa 27 57 15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
21621 Isaias Isa 27 57 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.
21622 Isaias Isa 27 57 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart.
21623 Isaias Isa 27 57 18 I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.
21624 Isaias Isa 27 57 19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.
21625 Isaias Isa 27 57 20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
21626 Isaias Isa 27 57 21 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.
21627 Isaias Isa 27 58 1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.
21628 Isaias Isa 27 58 2 For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.
21629 Isaias Isa 27 58 3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.
21630 Isaias Isa 27 58 4 Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.
21631 Isaias Isa 27 58 5 Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
21632 Isaias Isa 27 58 6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden.
21633 Isaias Isa 27 58 7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
21634 Isaias Isa 27 58 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up.
21635 Isaias Isa 27 58 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.
21636 Isaias Isa 27 58 10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday.
21637 Isaias Isa 27 58 11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.
21638 Isaias Isa 27 58 12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.
21639 Isaias Isa 27 58 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:
21640 Isaias Isa 27 58 14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21641 Isaias Isa 27 59 1 Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
21642 Isaias Isa 27 59 2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
21643 Isaias Isa 27 59 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.
21644 Isaias Isa 27 59 4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.
21645 Isaias Isa 27 59 5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
21646 Isaias Isa 27 59 6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.
21647 Isaias Isa 27 59 7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.
21648 Isaias Isa 27 59 8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.
21649 Isaias Isa 27 59 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
21650 Isaias Isa 27 59 10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.
21651 Isaias Isa 27 59 11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
21652 Isaias Isa 27 59 12 For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and we have known our iniquities:
21653 Isaias Isa 27 59 13 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.
21654 Isaias Isa 27 59 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.
21655 Isaias Isa 27 59 15 And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.
21656 Isaias Isa 27 59 16 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.
21657 Isaias Isa 27 59 17 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
21658 Isaias Isa 27 59 18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.
21659 Isaias Isa 27 59 19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:
21660 Isaias Isa 27 59 20 And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21661 Isaias Isa 27 59 21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
21662 Isaias Isa 27 60 1 Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
21663 Isaias Isa 27 60 2 For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
21664 Isaias Isa 27 60 3 And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.
21665 Isaias Isa 27 60 4 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy side.
21666 Isaias Isa 27 60 5 Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee.
21667 Isaias Isa 27 60 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord.
21668 Isaias Isa 27 60 7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.
21669 Isaias Isa 27 60 8 Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?
21670 Isaias Isa 27 60 9 For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
21671 Isaias Isa 27 60 10 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.
21672 Isaias Isa 27 60 11 And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut day nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee, and their kings may be brought.
21673 Isaias Isa 27 60 12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation.
21674 Isaias Isa 27 60 13 The glory of Libanus shall come to thee, the fir tree, and the box tree, and the pine tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my feet.
21675 Isaias Isa 27 60 14 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.
21676 Isaias Isa 27 60 15 Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none that passed through thee, I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy unto generation and generation:
21677 Isaias Isa 27 60 16 And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou shalt be nursed with the breasts of kings: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
21678 Isaias Isa 27 60 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver: and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make thy visitation peace, and thy overseers justice.
21679 Isaias Isa 27 60 18 Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.
21680 Isaias Isa 27 60 19 Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.
21681 Isaias Isa 27 60 20 Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not decrease: for the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21682 Isaias Isa 27 60 21 And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.
21683 Isaias Isa 27 60 22 The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time.
21684 Isaias Isa 27 61 1 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
21685 Isaias Isa 27 61 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:
21686 Isaias Isa 27 61 3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.
21687 Isaias Isa 27 61 4 And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, that were destroyed for generation and generation.
21688 Isaias Isa 27 61 5 And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the dressers of your vines.
21689 Isaias Isa 27 61 6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.
21690 Isaias Isa 27 61 7 For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.
21691 Isaias Isa 27 61 8 For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.
21692 Isaias Isa 27 61 9 And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
21693 Isaias Isa 27 61 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.
21694 Isaias Isa 27 61 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.
21695 Isaias Isa 27 62 1 For Sion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp.
21696 Isaias Isa 27 62 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy glorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
21697 Isaias Isa 27 62 3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
21698 Isaias Isa 27 62 4 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited.
21699 Isaias Isa 27 62 5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.
21700 Isaias Isa 27 62 6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,
21701 Isaias Isa 27 62 7 And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
21702 Isaias Isa 27 62 8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
21703 Isaias Isa 27 62 9 For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.
21704 Isaias Isa 27 62 10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.
21705 Isaias Isa 27 62 11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.
21706 Isaias Isa 27 62 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.
21707 Isaias Isa 27 63 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.
21708 Isaias Isa 27 63 2 Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress?
21709 Isaias Isa 27 63 3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel.
21710 Isaias Isa 27 63 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come.
21711 Isaias Isa 27 63 5 I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my indignation itself hath helped me.
21712 Isaias Isa 27 63 6 And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the earth.
21713 Isaias Isa 27 63 7 I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for the multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath given them according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of his mercies.
21714 Isaias Isa 27 63 8 And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not deny: so he became their saviour.
21715 Isaias Isa 27 63 9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.
21716 Isaias Isa 27 63 10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
21717 Isaias Isa 27 63 11 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?
21718 Isaias Isa 27 63 12 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.
21719 Isaias Isa 27 63 13 He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness that stumbleth not.
21720 Isaias Isa 27 63 14 As a beast that goeth down in the field, the spirit of the Lord was their leader: so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious name.
21721 Isaias Isa 27 63 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.
21722 Isaias Isa 27 63 16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.
21723 Isaias Isa 27 63 17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.
21724 Isaias Isa 27 63 18 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.
21725 Isaias Isa 27 63 19 We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.
21726 Isaias Isa 27 64 1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.
21727 Isaias Isa 27 64 2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.
21728 Isaias Isa 27 64 3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.
21729 Isaias Isa 27 64 4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.
21730 Isaias Isa 27 64 5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.
21731 Isaias Isa 27 64 6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
21732 Isaias Isa 27 64 7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
21733 Isaias Isa 27 64 8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
21734 Isaias Isa 27 64 9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
21735 Isaias Isa 27 64 10 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.
21736 Isaias Isa 27 64 11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.
21737 Isaias Isa 27 64 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?
21738 Isaias Isa 27 65 1 They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.
21739 Isaias Isa 27 65 2 I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.
21740 Isaias Isa 27 65 3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.
21741 Isaias Isa 27 65 4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine’s flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
21742 Isaias Isa 27 65 5 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.
21743 Isaias Isa 27 65 6 Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.
21744 Isaias Isa 27 65 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.
21745 Isaias Isa 27 65 8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.
21746 Isaias Isa 27 65 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
21747 Isaias Isa 27 65 10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
21748 Isaias Isa 27 65 11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,
21749 Isaias Isa 27 65 12 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me.
21750 Isaias Isa 27 65 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.
21751 Isaias Isa 27 65 14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.
21752 Isaias Isa 27 65 15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.
21753 Isaias Isa 27 65 16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
21754 Isaias Isa 27 65 17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.
21755 Isaias Isa 27 65 18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.
21756 Isaias Isa 27 65 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
21757 Isaias Isa 27 65 20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21758 Isaias Isa 27 65 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
21759 Isaias Isa 27 65 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.
21760 Isaias Isa 27 65 23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.
21761 Isaias Isa 27 65 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will hear.
21762 Isaias Isa 27 65 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent’s food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
21763 Isaias Isa 27 66 1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?
21764 Isaias Isa 27 66 2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?
21765 Isaias Isa 27 66 3 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine’s blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.
21766 Isaias Isa 27 66 4 Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.
21767 Isaias Isa 27 66 5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name’s sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.
21768 Isaias Isa 27 66 6 A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
21769 Isaias Isa 27 66 7 Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.
21770 Isaias Isa 27 66 8 Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath brought forth her children?
21771 Isaias Isa 27 66 9 Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself bring forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others, be barren, saith the Lord thy God?
21772 Isaias Isa 27 66 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her.
21773 Isaias Isa 27 66 11 That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her consolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the abundance of her glory.
21774 Isaias Isa 27 66 12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you.
21775 Isaias Isa 27 66 13 As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
21776 Isaias Isa 27 66 14 You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall be angry with his enemies.
21777 Isaias Isa 27 66 15 For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
21778 Isaias Isa 27 66 16 For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
21779 Isaias Isa 27 66 17 They that were sanctified, and thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
21780 Isaias Isa 27 66 18 But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.
21781 Isaias Isa 27 66 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:
21782 Isaias Isa 27 66 20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
21783 Isaias Isa 27 66 21 And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the Lord.
21784 Isaias Isa 27 66 22 For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.
21785 Isaias Isa 27 66 23 And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath: and all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith the Lord.
21786 Isaias Isa 27 66 24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.
21787 Jeremias Jer 28 1 1 The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
21788 Jeremias Jer 28 1 2 The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
21789 Jeremias Jer 28 1 3 And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in the fifth month.
21790 Jeremias Jer 28 1 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
21791 Jeremias Jer 28 1 5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
21792 Jeremias Jer 28 1 6 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.
21793 Jeremias Jer 28 1 7 And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.
21794 Jeremias Jer 28 1 8 Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
21795 Jeremias Jer 28 1 9 And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:
21796 Jeremias Jer 28 1 10 Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.
21797 Jeremias Jer 28 1 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
21798 Jeremias Jer 28 1 12 And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it.
21799 Jeremias Jer 28 1 13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.
21800 Jeremias Jer 28 1 14 And the Lord said to me: From the north shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
21801 Jeremias Jer 28 1 15 For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda.
21802 Jeremias Jer 28 1 16 And I will pronounce my judgments against them, touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, and have adored the work of their own hands.
21803 Jeremias Jer 28 1 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance.
21804 Jeremias Jer 28 1 18 For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.
21805 Jeremias Jer 28 1 19 And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
21806 Jeremias Jer 28 2 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
21807 Jeremias Jer 28 2 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.
21808 Jeremias Jer 28 2 3 Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
21809 Jeremias Jer 28 2 4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel:
21810 Jeremias Jer 28 2 5 Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
21811 Jeremias Jer 28 2 6 And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?
21812 Jeremias Jer 28 2 7 And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.
21813 Jeremias Jer 28 2 8 The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.
21814 Jeremias Jer 28 2 9 Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.
21815 Jeremias Jer 28 2 10 Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.
21816 Jeremias Jer 28 2 11 If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.
21817 Jeremias Jer 28 2 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
21818 Jeremias Jer 28 2 13 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
21819 Jeremias Jer 28 2 14 Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?
21820 Jeremias Jer 28 2 15 The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none to dwell in them.
21821 Jeremias Jer 28 2 16 The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head.
21822 Jeremias Jer 28 2 17 Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?
21823 Jeremias Jer 28 2 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?
21824 Jeremias Jer 28 2 19 Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
21825 Jeremias Jer 28 2 20 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.
21826 Jeremias Jer 28 2 21 Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard?
21827 Jeremias Jer 28 2 22 Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.
21828 Jeremias Jer 28 2 23 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.
21829 Jeremias Jer 28 2 24 A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.
21830 Jeremias Jer 28 2 25 Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.
21831 Jeremias Jer 28 2 26 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets.
21832 Jeremias Jer 28 2 27 Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast begotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us.
21833 Jeremias Jer 28 2 28 Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.
21834 Jeremias Jer 28 2 29 Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.
21835 Jeremias Jer 28 2 30 In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.
21836 Jeremias Jer 28 2 31 See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?
21837 Jeremias Jer 28 2 32 Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number.
21838 Jeremias Jer 28 2 33 Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,
21839 Jeremias Jer 28 2 34 And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.
21840 Jeremias Jer 28 2 35 And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.
21841 Jeremias Jer 28 2 36 How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
21842 Jeremias Jer 28 2 37 For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing prosperous therein.
21843 Jeremias Jer 28 3 1 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.
21844 Jeremias Jer 28 3 2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
21845 Jeremias Jer 28 3 3 Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
21846 Jeremias Jer 28 3 4 Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:
21847 Jeremias Jer 28 3 5 Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue unto the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.
21848 Jeremias Jer 28 3 6 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.
21849 Jeremias Jer 28 3 7 And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,
21850 Jeremias Jer 28 3 8 That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.
21851 Jeremias Jer 28 3 9 And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
21852 Jeremias Jer 28 3 10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.
21853 Jeremias Jer 28 3 11 And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her soul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.
21854 Jeremias Jer 28 3 12 Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever.
21855 Jeremias Jer 28 3 13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.
21856 Jeremias Jer 28 3 14 Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.
21857 Jeremias Jer 28 3 15 And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
21858 Jeremias Jer 28 3 16 And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.
21859 Jeremias Jer 28 3 17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.
21860 Jeremias Jer 28 3 18 In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.
21861 Jeremias Jer 28 3 19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.
21862 Jeremias Jer 28 3 20 But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.
21863 Jeremias Jer 28 3 21 A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
21864 Jeremias Jer 28 3 22 Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.
21865 Jeremias Jer 28 3 23 In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
21866 Jeremias Jer 28 3 24 Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
21867 Jeremias Jer 28 3 25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.
21868 Jeremias Jer 28 4 1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.
21869 Jeremias Jer 28 4 2 And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.
21870 Jeremias Jer 28 4 3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:
21871 Jeremias Jer 28 4 4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.
21872 Jeremias Jer 28 4 5 Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem: speak, and sound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble yourselves, and let us go into strong cities.
21873 Jeremias Jer 28 4 6 Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
21874 Jeremias Jer 28 4 7 The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land desolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.
21875 Jeremias Jer 28 4 8 For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.
21876 Jeremias Jer 28 4 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.
21877 Jeremias Jer 28 4 10 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?
21878 Jeremias Jer 28 4 11 At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.
21879 Jeremias Jer 28 4 12 A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them.
21880 Jeremias Jer 28 4 13 Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste.
21881 Jeremias Jer 28 4 14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?
21882 Jeremias Jer 28 4 15 For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.
21883 Jeremias Jer 28 4 16 Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Juda.
21884 Jeremias Jer 28 4 17 They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.
21885 Jeremias Jer 28 4 18 Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart.
21886 Jeremias Jer 28 4 19 My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
21887 Jeremias Jer 28 4 20 Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a moment.
21888 Jeremias Jer 28 4 21 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?
21889 Jeremias Jer 28 4 22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
21890 Jeremias Jer 28 4 23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.
21891 Jeremias Jer 28 4 24 I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.
21892 Jeremias Jer 28 4 25 I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds of the air were gone.
21893 Jeremias Jer 28 4 26 I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its cities were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the wrath of his indignation.
21894 Jeremias Jer 28 4 27 For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.
21895 Jeremias Jer 28 4 28 The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither am I turned away from it.
21896 Jeremias Jer 28 4 29 At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is fled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.
21897 Jeremias Jer 28 4 30 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
21898 Jeremias Jer 28 4 31 For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.
21899 Jeremias Jer 28 5 1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
21900 Jeremias Jer 28 5 2 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.
21901 Jeremias Jer 28 5 3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
21902 Jeremias Jer 28 5 4 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.
21903 Jeremias Jer 28 5 5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
21904 Jeremias Jer 28 5 6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
21905 Jeremias Jer 28 5 7 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot’s house.
21906 Jeremias Jer 28 5 8 They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
21907 Jeremias Jer 28 5 9 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
21908 Jeremias Jer 28 5 10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord’s.
21909 Jeremias Jer 28 5 11 For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
21910 Jeremias Jer 28 5 12 They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
21911 Jeremias Jer 28 5 13 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
21912 Jeremias Jer 28 5 14 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
21913 Jeremias Jer 28 5 15 Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
21914 Jeremias Jer 28 5 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
21915 Jeremias Jer 28 5 17 And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
21916 Jeremias Jer 28 5 18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
21917 Jeremias Jer 28 5 19 And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
21918 Jeremias Jer 28 5 20 Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
21919 Jeremias Jer 28 5 21 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
21920 Jeremias Jer 28 5 22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
21921 Jeremias Jer 28 5 23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
21922 Jeremias Jer 28 5 24 And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.
21923 Jeremias Jer 28 5 25 Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
21924 Jeremias Jer 28 5 26 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
21925 Jeremias Jer 28 5 27 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
21926 Jeremias Jer 28 5 28 They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.
21927 Jeremias Jer 28 5 29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
21928 Jeremias Jer 28 5 30 Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.
21929 Jeremias Jer 28 5 31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
21930 Jeremias Jer 28 6 1 Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.
21931 Jeremias Jer 28 6 2 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
21932 Jeremias Jer 28 6 3 The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
21933 Jeremias Jer 28 6 4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.
21934 Jeremias Jer 28 6 5 Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
21935 Jeremias Jer 28 6 6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
21936 Jeremias Jer 28 6 7 As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
21937 Jeremias Jer 28 6 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
21938 Jeremias Jer 28 6 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grapegatherer into the basket.
21939 Jeremias Jer 28 6 10 To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and they will not receive it.
21940 Jeremias Jer 28 6 11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.
21941 Jeremias Jer 28 6 12 And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch forth my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
21942 Jeremias Jer 28 6 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.
21943 Jeremias Jer 28 6 14 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
21944 Jeremias Jer 28 6 15 They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
21945 Jeremias Jer 28 6 16 Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.
21946 Jeremias Jer 28 6 17 And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.
21947 Jeremias Jer 28 6 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.
21948 Jeremias Jer 28 6 19 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
21949 Jeremias Jer 28 6 20 To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
21950 Jeremias Jer 28 6 21 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish.
21951 Jeremias Jer 28 6 22 Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.
21952 Jeremias Jer 28 6 23 They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.
21953 Jeremias Jer 28 6 24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.
21954 Jeremias Jer 28 6 25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.
21955 Jeremias Jer 28 6 26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
21956 Jeremias Jer 28 6 27 I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.
21957 Jeremias Jer 28 6 28 All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.
21958 Jeremias Jer 28 6 29 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
21959 Jeremias Jer 28 6 30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
21960 Jeremias Jer 28 7 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
21961 Jeremias Jer 28 7 2 Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.
21962 Jeremias Jer 28 7 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.
21963 Jeremias Jer 28 7 4 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.
21964 Jeremias Jer 28 7 5 For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,
21965 Jeremias Jer 28 7 6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,
21966 Jeremias Jer 28 7 7 I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.
21967 Jeremias Jer 28 7 8 Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you:
21968 Jeremias Jer 28 7 9 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.
21969 Jeremias Jer 28 7 10 And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.
21970 Jeremias Jer 28 7 11 Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.
21971 Jeremias Jer 28 7 12 Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:
21972 Jeremias Jer 28 7 13 And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:
21973 Jeremias Jer 28 7 14 I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.
21974 Jeremias Jer 28 7 15 And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
21975 Jeremias Jer 28 7 16 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.
21976 Jeremias Jer 28 7 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
21977 Jeremias Jer 28 7 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.
21978 Jeremias Jer 28 7 19 Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own countenance?
21979 Jeremias Jer 28 7 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my indignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21980 Jeremias Jer 28 7 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.
21981 Jeremias Jer 28 7 22 For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices.
21982 Jeremias Jer 28 7 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
21983 Jeremias Jer 28 7 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,
21984 Jeremias Jer 28 7 25 From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, from day to day, rising up early and sending.
21985 Jeremias Jer 28 7 26 And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.
21986 Jeremias Jer 28 7 27 And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer thee.
21987 Jeremias Jer 28 7 28 And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: faith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.
21988 Jeremias Jer 28 7 29 Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,
21989 Jeremias Jer 28 7 30 Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it;
21990 Jeremias Jer 28 7 31 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.
21991 Jeremias Jer 28 7 32 Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because there is no place.
21992 Jeremias Jer 28 7 33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to drive them away.
21993 Jeremias Jer 28 7 34 And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
21994 Jeremias Jer 28 8 1 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
21995 Jeremias Jer 28 8 2 And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.
21996 Jeremias Jer 28 8 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.
21997 Jeremias Jer 28 8 4 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that falleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn again?
21998 Jeremias Jer 28 8 5 Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.
21999 Jeremias Jer 28 8 6 I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are all turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle.
22000 Jeremias Jer 28 8 7 The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.
22001 Jeremias Jer 28 8 8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.
22002 Jeremias Jer 28 8 9 The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.
22003 Jeremias Jer 28 8 10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.
22004 Jeremias Jer 28 8 11 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.
22005 Jeremias Jer 28 8 12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.
22006 Jeremias Jer 28 8 13 Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.
22007 Jeremias Jer 28 8 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.
22008 Jeremias Jer 28 8 15 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.
22009 Jeremias Jer 28 8 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.
22010 Jeremias Jer 28 8 17 For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
22011 Jeremias Jer 28 8 18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.
22012 Jeremias Jer 28 8 19 Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?
22013 Jeremias Jer 28 8 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
22014 Jeremias Jer 28 8 21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22015 Jeremias Jer 28 8 22 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
22016 Jeremias Jer 28 9 1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
22017 Jeremias Jer 28 9 2 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.
22018 Jeremias Jer 28 9 3 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.
22019 Jeremias Jer 28 9 4 Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.
22020 Jeremias Jer 28 9 5 And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
22021 Jeremias Jer 28 9 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
22022 Jeremias Jer 28 9 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?
22023 Jeremias Jer 28 9 8 Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.
22024 Jeremias Jer 28 9 9 Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?
22025 Jeremias Jer 28 9 10 For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed.
22026 Jeremias Jer 28 9 11 And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.
22027 Jeremias Jer 28 9 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?
22028 Jeremias Jer 28 9 13 And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.
22029 Jeremias Jer 28 9 14 But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
22030 Jeremias Jer 28 9 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
22031 Jeremias Jer 28 9 16 And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.
22032 Jeremias Jer 28 9 17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:
22033 Jeremias Jer 28 9 18 Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
22034 Jeremias Jer 28 9 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.
22035 Jeremias Jer 28 9 20 Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.
22036 Jeremias Jer 28 9 21 For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
22037 Jeremias Jer 28 9 22 Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.
22038 Jeremias Jer 28 9 23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:
22039 Jeremias Jer 28 9 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.
22040 Jeremias Jer 28 9 25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.
22041 Jeremias Jer 28 9 26 Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
22042 Jeremias Jer 28 10 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel.
22043 Jeremias Jer 28 10 2 Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:
22044 Jeremias Jer 28 10 3 For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
22045 Jeremias Jer 28 10 4 He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.
22046 Jeremias Jer 28 10 5 They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.
22047 Jeremias Jer 28 10 6 There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in might.
22048 Jeremias Jer 28 10 7 Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee.
22049 Jeremias Jer 28 10 8 They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
22050 Jeremias Jer 28 10 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.
22051 Jeremias Jer 28 10 10 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.
22052 Jeremias Jer 28 10 11 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.
22053 Jeremias Jer 28 10 12 He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.
22054 Jeremias Jer 28 10 13 At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
22055 Jeremias Jer 28 10 14 Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.
22056 Jeremias Jer 28 10 15 They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
22057 Jeremias Jer 28 10 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
22058 Jeremias Jer 28 10 17 Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a siege.
22059 Jeremias Jer 28 10 18 For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the inhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that they may be found.
22060 Jeremias Jer 28 10 19 Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I said: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.
22061 Jeremias Jer 28 10 20 My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
22062 Jeremias Jer 28 10 21 Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is scattered.
22063 Jeremias Jer 28 10 22 Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.
22064 Jeremias Jer 28 10 23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.
22065 Jeremias Jer 28 10 24 Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.
22066 Jeremias Jer 28 10 25 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.
22067 Jeremias Jer 28 11 1 The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying:
22068 Jeremias Jer 28 11 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
22069 Jeremias Jer 28 11 3 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,
22070 Jeremias Jer 28 11 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God:
22071 Jeremias Jer 28 11 5 That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.
22072 Jeremias Jer 28 11 6 And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of the covenant, and do them:
22073 Jeremias Jer 28 11 7 For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice:
22074 Jeremias Jer 28 11 8 And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one in the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
22075 Jeremias Jer 28 11 9 And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
22076 Jeremias Jer 28 11 10 They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.
22077 Jeremias Jer 28 11 11 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.
22078 Jeremias Jer 28 11 12 And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall not save them in the time of their affliction.
22079 Jeremias Jer 28 11 13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda: and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.
22080 Jeremias Jer 28 11 14 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.
22081 Jeremias Jer 28 11 15 What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?
22082 Jeremias Jer 28 11 16 The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.
22083 Jeremias Jer 28 11 17 And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee: for the evils of the house of Israel, and of the house of Juda, which they have done to themselves, to provoke me, offering sacrifice to Baalim.
22084 Jeremias Jer 28 11 18 But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou shewedst me their doings.
22085 Jeremias Jer 28 11 19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.
22086 Jeremias Jer 28 11 20 But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the reins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.
22087 Jeremias Jer 28 11 21 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who seek thy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and thou shalt not die in our hands.
22088 Jeremias Jer 28 11 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon them: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.
22089 Jeremias Jer 28 11 23 And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in evil upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.
22090 Jeremias Jer 28 12 1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?
22091 Jeremias Jer 28 12 2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
22092 Jeremias Jer 28 12 3 And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as sheep for a sacrifice, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
22093 Jeremias Jer 28 12 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.
22094 Jeremias Jer 28 12 5 If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?
22095 Jeremias Jer 28 12 6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.
22096 Jeremias Jer 28 12 7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.
22097 Jeremias Jer 28 12 8 My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.
22098 Jeremias Jer 28 12 9 Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.
22099 Jeremias Jer 28 12 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.
22100 Jeremias Jer 28 12 11 They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.
22101 Jeremias Jer 28 12 12 The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.
22102 Jeremias Jer 28 12 13 They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.
22103 Jeremias Jer 28 12 14 Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbours, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.
22104 Jeremias Jer 28 12 15 And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man into his land.
22105 Jeremias Jer 28 12 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they have taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
22106 Jeremias Jer 28 12 17 But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.
22107 Jeremias Jer 28 13 1 Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water.
22108 Jeremias Jer 28 13 2 And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.
22109 Jeremias Jer 28 13 3 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying:
22110 Jeremias Jer 28 13 4 Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
22111 Jeremias Jer 28 13 5 And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.
22112 Jeremias Jer 28 13 6 And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.
22113 Jeremias Jer 28 13 7 And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.
22114 Jeremias Jer 28 13 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22115 Jeremias Jer 28 13 9 Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.
