\p Genesis 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Genesis 1.1: \v 1 In the beginning, God\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* created the heavens and the earth.
\p Genesis 1.2: \v 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
\p
\p Genesis 1.3: \v 3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
\p Genesis 1.4: \v 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
\p Genesis 1.5: \v 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
\p
\p Genesis 1.6: \v 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
\p Genesis 1.7: \v 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
\p Genesis 1.8: \v 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
\p
\p Genesis 1.9: \v 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
\p Genesis 1.10: \v 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
\p Genesis 1.11: \v 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
\p Genesis 1.12: \v 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
\p Genesis 1.13: \v 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
\p
\p Genesis 1.14: \v 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
\p Genesis 1.15: \v 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
\p Genesis 1.16: \v 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
\p Genesis 1.17: \v 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
\p Genesis 1.18: \v 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
\p Genesis 1.19: \v 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
\p
\p Genesis 1.20: \v 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
\p Genesis 1.21: \v 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
\p Genesis 1.22: \v 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
\p Genesis 1.23: \v 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
\p
\p Genesis 1.24: \v 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
\p Genesis 1.25: \v 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
\p
\p Genesis 1.26: \v 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
\p Genesis 1.27: \v 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
\p Genesis 1.28: \v 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
\p Genesis 1.29: \v 29 God said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:29 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
\p Genesis 1.30: \v 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
\p
\p Genesis 1.31: \v 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
\p Exodus 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Exodus 9.1: \v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 9.2: \v 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
\p Exodus 9.3: \v 3 behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
\p Exodus 9.4: \v 4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
\p Exodus 9.5: \v 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
\p Exodus 9.6: \v 6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.
\p Exodus 9.7: \v 7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.
\p
\p Exodus 9.8: \v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
\p Exodus 9.9: \v 9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.10: \v 10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking on man and on animal.
\p Exodus 9.11: \v 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
\p Exodus 9.12: \v 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
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\p Exodus 9.13: \v 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\p Exodus 9.14: \v 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
\p Exodus 9.15: \v 15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
\p Exodus 9.16: \v 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
\p Exodus 9.17: \v 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
\p Exodus 9.18: \v 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
\p Exodus 9.19: \v 19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’”
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\p Exodus 9.20: \v 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
\p Exodus 9.21: \v 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
\p
\p Exodus 9.22: \v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.23: \v 23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
\p Exodus 9.24: \v 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
\p Exodus 9.25: \v 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
\p Exodus 9.26: \v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
\p
\p Exodus 9.27: \v 27 Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
\p Exodus 9.28: \v 28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.29: \v 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
\p Exodus 9.30: \v 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
\p
\p Exodus 9.31: \v 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
\p Exodus 9.32: \v 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
\p Exodus 9.33: \v 33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
\p Exodus 9.34: \v 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
\p Exodus 9.35: \v 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
\p Leviticus 2.0: \c 2
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\p Leviticus 2.1: \v 1 “‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
\p Leviticus 2.2: \v 2 He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.3: \v 3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 2.4: \v 4 “‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.5: \v 5 If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.6: \v 6 You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
\p Leviticus 2.7: \v 7 If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
\p Leviticus 2.8: \v 8 You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
\p Leviticus 2.9: \v 9 The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.10: \v 10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
\p
\p Leviticus 2.11: \v 11 “‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p Leviticus 2.12: \v 12 As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
\p Leviticus 2.13: \v 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God\f + \fr 2:13 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
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\p Leviticus 2.14: \v 14 “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.
\p Leviticus 2.15: \v 15 You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
\p Leviticus 2.16: \v 16 The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
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\p Leviticus 15.0: \c 15
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\p Leviticus 15.1: \v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\p Leviticus 15.2: \v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.3: \v 3 This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.4: \v 4 “‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.5: \v 5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.6: \v 6 He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.7: \v 7 “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.8: \v 8 “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.9: \v 9 “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.10: \v 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.11: \v 11 “‘Whomever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.12: \v 12 “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.13: \v 13 “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.14: \v 14 “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
\p Leviticus 15.15: \v 15 The priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.16: \v 16 “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.17: \v 17 Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.18: \v 18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.19: \v 19 “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.20: \v 20 “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.21: \v 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.22: \v 22 Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p Leviticus 15.23: \v 23 If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.24: \v 24 “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.25: \v 25 “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.
\p Leviticus 15.26: \v 26 Every bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period. Everything she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
\p Leviticus 15.27: \v 27 Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.28: \v 28 “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
\p Leviticus 15.29: \v 29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p Leviticus 15.30: \v 30 The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
\p
\p Leviticus 15.31: \v 31 “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”
\p
\p Leviticus 15.32: \v 32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;
\p Leviticus 15.33: \v 33 and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.
\p Numbers 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Numbers 22.1: \v 1 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
\p Numbers 22.2: \v 2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
\p Numbers 22.3: \v 3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
\p Numbers 22.4: \v 4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”
\p Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
\p Numbers 22.5: \v 5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
\p Numbers 22.6: \v 6 Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.7: \v 7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
\p
\p Numbers 22.8: \v 8 He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
\p
\p Numbers 22.9: \v 9 God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.10: \v 10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,
\p Numbers 22.11: \v 11 ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
\p
\p Numbers 22.12: \v 12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.13: \v 13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.14: \v 14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.15: \v 15 Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
\p Numbers 22.16: \v 16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
\p Numbers 22.17: \v 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
\p
\p Numbers 22.18: \v 18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
\p Numbers 22.19: \v 19 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.20: \v 20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.21: \v 21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
\p Numbers 22.22: \v 22 God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
\p Numbers 22.23: \v 23 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.
\p Numbers 22.24: \v 24 Then Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
\p Numbers 22.25: \v 25 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again.
\p
\p Numbers 22.26: \v 26 Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
\p Numbers 22.27: \v 27 The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
\p
\p Numbers 22.28: \v 28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.29: \v 29 Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.30: \v 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?”
\p He said, “No.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.31: \v 31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
\p Numbers 22.32: \v 32 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
\p Numbers 22.33: \v 33 The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.34: \v 34 Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.35: \v 35 Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.”
\p So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
\p Numbers 22.36: \v 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
\p Numbers 22.37: \v 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
\p
\p Numbers 22.38: \v 38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
\p
\p Numbers 22.39: \v 39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
\p Numbers 22.40: \v 40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
\p Numbers 22.41: \v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.
\p Joshua 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Joshua 8.1: \v 1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
\p Joshua 8.2: \v 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
\p
\p Joshua 8.3: \v 3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
\p Joshua 8.4: \v 4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
\p Joshua 8.5: \v 5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
\p Joshua 8.6: \v 6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
\p Joshua 8.7: \v 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
\p Joshua 8.8: \v 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
\p
\p Joshua 8.9: \v 9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
\p Joshua 8.10: \v 10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
\p Joshua 8.11: \v 11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
\p Joshua 8.12: \v 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
\p Joshua 8.13: \v 13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
\p Joshua 8.14: \v 14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
\p Joshua 8.15: \v 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
\p Joshua 8.16: \v 16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
\p Joshua 8.17: \v 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
\p
\p Joshua 8.18: \v 18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”
\p Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
\p Joshua 8.19: \v 19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
\p Joshua 8.20: \v 20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
\p Joshua 8.21: \v 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.22: \v 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
\p Joshua 8.23: \v 23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
\p
\p Joshua 8.24: \v 24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
\p Joshua 8.25: \v 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.26: \v 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
\p Joshua 8.27: \v 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
\p Joshua 8.28: \v 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
\p Joshua 8.29: \v 29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
\p
\p Joshua 8.30: \v 30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
\p Joshua 8.31: \v 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
\p Joshua 8.32: \v 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
\p Joshua 8.33: \v 33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
\p Joshua 8.34: \v 34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
\p Joshua 8.35: \v 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
\p Judges 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Judges 10.1: \v 1 After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
\p Judges 10.2: \v 2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
\p
\p Judges 10.3: \v 3 After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
\p Judges 10.4: \v 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
\p Judges 10.5: \v 5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
\p
\p Judges 10.6: \v 6 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
\p Judges 10.7: \v 7 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
\p Judges 10.8: \v 8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
\p Judges 10.9: \v 9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
\p Judges 10.10: \v 10 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
\p
\p Judges 10.11: \v 11 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
\p Judges 10.12: \v 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
\p Judges 10.13: \v 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
\p Judges 10.14: \v 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
\p
\p Judges 10.15: \v 15 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
\p Judges 10.16: \v 16 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
\p
\p Judges 10.17: \v 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
\p Judges 10.18: \v 18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
\p 1 Kings 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 1 Kings 6.1: \v 1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.
\p 1 Kings 6.2: \v 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits,\f + \fr 6:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
\p 1 Kings 6.3: \v 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
\p 1 Kings 6.4: \v 4 He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
\p 1 Kings 6.5: \v 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.
\p 1 Kings 6.6: \v 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
\p 1 Kings 6.7: \v 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.