22116 Jeremias Jer 28 13 10 This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle ,which is fit for no use.
22117 Jeremias Jer 28 13 11 For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I brought close to me all the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
22118 Jeremias Jer 28 13 12 Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
22119 Jeremias Jer 28 13 13 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of David that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
22120 Jeremias Jer 28 13 14 And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them.
22121 Jeremias Jer 28 13 15 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.
22122 Jeremias Jer 28 13 16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.
22123 Jeremias Jer 28 13 17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.
22124 Jeremias Jer 28 13 18 Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.
22125 Jeremias Jer 28 13 19 The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.
22126 Jeremias Jer 28 13 20 Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?
22127 Jeremias Jer 28 13 21 What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?
22128 Jeremias Jer 28 13 22 And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.
22129 Jeremias Jer 28 13 23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.
22130 Jeremias Jer 28 13 24 And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.
22131 Jeremias Jer 28 13 25 This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.
22132 Jeremias Jer 28 13 26 Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.
22133 Jeremias Jer 28 13 27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?
22134 Jeremias Jer 28 14 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought.
22135 Jeremias Jer 28 14 2 Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
22136 Jeremias Jer 28 14 3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.
22137 Jeremias Jer 28 14 4 For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads.
22138 Jeremias Jer 28 14 5 Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.
22139 Jeremias Jer 28 14 6 And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
22140 Jeremias Jer 28 14 7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name’s sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.
22141 Jeremias Jer 28 14 8 O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?
22142 Jeremias Jer 28 14 9 Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.
22143 Jeremias Jer 28 14 10 Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.
22144 Jeremias Jer 28 14 11 And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.
22145 Jeremias Jer 28 14 12 When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.
22146 Jeremias Jer 28 14 13 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them: You shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you, but he will give you true peace in this place.
22147 Jeremias Jer 28 14 14 And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and deceit, and the seduction of their own heart.
22148 Jeremias Jer 28 14 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
22149 Jeremias Jer 28 14 16 And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will pour out their own wickedness upon them.
22150 Jeremias Jer 28 14 17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.
22151 Jeremias Jer 28 14 18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.
22152 Jeremias Jer 28 14 19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.
22153 Jeremias Jer 28 14 20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
22154 Jeremias Jer 28 14 21 Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name’s sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22155 Jeremias Jer 28 14 22 Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.
22156 Jeremias Jer 28 15 1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.
22157 Jeremias Jer 28 15 2 And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death: and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine, to famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
22158 Jeremias Jer 28 15 3 And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
22159 Jeremias Jer 28 15 4 And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.
22160 Jeremias Jer 28 15 5 For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?
22161 Jeremias Jer 28 15 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am weary of entreating thee.
22162 Jeremias Jer 28 15 7 And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.
22163 Jeremias Jer 28 15 8 Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.
22164 Jeremias Jer 28 15 9 She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith the Lord.
22165 Jeremias Jer 28 15 10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.
22166 Jeremias Jer 28 15 11 The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy remnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of affliction, and in the time of tribulation against the enemy.
22167 Jeremias Jer 28 15 12 Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?
22168 Jeremias Jer 28 15 13 Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
22169 Jeremias Jer 28 15 14 And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn upon you.
22170 Jeremias Jer 28 15 15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
22171 Jeremias Jer 28 15 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.
22172 Jeremias Jer 28 15 17 I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.
22173 Jeremias Jer 28 15 18 Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.
22174 Jeremias Jer 28 15 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and if thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.
22175 Jeremias Jer 28 15 20 And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
22176 Jeremias Jer 28 15 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.
22177 Jeremias Jer 28 16 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22178 Jeremias Jer 28 16 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place.
22179 Jeremias Jer 28 16 3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land:
22180 Jeremias Jer 28 16 4 They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.
22181 Jeremias Jer 28 16 5 For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.
22182 Jeremias Jer 28 16 6 Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
22183 Jeremias Jer 28 16 7 And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them to drink of the cup, to comfort them for their father and mother.
22184 Jeremias Jer 28 16 8 And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:
22185 Jeremias Jer 28 16 9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
22186 Jeremias Jer 28 16 10 And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against us all this great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have sinned against the Lord our God?
22187 Jeremias Jer 28 16 11 Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law.
22188 Jeremias Jer 28 16 12 And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.
22189 Jeremias Jer 28 16 13 So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you know not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day and night, which shall not give you any rest.
22190 Jeremias Jer 28 16 14 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when it shall be said no more: The Lord liveth, that brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
22191 Jeremias Jer 28 16 15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them out: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their fathers.
22192 Jeremias Jer 28 16 16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.
22193 Jeremias Jer 28 16 17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.
22194 Jeremias Jer 28 16 18 And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
22195 Jeremias Jer 28 16 19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.
22196 Jeremias Jer 28 16 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?
22197 Jeremias Jer 28 16 21 Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know, I will shew them my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name is the Lord.
22198 Jeremias Jer 28 17 1 The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.
22199 Jeremias Jer 28 17 2 When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,
22200 Jeremias Jer 28 17 3 Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
22201 Jeremias Jer 28 17 4 And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.
22202 Jeremias Jer 28 17 5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
22203 Jeremias Jer 28 17 6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
22204 Jeremias Jer 28 17 7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
22205 Jeremias Jer 28 17 8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
22206 Jeremias Jer 28 17 9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
22207 Jeremias Jer 28 17 10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
22208 Jeremias Jer 28 17 11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
22209 Jeremias Jer 28 17 12 A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctification.
22210 Jeremias Jer 28 17 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.
22211 Jeremias Jer 28 17 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
22212 Jeremias Jer 28 17 15 Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
22213 Jeremias Jer 28 17 16 And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.
22214 Jeremias Jer 28 17 17 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.
22215 Jeremias Jer 28 17 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.
22216 Jeremias Jer 28 17 19 Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:
22217 Jeremias Jer 28 17 20 And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.
22218 Jeremias Jer 28 17 21 Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22219 Jeremias Jer 28 17 22 And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
22220 Jeremias Jer 28 17 23 But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.
22221 Jeremias Jer 28 17 24 And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:
22222 Jeremias Jer 28 17 25 Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
22223 Jeremias Jer 28 17 26 And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in an offering into the house of the Lord.
22224 Jeremias Jer 28 17 27 But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
22225 Jeremias Jer 28 18 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
22226 Jeremias Jer 28 18 2 Arise, and go down into the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
22227 Jeremias Jer 28 18 3 And I went down into the potter’s house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.
22228 Jeremias Jer 28 18 4 And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.
22229 Jeremias Jer 28 18 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22230 Jeremias Jer 28 18 6 Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
22231 Jeremias Jer 28 18 7 I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.
22232 Jeremias Jer 28 18 8 If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.
22233 Jeremias Jer 28 18 9 And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.
22234 Jeremias Jer 28 18 10 If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.
22235 Jeremias Jer 28 18 11 Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.
22236 Jeremias Jer 28 18 12 And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart.
22237 Jeremias Jer 28 18 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?
22238 Jeremias Jer 28 18 14 Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?
22239 Jeremias Jer 28 18 15 Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:
22240 Jeremias Jer 28 18 16 That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.
22241 Jeremias Jer 28 18 17 As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
22242 Jeremias Jer 28 18 18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
22243 Jeremias Jer 28 18 19 Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
22244 Jeremias Jer 28 18 20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.
22245 Jeremias Jer 28 18 21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.
22246 Jeremias Jer 28 18 22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.
22247 Jeremias Jer 28 18 23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.
22248 Jeremias Jer 28 19 1 Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:
22249 Jeremias Jer 28 19 2 And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is by the entry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the words that I shall tell thee.
22250 Jeremias Jer 28 19 3 And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:
22251 Jeremias Jer 28 19 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place : and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents.
22252 Jeremias Jer 28 19 5 And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.
22253 Jeremias Jer 28 19 6 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but the valley of slaughter.
22254 Jeremias Jer 28 19 7 And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.
22255 Jeremias Jer 28 19 8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
22256 Jeremias Jer 28 19 9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
22257 Jeremias Jer 28 19 10 And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.
22258 Jeremias Jer 28 19 11 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter’s vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in.
22259 Jeremias Jer 28 19 12 Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.
22260 Jeremias Jer 28 19 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.
22261 Jeremias Jer 28 19 14 Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord, and said to all the people:
22262 Jeremias Jer 28 19 15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the evils that I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
22263 Jeremias Jer 28 20 1 Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.
22264 Jeremias Jer 28 20 2 And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.
22265 Jeremias Jer 28 20 3 And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremias out of the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called thy name Phassur, but fear on every side.
22266 Jeremias Jer 28 20 4 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to fear, thee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall carry them away to Babylon, and shall strike them with the sword.
22267 Jeremias Jer 28 20 5 And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its labour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they shall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon.
22268 Jeremias Jer 28 20 6 But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into captivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied a lie.
22269 Jeremias Jer 28 20 7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.
22270 Jeremias Jer 28 20 8 For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity, and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me, and a derision all the day.
22271 Jeremias Jer 28 20 9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.
22272 Jeremias Jer 28 20 10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.
22273 Jeremias Jer 28 20 11 But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.
22274 Jeremias Jer 28 20 12 And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause.
22275 Jeremias Jer 28 20 13 Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.
22276 Jeremias Jer 28 20 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.
22277 Jeremias Jer 28 20 15 Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.
22278 Jeremias Jer 28 20 16 Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:
22279 Jeremias Jer 28 20 17 Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
22280 Jeremias Jer 28 20 18 Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?
22281 Jeremias Jer 28 21 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of Maasias the priest, saying:
22282 Jeremias Jer 28 21 2 Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon maketh war against us: if so be the Lord will deal with us according to all his wonderful works, that he may depart from us.
22283 Jeremias Jer 28 21 3 And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias:
22284 Jeremias Jer 28 21 4 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, and with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege you round about the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this city.
22285 Jeremias Jer 28 21 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a strong arm, and in fury, and in indignation, and in great wrath.
22286 Jeremias Jer 28 21 6 And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
22287 Jeremias Jer 28 21 7 And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy to them.
22288 Jeremias Jer 28 21 8 And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
22289 Jeremias Jer 28 21 9 He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that shall go out and flee over to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live, and his life shall be to him as a spoil.
22290 Jeremias Jer 28 21 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
22291 Jeremias Jer 28 21 11 And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of the Lord,
22292 Jeremias Jer 28 21 12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.
22293 Jeremias Jer 28 21 13 Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a valley upon a rock above a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us and who shall enter into our houses?
22294 Jeremias Jer 28 21 14 But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it.
22295 Jeremias Jer 28 22 1 Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda, and there thou shalt speak this word,
22296 Jeremias Jer 28 22 2 And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people, who enter in by these gates.
22297 Jeremias Jer 28 22 3 Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.
22298 Jeremias Jer 28 22 4 For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his throne, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants, and their people.
22299 Jeremias Jer 28 22 5 But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
22300 Jeremias Jer 28 22 6 For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art to me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities not habitable.
22301 Jeremias Jer 28 22 7 And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into the fire.
22302 Jeremias Jer 28 22 8 And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?
22303 Jeremias Jer 28 22 9 And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.
22304 Jeremias Jer 28 22 10 Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears: lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
22305 Jeremias Jer 28 22 11 For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the king of Juda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this place: He shall return hither no more:
22306 Jeremias Jer 28 22 12 But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall he die, and he shall not see this land any more.
22307 Jeremias Jer 28 22 13 Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.
22308 Jeremias Jer 28 22 14 Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.
22309 Jeremias Jer 28 22 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?
22310 Jeremias Jer 28 22 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?
22311 Jeremias Jer 28 22 17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works.
22312 Jeremias Jer 28 22 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or, Alas, the noble one.
22313 Jeremias Jer 28 22 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.
22314 Jeremias Jer 28 22 20 Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and cry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed.
22315 Jeremias Jer 28 22 21 I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my voice.
22316 Jeremias Jer 28 22 22 The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all thy wickedness.
22317 Jeremias Jer 28 22 23 Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour?
22318 Jeremias Jer 28 22 24 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.
22319 Jeremias Jer 28 22 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22320 Jeremias Jer 28 22 26 And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:
22321 Jeremias Jer 28 22 27 And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.
22322 Jeremias Jer 28 22 28 Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
22323 Jeremias Jer 28 22 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.
22324 Jeremias Jer 28 22 30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.
22325 Jeremias Jer 28 23 1 Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.
22326 Jeremias Jer 28 23 2 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
22327 Jeremias Jer 28 23 3 And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.
22328 Jeremias Jer 28 23 4 And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them: they shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall be wanting of their number, saith the Lord.
22329 Jeremias Jer 28 23 5 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
22330 Jeremias Jer 28 23 6 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our just one.
22331 Jeremias Jer 28 23 7 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall say no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
22332 Jeremias Jer 28 23 8 But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.
22333 Jeremias Jer 28 23 9 To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words.
22334 Jeremias Jer 28 23 10 Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.
22335 Jeremias Jer 28 23 11 For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
22336 Jeremias Jer 28 23 12 Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
22337 Jeremias Jer 28 23 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel.
22338 Jeremias Jer 28 23 14 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.
22339 Jeremias Jer 28 23 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the land.
22340 Jeremias Jer 28 23 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
22341 Jeremias Jer 28 23 17 They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.
22342 Jeremias Jer 28 23 18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?
22343 Jeremias Jer 28 23 19 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord’s indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.
22344 Jeremias Jer 28 23 20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.
22345 Jeremias Jer 28 23 21 I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22346 Jeremias Jer 28 23 22 If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their wicked doings.
22347 Jeremias Jer 28 23 23 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
22348 Jeremias Jer 28 23 24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
22349 Jeremias Jer 28 23 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
22350 Jeremias Jer 28 23 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?
22351 Jeremias Jer 28 23 27 Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
22352 Jeremias Jer 28 23 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
22353 Jeremias Jer 28 23 29 Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
22354 Jeremias Jer 28 23 30 Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour.
22355 Jeremias Jer 28 23 31 Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
22356 Jeremias Jer 28 23 32 Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
22357 Jeremias Jer 28 23 33 If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.
22358 Jeremias Jer 28 23 34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.
22359 Jeremias Jer 28 23 35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbour, and to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?
22360 Jeremias Jer 28 23 36 And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man’s word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
22361 Jeremias Jer 28 23 37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
22362 Jeremias Jer 28 23 38 But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord:
22363 Jeremias Jer 28 23 39 Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.
22364 Jeremias Jer 28 23 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.
22365 Jeremias Jer 28 24 1 The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
22366 Jeremias Jer 28 24 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.
22367 Jeremias Jer 28 24 3 And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.
22368 Jeremias Jer 28 24 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22369 Jeremias Jer 28 24 5 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.
22370 Jeremias Jer 28 24 6 And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
22371 Jeremias Jer 28 24 7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.
22372 Jeremias Jer 28 24 8 And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.
22373 Jeremias Jer 28 24 9 And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.
22374 Jeremias Jer 28 24 10 And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers.
22375 Jeremias Jer 28 25 1 The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same is the first year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)
22376 Jeremias Jer 28 25 2 Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of Juda, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
22377 Jeremias Jer 28 25 3 From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you have not hearkened.
22378 Jeremias Jer 28 25 4 And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ears to hear.
22379 Jeremias Jer 28 25 5 When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.
22380 Jeremias Jer 28 25 6 And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict you.
22381 Jeremias Jer 28 25 7 And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.
22382 Jeremias Jer 28 25 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words:
22383 Jeremias Jer 28 25 9 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
22384 Jeremias Jer 28 25 10 And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.
22385 Jeremias Jer 28 25 11 And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
22386 Jeremias Jer 28 25 12 And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations.
22387 Jeremias Jer 28 25 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words, that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath prophesied against all nations:
22388 Jeremias Jer 28 25 14 For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.
22389 Jeremias Jer 28 25 15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.
22390 Jeremias Jer 28 25 16 And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the sword, which I shall send among them.
22391 Jeremias Jer 28 25 17 And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:
22392 Jeremias Jer 28 25 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.
22393 Jeremias Jer 28 25 19 Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
22394 Jeremias Jer 28 25 20 And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.
22395 Jeremias Jer 28 25 21 And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.
22396 Jeremias Jer 28 25 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.
22397 Jeremias Jer 28 25 23 And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut round.
22398 Jeremias Jer 28 25 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert.
22399 Jeremias Jer 28 25 25 And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:
22400 Jeremias Jer 28 25 26 And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against his brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.
22401 Jeremias Jer 28 25 27 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.
22402 Jeremias Jer 28 25 28 And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall drink:
22403 Jeremias Jer 28 25 29 For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
22404 Jeremias Jer 28 25 30 And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the place of his beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes shall be given out against all the inhabitants of the earth.
22405 Jeremias Jer 28 25 31 The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.
22406 Jeremias Jer 28 25 32 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of the earth.
22407 Jeremias Jer 28 25 33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth.
22408 Jeremias Jer 28 25 34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels.
22409 Jeremias Jer 28 25 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves.
22410 Jeremias Jer 28 25 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures.
22411 Jeremias Jer 28 25 37 And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
22412 Jeremias Jer 28 25 38 He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid waste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
22413 Jeremias Jer 28 26 1 In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, came this word from the Lord, saying:
22414 Jeremias Jer 28 26 2 Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not out one word.
22415 Jeremias Jer 28 26 3 If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them for the wickedness of their doings.
22416 Jeremias Jer 28 26 4 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:
22417 Jeremias Jer 28 26 5 To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:
22418 Jeremias Jer 28 26 6 I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
22419 Jeremias Jer 28 26 7 And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
22420 Jeremias Jer 28 26 8 And when Jeremias had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to death.
22421 Jeremias Jer 28 26 9 Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: This house shall be like Silo; and this city shall be made desolate, without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered together against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.
22422 Jeremias Jer 28 26 10 And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from the king’s house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord.
22423 Jeremias Jer 28 26 11 And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
22424 Jeremias Jer 28 26 12 Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and to all the people, saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city all the words that you have heard.
22425 Jeremias Jer 28 26 13 Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath spoken against you.
22426 Jeremias Jer 28 26 14 But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is good and right in your eyes:
22427 Jeremias Jer 28 26 15 But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing.
22428 Jeremias Jer 28 26 16 Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to the prophets: There is no judgment of death for this man: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.
22429 Jeremias Jer 28 26 17 And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:
22430 Jeremias Jer 28 26 18 Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of woods.
22431 Jeremias Jer 28 26 19 Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death? did they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the Lord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we are doing a great evil against our souls.
22432 Jeremias Jer 28 26 20 There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this city, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremias.
22433 Jeremias Jer 28 26 21 And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes heard these words: and the king sought to put him to death. And Urias heard it, and was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.
22434 Jeremias Jer 28 26 22 And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achobor, and men with him into Egypt.
22435 Jeremias Jer 28 26 23 And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to king Joakim, and he slew him with the sword: and he cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
22436 Jeremias Jer 28 26 24 So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan was with Jeremias, that he should not be delivered into the hands of the people, to put him to death.
22437 Jeremias Jer 28 27 1 In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
22438 Jeremias Jer 28 27 2 Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.
22439 Jeremias Jer 28 27 3 And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.
22440 Jeremias Jer 28 27 4 And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:
22441 Jeremias Jer 28 27 5 I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.
22442 Jeremias Jer 28 27 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.
22443 Jeremias Jer 28 27 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him.
22444 Jeremias Jer 28 27 8 But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his hand.
22445 Jeremias Jer 28 27 9 Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon.
22446 Jeremias Jer 28 27 10 For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish.
22447 Jeremias Jer 28 27 11 But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in their own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it.
22448 Jeremias Jer 28 27 12 And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.
22449 Jeremias Jer 28 27 13 Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
22450 Jeremias Jer 28 27 14 Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.
22451 Jeremias Jer 28 27 15 For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.
22452 Jeremias Jer 28 27 16 I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
22453 Jeremias Jer 28 27 17 Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?
22454 Jeremias Jer 28 27 18 But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
22455 Jeremias Jer 28 27 19 For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pillars, and to the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this city:
22456 Jeremias Jer 28 27 20 Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.
22457 Jeremias Jer 28 27 21 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda and Jerusalem:
22458 Jeremias Jer 28 27 22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be brought, and to be restored in this place.
22459 Jeremias Jer 28 28 1 And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:
22460 Jeremias Jer 28 28 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
22461 Jeremias Jer 28 28 3 As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon.
22462 Jeremias Jer 28 28 4 And I will bring back to this place Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that are gone to Babylon, saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
22463 Jeremias Jer 28 28 5 And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the Lord:
22464 Jeremias Jer 28 28 6 And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be brought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may return out of Babylon to this place.
22465 Jeremias Jer 28 28 7 Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the ears of all the people:
22466 Jeremias Jer 28 28 8 The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the beginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine.
22467 Jeremias Jer 28 28 9 The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the Lord hath sent in truth.
22468 Jeremias Jer 28 28 10 And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of Jeremias the prophet, and broke it.
22469 Jeremias Jer 28 28 11 And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the nations.
22470 Jeremias Jer 28 28 12 And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain from off the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying:
22471 Jeremias Jer 28 28 13 Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.
22472 Jeremias Jer 28 28 14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also I have given him the beasts of the earth.
22473 Jeremias Jer 28 28 15 And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.
22474 Jeremias Jer 28 28 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast spoken against the Lord.
22475 Jeremias Jer 28 28 17 And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh month.
22476 Jeremias Jer 28 29 1 Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried into captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
22477 Jeremias Jer 28 29 2 After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:
22478 Jeremias Jer 28 29 3 By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of Helcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, saying:
22479 Jeremias Jer 28 29 4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
22480 Jeremias Jer 28 29 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.
22481 Jeremias Jer 28 29 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.
22482 Jeremias Jer 28 29 7 And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.
22483 Jeremias Jer 28 29 8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream:
22484 Jeremias Jer 28 29 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent them, saith the Lord.
22485 Jeremias Jer 28 29 10 For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place.
22486 Jeremias Jer 28 29 11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.
22487 Jeremias Jer 28 29 12 And you shall call upon me, and you shall go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.
22488 Jeremias Jer 28 29 13 You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.
22489 Jeremias Jer 28 29 14 And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.
22490 Jeremias Jer 28 29 15 Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:
22491 Jeremias Jer 28 29 16 For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.
22492 Jeremias Jer 28 29 17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like bad figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.
22493 Jeremias Jer 28 29 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and with the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out:
22494 Jeremias Jer 28 29 19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord: which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.
22495 Jeremias Jer 28 29 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.
22496 Jeremias Jer 28 29 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your eyes.
22497 Jeremias Jer 28 29 22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:
22498 Jeremias Jer 28 29 23 Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.
22499 Jeremias Jer 28 29 24 And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:
22500 Jeremias Jer 28 29 25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou hast sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests, saying:
22501 Jeremias Jer 28 29 26 The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.
22502 Jeremias Jer 28 29 27 And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesieth to you?
22503 Jeremias Jer 28 29 28 For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
22504 Jeremias Jer 28 29 29 So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of Jeremias the prophet.
22505 Jeremias Jer 28 29 30 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
22506 Jeremias Jer 28 29 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie:
22507 Jeremias Jer 28 29 32 Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord.
22508 Jeremias Jer 28 30 1 This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
22509 Jeremias Jer 28 30 2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.
22510 Jeremias Jer 28 30 3 For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
22511 Jeremias Jer 28 30 4 And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda:
22512 Jeremias Jer 28 30 5 For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.
22513 Jeremias Jer 28 30 6 Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?
22514 Jeremias Jer 28 30 7 Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.
22515 Jeremias Jer 28 30 8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him:
22516 Jeremias Jer 28 30 9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
22517 Jeremias Jer 28 30 10 Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a country afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and there shall be none whom he may fear:
22518 Jeremias Jer 28 30 11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.
22519 Jeremias Jer 28 30 12 For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.
22520 Jeremias Jer 28 30 13 There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.
22521 Jeremias Jer 28 30 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.
22522 Jeremias Jer 28 30 15 Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee.
22523 Jeremias Jer 28 30 16 Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
22524 Jeremias Jer 28 30 17 For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.
22525 Jeremias Jer 28 30 18 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded according to the order thereof.
22526 Jeremias Jer 28 30 19 And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.
22527 Jeremias Jer 28 30 20 And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all that afflict them.
22528 Jeremias Jer 28 30 21 And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?
22529 Jeremias Jer 28 30 22 And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.
22530 Jeremias Jer 28 30 23 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.
22531 Jeremias Jer 28 30 24 The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.
22532 Jeremias Jer 28 31 1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
22533 Jeremias Jer 28 31 2 Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.
22534 Jeremias Jer 28 31 3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.
22535 Jeremias Jer 28 31 4 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
22536 Jeremias Jer 28 31 5 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the time.
22537 Jeremias Jer 28 31 6 For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.
22538 Jeremias Jer 28 31 7 For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel.
22539 Jeremias Jer 28 31 8 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither.
22540 Jeremias Jer 28 31 9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
22541 Jeremias Jer 28 31 10 Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.
22542 Jeremias Jer 28 31 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the hand of one that was mightier than he.
22543 Jeremias Jer 28 31 12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.
22544 Jeremias Jer 28 31 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.
22545 Jeremias Jer 28 31 14 And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.
22546 Jeremias Jer 28 31 15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.
22547 Jeremias Jer 28 31 16 Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy eyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the land of the enemy.
22548 Jeremias Jer 28 31 17 And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders.
22549 Jeremias Jer 28 31 18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.
22550 Jeremias Jer 28 31 19 For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.
22551 Jeremias Jer 28 31 20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.
22552 Jeremias Jer 28 31 21 Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
22553 Jeremias Jer 28 31 22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
22554 Jeremias Jer 28 31 23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.
22555 Jeremias Jer 28 31 24 And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the husbandmen and they that drive the flocks.
22556 Jeremias Jer 28 31 25 For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every hungry soul.
22557 Jeremias Jer 28 31 26 Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
22558 Jeremias Jer 28 31 27 Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.
22559 Jeremias Jer 28 31 28 And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.
22560 Jeremias Jer 28 31 29 In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
22561 Jeremias Jer 28 31 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
22562 Jeremias Jer 28 31 31 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
22563 Jeremias Jer 28 31 32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.
22564 Jeremias Jer 28 31 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
22565 Jeremias Jer 28 31 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
22566 Jeremias Jer 28 31 35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.
22567 Jeremias Jer 28 31 36 If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.
22568 Jeremias Jer 28 31 37 Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
22569 Jeremias Jer 28 31 38 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner.
22570 Jeremias Jer 28 31 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,
22571 Jeremias Jer 28 31 40 And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of ashes, and all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.