\p 1 Kings 6.8: \v 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
\p 1 Kings 6.9: \v 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
\p 1 Kings 6.10: \v 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
\p
\p 1 Kings 6.11: \v 11 Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,
\p 1 Kings 6.12: \v 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
\p 1 Kings 6.13: \v 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
\p
\p 1 Kings 6.14: \v 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
\p 1 Kings 6.15: \v 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
\p 1 Kings 6.16: \v 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
\p 1 Kings 6.17: \v 17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
\p 1 Kings 6.18: \v 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
\p 1 Kings 6.19: \v 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
\p 1 Kings 6.20: \v 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
\p 1 Kings 6.21: \v 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
\p 1 Kings 6.22: \v 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.
\p 1 Kings 6.23: \v 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim\f + \fr 6:23 \ft “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being.\f* of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
\p 1 Kings 6.24: \v 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.
\p 1 Kings 6.25: \v 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
\p 1 Kings 6.26: \v 26 One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
\p 1 Kings 6.27: \v 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.
\p 1 Kings 6.28: \v 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
\p 1 Kings 6.29: \v 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.
\p 1 Kings 6.30: \v 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
\p 1 Kings 6.31: \v 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
\p 1 Kings 6.32: \v 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
\p 1 Kings 6.33: \v 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
\p 1 Kings 6.34: \v 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
\p 1 Kings 6.35: \v 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
\p 1 Kings 6.36: \v 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
\p 1 Kings 6.37: \v 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
\p 1 Kings 6.38: \v 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.
\p 2 Kings 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Kings 12.1: \v 1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
\p 2 Kings 12.2: \v 2 Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
\p 2 Kings 12.3: \v 3 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
\p 2 Kings 12.4: \v 4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated,\x + \xo 12:4 \xt Exodus 30:12\x* and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,
\p 2 Kings 12.5: \v 5 let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 12.6: \v 6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
\p 2 Kings 12.7: \v 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 12.8: \v 8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
\p 2 Kings 12.9: \v 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.
\p 2 Kings 12.10: \v 10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.
\p 2 Kings 12.11: \v 11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,
\p 2 Kings 12.12: \v 12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
\p 2 Kings 12.13: \v 13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
\p 2 Kings 12.14: \v 14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.
\p 2 Kings 12.15: \v 15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
\p 2 Kings 12.16: \v 16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
\p
\p 2 Kings 12.17: \v 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Kings 12.18: \v 18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
\p 2 Kings 12.19: \v 19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\p 2 Kings 12.20: \v 20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
\p 2 Kings 12.21: \v 21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
\p 2 Kings 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.1: \v 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.2: \v 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
\p 2 Kings 20.3: \v 3 “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.4: \v 4 Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
\p 2 Kings 20.5: \v 5 “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
\p 2 Kings 20.6: \v 6 I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.7: \v 7 Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.”
\p They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
\p 2 Kings 20.8: \v 8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.9: \v 9 Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.10: \v 10 Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.11: \v 11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.12: \v 12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
\p 2 Kings 20.13: \v 13 Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.14: \v 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”
\p Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.15: \v 15 He said, “What have they seen in your house?”
\p Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.16: \v 16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.
\p 2 Kings 20.17: \v 17 ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
\p 2 Kings 20.18: \v 18 ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.19: \v 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”
\p
\p 2 Kings 20.20: \v 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\p 2 Kings 20.21: \v 21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.1: \v 1 So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold,\f + \fr 9:1 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.2: \v 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.3: \v 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
\p 1 Chronicles 9.4: \v 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.5: \v 5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.6: \v 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.7: \v 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.8: \v 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.9: \v 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.10: \v 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.11: \v 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.12: \v 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.13: \v 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.14: \v 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
\p 1 Chronicles 9.15: \v 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.16: \v 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.17: \v 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
\p 1 Chronicles 9.18: \v 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.19: \v 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.20: \v 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.21: \v 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.22: \v 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.23: \v 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.24: \v 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.25: \v 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
\p 1 Chronicles 9.26: \v 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.27: \v 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.28: \v 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.29: \v 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
\p
\p 1 Chronicles 9.30: \v 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.31: \v 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.32: \v 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.33: \v 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.34: \v 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.35: \v 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
\p 1 Chronicles 9.36: \v 36 his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
\p 1 Chronicles 9.37: \v 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.38: \v 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.39: \v 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.40: \v 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.41: \v 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.42: \v 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.43: \v 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
\p 1 Chronicles 9.44: \v 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 5.1: \v 1 Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 5.2: \v 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.3: \v 3 So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.4: \v 4 All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark;
\p 2 Chronicles 5.5: \v 5 and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the Levitical priests brought up.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.6: \v 6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.7: \v 7 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.8: \v 8 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.9: \v 9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day.
\p 2 Chronicles 5.10: \v 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 5.11: \v 11 When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
\p 2 Chronicles 5.12: \v 12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);
\p 2 Chronicles 5.13: \v 13 when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying,
\q1 “For he is good;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever!”
\m then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,
\p 2 Chronicles 5.14: \v 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.0: \c 30
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.1: \v 1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.2: \v 2 For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.3: \v 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.4: \v 4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.5: \v 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.6: \v 6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.7: \v 7 Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.8: \v 8 Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.9: \v 9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.10: \v 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.11: \v 11 Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.12: \v 12 Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.13: \v 13 Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.14: \v 14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.15: \v 15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.16: \v 16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.17: \v 17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.18: \v 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
\p 2 Chronicles 30.19: \v 19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.20: \v 20 Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.21: \v 21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.22: \v 22 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 30.23: \v 23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.24: \v 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.25: \v 25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.26: \v 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.
\p 2 Chronicles 30.27: \v 27 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
\p Job 14.0: \c 14
\b
\q1
\p Job 14.1: \v 1 “Man, who is born of a woman,
\q2 is of few days, and full of trouble.
\q1
\p Job 14.2: \v 2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
\q2 He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
\q1
\p Job 14.3: \v 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one,
\q2 and bring me into judgment with you?
\q1
\p Job 14.4: \v 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
\q2 Not one.
\q2
\p Job 14.5: \v 5 Seeing his days are determined,
\q2 the number of his months is with you,
\q2 and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
\q1
\p Job 14.6: \v 6 Look away from him, that he may rest,
\q2 until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
\b
\q1
\p Job 14.7: \v 7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
\q2 that it will sprout again,
\q2 that the tender branch of it will not cease.
\q1
\p Job 14.8: \v 8 Though its root grows old in the earth,
\q2 and its stock dies in the ground,
\q1
\p Job 14.9: \v 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud,
\q2 and sprout boughs like a plant.
\q1
\p Job 14.10: \v 10 But man dies, and is laid low.
\q2 Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
\q1
\p Job 14.11: \v 11 As the waters fail from the sea,
\q2 and the river wastes and dries up,
\q1
\p Job 14.12: \v 12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
\q2 Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
\q2 nor be roused out of their sleep.
\b
\q1
\p Job 14.13: \v 13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,\f + \fr 14:13 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
\q2 that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
\q1
\p Job 14.14: \v 14 If a man dies, will he live again?
\q2 I would wait all the days of my warfare,
\q2 until my release should come.
\q1
\p Job 14.15: \v 15 You would call, and I would answer you.
\q2 You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
\q1
\p Job 14.16: \v 16 But now you count my steps.
\q2 Don’t you watch over my sin?
\q1
\p Job 14.17: \v 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
\q2 You fasten up my iniquity.
\b
\q1
\p Job 14.18: \v 18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
\q2 The rock is removed out of its place;
\q1
\p Job 14.19: \v 19 The waters wear the stones.
\q2 The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
\q2 So you destroy the hope of man.
\q1
\p Job 14.20: \v 20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
\q2 You change his face, and send him away.
\q1
\p Job 14.21: \v 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
\q2 They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
\q1
\p Job 14.22: \v 22 But his flesh on him has pain,
\q2 and his soul within him mourns.”
\b
\p Job 38.0: \c 38
\p
\p Job 38.1: \v 1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
\q1
\p Job 38.2: \v 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel
\q2 by words without knowledge?
\q1
\p Job 38.3: \v 3 Brace yourself like a man,
\q2 for I will question you, then you answer me!
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.4: \v 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
\q2 Declare, if you have understanding.
\q1
\p Job 38.5: \v 5 Who determined its measures, if you know?
\q2 Or who stretched the line on it?
\q1
\p Job 38.6: \v 6 What were its foundations fastened on?
\q2 Or who laid its cornerstone,
\q1
\p Job 38.7: \v 7 when the morning stars sang together,
\q2 and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.8: \v 8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors,
\q2 when it broke out of the womb,
\q1
\p Job 38.9: \v 9 when I made clouds its garment,
\q2 and wrapped it in thick darkness,
\q1
\p Job 38.10: \v 10 marked out for it my bound,
\q2 set bars and doors,
\q1
\p Job 38.11: \v 11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.
\q2 Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.12: \v 12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days,
\q2 and caused the dawn to know its place,
\q1
\p Job 38.13: \v 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
\q2 and shake the wicked out of it?
\q1
\p Job 38.14: \v 14 It is changed as clay under the seal,
\q2 and presented as a garment.
\q1
\p Job 38.15: \v 15 From the wicked, their light is withheld.
\q2 The high arm is broken.
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.16: \v 16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
\q2 Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
\q1
\p Job 38.17: \v 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
\q2 Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
\q1
\p Job 38.18: \v 18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width?
\q2 Declare, if you know it all.
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.19: \v 19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light?
\q2 As for darkness, where is its place,
\q1
\p Job 38.20: \v 20 that you should take it to its bound,
\q2 that you should discern the paths to its house?
\q1
\p Job 38.21: \v 21 Surely you know, for you were born then,
\q2 and the number of your days is great!
\q1
\p Job 38.22: \v 22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow,
\q2 or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
\q1
\p Job 38.23: \v 23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
\q2 against the day of battle and war?
\q1
\p Job 38.24: \v 24 By what way is the lightning distributed,
\q2 or the east wind scattered on the earth?
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.25: \v 25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
\q2 or the path for the thunder storm,
\q1
\p Job 38.26: \v 26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
\q2 on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
\q1
\p Job 38.27: \v 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
\q2 to cause the tender grass to grow?
\q1
\p Job 38.28: \v 28 Does the rain have a father?
\q2 Or who fathers the drops of dew?
\q1
\p Job 38.29: \v 29 Whose womb did the ice come out of?
\q2 Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
\q1
\p Job 38.30: \v 30 The waters become hard like stone,
\q2 when the surface of the deep is frozen.
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.31: \v 31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
\q2 or loosen the cords of Orion?
\q1
\p Job 38.32: \v 32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season?
\q2 Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
\q1
\p Job 38.33: \v 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
\q2 Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.34: \v 34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
\q2 That abundance of waters may cover you?
\q1
\p Job 38.35: \v 35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?
\q2 Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’
\q1
\p Job 38.36: \v 36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
\q2 Or who has given understanding to the mind?
\q1
\p Job 38.37: \v 37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom?
\q2 Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
\q1
\p Job 38.38: \v 38 when the dust runs into a mass,
\q2 and the clods of earth stick together?
\b
\q1
\p Job 38.39: \v 39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
\q2 or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
\q1
\p Job 38.40: \v 40 when they crouch in their dens,
\q2 and lie in wait in the thicket?
\q1
\p Job 38.41: \v 41 Who provides for the raven his prey,
\q2 when his young ones cry to God,
\q2 and wander for lack of food?
\b
\p Psalms 68.0: \c 68
\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.1: \v 1 Let God arise!
\q2 Let his enemies be scattered!
\q2 Let them who hate him also flee before him.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.2: \v 2 As smoke is driven away,
\q2 so drive them away.
\q1 As wax melts before the fire,
\q2 so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.3: \v 3 But let the righteous be glad.
\q2 Let them rejoice before God.
\q2 Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.4: \v 4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!
\q2 Extol him who rides on the clouds:
\q1 to Yah, his name!
\q2 Rejoice before him!
\q1
\p Psalms 68.5: \v 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
\q2 is God in his holy habitation.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.6: \v 6 God sets the lonely in families.
\q1 He brings out the prisoners with singing,
\q2 but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
\b
\q1
\p Psalms 68.7: \v 7 God, when you went out before your people,
\q2 when you marched through the wilderness... \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\p Psalms 68.8: \v 8 The earth trembled.
\q2 The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—
\q2 at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.9: \v 9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain.
\q2 You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.10: \v 10 Your congregation lived therein.
\q2 You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.11: \v 11 The Lord announced the word.
\q2 The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.12: \v 12 “Kings of armies flee! They flee!”
\q2 She who waits at home divides the plunder,
\q2
\p Psalms 68.13: \v 13 while you sleep among the camp fires,
\q2 the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,
\q2 her feathers with shining gold.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.14: \v 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her,
\q2 it snowed on Zalmon.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.15: \v 15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
\q2 The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.16: \v 16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,
\q2 at the mountain where God chooses to reign?
\q2 Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.17: \v 17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
\q2 The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.18: \v 18 You have ascended on high.
\q2 You have led away captives.
\q1 You have received gifts among people,
\q2 yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
\b
\q1
\p Psalms 68.19: \v 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,
\q2 even the God who is our salvation. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\p Psalms 68.20: \v 20 God is to us a God of deliverance.
\q2 To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.21: \v 21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies,
\q2 the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.22: \v 22 The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,
\q2 I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,
\q1
\p Psalms 68.23: \v 23 that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
\q2 that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
\q1
\p Psalms 68.24: \v 24 They have seen your processions, God,
\q2 even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.25: \v 25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
\q2 among the ladies playing with tambourines,
\q1
\p Psalms 68.26: \v 26 “Bless God in the congregations,
\q2 even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
\q1
\p Psalms 68.27: \v 27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler,
\q2 the princes of Judah, their council,
\q2 the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
\b
\q1
\p Psalms 68.28: \v 28 Your God has commanded your strength.
\q2 Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.29: \v 29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
\q2 kings shall bring presents to you.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.30: \v 30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,
\q2 the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.
\q1 Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver.
\q2 Scatter the nations that delight in war.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.31: \v 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt.
\q2 Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.32: \v 32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!
\q2 Sing praises to the Lord! \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\p Psalms 68.33: \v 33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
\q2 behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.34: \v 34 Ascribe strength to God!
\q2 His excellency is over Israel,
\q2 his strength is in the skies.
\q1
\p Psalms 68.35: \v 35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
\q2 The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
\q2 Praise be to God!
\p Psalms 112.0: \c 112
\q1
\p Psalms 112.1: \v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 112:1 \ft Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).\f*
\q2 Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
\q2 who delights greatly in his commandments.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.2: \v 2 His offspring will be mighty in the land.
\q2 The generation of the upright will be blessed.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.3: \v 3 Wealth and riches are in his house.
\q2 His righteousness endures forever.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.4: \v 4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
\q2 gracious, merciful, and righteous.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.5: \v 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
\q2 He will maintain his cause in judgment.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.6: \v 6 For he will never be shaken.
\q2 The righteous will be remembered forever.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.7: \v 7 He will not be afraid of evil news.
\q2 His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.8: \v 8 His heart is established.
\q2 He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.9: \v 9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.
\q2 His righteousness endures forever.
\q2 His horn will be exalted with honor.
\q1
\p Psalms 112.10: \v 10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved.
\q2 He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.
\q2 The desire of the wicked will perish.
\p Psalms 117.0: \c 117
\q1
\p Psalms 117.1: \v 1 Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
\q2 Extol him, all you peoples!
\q1
\p Psalms 117.2: \v 2 For his loving kindness is great toward us.
\q2 Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever.
\q1 Praise Yah!
\p Psalms 120.0: \c 120
\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\p Psalms 120.1: \v 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
\q2 He answered me.
\q1
\p Psalms 120.2: \v 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
\q2 from a deceitful tongue.
\q1
\p Psalms 120.3: \v 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
\q2 you deceitful tongue?
\q1
\p Psalms 120.4: \v 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
\q2 with coals of juniper.
\q1
\p Psalms 120.5: \v 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
\q2 that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
\q1
\p Psalms 120.6: \v 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long
\q2 with him who hates peace.
\q1
\p Psalms 120.7: \v 7 I am for peace,
\q2 but when I speak, they are for war.
\p Psalms 134.0: \c 134
\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\p Psalms 134.1: \v 1 Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,
\q2 who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
\q1
\p Psalms 134.2: \v 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
\q2 Praise Yahweh!
\q1
\p Psalms 134.3: \v 3 May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
\q2 even he who made heaven and earth.
\p Song of Solomon 4.0: \c 4
\sp Lover
\p
\p Song of Solomon 4.1: \v 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
\q2 Behold, you are beautiful.
\q1 Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
\q2 Your hair is as a flock of goats,
\q2 that descend from Mount Gilead.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.2: \v 2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
\q2 which have come up from the washing,
\q2 where every one of them has twins.
\q2 None is bereaved among them.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.3: \v 3 Your lips are like scarlet thread.
\q2 Your mouth is lovely.
\q2 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.4: \v 4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,
\q2 on which a thousand shields hang,
\q2 all the shields of the mighty men.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.5: \v 5 Your two breasts are like two fawns
\q2 that are twins of a roe,
\q2 which feed among the lilies.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.6: \v 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
\q2 I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
\q2 to the hill of frankincense.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.7: \v 7 You are all beautiful, my love.
\q2 There is no spot in you.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.8: \v 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
\q2 with me from Lebanon.
\q2 Look from the top of Amana,
\q2 from the top of Senir and Hermon,
\q2 from the lions’ dens,
\q2 from the mountains of the leopards.