22572 Jeremias Jer 28 32 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of Sedecias king of Juda: the same is the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.
22573 Jeremias Jer 28 32 2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of Juda.
22574 Jeremias Jer 28 32 3 For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?
22575 Jeremias Jer 28 32 4 And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes.
22576 Jeremias Jer 28 32 5 And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be there till I visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the Chaldeans, you shall have no success.
22577 Jeremias Jer 28 32 6 And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:
22578 Jeremias Jer 28 32 7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to buy it, being next akin.
22579 Jeremias Jer 28 32 8 And Hanameel my uncle’s son came to me, according to the word of the Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field, which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I understood that this was the word of the Lord.
22580 Jeremias Jer 28 32 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that is in Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.
22581 Jeremias Jer 28 32 10 And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.
22582 Jeremias Jer 28 32 11 And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and the stipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the outside.
22583 Jeremias Jer 28 32 12 And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neri the son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle’s son, in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
22584 Jeremias Jer 28 32 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying:
22585 Jeremias Jer 28 32 14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these writings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed that is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
22586 Jeremias Jer 28 32 15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
22587 Jeremias Jer 28 32 16 And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
22588 Jeremias Jer 28 32 17 Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:
22589 Jeremias Jer 28 32 18 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.
22590 Jeremias Jer 28 32 19 Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.
22591 Jeremias Jer 28 32 20 Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until this day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as at this day.
22592 Jeremias Jer 28 32 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror.
22593 Jeremias Jer 28 32 22 And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.
22594 Jeremias Jer 28 32 23 And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon them.
22595 Jeremias Jer 28 32 24 Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.
22596 Jeremias Jer 28 32 25 And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans?
22597 Jeremias Jer 28 32 26 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
22598 Jeremias Jer 28 32 27 Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be hard for me?
22599 Jeremias Jer 28 32 28 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.
22600 Jeremias Jer 28 32 29 And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.
22601 Jeremias Jer 28 32 30 For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.
22602 Jeremias Jer 28 32 31 For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.
22603 Jeremias Jer 28 32 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
22604 Jeremias Jer 28 32 33 And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would not hearken to receive instruction.
22605 Jeremias Jer 28 32 34 And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is called upon, to defile it.
22606 Jeremias Jer 28 32 35 And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.
22607 Jeremias Jer 28 32 36 And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to this city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence:
22608 Jeremias Jer 28 32 37 Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.
22609 Jeremias Jer 28 32 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
22610 Jeremias Jer 28 32 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.
22611 Jeremias Jer 28 32 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.
22612 Jeremias Jer 28 32 41 And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.
22613 Jeremias Jer 28 32 42 For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all this great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now speak to them.
22614 Jeremias Jer 28 32 43 And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that it is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
22615 Jeremias Jer 28 32 44 Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be written, and sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith the Lord.
22616 Jeremias Jer 28 33 1 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying:
22617 Jeremias Jer 28 33 2 Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and prepare it, the Lord is his name.
22618 Jeremias Jer 28 33 3 Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.
22619 Jeremias Jer 28 33 4 For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this city, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to the bulwarks, and to the sword.
22620 Jeremias Jer 28 33 5 Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in my indignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
22621 Jeremias Jer 28 33 6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.
22622 Jeremias Jer 28 33 7 And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Jerusalem: and I will build them as from the beginning.
22623 Jeremias Jer 28 33 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.
22624 Jeremias Jer 28 33 9 And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a gladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all the good things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be troubled for all the good things, and for all the peace that I will make for them.
22625 Jeremias Jer 28 33 10 Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place (which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in the cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast)
22626 Jeremias Jer 28 33 11 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.
22627 Jeremias Jer 28 33 12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place that is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
22628 Jeremias Jer 28 33 13 And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.
22629 Jeremias Jer 28 33 14 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house of Juda.
22630 Jeremias Jer 28 33 15 In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the earth.
22631 Jeremias Jer 28 33 16 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our just one.
22632 Jeremias Jer 28 33 17 For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.
22633 Jeremias Jer 28 33 18 Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and Levites a man before my face to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifices, and to kill victims continually.
22634 Jeremias Jer 28 33 19 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
22635 Jeremias Jer 28 33 20 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:
22636 Jeremias Jer 28 33 21 Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites and priests my ministers.
22637 Jeremias Jer 28 33 22 As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites my ministers.
22638 Jeremias Jer 28 33 23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
22639 Jeremias Jer 28 33 24 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?
22640 Jeremias Jer 28 33 25 Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:
22641 Jeremias Jer 28 33 26 Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and will have mercy on them.
22642 Jeremias Jer 28 34 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth, that were under the power of his hand, and all the people fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof, saying:
22643 Jeremias Jer 28 34 2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Sedecias king of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
22644 Jeremias Jer 28 34 3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt surely be taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
22645 Jeremias Jer 28 34 4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.
22646 Jeremias Jer 28 34 5 But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord.
22647 Jeremias Jer 28 34 6 And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias the king of Juda in Jerusalem.
22648 Jeremias Jer 28 34 7 And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda that were left, against Lachis, and against Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda, fenced cities.
22649 Jeremias Jer 28 34 8 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that king Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a proclamation:
22650 Jeremias Jer 28 34 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren.
22651 Jeremias Jer 28 34 10 And all the princes, and all the people who entered into the covenant, heard that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant go free, and should no more have dominion over them: and they obeyed, and let them go free.
22652 Jeremias Jer 28 34 11 But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into subjection as menservants and maidservants.
22653 Jeremias Jer 28 34 12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
22654 Jeremias Jer 28 34 13 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying:
22655 Jeremias Jer 28 34 14 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.
22656 Jeremias Jer 28 34 15 And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and you made a covenant in my sight, in the house upon which my name is invocated.
22657 Jeremias Jer 28 34 16 And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.
22658 Jeremias Jer 28 34 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth.
22659 Jeremias Jer 28 34 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, and have not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to in my presence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts thereof:
22660 Jeremias Jer 28 34 19 The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land that passed between the parts of the calf:
22661 Jeremias Jer 28 34 20 And I will give them into the hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.
22662 Jeremias Jer 28 34 21 And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I will give into the hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their lives, and into the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which are gone from you.
22663 Jeremias Jer 28 34 22 Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will bring them again to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation, without an inhabitant.
22664 Jeremias Jer 28 35 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying:
22665 Jeremias Jer 28 35 2 Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.
22666 Jeremias Jer 28 35 3 And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of Habsanias, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.
22667 Jeremias Jer 28 35 4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.
22668 Jeremias Jer 28 35 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine.
22669 Jeremias Jer 28 35 6 And they answered : We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your children, for ever:
22670 Jeremias Jer 28 35 7 Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.
22671 Jeremias Jer 28 35 8 Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:
22672 Jeremias Jer 28 35 9 Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field, or seed:
22673 Jeremias Jer 28 35 10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
22674 Jeremias Jer 28 35 11 But when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up to our land, we said: Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the face of the army of the Chaldeans, and from the face of the army of Syria: and we have remained in Jerusalem.
22675 Jeremias Jer 28 35 12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:
22676 Jeremias Jer 28 35 13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord?
22677 Jeremias Jer 28 35 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to this day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not obeyed me.
22678 Jeremias Jer 28 35 15 And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way, and make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.
22679 Jeremias Jer 28 35 16 So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have constantly kept the commandment of their father, which he commanded them: but this people hath not obeyed me.
22680 Jeremias Jer 28 35 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they have not answered me.
22681 Jeremias Jer 28 35 18 And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done all that he commanded you:
22682 Jeremias Jer 28 35 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: There shall not be wanting a man of the race of Jonadab the son of Rechab, standing before me for ever.
22683 Jeremias Jer 28 36 1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias by the Lord, saying:
22684 Jeremias Jer 28 36 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.
22685 Jeremias Jer 28 36 3 If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils that I purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his wicked way: and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.
22686 Jeremias Jer 28 36 4 So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to him, upon the roll of a book.
22687 Jeremias Jer 28 36 5 And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and cannot go into the house of the Lord.
22688 Jeremias Jer 28 36 6 Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people in the house of the Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities:
22689 Jeremias Jer 28 36 7 If so be they may present their supplication before the Lord, and may return every one from his wicked way: for great is the wrath and indignation which the Lord hath pronounced against this people.
22690 Jeremias Jer 28 36 8 And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that Jeremias the prophet ,had commanded him, reading out of the volume the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord.
22691 Jeremias Jer 28 36 9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that were come together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.
22692 Jeremias Jer 28 36 10 And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.
22693 Jeremias Jer 28 36 11 And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,
22694 Jeremias Jer 28 36 12 He went down into the king’s house to the secretary’s chamber: and behold all the princes sat there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias the son of Semeias, and Elnathan the son of Achobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes.
22695 Jeremias Jer 28 36 13 And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read out of the volume in the hearing of the people.
22696 Jeremias Jer 28 36 14 Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in thy hand the volume in which thou hast read in the hearing of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came to them.
22697 Jeremias Jer 28 36 15 And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our hearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.
22698 Jeremias Jer 28 36 16 And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the king all these words.
22699 Jeremias Jer 28 36 17 And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all these words from his mouth.
22700 Jeremias Jer 28 36 18 And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these words as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.
22701 Jeremias Jer 28 36 19 And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both thou and Jeremias, and let no man know where you are.
22702 Jeremias Jer 28 36 20 And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid up the volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and they told all the words in the hearing of the king.
22703 Jeremias Jer 28 36 21 And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who bringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the hearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king.
22704 Jeremias Jer 28 36 22 Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and there was a hearth before him full of burning coals.
22705 Jeremias Jer 28 36 23 And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.
22706 Jeremias Jer 28 36 24 And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
22707 Jeremias Jer 28 36 25 But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn the book: and he heard them not.
22708 Jeremias Jer 28 36 26 And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them.
22709 Jeremias Jer 28 36 27 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, after that the king had burnt the volume, and the words that Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremias, saying:
22710 Jeremias Jer 28 36 28 Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former words that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda hath burnt.
22711 Jeremias Jer 28 36 29 And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
22712 Jeremias Jer 28 36 30 Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night.
22713 Jeremias Jer 28 36 31 And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they have not heard.
22714 Jeremias Jer 28 36 32 And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch the son of Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim the king of Juda had burnt with fire: and there were added besides many more words than had been before.
22715 Jeremias Jer 28 37 1 Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the land of Juda.
22716 Jeremias Jer 28 37 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land did obey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.
22717 Jeremias Jer 28 37 3 And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God for us.
22718 Jeremias Jer 28 37 4 Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people: for they had not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these tidings, departed from Jerusalem.
22719 Jeremias Jer 28 37 5 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying:
22720 Jeremias Jer 28 37 6 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao, which is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into Egypt.
22721 Jeremias Jer 28 37 7 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
22722 Jeremias Jer 28 37 8 Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away.
22723 Jeremias Jer 28 37 9 But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with fire.
22724 Jeremias Jer 28 37 10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao’s army,
22725 Jeremias Jer 28 37 11 Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the citizens,
22726 Jeremias Jer 28 37 12 And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the gate, who was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of Selemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the prophet, saying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.
22727 Jeremias Jer 28 37 13 And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and brought him to the princes.
22728 Jeremias Jer 28 37 14 Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the prison.
22729 Jeremias Jer 28 37 15 So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.
22730 Jeremias Jer 28 37 16 Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him secretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord? And Jeremias said. There is. And he said: Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.
22731 Jeremias Jer 28 37 17 And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended against thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me into prison?
22732 Jeremias Jer 28 37 18 Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The king of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land?
22733 Jeremias Jer 28 37 19 Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
22734 Jeremias Jer 28 37 20 Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed into the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were spent: and Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.
22735 Jeremias Jer 28 38 1 Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur, and Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard the words that Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying:
22736 Jeremias Jer 28 38 2 Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall remain in this city, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he shall live.
22737 Jeremias Jer 28 38 3 Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
22738 Jeremias Jer 28 38 4 And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.
22739 Jeremias Jer 28 38 5 And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not lawful for the king to deny you any thing.
22740 Jeremias Jer 28 38 6 Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire.
22741 Jeremias Jer 28 38 7 Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin.
22742 Jeremias Jer 28 38 8 And Abdemelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying:
22743 Jeremias Jer 28 38 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done against Jeremias the prophet, casting him into the dungeon to die there with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.
22744 Jeremias Jer 28 38 10 Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying: Take from hence thirty men with thee, and draw up Jeremias the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
22745 Jeremias Jer 28 38 11 So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the king’s house that was under the storehouse: and he took from thence old rags, and old rotten things, and he let them down by cords to Jeremias into the dungeon.
22746 Jeremias Jer 28 38 12 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old rags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the cords: and Jeremias did so.
22747 Jeremias Jer 28 38 13 And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and brought him forth out of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.
22748 Jeremias Jer 28 38 14 And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the prophet to him to the third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me.
22749 Jeremias Jer 28 38 15 Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee, wilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken to me.
22750 Jeremias Jer 28 38 16 Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private, saying: As the Lord liveth, that, made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor will I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life.
22751 Jeremias Jer 28 38 17 And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.
22752 Jeremias Jer 28 38 18 But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
22753 Jeremias Jer 28 38 19 And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the Jews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered into their hands, and they should abuse me.
22754 Jeremias Jer 28 38 20 But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
22755 Jeremias Jer 28 38 21 But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord hath shewn me:
22756 Jeremias Jer 28 38 22 Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed against thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place and they have departed from thee.
22757 Jeremias Jer 28 38 23 And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city with fire.
22758 Jeremias Jer 28 38 24 Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know these words, and thou shalt not die.
22759 Jeremias Jer 28 38 25 But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken with thee, and shall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the king, hide it not from us, and we will not kill thee: and also what the king said to thee:
22760 Jeremias Jer 28 38 26 Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of Jonathan, to die there.
22761 Jeremias Jer 28 38 27 So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him: and they left him: for nothing had been heard.
22762 Jeremias Jer 28 38 28 But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.
22763 Jeremias Jer 28 39 1 In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
22764 Jeremias Jer 28 39 2 And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.
22765 Jeremias Jer 28 39 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
22766 Jeremias Jer 28 39 4 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king’s garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert.
22767 Jeremias Jer 28 39 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
22768 Jeremias Jer 28 39 6 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.
22769 Jeremias Jer 28 39 7 He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon.
22770 Jeremias Jer 28 39 8 And the Chaldeans burnt the king’s house, and the houses of the people with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.
22771 Jeremias Jer 28 39 9 And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that remained.
22772 Jeremias Jer 28 39 10 But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and cisterns at that time.
22773 Jeremias Jer 28 39 11 Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to Nabuzardan the general concerning Jeremias, saying:
22774 Jeremias Jer 28 39 12 Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm: but as he hath a mind, so do with him.
22775 Jeremias Jer 28 39 13 Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent, and Nabuzardan, and Rabsares, and Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all the nobles of the king of Babylon,
22776 Jeremias Jer 28 39 14 Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and committed him to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he might go home, and dwell among the people.
22777 Jeremias Jer 28 39 15 But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying:
22778 Jeremias Jer 28 39 16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will bring my words upon this city unto evil, and not unto good: and they shall be accomplished in thy sight in that day.
22779 Jeremias Jer 28 39 17 And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest:
22780 Jeremias Jer 28 39 18 But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword: but thy life shall be saved for thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.
22781 Jeremias Jer 28 40 1 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that Nabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him, being bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.
22782 Jeremias Jer 28 40 2 And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,
22783 Jeremias Jer 28 40 3 And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath said: because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his voice, and this word is come upon you.
22784 Jeremias Jer 28 40 4 Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which were upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come: and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go.
22785 Jeremias Jer 28 40 5 And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Juda: dwell therefore with him in the midst of the people: or whithersoever it shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the army gave him victuals and presents, and let him go.
22786 Jeremias Jer 28 40 6 And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.
22787 Jeremias Jer 28 40 7 And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through the countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country, and that he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon:
22788 Jeremias Jer 28 40 8 They came to Godolias to Masphath: and Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree, and Sareas the son of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi, that were of Netophathi, and Jezonias the son of Maachati, they and their men.
22789 Jeremias Jer 28 40 9 And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to them and to their companions, saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
22790 Jeremias Jer 28 40 10 Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of the Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the vintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels, and abide in your cities which you hold.
22791 Jeremias Jer 28 40 11 Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:
22792 Jeremias Jer 28 40 12 All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to which they had fled, and they came into the land of Juda to Godolias to Masphath: and they gathered wine, and a very great harvest.
22793 Jeremias Jer 28 40 13 Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the army, that had been scattered about in the countries, came to Godolias to Masphath.
22794 Jeremias Jer 28 40 14 And they said to him: Know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias to kill thee. And Godolias the son of Ahicam believed them not.
22795 Jeremias Jer 28 40 15 But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Godolias privately in Masphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and all the Jews be scattered, that are gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda perish.
22796 Jeremias Jer 28 40 16 And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of Caree: Do not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false.
22797 Jeremias Jer 28 41 1 And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the king, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into Masphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath.
22798 Jeremias Jer 28 41 2 And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men that were with him, and they struck Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan with the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
22799 Jeremias Jer 28 41 3 Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with Godolias in Masphath, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the soldiers.
22800 Jeremias Jer 28 41 4 And on the second day after he had killed Godolias, no man yet knowing it,
22801 Jeremias Jer 28 41 5 There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria, fourscore men, with their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and mourning: and they had offerings and incense in their hand, to offer in the house of the Lord.
22802 Jeremias Jer 28 41 6 And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth from Masphath to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and when he had met them, he said to them: Come to Godolias, the son of Ahicam.
22803 Jeremias Jer 28 41 7 And when they were come to the midst of the city, Ismahel the son of Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he and the men that were with him.
22804 Jeremias Jer 28 41 8 But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren.
22805 Jeremias Jer 28 41 9 And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of Nathanias fill with them that were slain.
22806 Jeremias Jer 28 41 10 Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the people that were in Masphath: the king’s daughters, and all the people that remained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the general of the army had committed to Godolias the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias took them, and he departed, to go over to the children of Ammon.
22807 Jeremias Jer 28 41 11 But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, heard of the evil that Ismahel the son of Nathanias had done.
22808 Jeremias Jer 28 41 12 And taking all the men, they went out to fight against Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and they found him by the great waters that are in Gabaon.
22809 Jeremias Jer 28 41 13 And when all the people that were with Ismahel, had seen Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, they rejoiced.
22810 Jeremias Jer 28 41 14 And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to Masphath: and they returned and went to Johanan the son of Caree.
22811 Jeremias Jer 28 41 15 But Ismahel the son of Nathanias fled with eight men, from the face of Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon.
22812 Jeremias Jer 28 41 16 Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom they had recovered from Ismahel the son of Nathanias, from Masphath, after that he had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam: valiant men for war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs whom he had brought back from Gabaon.
22813 Jeremias Jer 28 41 17 And they departed, and sat as sojourners in Chamaam, which is near Bethlehem: in order to go forward, and enter into Egypt,
22814 Jeremias Jer 28 41 18 From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Juda.
22815 Jeremias Jer 28 42 1 Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Jezonias, the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from the least to the greatest came near:
22816 Jeremias Jer 28 42 2 And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
22817 Jeremias Jer 28 42 3 And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.
22818 Jeremias Jer 28 42 4 And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.
22819 Jeremias Jer 28 42 5 And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
22820 Jeremias Jer 28 42 6 Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee: that it may be well with us when we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.
22821 Jeremias Jer 28 42 7 Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.
22822 Jeremias Jer 28 42 8 And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.
22823 Jeremias Jer 28 42 9 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:
22824 Jeremias Jer 28 42 10 If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.
22825 Jeremias Jer 28 42 11 Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
22826 Jeremias Jer 28 42 12 And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and will cause you to dwell in your own land.
22827 Jeremias Jer 28 42 13 But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,
22828 Jeremias Jer 28 42 14 Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and there we will dwell.
22829 Jeremias Jer 28 42 15 For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go into Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:
22830 Jeremias Jer 28 42 16 The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there you shall die.
22831 Jeremias Jer 28 42 17 And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them.
22832 Jeremias Jer 28 42 18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more.
22833 Jeremias Jer 28 42 19 This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this day.
22834 Jeremias Jer 28 42 20 For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
22835 Jeremias Jer 28 42 21 And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to you.
22836 Jeremias Jer 28 42 22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.
22837 Jeremias Jer 28 43 1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of speaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words:
22838 Jeremias Jer 28 43 2 Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.
22839 Jeremias Jer 28 43 3 But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us to be carried away captives to Babylon.
22840 Jeremias Jer 28 43 4 So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Juda.
22841 Jeremias Jer 28 43 5 But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers took all the remnant of Juda, that were returned out of all nations, to which they had before been scattered, to dwell in the land of Juda:
22842 Jeremias Jer 28 43 6 Men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and every soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.
22843 Jeremias Jer 28 43 7 And they went into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis.
22844 Jeremias Jer 28 43 8 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis, saying:
22845 Jeremias Jer 28 43 9 Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the vault that is under the brick wall at the gate of Pharao’s house in Taphnis: in the sight of the men of Juda.
22846 Jeremias Jer 28 43 10 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I have hid, and he shall set his throne over them.
22847 Jeremias Jer 28 43 11 And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such as are for the sword, to the sword.
22848 Jeremias Jer 28 43 12 And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
22849 Jeremias Jer 28 43 13 And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.
22850 Jeremias Jer 28 44 1 The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:
22851 Jeremias Jer 28 44 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all this evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Juda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an inhabitant in them:
22852 Jeremias Jer 28 44 3 Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.
22853 Jeremias Jer 28 44 4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.
22854 Jeremias Jer 28 44 5 But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.
22855 Jeremias Jer 28 44 6 Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.
22856 Jeremias Jer 28 44 7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you:
22857 Jeremias Jer 28 44 8 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth?
22858 Jeremias Jer 28 44 9 Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
22859 Jeremias Jer 28 44 10 They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set before you and your fathers.
22860 Jeremias Jer 28 44 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.
22861 Jeremias Jer 28 44 12 And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach.
22862 Jeremias Jer 28 44 13 And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine and by pestilence.
22863 Jeremias Jer 28 44 14 And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and that shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: there shall none return but they that shall flee.
22864 Jeremias Jer 28 44 15 Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:
22865 Jeremias Jer 28 44 16 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:
22866 Jeremias Jer 28 44 17 But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.
22867 Jeremias Jer 28 44 18 But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine.
22868 Jeremias Jer 28 44 19 And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out drink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
22869 Jeremias Jer 28 44 20 And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:
22870 Jeremias Jer 28 44 21 Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?
22871 Jeremias Jer 28 44 22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
22872 Jeremias Jer 28 44 23 Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.
22873 Jeremias Jer 28 44 24 And Jeremias said to all the people and to all the women: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:
22874 Jeremias Jer 28 44 25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.
22875 Jeremias Jer 28 44 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.
22876 Jeremias Jer 28 44 27 Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed, by the sword, and by famine, till there be an end of them.
22877 Jeremias Jer 28 44 28 And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
22878 Jeremias Jer 28 44 29 And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be accomplished indeed against you for evil.
22879 Jeremias Jer 28 44 30 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Efree king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.
22880 Jeremias Jer 28 45 1 The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Nerias, when he had written these words in a book, out of the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying:
22881 Jeremias Jer 28 45 2 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch:
22882 Jeremias Jer 28 45 3 Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.
22883 Jeremias Jer 28 45 4 Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.
22884 Jeremias Jer 28 45 5 And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee thy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go.
22885 Jeremias Jer 28 46 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles,
22886 Jeremias Jer 28 46 2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.
22887 Jeremias Jer 28 46 3 Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.
22888 Jeremias Jer 28 46 4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
22889 Jeremias Jer 28 46 5 What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.
22890 Jeremias Jer 28 46 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river Euphrates.
22891 Jeremias Jer 28 46 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers?
22892 Jeremias Jer 28 46 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants.
22893 Jeremias Jer 28 46 9 Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.
22894 Jeremias Jer 28 46 10 For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall devour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for there is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by the river Euphrates.
22895 Jeremias Jer 28 46 11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
22896 Jeremias Jer 28 46 12 The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and both are fallen together.
22897 Jeremias Jer 28 46 13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:
22898 Jeremias Jer 28 46 14 Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.
22899 Jeremias Jer 28 46 15 Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.
22900 Jeremias Jer 28 46 16 He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
22901 Jeremias Jer 28 46 17 Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.
22902 Jeremias Jer 28 46 18 As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
22903 Jeremias Jer 28 46 19 Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.
22904 Jeremias Jer 28 46 20 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
22905 Jeremias Jer 28 46 21 Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22906 Jeremias Jer 28 46 22 Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.
22907 Jeremias Jer 28 46 23 They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.
22908 Jeremias Jer 28 46 24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
22909 Jeremias Jer 28 46 25 The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.
22910 Jeremias Jer 28 46 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.
22911 Jeremias Jer 28 46 27 And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of the land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.
22912 Jeremias Jer 28 46 28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.
22913 Jeremias Jer 28 47 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.
22914 Jeremias Jer 28 47 2 Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,
22915 Jeremias Jer 28 47 3 At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,
22916 Jeremias Jer 28 47 4 Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Cappadocia.
22917 Jeremias Jer 28 47 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?
22918 Jeremias Jer 28 47 6 O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
22919 Jeremias Jer 28 47 7 How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and there hath made an appointment for it?
22920 Jeremias Jer 28 48 1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled.
22921 Jeremias Jer 28 48 2 There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.
22922 Jeremias Jer 28 48 3 A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.
22923 Jeremias Jer 28 48 4 Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.
22924 Jeremias Jer 28 48 5 For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction.
22925 Jeremias Jer 28 48 6 Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
22926 Jeremias Jer 28 48 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
22927 Jeremias Jer 28 48 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken:
22928 Jeremias Jer 28 48 9 Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.
22929 Jeremias Jer 28 48 10 Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.
22930 Jeremias Jer 28 48 11 Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
22931 Jeremias Jer 28 48 12 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.
22932 Jeremias Jer 28 48 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.
22933 Jeremias Jer 28 48 14 How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?
22934 Jeremias Jer 28 48 15 Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
22935 Jeremias Jer 28 48 16 The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
22936 Jeremias Jer 28 48 17 Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod?
22937 Jeremias Jer 28 48 18 Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks.
22938 Jeremias Jer 28 48 19 Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?
22939 Jeremias Jer 28 48 20 Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.
22940 Jeremias Jer 28 48 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath.
22941 Jeremias Jer 28 48 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,
22942 Jeremias Jer 28 48 23 And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,
22943 Jeremias Jer 28 48 24 And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
22944 Jeremias Jer 28 48 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.
22945 Jeremias Jer 28 48 26 Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
22946 Jeremias Jer 28 48 27 For Israel hath been a derision unto them: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.