\b
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.9: \v 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.
\q2 You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,
\q2 with one chain of your neck.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.10: \v 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
\q2 How much better is your love than wine,
\q2 the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.11: \v 11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
\q2 Honey and milk are under your tongue.
\q2 The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.12: \v 12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;
\q2 a locked up spring,
\q2 a sealed fountain.
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.13: \v 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits,
\q2 henna with spikenard plants,
\q2
\p Song of Solomon 4.14: \v 14 spikenard and saffron,
\q2 calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
\q2 myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
\q2
\p Song of Solomon 4.15: \v 15 a fountain of gardens,
\q2 a well of living waters,
\q2 flowing streams from Lebanon.
\sp Beloved
\q1
\p Song of Solomon 4.16: \v 16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south!
\q2 Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.
\q1 Let my beloved come into his garden,
\q2 and taste his precious fruits.
\p Isaiah 33.0: \c 33
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.1: \v 1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
\q2 and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
\q1 When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
\q2 and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.2: \v 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
\q2 Be our strength every morning,
\q2 our salvation also in the time of trouble.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.3: \v 3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
\q2 When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.4: \v 4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
\q2 Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.5: \v 5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
\q2 He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.6: \v 6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
\q2 The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.7: \v 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
\q2 the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.8: \v 8 The highways are desolate.
\q2 The traveling man ceases.
\q2 The covenant is broken.
\q2 He has despised the cities.
\q2 He doesn’t respect man.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.9: \v 9 The land mourns and languishes.
\q2 Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
\q2 Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.10: \v 10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Now I will lift myself up.
\q2 Now I will be exalted.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.11: \v 11 You will conceive chaff.
\q2 You will give birth to stubble.
\q2 Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.12: \v 12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
\q2 like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.13: \v 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
\q2 and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.14: \v 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.
\q2 Trembling has seized the godless ones.
\q1 Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
\q2 Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.15: \v 15 He who walks righteously
\q2 and speaks blamelessly,
\q2 he who despises the gain of oppressions,
\q2 who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
\q2 who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
\q2 and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.16: \v 16 he will dwell on high.
\q2 His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
\q2 His bread will be supplied.
\q2 His waters will be sure.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.17: \v 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
\q2 They will see a distant land.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.18: \v 18 Your heart will meditate on the terror.
\q2 Where is he who counted?
\q2 Where is he who weighed?
\q2 Where is he who counted the towers?
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.19: \v 19 You will no longer see the fierce people,
\q2 a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
\q2 with a strange language that you can’t understand.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.20: \v 20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
\q2 Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
\q2 a tent that won’t be removed.
\q1 Its stakes will never be plucked up,
\q2 nor will any of its cords be broken.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.21: \v 21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
\q2 a place of wide rivers and streams,
\q2 in which no galley with oars will go,
\q2 neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.22: \v 22 For Yahweh is our judge.
\q2 Yahweh is our lawgiver.
\q2 Yahweh is our king.
\q2 He will save us.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.23: \v 23 Your rigging is untied.
\q2 They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.
\q2 They couldn’t spread the sail.
\q1 Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.
\q2 The lame took the prey.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 33.24: \v 24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
\q2 The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
\p Isaiah 42.0: \c 42
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.1: \v 1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
\q2 my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
\q2 I have put my Spirit on him.
\q2 He will bring justice to the nations.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.2: \v 2 He will not shout,
\q2 nor raise his voice,
\q2 nor cause it to be heard in the street.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.3: \v 3 He won’t break a bruised reed.
\q2 He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
\q2 He will faithfully bring justice.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.4: \v 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
\q2 until he has set justice in the earth,
\q2 and the islands wait for his law.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.5: \v 5 God Yahweh,
\q2 he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
\q2 he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
\q2 he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.6: \v 6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
\q2 I will hold your hand.
\q2 I will keep you,
\q2 and make you a covenant for the people,
\q2 as a light for the nations,
\q2
\p Isaiah 42.7: \v 7 to open the blind eyes,
\q2 to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
\q2 and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.8: \v 8 “I am Yahweh.
\q2 That is my name.
\q2 I will not give my glory to another,
\q2 nor my praise to engraved images.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.9: \v 9 Behold, the former things have happened
\q2 and I declare new things.
\q2 I tell you about them before they come up.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.10: \v 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q2 and his praise from the end of the earth,
\q2 you who go down to the sea,
\q2 and all that is therein,
\q2 the islands and their inhabitants.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.11: \v 11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,
\q2 with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
\q2 Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
\q2 Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.12: \v 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh,
\q2 and declare his praise in the islands.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.13: \v 13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
\q2 He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
\q2 He will raise a war cry.
\q2 Yes, he will shout aloud.
\q2 He will triumph over his enemies.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.14: \v 14 “I have been silent a long time.
\q2 I have been quiet and restrained myself.
\q2 Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.15: \v 15 I will destroy mountains and hills,
\q2 and dry up all their herbs.
\q2 I will make the rivers islands,
\q2 and will dry up the pools.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.16: \v 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
\q2 I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.
\q2 I will make darkness light before them,
\q2 and crooked places straight.
\q2 I will do these things,
\q2 and I will not forsake them.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.17: \v 17 “Those who trust in engraved images,
\q2 who tell molten images,
\q2 ‘You are our gods,’
\q2 will be turned back.
\q2 They will be utterly disappointed.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.18: \v 18 “Hear, you deaf,
\q2 and look, you blind,
\q2 that you may see.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.19: \v 19 Who is blind, but my servant?
\q2 Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
\q1 Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
\q2 and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.20: \v 20 You see many things, but don’t observe.
\q2 His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.21: \v 21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law
\q2 and make it honorable.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.22: \v 22 But this is a robbed and plundered people.
\q2 All of them are snared in holes,
\q2 and they are hidden in prisons.
\q1 They have become captives, and no one delivers,
\q2 and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.23: \v 23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
\q2 Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.24: \v 24 Who gave Jacob as plunder,
\q2 and Israel to the robbers?
\q2 Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?
\q2 For they would not walk in his ways,
\q2 and they disobeyed his law.
\q1
\p Isaiah 42.25: \v 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,
\q2 and the strength of battle.
\q1 It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know.
\q2 It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
\p Isaiah 63.0: \c 63
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.1: \v 1 Who is this who comes from Edom,
\q2 with dyed garments from Bozrah?
\q1 Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,
\q2 marching in the greatness of his strength?
\q1 “It is I who speak in righteousness,
\q2 mighty to save.”
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.2: \v 2 Why is your clothing red,
\q2 and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.3: \v 3 “I have trodden the wine press alone.
\q2 Of the peoples, no one was with me.
\q1 Yes, I trod them in my anger
\q2 and trampled them in my wrath.
\q1 Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
\q2 and I have stained all my clothing.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.4: \v 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
\q2 and the year of my redeemed has come.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.5: \v 5 I looked, and there was no one to help;
\q2 and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.
\q1 Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.
\q2 My own wrath upheld me.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.6: \v 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger
\q2 and made them drunk in my wrath.
\q2 I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.7: \v 7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
\q2 and the praises of Yahweh,
\q2 according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
\q1 and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
\q2 which he has given to them according to his mercies,
\q2 and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.8: \v 8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
\q2 children who will not deal falsely;”
\q2 so he became their Savior.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.9: \v 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
\q2 and the angel of his presence saved them.
\q1 In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
\q2 He bore them,
\q2 and carried them all the days of old.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.10: \v 10 But they rebelled
\q2 and grieved his Holy Spirit.
\q1 Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
\q2 and he himself fought against them.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.11: \v 11 Then he remembered the days of old,
\q2 Moses and his people, saying,
\q1 “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
\q2 Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.12: \v 12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
\q2 Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.13: \v 13 Who led them through the depths,
\q2 like a horse in the wilderness,
\q2 so that they didn’t stumble?
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.14: \v 14 As the livestock that go down into the valley,
\q2 Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
\q2 So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.15: \v 15 Look down from heaven,
\q2 and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
\q1 Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
\q2 The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.16: \v 16 For you are our Father,
\q2 though Abraham doesn’t know us,
\q2 and Israel does not acknowledge us.
\q1 You, Yahweh, are our Father.
\q2 Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.17: \v 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,
\q2 and harden our heart from your fear?
\q1 Return for your servants’ sake,
\q2 the tribes of your inheritance.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.18: \v 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
\q2 Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
\q1
\p Isaiah 63.19: \v 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled,
\q2 like those who were not called by your name.
\p Isaiah 66.0: \c 66
\p
\p Isaiah 66.1: \v 1 Yahweh says,
\q1 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
\q2 What kind of house will you build to me?
\q2 Where will I rest?
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.2: \v 2 For my hand has made all these things,
\q2 and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:
\q1 “but I will look to this man,
\q2 even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
\q2 and who trembles at my word.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.3: \v 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
\q2 he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;
\q2 he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood;
\q2 he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol.
\q1 Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
\q2 and their soul delights in their abominations:
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.4: \v 4 I also will choose their delusions,
\q2 and will bring their fears on them;
\q1 because when I called, no one answered;
\q2 when I spoke, they didn’t listen;
\q1 but they did that which was evil in my eyes,
\q2 and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.5: \v 5 Hear Yahweh’s word,
\q2 you who tremble at his word:
\q1 “Your brothers who hate you,
\q2 who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said,
\q1 ‘Let Yahweh be glorified,
\q2 that we may see your joy;’
\q2 but it is those who shall be disappointed.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.6: \v 6 A voice of tumult from the city,
\q2 a voice from the temple,
\q2 a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.7: \v 7 “Before she travailed, she gave birth.
\q2 Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.8: \v 8 Who has heard of such a thing?
\q2 Who has seen such things?
\q1 Shall a land be born in one day?
\q2 Shall a nation be born at once?
\q1 For as soon as Zion travailed,
\q2 she gave birth to her children.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.9: \v 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh.
\q2 “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.10: \v 10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.
\q2 Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.11: \v 11 that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts;
\q2 that you may drink deeply,
\q2 and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.12: \v 12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
\q2 and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
\q2 and you will nurse.
\q1 You will be carried on her side,
\q2 and will be dandled on her knees.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.13: \v 13 As one whom his mother comforts,
\q2 so I will comfort you.
\q2 You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.14: \v 14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
\q2 and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.
\q1 Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
\q2 and he will have indignation against his enemies.
\b
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.15: \v 15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire,
\q2 and his chariots will be like the whirlwind;
\q1 to render his anger with fierceness,
\q2 and his rebuke with flames of fire.
\q1
\p Isaiah 66.16: \v 16 For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh;
\q2 and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
\p
\p Isaiah 66.17: \v 17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
\p
\p Isaiah 66.18: \v 18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
\p
\p Isaiah 66.19: \v 19 “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
\p Isaiah 66.20: \v 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.
\p Isaiah 66.21: \v 21 Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
\p
\p Isaiah 66.22: \v 22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
\p Isaiah 66.23: \v 23 It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
\p Isaiah 66.24: \v 24 “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
\p Ezekiel 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.1: \v 1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
\p Ezekiel 11.2: \v 2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
\p Ezekiel 11.3: \v 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
\p Ezekiel 11.4: \v 4 Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.5: \v 5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
\p Ezekiel 11.6: \v 6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.7: \v 7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
\p Ezekiel 11.8: \v 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 11.9: \v 9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
\p Ezekiel 11.10: \v 10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 11.11: \v 11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
\p Ezekiel 11.12: \v 12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.13: \v 13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.14: \v 14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\p Ezekiel 11.15: \v 15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.16: \v 16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.17: \v 17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.18: \v 18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
\p Ezekiel 11.19: \v 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
\p Ezekiel 11.20: \v 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
\p Ezekiel 11.21: \v 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
\p
\p Ezekiel 11.22: \v 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
\p Ezekiel 11.23: \v 23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
\p Ezekiel 11.24: \v 24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives.
\p So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
\p Ezekiel 11.25: \v 25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
\p Hosea 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Hosea 2.1: \v 1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew\f*
\q2 and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’\f + \fr 2:1 \ft ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew\f*
\q1
\p Hosea 2.2: \v 2 Contend with your mother!
\q2 Contend, for she is not my wife,
\q2 neither am I her husband;
\q1 and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
\q2 and her adulteries from between her breasts;
\q1
\p Hosea 2.3: \v 3 Lest I strip her naked,
\q2 and make her bare as in the day that she was born,
\q1 and make her like a wilderness,
\q2 and set her like a dry land,
\q2 and kill her with thirst.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.4: \v 4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
\q2 for they are children of unfaithfulness;
\q1
\p Hosea 2.5: \v 5 For their mother has played the prostitute.
\q2 She who conceived them has done shamefully;
\q1 for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
\q2 who give me my bread and my water,
\q2 my wool and my flax,
\q2 my oil and my drink.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.6: \v 6 Therefore behold,\f + \fr 2:6 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will hedge up your way with thorns,
\q2 and I will build a wall against her,
\q2 that she can’t find her way.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.7: \v 7 She will follow after her lovers,
\q2 but she won’t overtake them;
\q1 and she will seek them,
\q2 but won’t find them.
\q1 Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband;
\q2 for then was it better with me than now.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.8: \v 8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
\q2 and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.9: \v 9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
\q2 and my new wine in its season,
\q2 and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.10: \v 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
\q2 and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.11: \v 11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
\q2 her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.12: \v 12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
\q2 about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me;
\q2 and I will make them a forest,’
\q2 and the animals of the field shall eat them.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.13: \v 13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
\q2 to which she burned incense,
\q1 when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
\q2 and went after her lovers,
\q2 and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.14: \v 14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her,
\q2 and bring her into the wilderness,
\q2 and speak tenderly to her.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.15: \v 15 I will give her vineyards from there,
\q2 and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
\q1 and she will respond there,
\q2 as in the days of her youth,
\q2 and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.16: \v 16 It will be in that day,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “that you will call me ‘my husband,’
\q2 and no longer call me ‘my master.’
\q1
\p Hosea 2.17: \v 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,
\q2 and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.18: \v 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,
\q2 and with the birds of the sky,
\q2 and with the creeping things of the ground.
\q1 I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land,
\q2 and will make them lie down safely.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.19: \v 19 I will betroth you to me forever.
\q2 Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.20: \v 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
\q2 and you shall know Yahweh.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.21: \v 21 It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh,
\q2 “I will respond to the heavens,
\q2 and they will respond to the earth;
\q2
\p Hosea 2.22: \v 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
\q2 and they will respond to Jezreel.
\q1
\p Hosea 2.23: \v 23 I will sow her to me in the earth;
\q2 and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
\q2 and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’
\q2 and they will say, ‘My God!’”
\p Nahum 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Nahum 3.1: \v 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
\p Nahum 3.2: \v 2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
\p Nahum 3.3: \v 3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
\p Nahum 3.4: \v 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
\p Nahum 3.5: \v 5 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
\p Nahum 3.6: \v 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
\p Nahum 3.7: \v 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
\p
\p Nahum 3.8: \v 8 Are you better than No-Amon,\f + \fr 3:8 \ft or, Thebes\f* who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
\p Nahum 3.9: \v 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
\p Nahum 3.10: \v 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
\p Nahum 3.11: \v 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
\p Nahum 3.12: \v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
\p Nahum 3.13: \v 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
\p Nahum 3.14: \v 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
\p Nahum 3.15: \v 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
\p Nahum 3.16: \v 16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
\p Nahum 3.17: \v 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
\p Nahum 3.18: \v 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
\p Nahum 3.19: \v 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
\p Zechariah 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Zechariah 6.1: \v 1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
\p Zechariah 6.2: \v 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
\p Zechariah 6.3: \v 3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
\p Zechariah 6.4: \v 4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
\p
\p Zechariah 6.5: \v 5 The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
\p Zechariah 6.6: \v 6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.”
\p Zechariah 6.7: \v 7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, “Go around and through the earth!” So they walked back and forth through the earth.
\p
\p Zechariah 6.8: \v 8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
\p
\p Zechariah 6.9: \v 9 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
\p Zechariah 6.10: \v 10 “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
\p Zechariah 6.11: \v 11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
\p Zechariah 6.12: \v 12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
\p Zechariah 6.13: \v 13 even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
\p Zechariah 6.14: \v 14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh’s temple.