22947 Jeremias Jer 28 48 28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.
22948 Jeremias Jer 28 48 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his haughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his heart.
22949 Jeremias Jer 28 48 30 I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and that the strength thereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeavoured to do according as it was able.
22950 Jeremias Jer 28 48 31 Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.
22951 Jeremias Jer 28 48 32 O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee, with the mourning of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they are come even to the sea of Jazer: the robber hath rushed in upon thy harvest and thy vintage.
22952 Jeremias Jer 28 48 33 Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.
22953 Jeremias Jer 28 48 34 From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have uttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years old: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.
22954 Jeremias Jer 28 48 35 And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and that sacrificeth to his gods.
22955 Jeremias Jer 28 48 36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished.
22956 Jeremias Jer 28 48 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.
22957 Jeremias Jer 28 48 38 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.
22958 Jeremias Jer 28 48 39 How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab bowed down the neck, and is confounded! And Moab shall be a derision, and an example to all round about him.
22959 Jeremias Jer 28 48 40 Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.
22960 Jeremias Jer 28 48 41 Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.
22961 Jeremias Jer 28 48 42 And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord.
22962 Jeremias Jer 28 48 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
22963 Jeremias Jer 28 48 44 He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
22964 Jeremias Jer 28 48 45 They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon: but there came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the midst of Seon, and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of the children of tumult.
22965 Jeremias Jer 28 48 46 Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast persisted, O people of Chamos: for thy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives.
22966 Jeremias Jer 28 48 47 And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.
22967 Jeremias Jer 28 49 1 Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?
22968 Jeremias Jer 28 49 2 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause the noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and it shall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the Lord.
22969 Jeremias Jer 28 49 3 Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for Melchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
22970 Jeremias Jer 28 49 4 Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me?
22971 Jeremias Jer 28 49 5 Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all that are round about thee: and you shall be scattered every one out of one another’s sight, neither shall there be any to gather together them that flee.
22972 Jeremias Jer 28 49 6 And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children of Ammon to return, saith the Lord.
22973 Jeremias Jer 28 49 7 Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.
22974 Jeremias Jer 28 49 8 Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye inhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation.
22975 Jeremias Jer 28 49 9 If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough for them.
22976 Jeremias Jer 28 49 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be.
22977 Jeremias Jer 28 49 11 Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.
22978 Jeremias Jer 28 49 12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.
22979 Jeremias Jer 28 49 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes.
22980 Jeremias Jer 28 49 14 I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and let us rise up to battle.
22981 Jeremias Jer 28 49 15 For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations, despicable among men.
22982 Jeremias Jer 28 49 16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
22983 Jeremias Jer 28 49 17 And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
22984 Jeremias Jer 28 49 18 As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no son of man inhabit it.
22985 Jeremias Jer 28 49 19 Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?
22986 Jeremias Jer 28 49 20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast them down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.
22987 Jeremias Jer 28 49 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red Sea.
22988 Jeremias Jer 28 49 22 Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.
22989 Jeremias Jer 28 49 23 Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.
22990 Jeremias Jer 28 49 24 Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.
22991 Jeremias Jer 28 49 25 How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy!
22992 Jeremias Jer 28 49 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.
22993 Jeremias Jer 28 49 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strong holds of Benadad.
22994 Jeremias Jer 28 49 28 Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise, and go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east.
22995 Jeremias Jer 28 49 29 They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall carry off for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels: and they shall call fear upon them round about.
22996 Jeremias Jer 28 49 30 Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that inhabit Asor, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived designs against you.
22997 Jeremias Jer 28 49 31 Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell alone.
22998 Jeremias Jer 28 49 32 And their camels shall be for a spoil and the multitude of their cattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every wind them that have their hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon them from all their confines, saith the Lord.
22999 Jeremias Jer 28 49 33 And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.
23000 Jeremias Jer 28 49 34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, saying:
23001 Jeremias Jer 28 49 35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of Elam, and their chief strength.
23002 Jeremias Jer 28 49 36 And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven: and I will scatter them into all these winds: and there shall be no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come.
23003 Jeremias Jer 28 49 37 And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and in the sight of them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, my fierce wrath, saith the Lord: and I will send the sword after them, till I consume them.
23004 Jeremias Jer 28 49 38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes from thence, saith the Lord.
23005 Jeremias Jer 28 49 39 But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam, to return, saith the Lord.
23006 Jeremias Jer 28 50 1 The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.
23007 Jeremias Jer 28 50 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.
23008 Jeremias Jer 28 50 3 For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall make her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from man even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away.
23009 Jeremias Jer 28 50 4 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.
23010 Jeremias Jer 28 50 5 They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.
23011 Jeremias Jer 28 50 6 My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused them to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
23012 Jeremias Jer 28 50 7 All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.
23013 Jeremias Jer 28 50 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock.
23014 Jeremias Jer 28 50 9 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.
23015 Jeremias Jer 28 50 10 And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall be filled, saith the Lord.
23016 Jeremias Jer 28 50 11 Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.
23017 Jeremias Jer 28 50 12 Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.
23018 Jeremias Jer 28 50 13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.
23019 Jeremias Jer 28 50 14 Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord.
23020 Jeremias Jer 28 50 15 Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do to her.
23021 Jeremias Jer 28 50 16 Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
23022 Jeremias Jer 28 50 17 Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
23023 Jeremias Jer 28 50 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as I have visited the king of Assyria.
23024 Jeremias Jer 28 50 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he shall feed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied in mount Ephraim, and Galaad.
23025 Jeremias Jer 28 50 20 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.
23026 Jeremias Jer 28 50 21 Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
23027 Jeremias Jer 28 50 22 A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.
23028 Jeremias Jer 28 50 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!
23029 Jeremias Jer 28 50 24 I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.
23030 Jeremias Jer 28 50 25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.
23031 Jeremias Jer 28 50 26 Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.
23032 Jeremias Jer 28 50 27 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
23033 Jeremias Jer 28 50 28 The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped out of the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our God, the revenge of his temple.
23034 Jeremias Jer 28 50 29 Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
23035 Jeremias Jer 28 50 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.
23036 Jeremias Jer 28 50 31 Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.
23037 Jeremias Jer 28 50 32 And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and there shall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
23038 Jeremias Jer 28 50 33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and the children of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken them captives, hold them fast, they will not let them go.
23039 Jeremias Jer 28 50 34 Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name: he will defend their cause in judgment, to terrify the land, and to disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
23040 Jeremias Jer 28 50 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
23041 Jeremias Jer 28 50 36 A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
23042 Jeremias Jer 28 50 37 A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.
23043 Jeremias Jer 28 50 38 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.
23044 Jeremias Jer 28 50 39 Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.
23045 Jeremias Jer 28 50 40 As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it.
23046 Jeremias Jer 28 50 41 Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.
23047 Jeremias Jer 28 50 42 They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
23048 Jeremias Jer 28 50 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in labour.
23049 Jeremias Jer 28 50 44 Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?
23050 Jeremias Jer 28 50 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.
23051 Jeremias Jer 28 50 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard amongst the nations.
23052 Jeremias Jer 28 51 1 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me.
23053 Jeremias Jer 28 51 2 And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the day of her affliction.
23054 Jeremias Jer 28 51 3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.
23055 Jeremias Jer 28 51 4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.
23056 Jeremias Jer 28 51 5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
23057 Jeremias Jer 28 51 6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.
23058 Jeremias Jer 28 51 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered.
23059 Jeremias Jer 28 51 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
23060 Jeremias Jer 28 51 9 We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.
23061 Jeremias Jer 28 51 10 The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.
23062 Jeremias Jer 28 51 11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
23063 Jeremias Jer 28 51 12 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
23064 Jeremias Jer 28 51 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.
23065 Jeremias Jer 28 51 14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee.
23066 Jeremias Jer 28 51 15 He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
23067 Jeremias Jer 28 51 16 When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven: he lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned lightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his treasures.
23068 Jeremias Jer 28 51 17 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them.
23069 Jeremias Jer 28 51 18 They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
23070 Jeremias Jer 28 51 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
23071 Jeremias Jer 28 51 20 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:
23072 Jeremias Jer 28 51 21 And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:
23073 Jeremias Jer 28 51 22 And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:
23074 Jeremias Jer 28 51 23 And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
23075 Jeremias Jer 28 51 24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, saith the Lord.
23076 Jeremias Jer 28 51 25 Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
23077 Jeremias Jer 28 51 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord.
23078 Jeremias Jer 28 51 27 Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.
23079 Jeremias Jer 28 51 28 Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.
23080 Jeremias Jer 28 51 29 And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable.
23081 Jeremias Jer 28 51 30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.
23082 Jeremias Jer 28 51 31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:
23083 Jeremias Jer 28 51 32 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
23084 Jeremias Jer 28 51 33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
23085 Jeremias Jer 28 51 34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.
23086 Jeremias Jer 28 51 35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.
23087 Jeremias Jer 28 51 36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring.
23088 Jeremias Jer 28 51 37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.
23089 Jeremias Jer 28 51 38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.
23090 Jeremias Jer 28 51 39 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
23091 Jeremias Jer 28 51 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
23092 Jeremias Jer 28 51 41 How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
23093 Jeremias Jer 28 51 42 The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
23094 Jeremias Jer 28 51 43 Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.
23095 Jeremias Jer 28 51 44 And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
23096 Jeremias Jer 28 51 45 Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
23097 Jeremias Jer 28 51 46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.
23098 Jeremias Jer 28 51 47 Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
23099 Jeremias Jer 28 51 48 And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.
23100 Jeremias Jer 28 51 49 And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
23101 Jeremias Jer 28 51 50 You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
23102 Jeremias Jer 28 51 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.
23103 Jeremias Jer 28 51 52 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:
23104 Jeremias Jer 28 51 53 If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.
23105 Jeremias Jer 28 51 54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
23106 Jeremias Jer 28 51 55 Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:
23107 Jeremias Jer 28 51 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.
23108 Jeremias Jer 28 51 57 And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.
23109 Jeremias Jer 28 51 58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish.
23110 Jeremias Jer 28 51 59 The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy.
23111 Jeremias Jer 28 51 60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.
23112 Jeremias Jer 28 51 61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,
23113 Jeremias Jer 28 51 62 Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever.
23114 Jeremias Jer 28 51 63 And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates:
23115 Jeremias Jer 28 51 64 And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.
23116 Jeremias Jer 28 52 1 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.
23117 Jeremias Jer 28 52 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.
23118 Jeremias Jer 28 52 3 For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.
23119 Jeremias Jer 28 52 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about.
23120 Jeremias Jer 28 52 5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.
23121 Jeremias Jer 28 52 6 And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.
23122 Jeremias Jer 28 52 7 And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king’s garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.
23123 Jeremias Jer 28 52 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from him.
23124 Jeremias Jer 28 52 9 And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.
23125 Jeremias Jer 28 52 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.
23126 Jeremias Jer 28 52 11 And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in prison till the day of his death.
23127 Jeremias Jer 28 52 12 And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.
23128 Jeremias Jer 28 52 13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.
23129 Jeremias Jer 28 52 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
23130 Jeremias Jer 28 52 15 But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
23131 Jeremias Jer 28 52 16 But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.
23132 Jeremias Jer 28 52 17 The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
23133 Jeremias Jer 28 52 18 And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the brazen vessels that had been used in the ministry: and
23134 Jeremias Jer 28 52 19 The general took away the pitchers, and the censers, and the pots, and the basins, and the candlesticks, and the mortars, and the cups: as many as were of gold, in gold: and as many as were of silver, in silver:
23135 Jeremias Jer 28 52 20 And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.
23136 Jeremias Jer 28 52 21 And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.
23137 Jeremias Jer 28 52 22 And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one chapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and the pomegranates.
23138 Jeremias Jer 28 52 23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and the pomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed with network.
23139 Jeremias Jer 28 52 24 And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and the three keepers of the entry.
23140 Jeremias Jer 28 52 25 He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the men of war: and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, that were found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who exercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
23141 Jeremias Jer 28 52 26 And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.
23142 Jeremias Jer 28 52 27 And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of his land.
23143 Jeremias Jer 28 52 28 This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.
23144 Jeremias Jer 28 52 29 In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and thirty-two souls from Jerusalem.
23145 Jeremias Jer 28 52 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five souls. So all the souls were four thousand six hundred.
23146 Jeremias Jer 28 52 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda, and brought him forth out of prison.
23147 Jeremias Jer 28 52 32 And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
23148 Jeremias Jer 28 52 33 And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him always all the days of his life.
23149 Jeremias Jer 28 52 34 And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
23150 Lamentations Lam 29 1 1 Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!
23151 Lamentations Lam 29 1 2 Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.
23152 Lamentations Lam 29 1 3 Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the nations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her in the midst of straits.
23153 Lamentations Lam 29 1 4 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness.
23154 Lamentations Lam 29 1 5 He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor.
23155 Lamentations Lam 29 1 6 Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.
23156 Lamentations Lam 29 1 7 Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy’s hand, and there was no helper; the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.
23157 Lamentations Lam 29 1 8 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward.
23158 Lamentations Lam 29 1 9 Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.
23159 Lamentations Lam 29 1 10 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.
23160 Lamentations Lam 29 1 11 Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile.
23161 Lamentations Lam 29 1 12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.
23162 Lamentations Lam 29 1 13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.
23163 Lamentations Lam 29 1 14 Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they are folded together in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened: the Lord hath delivered me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.
23164 Lamentations Lam 29 1 15 Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Juda.
23165 Lamentations Lam 29 1 16 Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.
23166 Lamentations Lam 29 1 17 Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
23167 Lamentations Lam 29 1 18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.
23168 Lamentations Lam 29 1 19 Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their food, to relieve their souls.
23169 Lamentations Lam 29 1 20 Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
23170 Lamentations Lam 29 1 21 Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my evil, they have rejoiced that thou hast done it: thou hast brought a day of consolation, and they shall be like unto me.
23171 Lamentations Lam 29 1 22 Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.
23172 Lamentations Lam 29 2 1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
23173 Lamentations Lam 29 2 2 Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.
23174 Lamentations Lam 29 2 3 Ghimel. He hath broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he hath kindled in Jacob as it were a flaming fire devouring round about.
23175 Lamentations Lam 29 2 4 Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his indignation like fire.
23176 Lamentations Lam 29 2 5 He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women.
23177 Lamentations Lam 29 2 6 Vau. And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he hath thrown down his tabernacle: the Lord hath caused feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Sion: and hath delivered up king and priest to reproach, and to the indignation of his wrath.
23178 Lamentations Lam 29 2 7 Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
23179 Lamentations Lam 29 2 8 Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath been destroyed together.
23180 Lamentations Lam 29 2 9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
23181 Lamentations Lam 29 2 10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
23182 Lamentations Lam 29 2 11 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.
23183 Lamentations Lam 29 2 12 Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.
23184 Lamentations Lam 29 2 13 Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?
23185 Lamentations Lam 29 2 14 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.
23186 Lamentations Lam 29 2 15 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?
23187 Lamentations Lam 29 2 16 Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.
23188 Lamentations Lam 29 2 17 Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.
23189 Lamentations Lam 29 2 18 Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.
23190 Lamentations Lam 29 2 19 Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.
23191 Lamentations Lam 29 2 20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
23192 Lamentations Lam 29 2 21 Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.
23193 Lamentations Lam 29 2 22 Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.
23194 Lamentations Lam 29 3 1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
23195 Lamentations Lam 29 3 2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
23196 Lamentations Lam 29 3 3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
23197 Lamentations Lam 29 3 4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
23198 Lamentations Lam 29 3 5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
23199 Lamentations Lam 29 3 6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
23200 Lamentations Lam 29 3 7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
23201 Lamentations Lam 29 3 8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
23202 Lamentations Lam 29 3 9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
23203 Lamentations Lam 29 3 10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
23204 Lamentations Lam 29 3 11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
23205 Lamentations Lam 29 3 12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
23206 Lamentations Lam 29 3 13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
23207 Lamentations Lam 29 3 14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
23208 Lamentations Lam 29 3 15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
23209 Lamentations Lam 29 3 16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
23210 Lamentations Lam 29 3 17 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
23211 Lamentations Lam 29 3 18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
23212 Lamentations Lam 29 3 19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
23213 Lamentations Lam 29 3 20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
23214 Lamentations Lam 29 3 21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
23215 Lamentations Lam 29 3 22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
23216 Lamentations Lam 29 3 23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
23217 Lamentations Lam 29 3 24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
23218 Lamentations Lam 29 3 25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
23219 Lamentations Lam 29 3 26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
23220 Lamentations Lam 29 3 27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
23221 Lamentations Lam 29 3 28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
23222 Lamentations Lam 29 3 29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
23223 Lamentations Lam 29 3 30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
23224 Lamentations Lam 29 3 31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
23225 Lamentations Lam 29 3 32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
23226 Lamentations Lam 29 3 33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
23227 Lamentations Lam 29 3 34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
23228 Lamentations Lam 29 3 35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
23229 Lamentations Lam 29 3 36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
23230 Lamentations Lam 29 3 37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
23231 Lamentations Lam 29 3 38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
23232 Lamentations Lam 29 3 39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
23233 Lamentations Lam 29 3 40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
23234 Lamentations Lam 29 3 41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
23235 Lamentations Lam 29 3 42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
23236 Lamentations Lam 29 3 43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
23237 Lamentations Lam 29 3 44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
23238 Lamentations Lam 29 3 45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
23239 Lamentations Lam 29 3 46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
23240 Lamentations Lam 29 3 47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
23241 Lamentations Lam 29 3 48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
23242 Lamentations Lam 29 3 49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
23243 Lamentations Lam 29 3 50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
23244 Lamentations Lam 29 3 51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
23245 Lamentations Lam 29 3 52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
23246 Lamentations Lam 29 3 53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
23247 Lamentations Lam 29 3 54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
23248 Lamentations Lam 29 3 55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
23249 Lamentations Lam 29 3 56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
23250 Lamentations Lam 29 3 57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
23251 Lamentations Lam 29 3 58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
23252 Lamentations Lam 29 3 59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
23253 Lamentations Lam 29 3 60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
23254 Lamentations Lam 29 3 61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
23255 Lamentations Lam 29 3 62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
23256 Lamentations Lam 29 3 63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
23257 Lamentations Lam 29 3 64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
23258 Lamentations Lam 29 3 65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.
23259 Lamentations Lam 29 3 66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
23260 Lamentations Lam 29 4 1 Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street?
23261 Lamentations Lam 29 4 2 Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter’s hands?
23262 Lamentations Lam 29 4 3 Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.
23263 Lamentations Lam 29 4 4 Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them.
23264 Lamentations Lam 29 4 5 He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.
23265 Lamentations Lam 29 4 6 Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is made greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and hands took nothing in her.
23266 Lamentations Lam 29 4 7 Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.
23267 Lamentations Lam 29 4 8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.
23268 Lamentations Lam 29 4 9 Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.
23269 Lamentations Lam 29 4 10 Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
23270 Lamentations Lam 29 4 11 Caph. The Lord hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Sion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
23271 Lamentations Lam 29 4 12 Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem.
23272 Lamentations Lam 29 4 13 Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
23273 Lamentations Lam 29 4 14 Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts.
23274 Lamentations Lam 29 4 15 Samech. Depart you that are defiled, they cried out to them: Depart, get ye hence, touch not: for they quarrelled, and being removed, they said among the Gentiles: He will no more dwell among them.
23275 Lamentations Lam 29 4 16 Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.
23276 Lamentations Lam 29 4 17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.
23277 Lamentations Lam 29 4 18 Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.
23278 Lamentations Lam 29 4 19 Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
23279 Lamentations Lam 29 4 20 Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.
23280 Lamentations Lam 29 4 21 Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Hus: to thee also shall the cup come, thou shalt be made drunk, and naked.
23281 Lamentations Lam 29 4 22 Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Sion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he hath visited thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.
23282 Lamentations Lam 29 5 1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
23283 Lamentations Lam 29 5 2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
23284 Lamentations Lam 29 5 3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
23285 Lamentations Lam 29 5 4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
23286 Lamentations Lam 29 5 6 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
23287 Lamentations Lam 29 5 6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
23288 Lamentations Lam 29 5 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
23289 Lamentations Lam 29 5 8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
23290 Lamentations Lam 29 5 9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
23291 Lamentations Lam 29 5 10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
23292 Lamentations Lam 29 5 11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
23293 Lamentations Lam 29 5 12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
23294 Lamentations Lam 29 5 13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
23295 Lamentations Lam 29 5 14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
23296 Lamentations Lam 29 5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
23297 Lamentations Lam 29 5 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
23298 Lamentations Lam 29 5 17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
23299 Lamentations Lam 29 5 18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
23300 Lamentations Lam 29 5 19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
23301 Lamentations Lam 29 5 20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
23302 Lamentations Lam 29 5 21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
23303 Lamentations Lam 29 5 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.
23304 Baruch Bar 30 1 1 And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the son of Helcias, wrote in Babylonia.
23305 Baruch Bar 30 1 2 In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
23306 Baruch Bar 30 1 3 And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book.
23307 Baruch Bar 30 1 4 And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the kings, and in the hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people, from the least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the river Sedi.
23308 Baruch Bar 30 1 5 And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord.
23309 Baruch Bar 30 1 6 And they made a collection of money according to every man’s power.
23310 Baruch Bar 30 1 7 And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the priest, the son of Helcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people, that were found with him in Jerusalem:
23311 Baruch Bar 30 1 8 At the time when he received the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,
23312 Baruch Bar 30 1 9 After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the people of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon.
23313 Baruch Bar 30 1 10 And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy with it holocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings for sin at the altar of the Lord our God:
23314 Baruch Bar 30 1 11 And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:
23315 Baruch Bar 30 1 12 And that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes, that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them many days, and may find favour in their sight.
23316 Baruch Bar 30 1 13 And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even to this day.
23317 Baruch Bar 30 1 14 And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in the temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.
23318 Baruch Bar 30 1 15 And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
23319 Baruch Bar 30 1 16 To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers.
23320 Baruch Bar 30 1 17 We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him, nor put our trust in him:
23321 Baruch Bar 30 1 18 And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath given us.
23322 Baruch Bar 30 1 19 From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice.
23323 Baruch Bar 30 1 20 And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.
23324 Baruch Bar 30 1 21 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us:
23325 Baruch Bar 30 1 22 And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
23326 Baruch Bar 30 2 1 Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:
23327 Baruch Bar 30 2 2 That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:
23328 Baruch Bar 30 2 3 That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
23329 Baruch Bar 30 2 4 And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.
23330 Baruch Bar 30 2 5 And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
23331 Baruch Bar 30 2 6 To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
23332 Baruch Bar 30 2 7 For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us:
23333 Baruch Bar 30 2 8 And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.
23334 Baruch Bar 30 2 9 And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded us:
23335 Baruch Bar 30 2 10 And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in the commandments of the Lord which he hath set before us.
23336 Baruch Bar 30 2 11 And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a name as at this day,
23337 Baruch Bar 30 2 12 We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all thy justices.
23338 Baruch Bar 30 2 13 Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
23339 Baruch Bar 30 2 14 Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver us for thy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them that have led us away:
23340 Baruch Bar 30 2 15 That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.
23341 Baruch Bar 30 2 16 Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy house, and incline thy ear, and hear us.
23342 Baruch Bar 30 2 17 Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in hell, whose spirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and justice to the Lord:
23343 Baruch Bar 30 2 18 But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil she hath done, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord.
23344 Baruch Bar 30 2 19 For it is not for the justices of our fathers that we pour out our prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God:
23345 Baruch Bar 30 2 20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying:
23346 Baruch Bar 30 2 21 Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and your neck, and serve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land which I have given to your fathers.
23347 Baruch Bar 30 2 22 But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to serve the king of Babylon: I will cause you to depart out of the cities of Juda, and from without Jerusalem.
23348 Baruch Bar 30 2 23 And I will take away from you the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, and all the land shall be without any footstep of inhabitants.
23349 Baruch Bar 30 2 24 And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the hands of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers should be removed out of their place:
23350 Baruch Bar 30 2 25 And behold they are cast out to the heat of the sun, and to the frost of the night: and they have died in grievous pains, by famine, and by the sword, and in banishment.
23351 Baruch Bar 30 2 26 And thou hast made the temple, in which thy name was called upon, as it is at this day, for the iniquity of the house of Israel, and the house of Juda.
23352 Baruch Bar 30 2 27 And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, according to all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine:
23353 Baruch Bar 30 2 28 As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel,
23354 Baruch Bar 30 2 29 Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this great multitude shall be turned into a very small number among the nations, where I will scatter them:
23355 Baruch Bar 30 2 30 For I know that the people will not hear me, for they are a people of a stiff neck: but they shall turn to their heart in the land of their captivity:
23356 Baruch Bar 30 2 31 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and they shall understand: and ears, and they shall hear.
23357 Baruch Bar 30 2 32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and shall be mindful of my name.
23358 Baruch Bar 30 2 33 And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, that sinned against me.
23359 Baruch Bar 30 2 34 And I will bring them back again into the land which I promised with an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished.
23360 Baruch Bar 30 2 35 And I will make with them another covenant that shall be everlasting, to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people, the children of Israel, out of the land that I have given them.
23361 Baruch Bar 30 3 1 And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish, and the troubled spirit crieth to thee:
23362 Baruch Bar 30 3 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful God, and have pity on us: for we have sinned before thee.
23363 Baruch Bar 30 3 3 For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish everlastingly?
23364 Baruch Bar 30 3 4 O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before thee, and have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore evils have cleaved fast to us.
23365 Baruch Bar 30 3 5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy hand, and upon thy name at this time:
23366 Baruch Bar 30 3 6 For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise thee, O Lord:
23367 Baruch Bar 30 3 7 Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before thee.
23368 Baruch Bar 30 3 8 And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our God.
23369 Baruch Bar 30 3 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear, that thou mayst learn wisdom.
23370 Baruch Bar 30 3 10 How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies’ land?
23371 Baruch Bar 30 3 11 Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with the dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell.
23372 Baruch Bar 30 3 12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom:
23373 Baruch Bar 30 3 13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou hadst surely dwelt in peace for ever.
23374 Baruch Bar 30 3 14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding: that thou mayst know also where is length of days and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
23375 Baruch Bar 30 3 15 Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in to her treasures?
23376 Baruch Bar 30 3 16 Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the beasts that are upon the earth?
23377 Baruch Bar 30 3 17 That take their diversion with the birds of the air.
23378 Baruch Bar 30 3 18 That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous, and their works are unsearchable.
23379 Baruch Bar 30 3 19 They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and others are risen up in their place.
23380 Baruch Bar 30 3 20 Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge they have not known,
23381 Baruch Bar 30 3 21 Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither have their children received it, it is far from their face.
23382 Baruch Bar 30 3 22 It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.
23383 Baruch Bar 30 3 23 The children of Agar also, that search after the wisdom that is of the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers of fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of wisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths.
23384 Baruch Bar 30 3 24 O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the place of his possession!
23385 Baruch Bar 30 3 25 It is great, and hath no end: it is high and immense.
23386 Baruch Bar 30 3 26 There were the giants, those renowned men that were from the beginning, of great stature, expert in war.
23387 Baruch Bar 30 3 27 The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the way of knowledge: therefore did they perish.
23388 Baruch Bar 30 3 28 And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their folly.
23389 Baruch Bar 30 3 29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?
23390 Baruch Bar 30 3 30 Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold?
23391 Baruch Bar 30 3 31 There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search out her paths:
23392 Baruch Bar 30 3 32 But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:
23393 Baruch Bar 30 3 33 He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling.
23394 Baruch Bar 30 3 34 And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced:
23395 Baruch Bar 30 3 35 They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with cheerfulness they have shined forth to him that made them.
23396 Baruch Bar 30 3 36 This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him.
23397 Baruch Bar 30 3 37 He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
23398 Baruch Bar 30 3 38 Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.
23399 Baruch Bar 30 4 1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death.
23400 Baruch Bar 30 4 2 Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.
23401 Baruch Bar 30 4 3 Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.
23402 Baruch Bar 30 4 4 We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.
23403 Baruch Bar 30 4 5 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
23404 Baruch Bar 30 4 6 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
23405 Baruch Bar 30 4 7 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
23406 Baruch Bar 30 4 8 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
23407 Baruch Bar 30 4 9 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning:
23408 Baruch Bar 30 4 10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
23409 Baruch Bar 30 4 11 For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.
23410 Baruch Bar 30 4 12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God.
23411 Baruch Bar 30 4 13 And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of God’s commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth and justice.
23412 Baruch Bar 30 4 14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.
23413 Baruch Bar 30 4 15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked nation, and of a strange tongue:
23414 Baruch Bar 30 4 16 Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone without children.
23415 Baruch Bar 30 4 17 But as for me, what help can I give you?
23416 Baruch Bar 30 4 18 But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you out of the hands of your enemies.
23417 Baruch Bar 30 4 19 Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone.
23418 Baruch Bar 30 4 20 I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.
23419 Baruch Bar 30 4 21 Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the Lord, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the princes your enemies.
23420 Baruch Bar 30 4 22 For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to you from our everlasting Saviour.
23421 Baruch Bar 30 4 23 For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping: but the Lord will bring you back to me with joy and gladness for ever.
23422 Baruch Bar 30 4 24 For as the neighbours of Sion have now seen your captivity from God: so shall they also shortly see your salvation from God, which shall come upon you with great honour, and everlasting glory.
23423 Baruch Bar 30 4 25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you: for thy enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his destruction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck.
23424 Baruch Bar 30 4 26 My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were taken away as a flock made a prey by the enemies.
23425 Baruch Bar 30 4 27 Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away.
23426 Baruch Bar 30 4 28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much.
23427 Baruch Bar 30 4 29 For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.
23428 Baruch Bar 30 4 30 Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he exhorteth thee, that named thee.
23429 Baruch Bar 30 4 31 The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that have rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished.
23430 Baruch Bar 30 4 32 The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and she that received thy sons.
23431 Baruch Bar 30 4 33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
23432 Baruch Bar 30 4 34 And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness shall be turned to mourning.
23433 Baruch Bar 30 4 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time.
23434 Baruch Bar 30 4 36 Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the joy that cometh to thee from God.
23435 Baruch Bar 30 4 37 For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered, they come gathered together from the east even to the west, at the word of the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of God.
23436 Baruch Bar 30 5 1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourning, and affliction: and put on the beauty, and honour of that everlasting glory which thou hast from God.
23437 Baruch Bar 30 5 2 God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
23438 Baruch Bar 30 5 3 For God will shew his brightness in thee, to every one under heaven.
23439 Baruch Bar 30 5 4 For thy name shall be named to thee by God for ever: the peace of justice, and honour of piety.
23440 Baruch Bar 30 5 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: and look about towards the east, and behold thy children gathered together from the rising to the setting sun, by the word of the Holy One rejoicing in the remembrance of God.
23441 Baruch Bar 30 5 6 For they went out from thee on foot, led by the enemies: but the Lord will bring them to thee exalted with honour as children of the kingdom.
23442 Baruch Bar 30 5 7 For God hath appointed to bring down every high mountain, and the everlasting rocks, and to fill up the valleys to make them even with the ground: that Israel may walk diligently to the honour of God.
23443 Baruch Bar 30 5 8 Moreover the woods, and every sweetsmelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God.
23444 Baruch Bar 30 5 9 For God will bring Israel with joy in the light of his majesty, with mercy, and justice, that cometh from him.
23445 Baruch Bar 30 6 1 For the sins that you have committed before God, you shall be carried away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.
23446 Baruch Bar 30 6 2 And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace.
23447 Baruch Bar 30 6 3 But now, you shall see in Babylon gods of gold, and of silver, and of stone, and of wood borne upon shoulders, causing fear to the Gentiles.
23448 Baruch Bar 30 6 4 Beware therefore that you imitate not the doings of others, and be afraid, and the fear of them should seize upon you.
23449 Baruch Bar 30 6 5 But when you see the multitude behind, and before, adoring them, say you in your hearts: Thou oughtest to be adored, O Lord.
23450 Baruch Bar 30 6 6 For my angel is with you: And I myself will demand an account of your souls.
23451 Baruch Bar 30 6 7 For their tongue that is polished by the craftsman, and themselves laid over with gold and silver, are false things, and they cannot speak.
23452 Baruch Bar 30 6 8 And as if it were for a maiden that loveth to go gay: so do they take gold and make them up.
23453 Baruch Bar 30 6 9 Their gods have golden crowns upon their heads: whereof the priests secretly convey away from them gold, and silver, and bestow it on themselves.
23454 Baruch Bar 30 6 10 Yea and they give thereof to prostitutes, and they dress out harlots: and again when they receive it of the harlots, they adorn their gods.
23455 Baruch Bar 30 6 11 And these gods cannot defend themselves from the rust, and the moth.
23456 Baruch Bar 30 6 12 But when they have covered them with a purple garment, they wipe their face because of the dust of the house, which is very much among them.
23457 Baruch Bar 30 6 13 This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as a judge of the country, but cannot put to death one that offendeth him.
23458 Baruch Bar 30 6 14 And this hath in his hand a sword, or an axe, but cannot save himself from war, or from robbers, whereby be it known to you, that they are not gods.
23459 Baruch Bar 30 6 15 Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods:
23460 Baruch Bar 30 6 16 When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in.
23461 Baruch Bar 30 6 17 And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves.
23462 Baruch Bar 30 6 18 They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.
23463 Baruch Bar 30 6 19 And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it not.
23464 Baruch Bar 30 6 20 Their faces are black with the smoke that is made in the house.
23465 Baruch Bar 30 6 21 Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and cats in like manner.
23466 Baruch Bar 30 6 22 Whereby you may know that they are no gods. Therefore fear them not.
23467 Baruch Bar 30 6 23 The gold also which they have, is for shew, but except a man wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten, did they feel it.
23468 Baruch Bar 30 6 24 Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them.
23469 Baruch Bar 30 6 25 And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them.
23470 Baruch Bar 30 6 26 Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.
23471 Baruch Bar 30 6 27 The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.
23472 Baruch Bar 30 6 28 The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.
23473 Baruch Bar 30 6 29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood:
23474 Baruch Bar 30 6 30 And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.
23475 Baruch Bar 30 6 31 And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.
23476 Baruch Bar 30 6 32 The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and their children.
23477 Baruch Bar 30 6 33 And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him down:
23478 Baruch Bar 30 6 34 In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If a man make a vow to them, and perform it not: they cannot require it.
23479 Baruch Bar 30 6 35 They cannot deliver a man from death, nor save the weak from the mighty.
23480 Baruch Bar 30 6 36 They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man from distress.
23481 Baruch Bar 30 36 7 They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
23482 Baruch Bar 30 6 38 Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded.
23483 Baruch Bar 30 6 39 How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods?
23484 Baruch Bar 30 6 40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak.
23485 Baruch Bar 30 6 41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense.
23486 Baruch Bar 30 6 42 The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones.
23487 Baruch Bar 30 6 43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
23488 Baruch Bar 30 6 44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods?
23489 Baruch Bar 30 6 45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be.
23490 Baruch Bar 30 6 46 For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods?
23491 Baruch Bar 30 6 47 But they have left false things and reproach to them that come after.
23492 Baruch Bar 30 6 48 For when war cometh upon them , or evils: the priests consult with themselves, where they may hide themselves with them.
23493 Baruch Bar 30 6 49 How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver themselves from war, nor save themselves from evils?
23494 Baruch Bar 30 6 50 For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by all nations, and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods, but the work of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
23495 Baruch Bar 30 6 51 Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the work of men’s hands, and no work of God is in them?
23496 Baruch Bar 30 6 52 They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.
23497 Baruch Bar 30 6 53 They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.
23498 Baruch Bar 30 6 54 For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.
23499 Baruch Bar 30 6 55 And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods?
23500 Baruch Bar 30 6 56 Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them,
23501 Baruch Bar 30 6 57 Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.
23502 Baruch Bar 30 6 58 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.
23503 Baruch Bar 30 6 59 The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth for profitable uses, are obedient.
23504 Baruch Bar 30 6 60 In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.
23505 Baruch Bar 30 6 61 And the clouds, when God commandeth them to go over the whole world, do that which is commanded them.
23506 Baruch Bar 30 6 62 The fire also being sent from above to consume mountains, and woods, doth as it is commanded. But these neither in shew, nor in power, are like to any one of them.
23507 Baruch Bar 30 6 63 Wherefore it is neither to be thought, nor to be said, that they are gods: since they are neither able to judge causes, nor to do any good to men.
23508 Baruch Bar 30 6 64 Knowing, therefore, that they are not gods, fear them not.
23509 Baruch Bar 30 6 65 For neither can they curse kings, nor bless them.
23510 Baruch Bar 30 6 66 Neither do they shew signs in the heaven to the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
23511 Baruch Bar 30 6 67 Beasts are better than they, which can fly under a covert, and help themselves.
23512 Baruch Bar 30 6 68 Therefore there is no manner of appearance that they are gods: so fear them not.
23513 Baruch Bar 30 6 69 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.
23514 Baruch Bar 30 6 70 They are no better than a white thorn in a garden, upon which every bird sitteth. In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in the dark.
23515 Baruch Bar 30 6 71 By the purple also and the scarlet which are motheaten upon them, you shall know that they are not gods. And they themselves at last are consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.
23516 Baruch Bar 30 6 72 Better, therefore, is the just man that hath no idols: for he shall be far from reproach.
23517 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.
23518 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 2 On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,
23519 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 3 The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
23520 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 4 And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north: and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it: and out of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the fire, as it were the resemblance of amber:
23521 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 5 And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures: and this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.
23522 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 6 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.
23523 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 7 Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing brass.
23524 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides,
23525 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 9 And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.
23526 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 10 And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.
23527 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 11 And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:
23528 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 12 And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.
23529 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.
23530 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 14 And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.
23531 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.
23532 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 16 And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
23533 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 17 When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.
23534 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 18 The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the four.
23535 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 19 And, when the living creatures went, the wheels also went together by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.
23536 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 20 Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
23537 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 21 When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
23538 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 22 And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of the firmament, the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched out over their heads above.
23539 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was covered in like manner.
23540 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 24 And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as it were the voice of the most high God: when they walked, it was like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an army, and when they stood, their wings were let down.
23541 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 25 For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over their heads, they stood, and let down their wings.
23542 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the appearance of a man above upon it.
23543 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 27 And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the appearance of fire within it round about: from his loins and upward, and from his loins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance of fire shining round about.
23544 Ezechiel Eze 31 1 28 As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.
23545 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 1 This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the Lord, and I saw, and I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke, and he said to me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.
23546 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 2 And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to me,
23547 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 3 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.
23548 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 4 And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face, and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
23549 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 5 If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will forbear, for they are a provoking house: and they shall know that there hath been a prophet in the midst of them.
23550 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 6 And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a provoking house.
23551 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 7 And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they will hear, and forbear: for they provoke me to anger.
23552 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 8 But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and do not thou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.
23553 Ezechiel Eze 31 2 9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein was a book rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it was written within and without: and there were written in it lamentations, and canticles, and woe.
23554 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 1 And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt find: eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel.
23555 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 2 And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:
23556 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 3 And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be filled with this book, which I give thee, and I did eat it: and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
23557 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 4 And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them.
23558 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
23559 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 6 Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.
23560 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.
23561 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 8 Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
23562 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 9 I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.
23563 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 10 And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:
23564 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 11 And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so be they will hear, and will forbear.
23565 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 12 And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.
23566 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 13 And the noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one against another, and the noise of the wheels following the living creatures, and the noise of a great commotion.
23567 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 14 The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.
23568 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 15 And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to them that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I remained there seven days mourning in the midst of them.
23569 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 16 And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23570 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.
23571 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 18 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.
23572 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 19 But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
23573 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.
23574 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 21 But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.
23575 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 22 And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.
23576 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 23 And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
23577 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 24 And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.
23578 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 25 And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the midst of them.
23579 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.
23580 Ezechiel Eze 31 3 27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking house.
23581 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 1 And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.
23582 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it.
23583 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the house of Israel.
23584 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon thee their iniquity.
23585 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 5 And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
23586 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 6 And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed to thee.
23587 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.
23588 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 8 Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
23589 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 9 And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
23590 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.
23591 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
23592 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.
23593 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 13 And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.
23594 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.
23595 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 15 And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
23596 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.
23597 Ezechiel Eze 31 4 17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.
23598 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair.
23599 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.
23600 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 3 And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.
23601 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 4 And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.
23602 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.
23603 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 6 And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.
23604 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:
23605 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Gentiles.
23606 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the like to which I will do no more, because of all thy abominations.
23607 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind.
23608 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with all thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity.
23609 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and shall be consumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a third part of thee shall fall by the sword round about thee: and a third part of thee will I scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
23610 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 13 And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished my indignation in them.
23611 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 14 And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.
23612 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.
23613 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread.
23614 Ezechiel Eze 31 5 17 And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto utter destruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass through thee, and I will bring in the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.
23615 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23616 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 2 Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them.
23617 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places.
23618 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 4 And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
23619 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
23620 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.
23621 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23622 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 8 And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when I shall have scattered you through the countries.
23623 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
23624 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.
23625 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
23626 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he that is near, shall fall by the sword: and he that remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation upon them.
23627 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols.
23628 Ezechiel Eze 31 6 14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
23629 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23630 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land.
23631 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 3 Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy abominations against thee.
23632 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23633 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 5 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come.
23634 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 6 An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee: behold it is come.
23635 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 7 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains.
23636 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 8 Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes.
23637 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike.
23638 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
23639 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them.
23640 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.
23641 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 13 For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life.
23642 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof.
23643 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine.
23644 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.
23645 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.
23646 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.
23647 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
23648 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 20 And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an uncleanness to them.
23649 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
23650 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23651 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.
23652 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 24 And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary.
23653 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 25 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.
23654 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
23655 Ezechiel Eze 31 7 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and will judge them according to their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
23656 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
23657 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins, and downward, fire: and from his loins, and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the appearance of amber.
23658 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.
23659 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 4 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain.
23660 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 5 And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards the way of the north, and I lifted up my eyes towards the way of the north: and behold on the north side of the gate of the altar the idol of jealousy in the very entry.
23661 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations.
23662 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 7 And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall.
23663 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
23664 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here.
23665 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 10 And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and of living creatures, the abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about.
23666 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the incense.
23667 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
23668 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations which these commit.
23669 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 14 And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord’s house, which looked to the north: and behold women sat there mourning for Adonis.
23670 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
23671 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.
23672 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose.
23673 Ezechiel Eze 31 8 18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.
23674 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 1 And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The visitations of the city are at hand, and every one hath a destroying weapon in his hand.
23675 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 2 And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate, which looketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of destruction in his hand: and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the brazen altar.
23676 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the cherub, upon which he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man that was clothed with linen, and had a writer’s inkhorn at his loins.
23677 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
23678 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 5 And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity.
23679 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.
23680 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the city.
23681 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 8 And the slaughter being ended I was left; and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem?
23682 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
23683 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.
23684 Ezechiel Eze 31 9 11 And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had the inkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have done as thou hast commanded me.
23685 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 1 And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
23686 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 2 And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and said: Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubims and fill thy hand with the coals of fire that are between the cherubims, and pour them out upon the city. And he went in, in my sight:
23687 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 3 And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
23688 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the cherub to the threshold of the house: and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
23689 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even to the outward court as the voice of God Almighty speaking.
23690 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 6 And when he had commanded the man that was clothed with linen, saying: Take fire from the midst of the wheels that are between the cherubims: he went in and stood beside the wheel.
23691 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 7 And one cherub stretched out his arm from the midst of the cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims: and he took, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it and went forth.
23692 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 8 And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man’s hand under their wings.
23693 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 9 And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone:
23694 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 10 And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
23695 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 11 And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not when they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn back.
23696 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 12 And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands, and their wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round about the four wheels.
23697 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 13 And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
23698 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 14 And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub, and the second face, the face of a man: and in the third was the face of a lion: and in the fourth the face of an eagle.
23699 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 15 And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.
23700 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth, the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them.
23701 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 17 When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.
23702 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 18 And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the temple: and stood over the cherubims.
23703 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 19 And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from the earth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also followed: and it stood in the entry of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
23704 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 20 This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.
23705 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 21 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the likeness of a man’s hand was under their wings.
23706 Ezechiel Eze 31 10 22 And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight forward.
23707 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 1 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, princes of the people.
23708 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 2 And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,
23709 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 3 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.
23710 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man.
23711 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 5 And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me: Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house of Israel, for I know the thoughts of your heart.
23712 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 6 You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
23713 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, and this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.
23714 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 8 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
23715 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 9 And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will deliver you into the hand of the enemies, and I will execute judgments upon you.
23716 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 10 You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the borders of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23717 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 11 This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not be as flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the borders of Israel.
23718 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 12 And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you.
23719 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?
23720 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23721 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in possession to us.
23722 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed them far off among the Gentiles, and because I have scattered them among the countries: I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.
23723 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 17 Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will gather you from among the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
23724 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 18 And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
23725 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 19 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:
23726 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 20 That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.
23727 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals and abominations, I will lay their way upon their head, saith the Lord God.
23728 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 22 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels with them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
23729 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city.
23730 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.
23731 Ezechiel Eze 31 11 25 And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the Lord, which he had shewn me.
23732 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23733 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.
23734 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 3 Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for removing, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for they are a provoking house.
23735 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 4 And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.
23736 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 5 Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.
23737 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 6 In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men’s shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of Israel.
23738 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 7 I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my goods by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in the evening I digged through the wall with my hand, and I went forth in the dark, and was carried on men’s shoulders in their sight.
23739 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 8 And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying:
23740 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?
23741 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 10 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden concerneth my prince that is in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that are among them.
23742 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 11 Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them: they shall be removed from their dwellings, and go into captivity.
23743 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 12 And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see the ground with his eyes.
23744 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.
23745 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 14 And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I will scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the sword after them.
23746 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have dispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in the countries.
23747 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 16 And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and from the famine, and from the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked deeds among the nations whither they shall go: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
23748 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23749 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.
23750 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 19 And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God to them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in care, and drink their water in desolation: that the land may become desolate from the multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of all that dwell therein.
23751 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 20 And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23752 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23753 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 22 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail.
23754 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 23 Say to them therefore: Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this proverb to cease, neither shall it be any more a common saying in Israel: and tell them that the days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
23755 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 24 For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel.
23756 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 25 For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.
23757 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 26 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23758 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 27 Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The vision that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and this man prophesieth of times afar off.
23759 Ezechiel Eze 31 12 28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.
23760 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23761 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 2 Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel that prophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy out of their own heart: Hear ye the word of the Lord:
23762 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 3 Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.
23763 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 4 Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.
23764 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 5 You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the Lord.
23765 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 6 They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said.
23766 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 7 Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken.
23767 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith the Lord God.
23768 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
23769 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 10 Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw.
23770 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 11 Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall fall: for there shall be an overflowing shower, and I will cause great hailstones to fall violently from above, and a stormy wind to throw it down.
23771 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 12 Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to you: Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?
23772 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in my indignation, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger: and great hailstones in my wrath to consume.
23773 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 14 And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar: and I will make it even with the ground, and the foundation thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23774 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 15 And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that daub it without tempering the mortar, and I will say to you: The wall is no more, and they that daub it are no more.
23775 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 16 Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.
23776 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 17 And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people that prophesy out of their own heart: and do thou prophesy against them,
23777 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew cushions under every elbow: and make pillows for the heads of persons of every age to catch souls: and when they caught the souls of my people, they gave life to their souls.
23778 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that believe lies.
23779 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I declare against your cushions, wherewith you catch flying souls: and I will tear them off from your arms: and I will let go the soul that you catch, the souls that should fly.
23780 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 21 And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people out of your hand, neither shall they be any more in your hands to be a prey: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23781 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live.
23782 Ezechiel Eze 31 13 23 Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine divinations any more, and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23783 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 1 And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat before me.
23784 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23785 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 3 Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me?
23786 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord will answer him according to the multitude of his uncleannesses:
23787 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 5 That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.
23788 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 6 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Be converted, and depart from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
23789 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 7 For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will answer him by myself.
23790 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23791 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 9 And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel.
23792 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 10 And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.
23793 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of hosts.
23794 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23795 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 13 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.
23796 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 14 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts.
23797 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 15 And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass because of the beasts:
23798 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 16 If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be made desolate.
23799 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 17 Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:
23800 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 18 And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered.
23801 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 19 Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
23802 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 20 And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.
23803 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,
23804 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 22 Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved, who shall bring away their sons and daughters: behold they shall come among you, and you shall see their way, and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things that I have brought upon it.
23805 Ezechiel Eze 31 14 23 And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways, and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.
23806 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23807 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 2 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?
23808 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 3 Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?
23809 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?
23810 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 5 Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it?
23811 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
23812 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them.
23813 Ezechiel Eze 31 15 8 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.
23814 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23815 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
23816 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.
23817 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 4 And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts.
23818 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 5 No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.
23819 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 6 And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in thy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live in thy blood.
23820 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman’s ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou wast naked, and full of confusion.
23821 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 8 And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.
23822 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 9 And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
23823 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 10 And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed thee with fine garments.
23824 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.
23825 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
23826 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a queen.
23827 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
23828 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.
23829 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 16 And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.
23830 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 17 And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast committed fornication with them.
23831 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 18 And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.
23832 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 19 And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them for a sweet odour; and it was done, saith the Lord God.
23833 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small?
23834 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.
23835 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 22 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.
23836 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)
23837 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 24 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.
23838 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 25 At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.
23839 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 26 And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me.
23840 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 27 Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will take away thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to the will of the daughters of the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.
23841 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 28 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not contented.
23842 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 29 Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied.
23843 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?
23844 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 31 Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,
23845 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 32 But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.
23846 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 33 Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.
23847 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 34 And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication, for in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.
23848 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
23849 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 36 Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou gavest them:
23850 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 37 Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness.
23851 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
23852 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 39 And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace.
23853 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.
23854 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 41 And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.
23855 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 42 And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.
23856 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.
23857 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 44 Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.
23858 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.
23859 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.
23860 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 47 But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.
23861 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 48 As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.
23862 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.
23863 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 50 And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
23864 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 51 And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
23865 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 52 Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast surpassed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for they are justified above thee, therefore be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast justified thy sisters.
23866 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 53 And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back Sodom, with her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria, and her daughters: and I will bring those that return of thee in the midst of them.
23867 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 54 That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, comforting them.
23868 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their ancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their ancient state: and thou and thy daughters shall return to your ancient state.
23869 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,
23870 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 57 Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides.
23871 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 58 Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith the Lord God.
23872 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
23873 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 60 And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
23874 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 61 And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
23875 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,
23876 Ezechiel Eze 31 16 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
23877 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23878 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
23879 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 3 And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.
23880 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 4 He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.
23881 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 5 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.
23882 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 6 And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, and the branches thereof looked towards him: and the roots thereof were under him. So it became a vine, and grew into branches, and shot forth sprigs.
23883 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 7 And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
23884 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 8 It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.
23885 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root?
23886 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 10 Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not be dried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and shall it not wither in the furrows where it grew?
23887 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23888 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 12 Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon.
23889 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 13 And he shall take one of the king’s seed, and make a covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the mighty men of the land,
23890 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 14 That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.
23891 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 15 But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?
23892 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 16 As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void, and whose covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon shall he die.
23893 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 17 And not with a great army, nor with much people shall Pharao fight against him: when he shall cast up mounts, and build forts, to cut off many souls.
23894 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 18 For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not escape.
23895 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I live, I will lay upon his head the oath he hath despised, and the covenant he hath broken.
23896 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 20 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.
23897 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword: and the residue shall be scattered into every wind: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken.