\p Zechariah 6.15: \v 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.”’”\f + \fr 6:15 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\p Malachi 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Malachi 4.1: \v 1 “For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
\p Malachi 4.2: \v 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
\p Malachi 4.3: \v 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
\p
\p Malachi 4.4: \v 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
\p Malachi 4.5: \v 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
\p Malachi 4.6: \v 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
\p Luke 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Luke 16.1: \v 1 He also said to his disciples, \wj “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. \wj*
\p Luke 16.2: \v 2 \wj He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ \wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.3: \v 3 \wj “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. \wj*
\p Luke 16.4: \v 4 \wj I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ \wj*
\p Luke 16.5: \v 5 \wj Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ \wj*
\p Luke 16.6: \v 6 \wj He said, ‘A hundred batos\wj*\f + \fr 16:6 \ft 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons.\f* \wj of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ \wj*
\p Luke 16.7: \v 7 \wj Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors\wj*\f + \fr 16:7 \ft 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels.\f* \wj of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.8: \v 8 \wj “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. \wj*
\p Luke 16.9: \v 9 \wj I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. \wj*
\p Luke 16.10: \v 10 \wj He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. \wj*
\p Luke 16.11: \v 11 \wj If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? \wj*
\p Luke 16.12: \v 12 \wj If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? \wj*
\p Luke 16.13: \v 13 \wj No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”\wj*\f + \fr 16:13 \ft “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.\f*
\p
\p Luke 16.14: \v 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
\p Luke 16.15: \v 15 He said to them, \wj “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. \wj*
\p Luke 16.16: \v 16 \wj The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. \wj*
\p Luke 16.17: \v 17 \wj But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. \wj*
\p Luke 16.18: \v 18 \wj Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. \wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.19: \v 19 \wj “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. \wj*
\p Luke 16.20: \v 20 \wj A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, \wj*
\p Luke 16.21: \v 21 \wj and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. \wj*
\p Luke 16.22: \v 22 \wj The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. \wj*
\p Luke 16.23: \v 23 \wj In Hades,\wj*\f + \fr 16:23 \ft or, Hell\f* \wj he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. \wj*
\p Luke 16.24: \v 24 \wj He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.25: \v 25 \wj “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. \wj*
\p Luke 16.26: \v 26 \wj Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.27: \v 27 \wj “He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house; \wj*
\p Luke 16.28: \v 28 \wj for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.29: \v 29 \wj “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.30: \v 30 \wj “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’\wj*
\p
\p Luke 16.31: \v 31 \wj “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”\wj*
\p Acts 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Acts 6.1: \v 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists\f + \fr 6:1 \ft The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent.\f* against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
\p Acts 6.2: \v 2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
\p Acts 6.3: \v 3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
\p Acts 6.4: \v 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
\p
\p Acts 6.5: \v 5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
\p Acts 6.6: \v 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
\p Acts 6.7: \v 7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
\p
\p Acts 6.8: \v 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
\p Acts 6.9: \v 9 But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
\p Acts 6.10: \v 10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
\p Acts 6.11: \v 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
\p Acts 6.12: \v 12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,
\p Acts 6.13: \v 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
\p Acts 6.14: \v 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
\p Acts 6.15: \v 15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
\p Acts 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Acts 12.1: \v 1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
\p Acts 12.2: \v 2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
\p Acts 12.3: \v 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
\p Acts 12.4: \v 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
\p Acts 12.5: \v 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
\p Acts 12.6: \v 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
\p
\p Acts 12.7: \v 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.
\p Acts 12.8: \v 8 The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
\p Acts 12.9: \v 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
\p Acts 12.10: \v 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
\p
\p Acts 12.11: \v 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
\p Acts 12.12: \v 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
\p Acts 12.13: \v 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
\p Acts 12.14: \v 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
\p
\p Acts 12.15: \v 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
\p Acts 12.16: \v 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
\p Acts 12.17: \v 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
\p
\p Acts 12.18: \v 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
\p Acts 12.19: \v 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
\p Acts 12.20: \v 20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
\p Acts 12.21: \v 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
\p Acts 12.22: \v 22 The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
\p Acts 12.23: \v 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
\p
\p Acts 12.24: \v 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
\p Acts 12.25: \v 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to\f + \fr 12:25 \ft TR reads “from” instead of “to”\f* Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.
\p Acts 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p Acts 19.1: \v 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.
\p Acts 19.2: \v 2 He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
\p They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
\p
\p Acts 19.3: \v 3 He said, “Into what then were you baptized?”
\p They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
\p
\p Acts 19.4: \v 4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
\p
\p Acts 19.5: \v 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
\p Acts 19.6: \v 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
\p Acts 19.7: \v 7 They were about twelve men in all.
\p Acts 19.8: \v 8 He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
\p
\p Acts 19.9: \v 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
\p Acts 19.10: \v 10 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
\p
\p Acts 19.11: \v 11 God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
\p Acts 19.12: \v 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
\p Acts 19.13: \v 13 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
\p Acts 19.14: \v 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
\p
\p Acts 19.15: \v 15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
\p Acts 19.16: \v 16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
\p Acts 19.17: \v 17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
\p Acts 19.18: \v 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
\p Acts 19.19: \v 19 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.\f + \fr 19:19 \ft The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers\f*
\p Acts 19.20: \v 20 So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
\p
\p Acts 19.21: \v 21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
\p
\p Acts 19.22: \v 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
\p Acts 19.23: \v 23 About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
\p Acts 19.24: \v 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
\p Acts 19.25: \v 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
\p Acts 19.26: \v 26 You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
\p Acts 19.27: \v 27 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
\p
\p Acts 19.28: \v 28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
\p Acts 19.29: \v 29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.
\p Acts 19.30: \v 30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
\p Acts 19.31: \v 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
\p Acts 19.32: \v 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
\p Acts 19.33: \v 33 They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.
\p Acts 19.34: \v 34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
\p
\p Acts 19.35: \v 35 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
\p Acts 19.36: \v 36 Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.
\p Acts 19.37: \v 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
\p Acts 19.38: \v 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
\p Acts 19.39: \v 39 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
\p Acts 19.40: \v 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”
\p Acts 19.41: \v 41 When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
\p Romans 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Romans 10.1: \v 1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
\p Romans 10.2: \v 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
\p Romans 10.3: \v 3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
\p Romans 10.4: \v 4 For Christ is the fulfillment\f + \fr 10:4 \ft or, completion, or end\f* of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
\p Romans 10.5: \v 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 10:5 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\p Romans 10.6: \v 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’\x + \xo 10:6 \xt Deuteronomy 30:12\x* (that is, to bring Christ down);
\p Romans 10.7: \v 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’\x + \xo 10:7 \xt Deuteronomy 30:13\x* (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
\p Romans 10.8: \v 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;”\x + \xo 10:8 \xt Deuteronomy 30:14\x* that is, the word of faith which we preach:
\p Romans 10.9: \v 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
\p Romans 10.10: \v 10 For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
\p Romans 10.11: \v 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”\x + \xo 10:11 \xt Isaiah 28:16\x*
\p
\p Romans 10.12: \v 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
\p Romans 10.13: \v 13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”\x + \xo 10:13 \xt Joel 2:32\x*
\p Romans 10.14: \v 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
\p Romans 10.15: \v 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
\q1 “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace,
\q2 who bring glad tidings of good things!”\x + \xo 10:15 \xt Isaiah 52:7\x*
\p
\p Romans 10.16: \v 16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Isaiah 53:1\x*
\p Romans 10.17: \v 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
\p Romans 10.18: \v 18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly,
\q1 “Their sound went out into all the earth,
\q2 their words to the ends of the world.”\x + \xo 10:18 \xt Psalm 19:4\x*
\p
\p Romans 10.19: \v 19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says,
\q1 “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation.
\q2 I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”\x + \xo 10:19 \xt Deuteronomy 32:21\x*
\p
\p Romans 10.20: \v 20 Isaiah is very bold and says,
\q1 “I was found by those who didn’t seek me.
\q2 I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”\x + \xo 10:20 \xt Isaiah 65:1\x*
\p
\p Romans 10.21: \v 21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”\x + \xo 10:21 \xt Isaiah 65:2\x*
\p Galatians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Galatians 3.1: \v 1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
\p Galatians 3.2: \v 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.3: \v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
\p Galatians 3.4: \v 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
\p Galatians 3.5: \v 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.6: \v 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 3:6 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\p Galatians 3.7: \v 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.8: \v 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”\x + \xo 3:8 \xt Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18\x*
\p Galatians 3.9: \v 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.10: \v 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”\x + \xo 3:10 \xt Deuteronomy 27:26\x*
\p Galatians 3.11: \v 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”\x + \xo 3:11 \xt Habakkuk 2:4\x*
\p Galatians 3.12: \v 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\p
\p Galatians 3.13: \v 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Deuteronomy 21:23\x*
\p Galatians 3.14: \v 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
\p
\p Galatians 3.15: \v 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
\p Galatians 3.16: \v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seed\f* He doesn’t say, “To descendants\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seeds\f*”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,\x + \xo 3:16 \xt Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7\x* which is Christ.
\p Galatians 3.17: \v 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
\p Galatians 3.18: \v 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
\p
\p Galatians 3.19: \v 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
\p Galatians 3.20: \v 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
\p Galatians 3.21: \v 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
\p Galatians 3.22: \v 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
\p
\p Galatians 3.23: \v 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
\p Galatians 3.24: \v 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
\p Galatians 3.25: \v 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
\p Galatians 3.26: \v 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.27: \v 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
\p Galatians 3.28: \v 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.29: \v 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
\p Colossians 0.0: \id COL 51-COL-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h Colossians
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to the Colossians
\toc2 Colossians
\toc3 Col
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to the Colossians
\p Philemon 0.0: \id PHM 57-PHM-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
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\h Philemon
\toc1 Paul’s Letter to Philemon
\toc2 Philemon
\toc3 Phm
\mt1 Paul’s Letter to Philemon
\p Hebrews 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Hebrews 10.1: \v 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
\p Hebrews 10.2: \v 2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
\p Hebrews 10.3: \v 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
\p Hebrews 10.4: \v 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
\p Hebrews 10.5: \v 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
\q1 “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
\q2 but you prepared a body for me.