23898 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 22 Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain high and eminent.
23899 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 23 On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof.
23900 Ezechiel Eze 31 17 24 And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
23901 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the meaning?
23902 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
23903 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 3 As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no more to you a proverb in Israel.
23904 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 4 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.
23905 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 5 And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,
23906 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:
23907 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 7 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment:
23908 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 8 Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and man:
23909 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 9 Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.
23910 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 10 And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that hath done some one of these things:
23911 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 11 Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the mountains, and that defileth his neighbour’s wife:
23912 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 12 That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that committeth abomination:
23913 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 13 That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall such a one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these detestable things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.
23914 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father’s sins, which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them:
23915 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife:
23916 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 16 And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge, nor taken away with violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment:
23917 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 17 That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor, hath not taken usury and increase, but hath executed my judgments, and hath walked in my commandments: this man shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but living he shall live.
23918 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 18 As for his father, because he oppressed and offered violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he is dead in his own iniquity.
23919 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 19 And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live.
23920 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
23921 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 21 But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die.
23922 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 22 I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.
23923 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 23 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?
23924 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 24 But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.
23925 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?
23926 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 26 For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.
23927 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 27 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive.
23928 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.
23929 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 29 And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways perverse?
23930 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.
23931 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
23932 Ezechiel Eze 31 18 32 For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.
23933 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
23934 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
23935 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 3 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
23936 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.
23937 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 5 But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.
23938 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 6 And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
23939 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 7 He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.
23940 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 8 And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.
23941 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 9 And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
23942 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.
23943 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 11 And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
23944 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.
23945 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 13 And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.
23946 Ezechiel Eze 31 19 14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
23947 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.
23948 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23949 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not answer you, saith the Lord God.
23950 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.
23951 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God:
23952 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.
23953 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
23954 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
23955 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 9 But I did otherwise for my name’s sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
23956 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert.
23957 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
23958 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
23959 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.
23960 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.
23961 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.
23962 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 16 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
23963 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
23964 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:
23965 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 19 I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.
23966 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
23967 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 21 But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.
23968 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 22 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight.
23969 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries:
23970 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.
23971 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 25 Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.
23972 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
23973 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blasphemed me, when they had despised and contemned me;
23974 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations.
23975 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 29 And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.
23976 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit fornication with their abominations.
23977 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 31 And you defile yourselves with all your idols unto this day, in the offering of your gifts, when you make your children pass through the fire: and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not answer you.
23978 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 32 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
23979 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
23980 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the countries, in which you are scattered, I will reign over you with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
23981 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
23982 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.
23983 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 37 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant.
23984 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 38 And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
23985 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;
23986 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications.
23987 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
23988 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
23989 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked doings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you committed.
23990 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done well by you for my own name’s sake, and not according to your evil ways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
23991 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23992 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.
23993 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 47 And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to the north.
23994 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.
23995 Ezechiel Eze 31 20 49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?
23996 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
23997 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:
23998 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked.
23999 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north.
24000 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
24001 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
24002 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.
24003 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24004 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.
24005 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree.
24006 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 11 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the hand of the slayer.
24007 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 12 Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,
24008 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
24009 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 14 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,
24010 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 15 And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.
24011 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
24012 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
24013 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24014 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the way of the city.
24015 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 20 Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city.
24016 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.
24017 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts.
24018 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 23 And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.
24019 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your devices: because, I say, You have remembered, you shall be taken with the hand.
24020 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity:
24021 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?
24022 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it him.
24023 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and thou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and to glitter,
24024 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 29 Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of iniquity.
24025 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
24026 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 31 And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.
24027 Ezechiel Eze 31 21 32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it.
24028 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24029 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?
24030 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 3 And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile herself.
24031 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.
24032 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.
24033 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.
24034 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
24035 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.
24036 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.
24037 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 10 They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.
24038 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.
24039 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
24040 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised: and at the blood that hath been shed in the midst of thee.
24041 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.
24042 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 15 And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.
24043 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 16 And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
24044 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24045 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
24046 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.
24047 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.
24048 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 21 And will gather you together, and will burn you in the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.
24049 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have poured out my indignation upon you.
24050 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24051 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 24 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
24052 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof.
24053 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 26 Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
24054 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 27 Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.
24055 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 28 And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.
24056 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.
24057 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.
24058 Ezechiel Eze 31 22 31 And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head, saith the Lord God.
24059 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24060 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
24061 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 3 And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.
24062 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 4 And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.
24063 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 5 And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
24064 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 6 Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
24065 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 7 And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
24066 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 8 Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.
24067 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 9 Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.
24068 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 10 They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
24069 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister.
24070 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 12 Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
24071 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 13 And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.
24072 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,
24073 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 15 And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
24074 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 16 She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
24075 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 17 And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.
24076 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 18 And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.
24077 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 19 For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
24078 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 20 And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.
24079 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
24080 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.
24081 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.
24082 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 24 And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.
24083 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.
24084 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 26 And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the instruments of thy glory.
24085 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 27 And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
24086 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 28 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
24087 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 29 And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
24088 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 30 They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.
24089 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup into thy hand.
24090 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister’s cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.
24091 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
24092 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
24093 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
24094 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?
24095 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 37 Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
24096 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 38 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
24097 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.
24098 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 40 They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women’s ornaments.
24099 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.
24100 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 42 And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
24101 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 43 And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
24102 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 44 And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
24103 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 45 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
24104 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 46 For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
24105 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 47 And let the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
24106 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 48 And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
24107 Ezechiel Eze 31 23 49 And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
24108 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 1 And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:
24109 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 2 Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.
24110 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.
24111 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 4 Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.
24112 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 5 Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of it.
24113 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it.
24114 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
24115 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 8 And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take my vengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock, that it should not be covered.
24116 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of which I will make a great bonfire.
24117 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 10 Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed.
24118 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 11 Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed.
24119 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 12 Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.
24120 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.
24121 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.
24122 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24123 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 16 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shalt not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run down.
24124 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.
24125 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.
24126 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 19 And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?
24127 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 20 And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24128 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.
24129 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.
24130 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.
24131 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign of things to come: according to all that he hath done, so shall you do, when this shall come to pass: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
24132 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 25 And thou, O son of man, behold in the day wherein I will take away from them their strength, and the joy of their glory, and the desire of their eyes, upon which their souls rest, their sons and their daughters.
24133 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 26 In that day when he that escapeth shall come to thee, to tell thee:
24134 Ezechiel Eze 31 24 27 In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that hath escaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou shalt be unto them for a sign of things to come, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
24135 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24136 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 2 Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.
24137 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 3 And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led into captivity:
24138 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 4 Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for an inheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in thee, and shall set up their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits: and they shall drink thy milk.
24139 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
24140 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 6 For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy hands and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against the land of Israel:
24141 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 7 Therefore behold I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will cut thee off from among the people, and destroy thee out of the lands, and break thee in pieces: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
24142 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 8 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:
24143 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 9 Therefore behold I will open the shoulder of Moab from the cities, from his cities, I say, and his borders, the noble cities of the land of Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and Cariathaim,
24144 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 10 To the people of the east with the children of Ammon, and I will give it them for an inheritance: that there may be no more any remembrance of the children of Ammon among the nations.
24145 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 11 And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24146 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and hath sought revenge of them:
24147 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it desolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the sword.
24148 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my wrath, and my fury: and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
24149 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 15 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities:
24150 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch forth my hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the killers, and will destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
24151 Ezechiel Eze 31 25 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking them in fury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
24152 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24153 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she is laid waste.
24154 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.
24155 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 4 And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.
24156 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 5 She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.
24157 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 6 Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain by the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24158 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 7 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people.
24159 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 8 Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.
24160 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 9 And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
24161 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 10 By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.
24162 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets, thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy famous statues shall fall to the ground.
24163 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.
24164 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 13 And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.
24165 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 14 And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
24166 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?
24167 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their broidered garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit on the ground, and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall.
24168 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 17 And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?
24169 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 18 Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.
24170 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 19 For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited: and shall bring the deep upon thee, and many waters shall cover thee:
24171 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,
24172 Ezechiel Eze 31 26 21 I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and if thou be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more for ever, saith the Lord God.
24173 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24174 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 2 Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:
24175 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 3 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,
24176 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 4 And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:
24177 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.
24178 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 6 They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.
24179 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.
24180 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.
24181 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
24182 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.
24183 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 11 The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.
24184 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,
24185 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.
24186 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 14 From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.
24187 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the traffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.
24188 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.
24189 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 17 Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy fairs.
24190 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 18 The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.
24191 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
24192 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 20 The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.
24193 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids.
24194 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 22 The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with all the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set forth in thy market.
24195 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.
24196 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 24 They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were wrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy merchandise.
24197 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 25 The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.
24198 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.
24199 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.
24200 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 28 Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
24201 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 29 And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:
24202 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 30 And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.
24203 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 31 And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.
24204 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 32 And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and shall lament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the sea?
24205 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 33 Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.
24206 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 34 Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.
24207 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and all their kings being struck with the storm have changed their countenance.
24208 Ezechiel Eze 31 27 36 The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.
24209 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24210 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.
24211 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 3 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.
24212 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 4 In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.
24213 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 5 By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.
24214 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 6 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:
24215 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.
24216 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 8 They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.
24217 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 9 Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?
24218 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
24219 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:
24220 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 12 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
24221 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.
24222 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 14 Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire.
24223 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.
24224 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the mountain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones of fire.
24225 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 17 And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee.
24226 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.
24227 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 19 All that shall see thee among the nations, shall be astonished at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.
24228 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24229 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,
24230 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 22 And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall execute judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
24231 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 23 And I will send into her pestilence, and blood in her streets: and they shall fall being slain by the sword on all sides in the midst thereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24232 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 24 And the house of Israel shall have no more a stumblingblock of bitterness, nor a thorn causing pain on every side round about them, of them that are against them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
24233 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 25 Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have gathered together the house of Israel out of the people among whom they are scattered: I will be sanctified in them before the Gentiles: and they shall dwell in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.
24234 Ezechiel Eze 31 28 26 And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build houses, and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with confidence, when I shall have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies round about: and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
24235 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 1 In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24236 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:
24237 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.
24238 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 4 But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.
24239 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 5 And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.
24240 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.
24241 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 7 When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.
24242 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.
24243 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 9 And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it.
24244 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 10 Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.
24245 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 11 The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.
24246 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the cities that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
24247 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 13 For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been scattered.
24248 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 14 And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:
24249 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 15 It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.
24250 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 16 And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
24251 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in the first month, in the first of the month: that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24252 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.
24253 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.
24254 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 20 And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord God.
24255 Ezechiel Eze 31 29 21 In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24256 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24257 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 2 Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:
24258 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 3 For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations.
24259 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.
24260 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.
24261 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
24262 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
24263 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 8 And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed.
24264 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come.
24265 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 10 Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.
24266 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 11 He and his people with him, the strongest of nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon Egypt: and shall fill the land with the slain.
24267 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 12 And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land and all that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.
24268 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 13 Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt.
24269 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 14 And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.
24270 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 15 And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria.
24271 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 16 And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses.
24272 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 17 The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
24273 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 18 And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into captivity.
24274 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 19 And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24275 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24276 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of Egypt: and behold it is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied up with clothes, and swathed with linen, that it might recover strength, and hold the sword.
24277 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 22 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm, which is already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand:
24278 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 23 And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
24279 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will put my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly being slain before his face.
24280 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 25 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have given my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched it forth upon the land of Egypt.
24281 Ezechiel Eze 31 30 26 And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will scatter them through the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24282 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 1 And it came to pass, in the eleventh year, the third month the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24283 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
24284 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 3 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
24285 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 4 The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
24286 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 5 Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters.
24287 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 6 And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.
24288 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 7 And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.
24289 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 8 The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.
24290 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 9 For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.
24291 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height:
24292 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 11 I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.
24293 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 12 And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.
24294 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.
24295 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 14 For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.
24296 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 15 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled.
24297 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 16 I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
24298 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 17 For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
24299 Ezechiel Eze 31 31 18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
24300 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24301 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.
24302 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my net.
24303 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 4 And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.
24304 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy corruption,
24305 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 6 And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
24306 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 7 And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
24307 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 8 I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.
24308 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 9 And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall have brought in thy destruction among the nations upon the lands, which thou knowest not.
24309 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 10 And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own life, in the day of their ruin.
24310 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 11 For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,
24311 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 12 By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all these nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
24312 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were beside the great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble them no more, neither shall the hoof of beasts trouble them.
24313 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:
24314 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 15 When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and the land shall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall have struck all the inhabitants thereof and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24315 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 16 This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith for Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God.
24316 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying:
24317 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 18 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
24318 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 19 Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.
24319 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her people.
24320 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 21 The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him from the midst of hell, they that went down with his helpers and slept uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
24321 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 22 Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them slain, and that fell by the sword.
24322 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 23 Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit: and his multitude lay round about his grave: all of them slain, and fallen by the sword, they that heretofore spread terror in the land of the living.
24323 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 24 There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.
24324 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 25 In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among all his people: their graves are round about him: all these are uncircumcised, and slain by the sword: for they spread their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that descend into the pit: they are laid in the midst of the slain.
24325 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 26 There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude: their graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised and slain, and fallen by the sword: though they spread their terror in the land of the living.
24326 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 27 And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their bones, because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
24327 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 28 So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt sleep with them that are slain by the sword.
24328 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 29 There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who with their army are joined with them that are slain by the sword: and have slept with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down into the pit.
24329 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 30 There are all the princes of the north, and all the hunters: who were brought down with the slain, fearing, and confounded in their strength: who slept uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.
24330 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 31 Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his army, saith the Lord God:
24331 Ezechiel Eze 31 32 32 Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
24332 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24333 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them:
24334 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 3 And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:
24335 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 4 Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.
24336 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not look to himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save his life.
24337 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 6 And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.
24338 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 7 So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.
24339 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 8 When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.
24340 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 9 But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.
24341 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 10 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we live?
24342 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 11 Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?
24343 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 12 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin.
24344 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.
24345 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 14 And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,
24346 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 15 And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.
24347 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 16 None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live.
24348 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 17 And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.
24349 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 18 For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
24350 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 19 And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice, he shall live in them.
24351 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 20 And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.
24352 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.
24353 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 22 And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.
24354 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24355 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 24 Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us in possession.
24356 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?
24357 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 26 You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbour’s wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance?
24358 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 27 Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live, they that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the sword: and he that is in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be devoured: and they that are in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence.
24359 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 28 And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them,
24360 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 29 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made their land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they have committed.
24361 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 30 And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that talk of thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another each man to his neighbour, saying: Come, and let us hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.
24362 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.
24363 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 32 And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with a sweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and do them not.
24364 Ezechiel Eze 31 33 33 And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold it is coming, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
24365 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24366 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?
24367 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 3 You ate the milk, and you clothed yourselves with the wool, and you killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed.
24368 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 4 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.
24369 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 5 And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and they became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
24370 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 6 My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill: and my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them.
24371 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
24372 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks:
24373 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 9 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
24374 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 10 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the shepherds, I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them to cease from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and it shall no more be meat for them.
24375 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 11 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep, and will visit them.
24376 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 12 As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
24377 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and will gather them out of the countries, and will bring them to their own land: and I will feed them in the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the habitations of the land.
24378 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 14 I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they rest on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains of Israel.
24379 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 15 I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.
24380 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 16 I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment.
24381 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 17 And as for you, O my flocks, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I judge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of he goats.
24382 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 18 Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? but you must also tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures: and when you drank the clearest water, you troubled the rest with your feet.
24383 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 19 And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with your feet: and they drank what your feet had troubled.
24384 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you: Behold, I myself will judge between the fat cattle and the lean.
24385 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 21 Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad:
24386 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 22 I will save my flock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
24387 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 23 And I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
24388 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 24 And I the Lord will be their God: and my servant David the prince in the midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.
24389 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.
24390 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 26 And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.
24391 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the bonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that rule over them.
24392 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 28 And they shall be no more for a spoil to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them: but they shall dwell securely without, any terror.
24393 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 29 And I will raise up for them a bud of renown: and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither shall they bear any more the reproach of the Gentiles.
24394 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 30 And they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they are my people the house of Israel: saith the Lord God.
24395 Ezechiel Eze 31 34 31 And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.
24396 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24397 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
24398 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 3 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.
24399 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 4 I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
24400 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 5 Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.
24401 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 6 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
24402 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 7 And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
24403 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 8 And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.
24404 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 9 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.
24405 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 10 Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.
24406 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee.
24407 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 12 And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.
24408 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 13 And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.
24409 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 14 Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.
24410 Ezechiel Eze 31 35 15 As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24411 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 1 And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
24412 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.
24413 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 3 Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:
24414 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the nations round about.
24415 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.
24416 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles.
24417 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.
24418 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 8 But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.
24419 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 9 For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.
24420 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 10 And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.
24421 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 11 And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
24422 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 12 And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.
24423 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:
24424 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.
24425 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.
24426 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 16 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24427 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
24428 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 18 And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.
24429 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and their devices.
24430 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 20 And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.
24431 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 21 And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went in.
24432 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 22 Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations whither you went.
24433 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24434 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 24 For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
24435 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 25 And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
24436 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 26 And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.
24437 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.
24438 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 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.
24439 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.
24440 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
24441 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 31 And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you.
24442 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 32 It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O house of Israel.
24443 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 33 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,
24444 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,
24445 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 35 They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.
24446 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 36 And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it.
24447 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 37 Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men,
24448 Ezechiel Eze 31 36 38 As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts: so shall the waste cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24449 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones.
24450 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 2 And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.
24451 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 3 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.
24452 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 4 And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
24453 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 5 Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.
24454 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
24455 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 7 And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one, its joint.
24456 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 8 And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in them.
24457 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 9 And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.
24458 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 10 And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
24459 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.
24460 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.
24461 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people:
24462 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 14 And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:
24463 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24464 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 16 And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his associates.
24465 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 17 And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall become one in thy hand.
24466 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?
24467 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 19 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand.
24468 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 20 And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand, before their eyes.
24469 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 21 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land.
24470 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 22 And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms.
24471 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 23 Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
24472 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 24 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.
24473 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 25 And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children’s children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
24474 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 26 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.
24475 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 27 And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
24476 Ezechiel Eze 31 37 28 And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.
24477 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24478 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of him,
24479 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 3 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.
24480 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 4 And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.
24481 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.
24482 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee.
24483 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 7 Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy multitude that is assembled about thee, and be thou commander over them.
24484 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it.
24485 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 9 And thou shalt go up and come like a storm, and like a cloud to cover the land, thou and all thy bands and many people with thee.
24486 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 10 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.
24487 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 11 And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land which is without a wall, I will come to them that are at rest, and dwell securely: all these dwell without a wall, they have no bars nor gates:
24488 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 12 To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay thy hand upon them that had been wasted, and afterwards restored, and upon the people that is gathered together out of the nations, which hath begun to possess and to dwell in the midst of the earth.
24489 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 13 Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall say to thee: Art thou come to take spoils? behold, thou hast gathered thy multitude to take a prey, to take silver, and gold, and to carry away goods and substance, and to take rich spoils.
24490 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 14 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: Thus saith the Lord God: Shalt thou not know, in that day, when my people of Israel shall dwell securely?
24491 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 15 And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.
24492 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 16 And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring thee upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
24493 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 17 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then art he, of whom I have spoken in the days of old, by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in the days of those times that I would bring thee upon them.
24494 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day of the coming of Gog upon the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my indignation shall come up in my wrath.
24495 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 19 And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger, that in that day there shall be a great commotion upon the land of Israel:
24496 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the ground, and all men that are upon the face of the earth, shall be moved at my presence: and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
24497 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 21 And I will call in the sword against him in all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be pointed against his brother.
24498 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and with violent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone upon him, and upon his army, and upon the many nations that are with him.
24499 Ezechiel Eze 31 38 23 And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24500 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.
24501 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 2 And I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and will make thee go up from the northern parts: and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel.
24502 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 3 And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
24503 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth to be devoured.
24504 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 5 Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
24505 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24506 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 7 And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
24507 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 8 Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this is the day whereof I have spoken.
24508 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 9 And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they shall burn them with fire seven years.
24509 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 10 And they shall not bring wood out of the countries, nor cut down out of the forests: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and shall make a prey of them to whom they had been a prey, and they shall rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.
24510 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.
24511 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 12 And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.
24512 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 13 And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be unto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith the Lord God.
24513 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 14 And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin to seek.
24514 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 15 And they shall go about passing through the land: and when they shall see the bone of a man, they shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers bury it in the valley, of the multitude of Gog.
24515 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 16 And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.
24516 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 17 And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.
24517 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.
24518 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 19 And you shall eat the fat till you be full, and shall drink blood till you be drunk of the victim which I shall slay for you.
24519 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses, and mighty horsemen, and all the men of war, saith the Lord God.
24520 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 21 And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
24521 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.
24522 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made captives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face from them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they fell all by the sword.
24523 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 24 I have dealt with them according to their uncleanness, and wickedness, and hid my face from them.
24524 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the house of Israel and I will be jealous for my holy name.
24525 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 26 And they shall bear their confusion, and all the transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against me, when they shall dwell in their land securely fearing no man:
24526 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 27 And I shall have brought them back from among the nations, and shall have gathered them together out of the lands of their enemies, and shall be sanctified in them, in the sight of many nations.
24527 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I caused them to be carried away among the nations; and I have gathered them together unto their own land, and have not left any of them there.
24528 Ezechiel Eze 31 39 29 And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
24529 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither.
24530 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain: upon which there was as the building of a city, bending towards the south.
24531 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 3 And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.
24532 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 4 And this man said to me: Son of man, see with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for thou art brought hither that they may be shewn to thee: declare all that thou seest, to the house of Israel.
24533 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 5 And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.
24534 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 6 And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and he went up the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed broad;
24535 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad: and between the little chambers were five cubits:
24536 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 8 And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was one reed.
24537 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 9 And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward.
24538 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 10 And the little chambers of the gate that looked eastward were three on this side, and three on that side: all three were of one measure, and the fronts of one measure, on both parts.
24539 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 11 And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate ten cubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits:
24540 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 12 And the border before the little chambers one cubit: and one cubit was the border on both sides: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side and that side.
24541 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 13 And he measured the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another, in breadth five and twenty cubits: door against door.
24542 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 14 He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court of the gate on every side round about.
24543 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 15 And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.
24544 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 16 And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees.
24545 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 17 And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there were chambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round about: thirty chambers encompassed the pavement.
24546 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 18 And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was lower.
24547 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 19 And he measured the breadth from the face of the lower gate to the front of the inner court without, a hundred cubits to the east, and to the north.
24548 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 20 He measured also both the length and the breadth of the gate of the outward court, which looked northward.
24549 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 21 And the little chambers thereof three on this side, and three on that side: and the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the measure of the former gate, fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
24550 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 22 And the windows thereof, and the porch, and the gravings according to the measure of the gate that looked to the east, and they went up to it by seven steps, and a porch was before it.
24551 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate of the north, and that of the east: and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
24552 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 24 And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the gate that looked to the south: and he measured the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the former measures.
24553 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 25 And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
24554 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before the doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side in the front thereof.
24555 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 27 And there was a gate of the inner court towards the south: and he measured from gate to gate towards the south, a hundred cubits.
24556 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 28 And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate: and he measured the gate according to the former measures.
24557 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 29 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch thereof with the same measures: and the windows thereof, and the porch thereof round about it was fifty cubits in length, and five and twenty cubits in breadth.
24558 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 30 And the porch round about was five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
24559 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 31 And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm trees thereof in the front: and there were eight steps to go up to it.
24560 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 32 And he brought me into the inner court by the way of the east: and he measured the gate according to the former measures.
24561 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 33 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch thereof as before: and the windows thereof, and the porches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
24562 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 34 And the porch thereof, that is, of the outward court: and the graven palm trees in the front thereof on this side and on that side: and the going up thereof was by eight steps.
24563 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 35 And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north: and he measured according to the former measures.
24564 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 36 The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch thereof, and the windows thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
24565 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 37 And the porch thereof looked to the outward court: and the graving of palm trees in the front thereof was on this side and on that side: and the going up to it was by eight steps.
24566 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 38 And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.
24567 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side: that the holocaust, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering might be slain thereon.
24568 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 40 And on the outward side, which goeth up to the entry of the gate that looketh toward the north, were two tables: and at the other side before the porch of the gate were two tables,
24569 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side at the sides of the gate were eight tables, upon which they slew the victims.
24570 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 42 And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square stones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holocaust and the victim is slain.
24571 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 43 And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned inwards round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
24572 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singing men in the inner court, which was on the side of the gate that looketh to the north: and their prospect was towards the south, one at the side of the east gate, which looketh toward the north.
24573 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 45 And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple.
24574 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 46 But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the priests that watch over the ministry of the altar. These are the sons of Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord, to minister to him.
24575 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 47 And he measured the court a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad foursquare: and the altar that was before the face of the temple.
24576 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 48 And he brought me into the porch of the temple: and he measured the porch five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
24577 Ezechiel Eze 31 40 49 And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and there were eight steps to go up to it. And there were pillars in the fronts: one on this side, and another on that side.
24578 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 1 And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the fronts six cubits broad on this side, and six cubits on that side, the breadth of the tabernacle.
24579 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 2 And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides of the gate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
24580 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 3 Then going inward he measured the front of the gate two cubits: and the gate six cubits, and the breadth of the gate seven cubits.
24581 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 4 And he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, before the face of the temple: and he said to me: This is the holy of holies.
24582 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 5 And he measured the wall of the house six cubits: and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side.
24583 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 6 And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the temple.
24584 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 7 And there was a broad passage round about, going up by winding stairs, and it led into the upper loft of the temple all round: therefore was the temple broader in the higher parts: and so from the lower parts they went to the higher by the midst.
24585 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 8 And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:
24586 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 9 And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber without, which was five cubits: and the inner house was within the side chambers of the house,
24587 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 10 And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
24588 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 11 And the door of the side chambers was turned towards the place of prayer: one door was toward the north, and another door was toward the south: and the breadth of the place for prayer, was five cubits round about.
24589 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 12 And the building that was separate, and turned to the way that looked toward the sea, was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the building, five cubits thick round about: and ninety cubits long.