\q1
\p Hebrews 10.6: \v 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
\q2
\p Hebrews 10.7: \v 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
\q2 to do your will, O God.’”\x + \xo 10:7 \xt Psalm 40:6-8\x*
\p
\p Hebrews 10.8: \v 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
\p Hebrews 10.9: \v 9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
\p Hebrews 10.10: \v 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
\p Hebrews 10.11: \v 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,
\p Hebrews 10.12: \v 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
\p Hebrews 10.13: \v 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
\p Hebrews 10.14: \v 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
\p Hebrews 10.15: \v 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
\q1
\p Hebrews 10.16: \v 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them:
\q2 ‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
\q1 ‘I will put my laws on their heart,
\q2 I will also write them on their mind;’”\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Jeremiah 31:33\x*
\p then he says,
\q1
\p Hebrews 10.17: \v 17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Jeremiah 31:34\x*
\p
\p Hebrews 10.18: \v 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
\p
\p Hebrews 10.19: \v 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
\p Hebrews 10.20: \v 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
\p Hebrews 10.21: \v 21 and having a great priest over God’s house,
\p Hebrews 10.22: \v 22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
\p Hebrews 10.23: \v 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
\p
\p Hebrews 10.24: \v 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
\p Hebrews 10.25: \v 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
\p
\p Hebrews 10.26: \v 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
\p Hebrews 10.27: \v 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
\p Hebrews 10.28: \v 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
\p Hebrews 10.29: \v 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
\p Hebrews 10.30: \v 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.”\x + \xo 10:30 \xt Deuteronomy 32:35\x* Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”\x + \xo 10:30 \xt Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14\x*
\p Hebrews 10.31: \v 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
\p
\p Hebrews 10.32: \v 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
\p Hebrews 10.33: \v 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
\p Hebrews 10.34: \v 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
\p Hebrews 10.35: \v 35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
\p Hebrews 10.36: \v 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
\q1
\p Hebrews 10.37: \v 37 “In a very little while,
\q2 he who comes will come, and will not wait.
\q1
\p Hebrews 10.38: \v 38 But the righteous will live by faith.
\q2 If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”\x + \xo 10:38 \xt Habakkuk 2:3-4\x*
\p
\p Hebrews 10.39: \v 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
\p Judith 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Judith 1.1: \v 1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,
\p Judith 1.2: \v 2 and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits;
\p Judith 1.3: \v 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;
\p Judith 1.4: \v 4 and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen—
\p Judith 1.5: \v 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.
\p Judith 1.6: \v 6 There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle.
\p
\p Judith 1.7: \v 7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast,
\p Judith 1.8: \v 8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,
\p Judith 1.9: \v 9 and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen,
\p Judith 1.10: \v 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
\p Judith 1.11: \v 11 All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace.
\p Judith 1.12: \v 12 And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.
\p Judith 1.13: \v 13 And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots.
\p Judith 1.14: \v 14 He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame.
\p Judith 1.15: \v 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.
\p Judith 1.16: \v 16 He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred twenty days.
\p Sirach 11.0: \c 11
\q1
\p Sirach 11.1: \v 1 The wisdom of the lowly will lift up his head,
\q2 and make him sit in the midst of great men.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.2: \v 2 Don’t commend a man for his beauty.
\q2 Don’t abhor a man for his outward appearance.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.3: \v 3 The bee is little among flying creatures,
\q2 but what it produces is the best of confections.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.4: \v 4 Don’t boast about the clothes you wear,
\q2 and don’t exalt yourself in the day of honor;
\q1 for the Lord’s works are wonderful,
\q2 and his works are hidden among men.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.5: \v 5 Many \f + \fr 11:5 \ft Gr. \fqa tyrants \f* kings have sat down upon the ground,
\q2 but one who was never thought of has worn a crown.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.6: \v 6 Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced.
\q2 Men of renown have been delivered into other men’s hands.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.7: \v 7 Don’t blame before you investigate.
\q2 Understand first, and then rebuke.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.8: \v 8 Don’t answer before you have heard.
\q2 Don’t interrupt while someone else is speaking.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.9: \v 9 Don’t argue about a matter that doesn’t concern you.
\q2 Don’t sit with sinners when they judge.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.10: \v 10 My son, don’t be busy about many matters;
\q2 for if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished.
\q1 If you pursue, you will not overtake,
\q2 and you will not escape by fleeing.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.11: \v 11 There is one who toils, labors, and makes haste,
\q2 and is even more behind.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.12: \v 12 There is one who is sluggish, and needs help,
\q2 lacking in strength, and who abounds in poverty;
\q1 But the Lord’s eyes looked upon him for good,
\q2 and he raised him up from his low condition,
\q1
\p Sirach 11.13: \v 13 and lifted up his head
\q2 so that many marveled at him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.14: \v 14 Good things and evil, life and death,
\q2 poverty and riches, are from the Lord.
\p Sirach 11.15: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 11:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 11.16: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 11:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 11.17: \v 17 The Lord’s gift remains with the godly.
\q2 His good pleasure will prosper forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.18: \v 18 One grows rich by his diligence and self-denial,
\q2 and this is the portion of his reward:
\q1
\p Sirach 11.19: \v 19 when he says, “I have found rest,
\q2 and now I will eat of my goods!”
\q1 he doesn’t know how much time will pass
\q2 until he leaves them to others and dies.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.20: \v 20 Be steadfast in your covenant and be doing it,
\q2 and grow old in your work.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.21: \v 21 Don’t marvel at the works of a sinner,
\q2 but trust the Lord and stay in your labor;
\q1 for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord
\q2 to swiftly and suddenly make a poor man rich.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.22: \v 22 The Lord’s blessing is in the reward of the godly.
\q2 He makes his blessing flourish in an hour that comes swiftly.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.23: \v 23 Don’t say, “What use is there of me?
\q2 What further good things can be mine?”
\q1
\p Sirach 11.24: \v 24 Don’t say, “I have enough.
\q2 What harm could happen to me now?”
\q1
\p Sirach 11.25: \v 25 In the day of good things, evil things are forgotten.
\q2 In the day of evil things, a man will not remember things that are good.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.26: \v 26 For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord
\q2 to reward a man in the day of death according to his ways.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.27: \v 27 The affliction of an hour causes delights to be forgotten.
\q2 In the end, a man’s deeds are revealed.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.28: \v 28 Call no man happy before his death.
\q2 A man will be known in his children.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.29: \v 29 Don’t bring every man into your house,
\q2 for many are the plots of a deceitful man.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.30: \v 30 Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of a proud man.
\q2 Like a spy, he looks for your weakness.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.31: \v 31 For he lies in wait to turn things that are good into evil,
\q2 and assigns blame in things that are praiseworthy.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.32: \v 32 From a spark of fire, a heap of many coals is kindled,
\q2 and a sinful man lies in wait for blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.33: \v 33 Take heed of an evil-doer, for he plans wicked things,
\q2 lest perhaps he ruin your reputation forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.34: \v 34 Receive a stranger into your house, and he will distract you with arguments
\q2 and estrange you from your own.
\b
\p Sirach 12.0: \c 12
\q1
\p Sirach 12.1: \v 1 If you do good, know to whom you do it,
\q2 and your good deeds will have thanks.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.2: \v 2 Do good to a godly man, and you will find a reward—
\q2 if not from him, then from the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.3: \v 3 No good will come to him who continues to do evil,
\q2 nor to him who gives no alms.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.4: \v 4 Give to the godly man,
\q2 and don’t help the sinner.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.5: \v 5 Do good to one who is lowly.
\q2 Don’t give to an ungodly man.
\q1 Keep back his bread, and don’t give it to him,
\q2 lest he subdue you with it;
\q1 for you would receive twice as much evil
\q2 for all the good you would have done to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.6: \v 6 For the Most High also hates sinners,
\q2 and will repay vengeance to the ungodly. \f + \fr 12:6 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 12.7: \v 7 Give to the good man,
\q2 and don’t help the sinner.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 12.8: \v 8 A man’s friend won’t be \f + \fr 12:8 \ft Or, \fqa punished \f* fully tried in prosperity.
\q2 His enemy won’t be hidden in adversity.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.9: \v 9 In a man’s prosperity, his enemies are grieved.
\q2 In his adversity, even his friend leaves.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.10: \v 10 Never trust your enemy,
\q2 for his wickedness is like corrosion in copper.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.11: \v 11 Though he humbles himself and walks bowed down,
\q2 still be careful and beware of him.
\q1 You will be to him as one who has wiped a mirror,
\q2 to be sure it doesn’t completely tarnish.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.12: \v 12 Don’t set him next to you,
\q2 lest he overthrow you and stand in your place.
\q1 Don’t let him sit on your right hand,
\q2 lest he seek to take your seat,
\q1 and at the last you acknowledge my words,
\q2 and be pricked with my sayings.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.13: \v 13 Who will pity a charmer that is bitten by a snake,
\q2 or any who come near wild beasts?