24590 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 13 And he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits: and the separate building, and the walls thereof, a hundred cubits in length.
24591 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 14 And the breadth before the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.
24592 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 15 And he measured the length of the building over against it, which was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides a hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.
24593 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 16 The thresholds, and the oblique windows, and the galleries round about on three sides, over against the threshold of every one, and floored with wood all round about: and the ground was up to the windows, and the windows were shut over the doors.
24594 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 17 And even to the inner house, and without all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
24595 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 18 And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces.
24596 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 19 The face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion was toward the palm tree on the other side: set forth through all the house round about.
24597 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 20 From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were cherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the temple.
24598 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 21 The threshold was foursquare, and the face of the sanctuary sight to sight.
24599 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.
24600 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 23 And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary.
24601 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 24 And in the two doors on both sides were two little doors, which were folded within each other: for there were two wickets on both sides of the doors.
24602 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 25 And there were cherubims also wrought in the doors of the temple, and the figures of palm trees, like as were made on the walls: for which cause also the planks were thicker in the front of the porch without.
24603 Ezechiel Eze 31 41 26 Upon which were the oblique windows, and the representation of palm trees on this side, and on that side in the sides of the porch, according to the sides of the house, and the breadth of the walls.
24604 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 1 And he brought me forth into the outward court by the way that leadeth to the north, and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate building, and over against the house toward the north.
24605 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 2 In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.
24606 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 3 Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.
24607 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 4 And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.
24608 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 5 Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts, and from the midst of the building.
24609 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 6 For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.
24610 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 7 And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
24611 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 8 For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
24612 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 9 And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east, for them that went into them out of the outward court.
24613 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 10 In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward the east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers before the building.
24614 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 11 And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the going in to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike.
24615 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 12 According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before the porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.
24616 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 13 And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.
24617 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 14 And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go out of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay their vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.
24618 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and he measured it on every side round about.
24619 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 16 And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
24620 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 17 And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
24621 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 18 And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
24622 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 19 And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
24623 Ezechiel Eze 31 42 20 By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side round about, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad, making a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.
24624 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 1 And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east.
24625 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 2 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.
24626 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 3 And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
24627 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 4 And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the way of the gate that looked to the east.
24628 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.
24629 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 6 And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the man that stood by me,
24630 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 7 Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses of their kings, and by the high places.
24631 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 8 They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between me, and them: and they profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed: for which reason I consumed them in my wrath.
24632 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 9 Now therefore let them put away their fornications, and the carcasses of their kings far from me: and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
24633 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 10 But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the building:
24634 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 11 And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them the form of the house, and of the fashion thereof, the goings out and the comings in, and the whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and all its order, and all its laws, and thou shalt write it in their sight: that they may keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances, and do them.
24635 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 12 This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All its border round about is most holy: this then is the law of the house.
24636 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 13 And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar.
24637 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 14 And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two cubits, and the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater brim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit.
24638 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 15 And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward were four horns.
24639 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.
24640 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 17 And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned toward the east.
24641 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 18 And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God: These are the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever it shall be made: that holocausts may be offered upon it, and blood poured out.
24642 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 19 And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that are of the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the herd for sin.
24643 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon the four horns thereof, and upon the four corners of the brim, and upon the crown round about: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.
24644 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 21 And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin: and thou shalt burn him in a separate place of the house without the sanctuary.
24645 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 22 And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the calf.
24646 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 23 And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
24647 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 24 And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord, and the priests shall put salt upon them, and shall offer them a holocaust to the Lord.
24648 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 25 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sin daily: they shall offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
24649 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 26 Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.
24650 Ezechiel Eze 31 43 27 And the days being expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward, the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace offerings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.
24651 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 1 And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut.
24652 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 2 And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut
24653 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 3 For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.
24654 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 4 And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell on my face.
24655 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 5 And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy heart and behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the laws thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all the goings out of the sanctuary.
24656 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 6 And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of Israel:
24657 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 7 In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.
24658 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 8 And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
24659 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 9 Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel.
24660 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 10 Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:
24661 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 11 They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them.
24662 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:
24663 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 13 And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of priest to me, neither shall they come near to any of my holy things that are by the holy of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and their wickednesses which they have committed.
24664 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 14 And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
24665 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 15 But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.
24666 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.
24667 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 17 And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.
24668 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 18 They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.
24669 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 19 And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.
24670 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.
24671 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 21 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.
24672 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 22 Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.
24673 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.
24674 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 24 And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.
24675 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 25 And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean.
24676 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 26 And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
24677 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.
24678 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 28 And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
24679 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 29 They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.
24680 Ezechiel Eze 30. And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest’s: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.
24681 Ezechiel Eze 31 44 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
24682 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 1 And when you shall begin to divide the land by lot, separate ye firstfruits to the Lord, a portion of the land to be holy, in length twenty-five thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
24683 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 2 And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five hundred by five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.
24684 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 3 And with this measure thou shalt measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the temple and the holy of holies.
24685 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to the ministry of the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and for the holy place of the sanctuary.
24686 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 5 And five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand of breadth shall be for the Levites, that minister in the house: they shall possess twenty store chambers.
24687 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, according to the separation of the sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel.
24688 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 7 For the prince also on the one side and on the other side, according to the separation of the sanctuary, and according to the possession of the city, over against the separation of the sanctuary, and over against the possession of the city: from the side of the sea even to the sea, and from the side of the east even to the east. And the length according to every part from the west border to the east border.
24689 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 8 He shall have a portion of the land in Israel: and the princes shall no more rob my people: but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes:
24690 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 9 Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.
24691 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.
24692 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 11 The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core.
24693 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 12 And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sicles, and five and twenty sicles, and fifteen sicles, make a mna,
24694 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 13 And these are the firstfruits, which you shall take: the sixth part of an ephi of a core of wheat, and the sixth part of an ephi of a core of barley.
24695 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 14 The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.
24696 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 15 And one ram out of a flock of two hundred, of those that Israel feedeth for sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord God.
24697 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 16 All the people of the land shall be bound to these firstfruits for the prince in Israel.
24698 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 17 And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the libations on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, and on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make expiation for the house of Israel.
24699 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 18 Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.
24700 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering: and he shall put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of the brim of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
24701 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 20 And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for every one that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou shalt make expiation for the house.
24702 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 21 In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.
24703 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 22 And the prince on that day shall offer for himself, and for all the people of the land, a calf for sin.
24704 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 23 And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.
24705 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 24 And he shall offer the sacrifice of an ephi for every calf, and an ephi for every ram: and a hin of oil for every ephi.
24706 Ezechiel Eze 31 45 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the solemn feast, he shall do the like for the seven days: as well in regard to the sin offering, as to the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the oil.
24707 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 1 Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
24708 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the priests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall not be shut till the evening.
24709 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 3 And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.
24710 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 4 And the holocaust that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
24711 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 5 And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram: but for the lambs what sacrifice his hand shall allow: and a hin of oil for every ephi.
24712 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 6 And on the day of the new moon a calf of the herd without blemish: and the six lambs, and the rams shall be without blemish.
24713 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 7 And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for a calf, an ephi also for a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil for every ephi.
24714 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 8 And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.
24715 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 9 But when the people of the land shall go in before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that goeth in by the way of the south gate, shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go out at that over against it.
24716 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 10 And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they go in, and go out when they go out.
24717 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 11 And in the fairs, and in the solemnities there shall be the sacrifice of an ephi to a calf, and an ephi to a ram: and to the lambs, the sacrifice shall be as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil to every ephi.
24718 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 12 But when the prince shall offer a voluntary holocaust, or voluntary peace offering to the Lord: the gate that looketh towards the east shall be opened to him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings, as it is wont to be done on the sabbath day: and he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone forth.
24719 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 13 And he shall offer every day for a holocaust to the Lord, a lamb of the same year without blemish: he shall offer it always in the morning.
24720 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 14 And he shall offer the sacrifice for it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephi: and the third part of a hin of oil to be mingled with the fine flour: a sacrifice to the Lord by ordinance continual and everlasting.
24721 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 15 He shall offer the lamb, and the sacrifice, and the oil morning by morning: an everlasting holocaust.
24722 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 16 Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons: the inheritance of it shall go to his children, they shall possess it by inheritance.
24723 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 17 But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of release, and it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall go to his sons.
24724 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 18 And the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.
24725 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 19 And he brought me in by the entry that was at the side of the gate, into the chambers of the sanctuary that were for the priests, which looked toward the north. And there was a place bending to the west.
24726 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 20 And he said to me: This is the place where the priests shall boil the sin offering, and the trespass offering: where they shall dress the sacrifice, that they may not bring it out into the outward court, and the people be sanctified.
24727 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 21 And he brought me into the outward court, and he led me about by the four corners of the court: and behold there was a little court in the corner of the court, to every corner of the court there was a little court.
24728 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 22 In the four corners of the court were little courts disposed, forty cubits long, and thirty broad, all the four were of one measure.
24729 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 23 And there was a wall round about compassing the four little courts, and there were kitchens built under the rows round about.
24730 Ezechiel Eze 31 46 24 And he said to me: This is the house of the kitchens wherein the ministers of the house of the Lord shall boil the victims of the people.
24731 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 1 And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
24732 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 2 And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
24733 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went out towards the east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he brought me through the water up to the ankles.
24734 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 4 And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up to the knees.
24735 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 5 And he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up to the loins. And he measured a thousand, and it was a torrent, which I could not pass over: for the waters were risen so as to make a deep torrent, which could not be passed over.
24736 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 6 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man. And he brought me out, and he caused me to turn to the bank of the torrent.
24737 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 7 And when I had turned myself, behold on the bank of the torrent were very many trees on both sides.
24738 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 8 And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed.
24739 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 9 And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come.
24740 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 10 And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:
24741 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 11 But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
24742 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 12 And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
24743 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 13 Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion.
24744 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 14 And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.
24745 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 15 And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,
24746 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 16 Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Emath the house of Tichon, which is by the border of Auran.
24747 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 17 And the border from the sea even to the court of Enan, shall be the border of Damascus, and from the north to the north: the border of Emath, this is the north side.
24748 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 18 And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the midst of Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the land of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the east sea, and thus you shall measure the east side.
24749 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 19 And the south side southward is, from Thamar even to the waters of contradiction of Cades: and, the torrent even to the great sea: and this is the south side southward.
24750 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 20 And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the borders straight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the side of the sea.
24751 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 21 And you shall divide this land unto you by the tribes of Israel:
24752 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
24753 Ezechiel Eze 31 47 23 And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there shall you give him possession, saith the Lord God.
24754 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 1 And these are the names of the tribes from the borders of the north, by the way of Hethalon, as they go to Emath, the court of Enan the border of Damascus northward, by the way of Emath. And from the east side thereof to the sea shall be one portion for Dan.
24755 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side even to the side of the sea, one portion for Aser:
24756 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 3 And by the border of Aser, from the east side even to the side of the sea one portion for Nephthali.
24757 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 4 And by the border of Nephthali, from the east side even to the side of the sea, one portion for Manasses.
24758 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 5 And by the border of Manasses, from the east side even to the side of the sea, one portion for Ephraim.
24759 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the side of the sea, one portion for Ruben.
24760 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 7 And by the border of Ruben, from the east side even to the side of the sea, one portion for Juda.
24761 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 8 And by the border of Juda, from the east side even to the side of the sea, shall be the firstfruits which you shall set apart, five and twenty thousand in breadth, and length, as every one of the portions from the east side to the side of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst thereof.
24762 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 9 The firstfruits which you shall set apart for the Lord will be the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand.
24763 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 10 And these shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary for the priests: toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the sea ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east also ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.
24764 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 11 The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of Sadoc, who kept my ceremonies, and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites also went astray.
24765 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 12 And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border of the Levites,
24766 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 13 And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the priests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
24767 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 14 And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord.
24768 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 15 But the five thousand that remain in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
24769 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 16 And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four thousand and five hundred: and on the south side four thousand and five hundred: and on the east side four thousand and five hundred: and on the west side four thousand and five hundred.
24770 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be to the north two hundred and fifty, and to the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the sea two hundred and fifty.
24771 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 18 And the residue in length by the firstfruits of the sanctuary, ten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand toward the west, shall be as the firstfruits of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for bread to them that serve the city.
24772 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 19 And they that serve the city, shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
24773 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 20 All the firstfruits, of five and twenty thousand, by five and twenty thousand foursquare, shall be set apart for the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and for the possession of the city.
24774 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 21 And the residue shall be for the prince on every side of the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and of the possession of the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the firstfruits unto the east border: toward the sea also over against the five and twenty thousand, unto the border of the sea, shall likewise be the portion of the prince: and the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the midst thereof.
24775 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 22 And from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city which are in the midst of the prince’s portions: what shall be to the border of Juda, and to the border of Benjamin, shall also belong to the prince.
24776 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 23 And for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, one portion for Benjamin.
24777 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 24 And over against the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, one portion for Simeon.
24778 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, one portion for Issachar.
24779 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, one portion for Zabulon.
24780 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 27 And by the border of Zabulon, from the east side to the side of the sea, one portion for Gad.
24781 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 28 And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and the border shall be from Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of Cades, the inheritance over against the great sea.
24782 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel: and these are the portions of them, saith the Lord God.
24783 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 30 And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.
24784 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 31 And the gates of the city according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben one, the gate of Juda one, the gate of Levi one.
24785 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 32 And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one.
24786 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 33 And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred: and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zabulon one.
24787 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 34 And at the west side, four thousand and five hundred, and their three gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one, the gate of Nephthali one.
24788 Ezechiel Eze 31 48 35 Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the city from that day, The Lord is there.
24789 Daniel Dan 32 1 1 In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
24790 Daniel Dan 32 1 2 And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.
24791 Daniel Dan 32 1 3 And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes,
24792 Daniel Dan 32 1 4 Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such as might stand in the king’s palace, that he might teach them the learning, and tongue of the Chaldeans.
24793 Daniel Dan 32 1 5 And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years, afterwards they might stand before the king.
24794 Daniel Dan 32 1 6 Now there were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.
24795 Daniel Dan 32 1 7 And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias, Abdenago.
24796 Daniel Dan 32 1 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king’s table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.
24797 Daniel Dan 32 1 9 And God gave to Daniel grace and mercy in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
24798 Daniel Dan 32 1 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel: I fear my lord, the king, who hath appointed you meat and drink: who if he should see your faces leaner than those of the other youths, your equals, you shall endanger my head to the king.
24799 Daniel Dan 32 1 11 And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:
24800 Daniel Dan 32 1 12 Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:
24801 Daniel Dan 32 1 13 And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king’s meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.
24802 Daniel Dan 32 1 14 And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.
24803 Daniel Dan 32 1 15 And after ten days, their faces appeared fairer and fatter than all the children that ate of the king’s meat.
24804 Daniel Dan 32 1 16 So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should drink: and he gave them pulse.
24805 Daniel Dan 32 1 17 And to these children God gave knowledge, and understanding in every book, and wisdom: but to Daniel the understanding also of all visions and dreams.
24806 Daniel Dan 32 1 18 And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered they should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.
24807 Daniel Dan 32 1 19 And when the king had spoken to them, there were not found among them all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they stood in the king’s presence.
24808 Daniel Dan 32 1 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.
24809 Daniel Dan 32 1 21 And Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
24810 Daniel Dan 32 2 1 In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.
24811 Daniel Dan 32 2 2 Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king.
24812 Daniel Dan 32 2 3 And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.
24813 Daniel Dan 32 2 4 And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof.
24814 Daniel Dan 32 2 5 And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.
24815 Daniel Dan 32 2 6 but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
24816 Daniel Dan 32 2 7 They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation of it.
24817 Daniel Dan 32 2 8 The king answered and said: I know for certain, that you seek to gain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me.
24818 Daniel Dan 32 2 9 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof.
24819 Daniel Dan 32 2 10 Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean.
24820 Daniel Dan 32 2 11 For the thing that thou askest, O king, is difficult: nor can any one be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men.
24821 Daniel Dan 32 2 12 Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.
24822 Daniel Dan 32 2 13 And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and Daniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death.
24823 Daniel Dan 32 2 14 Then Daniel inquired concerning the law and the sentence, of Arioch, the general of the king’s army, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon.
24824 Daniel Dan 32 2 15 And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel,
24825 Daniel Dan 32 2 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.
24826 Daniel Dan 32 2 17 And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:
24827 Daniel Dan 32 2 18 To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
24828 Daniel Dan 32 2 19 Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel by a vision in the night: and Daniel blessed the God of heaven,
24829 Daniel Dan 32 2 20 And speaking, he said: Blessed be the name of the Lord from eternity and for evermore: for wisdom and fortitude are his.
24830 Daniel Dan 32 2 21 And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding:
24831 Daniel Dan 32 2 22 He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.
24832 Daniel Dan 32 2 23 To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king’s discourse.
24833 Daniel Dan 32 2 24 After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king.
24834 Daniel Dan 32 2 25 Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel to the king, and said to him: I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Juda, that will resolve the question to the king.
24835 Daniel Dan 32 2 26 The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar: Thinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and the interpretation thereof?
24836 Daniel Dan 32 2 27 And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king.
24837 Daniel Dan 32 2 28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:
24838 Daniel Dan 32 2 29 Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall come to pass.
24839 Daniel Dan 32 2 30 To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thoughts of thy mind.
24840 Daniel Dan 32 2 31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.
24841 Daniel Dan 32 2 32 The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.
24842 Daniel Dan 32 2 33 And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.
24843 Daniel Dan 32 2 34 Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
24844 Daniel Dan 32 2 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer’s threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
24845 Daniel Dan 32 2 36 This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king.
24846 Daniel Dan 32 2 37 Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:
24847 Daniel Dan 32 2 38 And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the field do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand, and hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head of gold.
24848 Daniel Dan 32 2 39 And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee, of silver: and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the world.
24849 Daniel Dan 32 2 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all these.
24850 Daniel Dan 32 2 41 And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter’s clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay.
24851 Daniel Dan 32 2 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay: the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
24852 Daniel Dan 32 2 43 And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay.
24853 Daniel Dan 32 2 44 But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever.
24854 Daniel Dan 32 2 45 According as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God hath shewn the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is faithful.
24855 Daniel Dan 32 2 46 Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer in sacrifice to him victims and incense.
24856 Daniel Dan 32 2 47 And the king spoke to Daniel, and said: Verily, your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of hidden things: seeing thou couldst discover this secret.
24857 Daniel Dan 32 2 48 Then the king advanced Daniel to a high station, and gave him many and great gifts: and he made him governor over all the provinces of Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all the wise men of Babylon.
24858 Daniel Dan 32 2 49 And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the works of the province of Babylon: but Daniel himself was in the king’s palace.
24859 Daniel Dan 32 3 1 King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.
24860 Daniel Dan 32 3 2 Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call together the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.
24861 Daniel Dan 32 3 3 Then the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, and rulers, and the great men that were placed in authority, and all the princes of the provinces, were gathered together to come to the dedication of the statue, which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. And they stood before the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.
24862 Daniel Dan 32 3 4 Then a herald cried with a strong voice: To you it is commanded, O nations, tribes and languages:
24863 Daniel Dan 32 3 5 That in the hour that you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and of the flute, and of the harp, of the sackbut, and of the psaltery, and of the symphony, and of all kind of music, ye fall down and adore the golden statue which king Nabuchodonosor hath set up.
24864 Daniel Dan 32 3 6 But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire.
24865 Daniel Dan 32 3 7 Upon this, therefore, at the time when all the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages fell down and adored the golden statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.
24866 Daniel Dan 32 3 8 And presently at that very time some Chaldeans came and accused the Jews,
24867 Daniel Dan 32 3 9 And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever:
24868 Daniel Dan 32 3 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, shall prostrate himself, and adore the golden statue:
24869 Daniel Dan 32 3 11 And that if any man shall not fall down and adore, he should be cast into a furnace of burning fire.
24870 Daniel Dan 32 3 12 Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.
24871 Daniel Dan 32 3 13 Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king.
24872 Daniel Dan 32 3 14 And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods, nor adore the golden statue that I have set up?
24873 Daniel Dan 32 3 15 Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?
24874 Daniel Dan 32 3 16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter.
24875 Daniel Dan 32 3 17 For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.
24876 Daniel Dan 32 3 18 But if he will not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.
24877 Daniel Dan 32 3 19 Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated.
24878 Daniel Dan 32 3 20 And he commanded the strongest men that were in his army, to bind the feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the furnace of burning fire.
24879 Daniel Dan 32 3 21 And immediately these men were bound, and were cast into the furnace of burning fire, with their coats, and their caps, and their shoes, and their garments.
24880 Daniel Dan 32 3 22 For the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace was heated exceedingly. And the flame of the fire slew those men that had cast in Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago.
24881 Daniel Dan 32 3 23 But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire.
24882 Daniel Dan 32 3 24 And they walked in the midst of the flame, praising God, and blessing the Lord.
24883 Daniel Dan 32 3 25 Then Azarias standing up, prayed in this manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, he said:
24884 Daniel Dan 32 3 26 Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever:
24885 Daniel Dan 32 3 27 For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgments true.
24886 Daniel Dan 32 3 28 For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.
24887 Daniel Dan 32 3 29 For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:
24888 Daniel Dan 32 3 30 And we have not hearkened to thy commandments, nor have we observed nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well with us.
24889 Daniel Dan 32 3 31 Wherefore, all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment:
24890 Daniel Dan 32 3 32 And thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies that are unjust, and most wicked, and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, and most wicked beyond all that are upon the earth.
24891 Daniel Dan 32 3 33 And now we cannot open our mouths: we are become a shame, and a reproach to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.
24892 Daniel Dan 32 3 34 Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name’s sake, and abolish not thy covenant.
24893 Daniel Dan 32 3 35 And take not away thy mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, thy beloved, and Isaac, thy servant, and Israel, thy holy one:
24894 Daniel Dan 32 3 36 To whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldst multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.
24895 Daniel Dan 32 3 37 For we, O Lord, are diminished more than any nation, and are brought low in all the earth this day for our sins.
24896 Daniel Dan 32 3 38 Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of first fruits before thee,
24897 Daniel Dan 32 3 39 That we may find thy mercy: nevertheless, in a contrite heart and humble spirit let us be accepted.
24898 Daniel Dan 32 3 40 As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.
24899 Daniel Dan 32 3 41 And now we follow thee with all our heart, and we fear thee, and seek thy face.
24900 Daniel Dan 32 3 42 Put us not to confusion, but deal with us according to thy meekness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.
24901 Daniel Dan 32 3 43 And deliver us, according to thy wonderful works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord:
24902 Daniel Dan 32 3 44 And let all them be confounded that shew evils to thy servants, let them be confounded in all thy might, and let their strength be broken:
24903 Daniel Dan 32 3 45 And let them know that thou art the Lord, the only God, and glorious over all the world.
24904 Daniel Dan 32 3 46 Now the king’s servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,
24905 Daniel Dan 32 3 47 And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits:
24906 Daniel Dan 32 3 48 And it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found near the furnace.
24907 Daniel Dan 32 3 49 But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace,
24908 Daniel Dan 32 3 50 And made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor did them any harm.
24909 Daniel Dan 32 3 51 Then these three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God, in the furnace, saying:
24910 Daniel Dan 32 3 52 Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers; and worthy to be praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all, in all ages.
24911 Daniel Dan 32 3 53 Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and exceedingly to be praised and exalted above all for ever.
24912 Daniel Dan 32 3 54 Blessed art thou on the throne of thy kingdom, and exceedingly to be praised, and exalted above all for ever.
24913 Daniel Dan 32 3 55 Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all for ever.
24914 Daniel Dan 32 3 56 Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.
24915 Daniel Dan 32 3 57 All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24916 Daniel Dan 32 3 58 O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24917 Daniel Dan 32 3 59 O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24918 Daniel Dan 32 3 60 O all ye waters that are above the heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24919 Daniel Dan 32 3 61 O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24920 Daniel Dan 32 3 62 O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24921 Daniel Dan 32 3 63 O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24922 Daniel Dan 32 3 64 O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24923 Daniel Dan 32 3 65 O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24924 Daniel Dan 32 3 66 O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24925 Daniel Dan 32 3 67 O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24926 Daniel Dan 32 3 68 O ye dews and hoar frost, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24927 Daniel Dan 32 3 69 O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24928 Daniel Dan 32 3 70 O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24929 Daniel Dan 32 3 71 O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24930 Daniel Dan 32 3 72 O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24931 Daniel Dan 32 3 73 O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24932 Daniel Dan 32 3 74 O let the earth bless the Lord: let it praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24933 Daniel Dan 32 3 75 O ye mountains and hills, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24934 Daniel Dan 32 3 76 O all ye things that spring up in the earth, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24935 Daniel Dan 32 3 77 O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24936 Daniel Dan 32 3 78 O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24937 Daniel Dan 32 3 79 O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24938 Daniel Dan 32 3 80 O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24939 Daniel Dan 32 3 81 O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24940 Daniel Dan 32 3 82 O ye sons of men, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24941 Daniel Dan 32 3 83 O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24942 Daniel Dan 32 3 84 O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24943 Daniel Dan 32 3 85 O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24944 Daniel Dan 32 3 86 O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24945 Daniel Dan 32 3 87 O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
24946 Daniel Dan 32 3 88 O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. For he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us out of the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.
24947 Daniel Dan 32 3 89 O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.
24948 Daniel Dan 32 3 90 O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him, and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.
24949 Daniel Dan 32 3 91 Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.
24950 Daniel Dan 32 3 92 He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the fourth is like the son of God.
24951 Daniel Dan 32 3 93 Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire.
24952 Daniel Dan 32 3 94 And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had passed on them.
24953 Daniel Dan 32 3 95 Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the king’s word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might not serve nor adore any god except their own God.
24954 Daniel Dan 32 3 96 By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe, and tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste: for there is no other God that can save in this manner.
24955 Daniel Dan 32 3 97 Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon.
24956 Daniel Dan 32 3 98 Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples, nations, and tongues, that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.
24957 Daniel Dan 32 3 99 The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It hath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish
24958 Daniel Dan 32 3 100 His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.
24959 Daniel Dan 32 4 1 I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace:
24960 Daniel Dan 32 4 2 I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me.
24961 Daniel Dan 32 4 3 Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought in before me, and that they should shew me the interpretation of the dream.
24962 Daniel Dan 32 4 4 Then came in the diviners, the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told the dream before them: but they did not shew me the interpretation thereof.
24963 Daniel Dan 32 4 5 Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.
24964 Daniel Dan 32 4 6 Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast in thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible to thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the interpretation of them.
24965 Daniel Dan 32 4 7 This was the vision of my head in my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was exceeding great.
24966 Daniel Dan 32 4 8 The tree was great and strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.
24967 Daniel Dan 32 4 9 Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it.
24968 Daniel Dan 32 4 10 I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.
24969 Daniel Dan 32 4 11 He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down the tree, and chop off the branches thereof: shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let the beasts fly away that are under it, and the birds from its branches.
24970 Daniel Dan 32 4 12 Nevertheless, leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and let it be tied with a band of iron and of brass, among the grass, that is without, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth.
24971 Daniel Dan 32 4 13 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given him: and let seven times pass over him.
24972 Daniel Dan 32 4 14 This is the decree by the sentence of the watchers, and the word and demand of the holy ones: till the living know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men: and he will give it to whomsoever it shall please him, and he will appoint the basest man over it.
24973 Daniel Dan 32 4 15 I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
24974 Daniel Dan 32 4 16 Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour: and his thought troubled him. But the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thy enemies.
24975 Daniel Dan 32 4 17 The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth:
24976 Daniel Dan 32 4 18 And the branches thereof were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and the birds of the air had their abode in its branches.
24977 Daniel Dan 32 4 19 It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.
24978 Daniel Dan 32 4 20 And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him.
24979 Daniel Dan 32 4 21 This is the interpretation of the sentence of the most High, which is come upon my lord, the king.
24980 Daniel Dan 32 4 22 They shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle, and with wild beasts, and thou shalt eat grass, as an ox, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven: and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
24981 Daniel Dan 32 4 23 But whereas he commanded, that the stump of the roots thereof, that is, of the tree, should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee, after thou shalt have known that power is from heaven.
24982 Daniel Dan 32 4 24 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.
24983 Daniel Dan 32 4 25 All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.
24984 Daniel Dan 32 4 26 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the palace of Babylon.
24985 Daniel Dan 32 4 27 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?
24986 Daniel Dan 32 4 28 And while the word was yet in the king’s mouth, a voice came down from heaven: To thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, it is said: Thy kingdom shall pass from thee.
24987 Daniel Dan 32 4 29 And they shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
24988 Daniel Dan 32 4 30 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds’ claws.
24989 Daniel Dan 32 4 31 Now at the end of the days, I, Nabuchodonosor, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most High, and I praised and glorified him that liveth for ever: for his power is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is to all generations.
24990 Daniel Dan 32 4 32 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?
24991 Daniel Dan 32 4 33 At the same time my sense returned to me, and I came to the honour and glory of my kingdom: and my shape returned to me: and my nobles, and my magistrates, sought for me, and I was restored to my kingdom: and greater majesty was added to me.
24992 Daniel Dan 32 4 34 Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.
24993 Daniel Dan 32 5 1 Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
24994 Daniel Dan 32 5 2 And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.
24995 Daniel Dan 32 5 3 Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
24996 Daniel Dan 32 5 4 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.
24997 Daniel Dan 32 5 5 In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.
24998 Daniel Dan 32 5 6 Then was the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.
24999 Daniel Dan 32 5 7 And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.
25000 Daniel Dan 32 5 8 Then came in all the king’s wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.
25001 Daniel Dan 32 5 9 Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.
25002 Daniel Dan 32 5 10 Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.
25003 Daniel Dan 32 5 11 There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days of thy father knowledge and wisdom were found in him: for king Nabuchodonosor, thy father, appointed him prince of the wise men, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I say, O king:
25004 Daniel Dan 32 5 12 Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of difficult things, were found in him, that is, in Daniel: whom the king named Baltassar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will tell the interpretation.
25005 Daniel Dan 32 5 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke, and said to him: Art thou Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Juda, whom my father, the king, brought out of Judea?
25006 Daniel Dan 32 5 14 I have heard of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the gods, and excellent knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom are found in thee.
25007 Daniel Dan 32 5 15 And now the wise men, the magicians, have come in before me, to read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof; and they could not declare to me the meaning of this writing.
25008 Daniel Dan 32 5 16 But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom.
25009 Daniel Dan 32 5 17 To which Daniel made answer, and said before the king: thy rewards be to thyself, and the gifts of thy house give to another: but the writing I will read to thee, O king, and shew thee the interpretation thereof.
25010 Daniel Dan 32 5 18 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.
25011 Daniel Dan 32 5 19 And for the greatness that he gave to him, all people, tribes, and languages trembled, and were afraid of him: whom he would, he slew: and whom he would, he destroyed: and whom he would, he set up: and whom he would, he brought down.
25012 Daniel Dan 32 5 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away.
25013 Daniel Dan 32 5 21 And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.
25014 Daniel Dan 32 5 22 Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things:
25015 Daniel Dan 32 5 23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.
25016 Daniel Dan 32 5 24 Wherefore, he hath sent the part of the hand which hath written this that is set down.
25017 Daniel Dan 32 5 25 And this is the writing that is written: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
25018 Daniel Dan 32 5 26 And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
25019 Daniel Dan 32 5 27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
25020 Daniel Dan 32 5 28 PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.
25021 Daniel Dan 32 5 29 Then by the king’s command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.
25022 Daniel Dan 32 5 30 The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.
25023 Daniel Dan 32 5 31 And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
25024 Daniel Dan 32 6 1 It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom.
25025 Daniel Dan 32 6 2 And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble.
25026 Daniel Dan 32 6 3 And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a greater spirit of God was in him.
25027 Daniel Dan 32 6 4 And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon the princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel, with regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion, because he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.
25028 Daniel Dan 32 6 5 Then these men said: We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless perhaps concerning the law of his God.
25029 Daniel Dan 32 6 6 Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:
25030 Daniel Dan 32 6 7 All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions.
25031 Daniel Dan 32 6 8 Now, therefore, O king, confirm the sentence, and sign the decree: that what is decreed by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor any man be allowed to transgress it.
25032 Daniel Dan 32 6 9 So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it.
25033 Daniel Dan 32 6 10 Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.
25034 Daniel Dan 32 6 11 Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God.
25035 Daniel Dan 32 6 12 And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king, hast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be cast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The word is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to violate.
25036 Daniel Dan 32 6 13 Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his prayer.
25037 Daniel Dan 32 6 14 Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much grieved, and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him, and even till sunset he laboured to save him.
25038 Daniel Dan 32 6 15 But those men perceiving the king’s design, said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which the king hath made, may be altered.
25039 Daniel Dan 32 6 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of the lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God, whom thou always servest, he will deliver thee.
25040 Daniel Dan 32 6 17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den: which the king sealed with his own ring, and with the ring of his nobles, that nothing should be done against Daniel.
25041 Daniel Dan 32 6 18 And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.
25042 Daniel Dan 32 6 19 Then the king rising very early in the morning, went in haste to the lions’ den:
25043 Daniel Dan 32 6 20 And coming near to the den, cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel, and said to him: Daniel, servant of the living God, hath thy God, whom thou servest always, been able, thinkest thou, to deliver thee from the lions?
25044 Daniel Dan 32 6 21 And Daniel answering the king, said: O king, live for ever:
25045 Daniel Dan 32 6 22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut up the mouths of the lions, and they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him justice hath been found in me: yea, and before thee, O king, I have done no offence.
25046 Daniel Dan 32 6 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and he commanded that Daniel should be taken out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the den, and no hurt was found in him, because he believed in his God.
25047 Daniel Dan 32 6 24 And by the king’s commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions’ den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.
25048 Daniel Dan 32 6 25 Then king Darius wrote to all people, tribes, and languages, dwelling in the whole earth: PEACE be multiplied unto you.
25049 Daniel Dan 32 6 26 It is decreed by me, that in all my empire and my kingdom, all men dread and fear the God of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal God for ever: and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his power shall be for ever.
25050 Daniel Dan 32 6 27 He is the deliverer, and saviour, doing signs and wonders in heaven, and in earth: who hath delivered Daniel out of the lions’ den.
25051 Daniel Dan 32 6 28 Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.
25052 Daniel Dan 32 7 1 In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said:
25053 Daniel Dan 32 7 2 I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
25054 Daniel Dan 32 7 3 And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.
25055 Daniel Dan 32 7 4 The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her.
25056 Daniel Dan 32 7 5 And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.
25057 Daniel Dan 32 7 6 After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
25058 Daniel Dan 32 7 7 After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with its feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.
25059 Daniel Dan 32 7 8 I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
25060 Daniel Dan 32 7 9 I beheld till thrones were placed, and the ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.
25061 Daniel Dan 32 7 10 A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.
25062 Daniel Dan 32 7 11 I beheld, because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt:
25063 Daniel Dan 32 7 12 And that the power of the other beasts was taken away: and that times of life were appointed them for a time, and a time.
25064 Daniel Dan 32 7 13 I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the ancient of days: and they presented him before him.
25065 Daniel Dan 32 7 14 And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.
25066 Daniel Dan 32 7 15 My spirit trembled; I, Daniel, was affrighted at these things, and the visions of my head troubled me.
25067 Daniel Dan 32 7 16 I went near to one of them that stood by, and asked the truth of him concerning all these things, and he told me the interpretation of the words, and instructed me:
25068 Daniel Dan 32 7 17 These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.
25069 Daniel Dan 32 7 18 But the saints of the most high God shall take the kingdom: and they shall possess the kingdom for ever and ever.
25070 Daniel Dan 32 7 19 After this I would diligently learn concerning the fourth beast, which was very different from all, and exceeding terrible: his teeth and claws were of iron: he devoured and broke in pieces, and the rest he stamped upon with his feet:
25071 Daniel Dan 32 7 20 And concerning the ten horns that he had on his head: and concerning the other that came up, before which three horns fell: and of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and was greater than the rest.
25072 Daniel Dan 32 7 21 I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and prevailed over them,
25073 Daniel Dan 32 7 22 Till the ancient of days came and gave judgment to the saints of the most High, and the time came, and the saints obtained the kingdom.
25074 Daniel Dan 32 7 23 And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
25075 Daniel Dan 32 7 24 And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings.
25076 Daniel Dan 32 7 25 And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.
25077 Daniel Dan 32 7 26 And a judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and perish even to the end.
25078 Daniel Dan 32 7 27 And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.
25079 Daniel Dan 32 7 28 Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.
25080 Daniel Dan 32 8 1 In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I, Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,
25081 Daniel Dan 32 8 2 Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which is in the province of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of Ulai.
25082 Daniel Dan 32 8 3 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up. Afterward
25083 Daniel Dan 32 8 4 I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and became great.
25084 Daniel Dan 32 8 5 And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
25085 Daniel Dan 32 8 6 And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.
25086 Daniel Dan 32 8 7 And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram could not withstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.
25087 Daniel Dan 32 8 8 And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the four winds of heaven.
25088 Daniel Dan 32 8 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became great against the south, and against the east, and against the strength.
25089 Daniel Dan 32 8 10 And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.
25090 Daniel Dan 32 8 11 And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.
25091 Daniel Dan 32 8 12 And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.
25092 Daniel Dan 32 8 13 And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another I know not to whom, that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?
25093 Daniel Dan 32 8 14 And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.
25094 Daniel Dan 32 8 15 And it came to pass when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and sought the meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance of a man.
25095 Daniel Dan 32 8 16 And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
25096 Daniel Dan 32 8 17 And he came, and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, I fell on my face, trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of man, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.
25097 Daniel Dan 32 8 18 And when he spoke to me, I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me upright.
25098 Daniel Dan 32 8 19 And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.
25099 Daniel Dan 32 8 20 The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.
25100 Daniel Dan 32 8 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.
25101 Daniel Dan 32 8 22 But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it, four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.
25102 Daniel Dan 32 8 23 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.
25103 Daniel Dan 32 8 24 And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints,
25104 Daniel Dan 32 8 25 According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand: and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he shall kill many: and he shall rise up against the prince of princes, and shall be broken without hand.
25105 Daniel Dan 32 8 26 And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is true: thou, therefore, seal up the vision, because it shall come to pass after many days.
25106 Daniel Dan 32 8 27 And I, Daniel, languished, and was sick for some days: and when I was risen up, I did the king’s business, and I was astonished at the vision, and there was none that could interpret it.
25107 Daniel Dan 32 9 1 In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
25108 Daniel Dan 32 9 2 The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.
25109 Daniel Dan 32 9 3 And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
25110 Daniel Dan 32 9 4 And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
25111 Daniel Dan 32 9 5 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments.
25112 Daniel Dan 32 9 6 We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
25113 Daniel Dan 32 9 7 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.
25114 Daniel Dan 32 9 8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned.
25115 Daniel Dan 32 9 9 But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee:
25116 Daniel Dan 32 9 10 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.
25117 Daniel Dan 32 9 11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.
25118 Daniel Dan 32 9 12 And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a great evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that which hath been done in Jerusalem.
25119 Daniel Dan 32 9 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and think on thy truth.
25120 Daniel Dan 32 9 14 And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon us: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for we have not hearkened to his voice.
25121 Daniel Dan 32 9 15 And now, O Lord, our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt, with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity,
25122 Daniel Dan 32 9 16 O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.
25123 Daniel Dan 32 9 17 Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for thy own sake.
25124 Daniel Dan 32 9 18 Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies.
25125 Daniel Dan 32 9 19 O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not, for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people.
25126 Daniel Dan 32 9 20 Now while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins, and the sins of my people of Israel, and presenting my supplications in the sight of my God, for the holy mountain of my God:
25127 Daniel Dan 32 9 21 As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice.
25128 Daniel Dan 32 9 22 And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am now come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.
25129 Daniel Dan 32 9 23 From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am come to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore, do thou mark the word, and understand the vision.
25130 Daniel Dan 32 9 24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the saint of saints may be anointed.
25131 Daniel Dan 32 9 25 Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in straitness of times.
25132 Daniel Dan 32 9 26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.
25133 Daniel Dan 32 9 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.
25134 Daniel Dan 32 10 1 In the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great strength: and he understood the word: for there is need of understanding in a vision.
25135 Daniel Dan 32 10 2 In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks.
25136 Daniel Dan 32 10 3 I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered into my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of three weeks were accomplished.
25137 Daniel Dan 32 10 4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris.
25138 Daniel Dan 32 10 5 And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold:
25139 Daniel Dan 32 10 6 And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude.
25140 Daniel Dan 32 10 7 And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw it not: but an exceeding great terror fell upon them, and they fled away, and hid themselves.
25141 Daniel Dan 32 10 8 And I, being left alone, saw this great vision: and there remained no strength in me, and the appearance of my countenance was changed in me, and I fainted away, and retained no strength.
25142 Daniel Dan 32 10 9 And I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard I lay in a consternation upon my face, and my face was close to the ground.
25143 Daniel Dan 32 10 10 And behold a hand touched me, and lifted me up upon my knees, and upon the joints of my hands.
25144 Daniel Dan 32 10 11 And he said to me: Daniel, thou man of desires, understand the words that I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am sent now to thee. And when he had said this word to me, I stood trembling.
25145 Daniel Dan 32 10 12 And he said to me: Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, to afflict thyself in the sight of thy God, thy words have been heard: and I am come for thy words.
25146 Daniel Dan 32 10 13 But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me one and twenty days: and behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there by the king of the Persians.
25147 Daniel Dan 32 10 14 But I am come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people in the latter days, for as yet the vision is for days.
25148 Daniel Dan 32 10 15 And when he was speaking such words to me, I cast down my countenance to the ground, and held my peace.
25149 Daniel Dan 32 10 16 And behold as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips: then I opened my mouth and spoke, and said to him that stood before me: O my lord, at the sight of thee my joints are loosed, and no strength hath remained in me.
25150 Daniel Dan 32 10 17 And how can the servant of my lord speak with my lord? for no strength remaineth in me; moreover, my breath is stopped.
25151 Daniel Dan 32 10 18 Therefore, he that looked like a man, touched me again, and strengthened me.
25152 Daniel Dan 32 10 19 And he said: Fear not, O man of desires, peace be to thee: take courage, and be strong. And when he spoke to me, I grew strong, and I said: Speak, O my lord, for thou hast strengthened me.
25153 Daniel Dan 32 10 20 And he said: Dost thou know wherefore I am come to thee? And now I will return, to fight against the prince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming.
25154 Daniel Dan 32 10 21 But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of truth: and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael your prince.
25155 Daniel Dan 32 11 1 And from the first year of Darius, the Mede, I stood up, that he might be strengthened, and confirmed.
25156 Daniel Dan 32 11 2 And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be enriched exceedingly above them all: and when he shall be grown mighty by his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.
25157 Daniel Dan 32 11 3 But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth.
25158 Daniel Dan 32 11 4 And when he shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be broken, and it shall be divided towards the four winds of the heaven: but not to his posterity, nor according to his power with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be rent in pieces, even for strangers, besides these.
25159 Daniel Dan 32 11 5 And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his dominion shall be great.
25160 Daniel Dan 32 11 6 And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these times.
25161 Daniel Dan 32 11 7 And a plant of the bud of her roots shall stand up: and he shall come with an army, and shall enter into the province of the king of the north: and he shall abuse them, and shall prevail.
25162 Daniel Dan 32 11 8 And he shall also carry away captive into Egypt their gods, and their graven things, and their precious vessels of gold and silver: he shall prevail against the king of the north.
25163 Daniel Dan 32 11 9 And the king of the south shall enter into the kingdom, and shall return to his own land.
25164 Daniel Dan 32 11 10 And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his force.
25165 Daniel Dan 32 11 11 And the king of the south being provoked, shall go forth, and shall fight against the king of the north, and shall prepare an exceeding great multitude, and a multitude shall be given into his hand.
25166 Daniel Dan 32 11 12 And he shall take a multitude, and his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down many thousands: but he shall not prevail.
25167 Daniel Dan 32 11 13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall prepare a multitude much greater than before: and in the end of times, and years, he shall come in haste with a great army, and much riches.
25168 Daniel Dan 32 11 14 And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south, and the children of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up themselves to fulfil the vision, and they shall fall.
25169 Daniel Dan 32 11 15 And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they shall not have strength.
25170 Daniel Dan 32 11 16 And he shall come upon him, and do according to his pleasure, and there shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand in the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his hand.
25171 Daniel Dan 32 11 17 And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him.
25172 Daniel Dan 32 11 18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach shall be turned upon him.
25173 Daniel Dan 32 11 19 And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.
25174 Daniel Dan 32 11 20 And there shall stand up in his place one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.
25175 Daniel Dan 32 11 21 And there shall stand up in his place one despised, and the kingly honour shall not be given him: and he shall come privately, and shall obtain the kingdom by fraud.
25176 Daniel Dan 32 11 22 And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.
25177 Daniel Dan 32 11 23 And after friendships, he will deal deceitfully with him: and he shall go up, and shall overcome with a small people.
25178 Daniel Dan 32 11 24 And he shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall do that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers’ fathers: he shall scatter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and shall forecast devices against the best fenced places: and this until a time.
25179 Daniel Dan 32 11 25 And his strength, and his heart, shall be stirred up against the king of the south, with a great army: and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with many and very strong succours: and they shall not stand, for they shall form designs against him.
25180 Daniel Dan 32 11 26 And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.
25181 Daniel Dan 32 11 27 And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time.
25182 Daniel Dan 32 11 28 And he shall return into his land with much riches: and his heart shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall succeed, and shall return into his own land.
25183 Daniel Dan 32 11 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the south, but the latter time shall not be like the former.
25184 Daniel Dan 32 11 30 And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.
25185 Daniel Dan 32 11 31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice: and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation.
25186 Daniel Dan 32 11 32 And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed.
25187 Daniel Dan 32 11 33 And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by spoil for many days.
25188 Daniel Dan 32 11 34 And when they shall have fallen, they shall be relieved with a small help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully.
25189 Daniel Dan 32 11 35 And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet there shall be another time.
25190 Daniel Dan 32 11 36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.
25191 Daniel Dan 32 11 37 And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things.
25192 Daniel Dan 32 11 38 But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price.
25193 Daniel Dan 32 11 39 And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis.
25194 Daniel Dan 32 11 40 And at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through.
25195 Daniel Dan 32 11 41 And he shall enter into the glorious land, and many shall fall: and these only shall be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the principality of the children of Ammon.
25196 Daniel Dan 32 11 42 And he shall lay his hand upon the lands: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
25197 Daniel Dan 32 11 43 And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Lybia, and Ethiopia.
25198 Daniel Dan 32 11 44 And tidings out of the east, and out of the north, shall trouble him: and he shall come with a great multitude to destroy and slay many.
25199 Daniel Dan 32 11 45 And he shall fix his tabernacle, Apadno, between the seas, upon a glorious and holy mountain: and he shall come even to the top thereof, and none shall help him.
25200 Daniel Dan 32 12 1 But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come, such as never was from the time that nations began, even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book.
25201 Daniel Dan 32 12 2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.
25202 Daniel Dan 32 12 3 But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.
25203 Daniel Dan 32 12 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold.
25204 Daniel Dan 32 12 5 And I, Daniel, looked, and behold as it were two others stood: one on this side upon the bank of the river, and another on that side, on the other bank of the river.
25205 Daniel Dan 32 12 6 And I said to the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon the waters of the river: How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
25206 Daniel Dan 32 12 7 And I heard the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon the waters of the river, when he had lifted up his right hand, and his left hand to heaven, and had sworn by him that liveth for ever, that it should be unto a time, and times, and half a time. And when the scattering of the band of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.
25207 Daniel Dan 32 12 8 And I heard, and understood not. And I said: O my lord, what shall be after these things?
25208 Daniel Dan 32 12 9 And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.
25209 Daniel Dan 32 12 10 Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.
25210 Daniel Dan 32 12 11 And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred ninety days.
25211 Daniel Dan 32 12 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh unto a thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
25212 Daniel Dan 32 12 13 But go thou thy ways until the time appointed: and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot unto the end of the days.
25213 Daniel Dan 32 13 1 Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim:
25214 Daniel Dan 32 13 2 And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very beautiful woman, and one that feared God.
25215 Daniel Dan 32 13 3 For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.
25216 Daniel Dan 32 13 4 Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all.
25217 Daniel Dan 32 13 5 And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
25218 Daniel Dan 32 13 6 These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that had any matters of judgment came to them.
25219 Daniel Dan 32 13 7 And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband’s orchard.
25220 Daniel Dan 32 13 8 And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
25221 Daniel Dan 32 13 9 And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
25222 Daniel Dan 32 13 10 So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other.
25223 Daniel Dan 32 13 11 For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
25224 Daniel Dan 32 13 12 And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
25225 Daniel Dan 32 13 13 Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they departed one from another.
25226 Daniel Dan 32 13 14 And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
25227 Daniel Dan 32 13 15 And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
25228 Daniel Dan 32 13 16 And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves, and were beholding her.
25229 Daniel Dan 32 13 17 So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
25230 Daniel Dan 32 13 18 And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
25231 Daniel Dan 32 13 19 Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
25232 Daniel Dan 32 13 20 Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
25233 Daniel Dan 32 13 21 But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.
25234 Daniel Dan 32 13 22 Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands.
25235 Daniel Dan 32 13 23 But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
25236 Daniel Dan 32 13 24 With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders also cried out against her.
25237 Daniel Dan 32 13 25 And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.
25238 Daniel Dan 32 13 26 So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the back door, to see what was the matter.
25239 Daniel Dan 32 13 27 But after the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly ashamed: for never had there been any such word said of Susanna. And on the next day,
25240 Daniel Dan 32 13 28 When the people were come to Joakim, her husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device against Susanna, to put her to death.
25241 Daniel Dan 32 13 29 And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.
25242 Daniel Dan 32 13 30 And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.
25243 Daniel Dan 32 13 31 Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.
25244 Daniel Dan 32 13 32 But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty.
25245 Daniel Dan 32 13 33 Therefore her friends, and all her acquaintance wept.
25246 Daniel Dan 32 13 34 But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head.
25247 Daniel Dan 32 13 35 And she weeping, looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
25248 Daniel Dan 32 13 36 And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, and sent away the maids from her.
25249 Daniel Dan 32 13 37 Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with her.
25250 Daniel Dan 32 13 38 But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.
25251 Daniel Dan 32 13 39 And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors, he leaped out:
25252 Daniel Dan 32 13 40 But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.
25253 Daniel Dan 32 13 41 The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
25254 Daniel Dan 32 13 42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass,
25255 Daniel Dan 32 13 43 Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me.
25256 Daniel Dan 32 13 44 And the Lord heard her voice.
25257 Daniel Dan 32 13 45 And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel:
25258 Daniel Dan 32 13 46 And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the blood of this woman.
25259 Daniel Dan 32 13 47 Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
25260 Daniel Dan 32 13 48 But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
25261 Daniel Dan 32 13 49 Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her.
25262 Daniel Dan 32 13 50 So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath given thee the honour of old age.
25263 Daniel Dan 32 13 51 And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them.
25264 Daniel Dan 32 13 52 So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:
25265 Daniel Dan 32 13 53 In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
25266 Daniel Dan 32 13 54 Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
25267 Daniel Dan 32 13 55 And Daniel said: Well hast thou lied against thy own head: for behold the angel of God having received the sentence of him, shall cut thee in two.
25268 Daniel Dan 32 13 56 And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
25269 Daniel Dan 32 13 57 Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.
25270 Daniel Dan 32 13 58 Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
25271 Daniel Dan 32 13 59 And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
25272 Daniel Dan 32 13 60 With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.
25273 Daniel Dan 32 13 61 And they rose up against the two elders, (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbour,
25274 Daniel Dan 32 13 62 To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.
25275 Daniel Dan 32 13 63 But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.
25276 Daniel Dan 32 13 64 And Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that day, and thence forward.
25277 Daniel Dan 32 13 65 And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers; and Cyrus, the Persian, received his kingdom.
25278 Daniel Dan 32 14 1 And Daniel was the king’s guest, and was honoured above all his friends.
25279 Daniel Dan 32 14 2 Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there was spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.

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