\q1
\p Sirach 12.14: \v 14 Even so, who will pity him who goes to a sinner,
\q2 and is associated with him in his sins?
\q1
\p Sirach 12.15: \v 15 For a while he will stay with you,
\q2 and if you falter, he will not stay.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.16: \v 16 The enemy will speak sweetly with his lips,
\q2 and in his heart plan to throw you into a pit.
\q1 The enemy may weep with his eyes,
\q2 but if he finds opportunity, he will want more blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.17: \v 17 If adversity meets you, you will find him there before you.
\q2 Pretending to help you, he will trip you.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.18: \v 18 He will shake his head, clap his hands,
\q2 whisper much, and change his countenance.
\b
\p Sirach 37.0: \c 37
\q1
\p Sirach 37.1: \v 1 Every friend will say, I also am his friend:
\q1 But there is a friend, which is only a friend in name.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.2: \v 2 Is there not a grief in it even to death,
\q1 When a companion and friend is turned to enmity?
\q1
\p Sirach 37.3: \v 3 O wicked imagination, whence came you rolling in
\q1 To cover the dry land with deceitfulness?
\q1
\p Sirach 37.4: \v 4 There is a companion, which rejoices in the gladness of a friend,
\q1 But in time of affliction will be against him.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.5: \v 5 There is a companion, which for the belly’s sake labors with his friend,
\q1 In the face of battle will take up the buckler.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.6: \v 6 Forget not a friend in your soul;
\q1 And be not unmindful of him in your riches.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.7: \v 7 Every counselor extols counsel;
\q1 But there is that counsels for himself.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.8: \v 8 Let your soul beware of a counselor,
\q1 And know you before what is his interest
\q1 (For he will take counsel for himself);
\q1 Lest he cast the lot upon you,
\q1
\p Sirach 37.9: \v 9 And say to you, Your way is good:
\q1 And he will stand near you, to see what will happen to you.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.10: \v 10 Take not counsel with one that looks askance at you;
\q1 And hide your counsel from such as are jealous of you.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.11: \v 11 \add Take not counsel \add* with a woman about her rival;
\q1 Neither with a coward about war;
\q1 Nor with a merchant about exchange;
\q1 Nor with a buyer about selling;
\q1 Nor with an envious man about thankfulness;
\q1 Nor with an unmerciful man about kindliness;
\q1 Nor with a sluggard about any kind of work;
\q1 Nor with a hireling in your house about finishing \add his work; \add*
\q1 Nor with an idle servant about much business:
\q1 Give not heed to these in any matter of counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.12: \v 12 But rather be continually with a godly man,
\q1 Whom you shall have known to be a keeper of the commandments,
\q1 Who in his soul is as your own soul,
\q1 And who will grieve with you, if you shall miscarry.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.13: \v 13 And make the counsel of your heart to stand;
\q1 For there is none more faithful to you than it.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.14: \v 14 For a man’s soul is sometimes wont to bring him tidings,
\q1 More than seven watchmen that sit on high on a watch-tower.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.15: \v 15 And above all this entreat the Most High,
\q1 That he may direct your way in truth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.16: \v 16 Let reason be the beginning of every work,
\q1 And let counsel go before every action.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.17: \v 17 As a token of the changing of the heart,
\q1
\p Sirach 37.18: \v 18 four manner of things do rise up,
\q1 Good and evil, life and death;
\q1 And that which rules over them continually is the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.19: \v 19 There is one that is shrewd \add and \add* the instructor of many,
\q1 And yet is unprofitable to his own soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.20: \v 20 There is \add one \add* that is subtle in words, and is hated;
\q1 He shall be destitute of all food:
\q1
\p Sirach 37.21: \v 21 For grace was not given him from the Lord;
\q1 Because he is deprived of all wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.22: \v 22 There is one that is wise to his own soul;
\q1 And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy in the mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.23: \v 23 A wise man will instruct his own people;
\q1 And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.24: \v 24 A wise man shall be filled with blessing;
\q1 And all those who see him shall call him happy.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.25: \v 25 The life of man is counted by days;
\q1 And the days of Israel are innumerable.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.26: \v 26 The wise man shall inherit confidence among his people,
\q1 And his name shall live forever.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.27: \v 27 My son, prove your soul in your life,
\q1 And see what is evil for it, and give not that to it.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.28: \v 28 For all things are not profitable for all men,
\q1 Neither has every soul pleasure in every thing.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.29: \v 29 Be not insatiable in any luxury,
\q1 And be not greedy on the things that you eatest.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.30: \v 30 For in multitude of meats there shall be disease,
\q1 And surfeiting shall come near to colic.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.31: \v 31 Because of surfeiting have many perished;
\q1 But he that takes heed shall prolong his life.
\b
\p Sirach 38.0: \c 38
\q1
\p Sirach 38.1: \v 1 Honor a physician according to your need \add of him \add* with the honors due to him:
\q1 For truly the Lord has created him.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.2: \v 2 For from the Most High comes healing;
\q1 And from the king he shall receive a gift.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.3: \v 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head;
\q1 And in the sight of great men he shall be admired.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.4: \v 4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth;
\q1 And a prudent man will have no disgust at them.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.5: \v 5 Was not water made sweet with wood,
\q1 That the virtue thereof might be known?
\q1
\p Sirach 38.6: \v 6 And he gave men skill,
\q1 That \f + \fr 38:6 \ft Or, \fqa he \f* they might be glorified in his marvelous works.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.7: \v 7 With them does he heal \add a man, \add*
\q1 And takes away his pain.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.8: \v 8 With these will the apothecary make a confection;
\q1 And his works shall not be brought to an end;
\q1 And from him is peace upon the face of the earth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.9: \v 9 My son, in your sickness be not negligent;
\q1 But pray to the Lord, and he shall heal you.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.10: \v 10 Put away wrong doing, and order your hands aright,
\q1 And cleanse your heart from all manner of sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.11: \v 11 Give a sweet savor, and a memorial of fine flour;
\q1 And make fat your offering, as one that is not.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.12: \v 12 Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him;
\q1 And let him not go from you, for you have need of him.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.13: \v 13 There is a time when in their very hands is the issue for good.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.14: \v 14 For they also shall beseech the Lord,
\q1 That he may prosper them in \add giving \add* relief and in healing for the maintenance of life.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.15: \v 15 He that sins before his Maker,
\q1 Let him fall into the hands of the physician.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.16: \v 16 My son, let your tears fall over the dead,
\q1 And as one that suffers grievously begin lamentation;
\q1 And wind up his body according to his due,
\q1 And neglect not his burial.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.17: \v 17 Make bitter weeping, and make passionate wailing,
\q1 And let your mourning be according to his desert,
\q1 For one day or two, lest you be evil spoken of:
\q1 And so be comforted for your sorrow.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.18: \v 18 For of sorrow comes death,
\q1 And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.19: \v 19 In calamity sorrow also remains:
\q1 And the poor man’s life is \f + \fr 38:19 \ft Gr. \fqa against the heart. \f* grievous to the heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.20: \v 20 Don’t give your heart to sorrow.
\q1 Put it away, remembering the last end.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.21: \v 21 Don’t forget it, for there is no returning again:
\q1 Him you shall not profit, and you will hurt yourself.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.22: \v 22 Remember the sentence upon him; for so also shall your be;
\q1 Yesterday for me, and today for you.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.23: \v 23 When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest;
\q1 And be comforted for him, when his spirit departs from him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.24: \v 24 The wisdom of the scribe comes by opportunity of leisure;
\q1 And \f + \fr 38:24 \ft Gr. \fqa he that is lessened in his business. \f* he that has little business shall become wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.25: \v 25 How shall he become wise that holds the plow,
\q1 That glories in the shaft of the goad,
\q1 That drives oxen, and is occupied in their labors,
\q1 And whose discourse is of the stock of bulls?
\q1
\p Sirach 38.26: \v 26 He will set his heart upon turning his furrows;
\q1 And his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.27: \v 27 So is every craftsman and workmaster,
\q1 That passes his time by night as by day;
\q1 They that cut gravings of signets,
\q1 And his diligence is to make great variety;
\q1 He will set his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture,
\q1 And will be wakeful to finish his work.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.28: \v 28 So is the smith sitting by the anvil,
\q1 And considering the unwrought iron:
\q1 The vapor of the fire will waste his flesh;
\q1 And in the heat of the furnace he will wrestle \add with his work: \add*
\q1 The noise of the hammer will \f + \fr 38:28 \ft Gr. \fqa renew. \f* be ever in his ear,
\q1 And his eyes are upon the pattern of the vessel;
\q1 He will set his heart upon perfecting his works,
\q1 And And he will be wakeful to adorn them perfectly.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.29: \v 29 So is the potter sitting at his work,
\q1 And turning the wheel about with his feet,
\q1 Who is always anxiously set at his work,
\q1 And all his handiwork is by number;
\q1
\p Sirach 38.30: \v 30 He will fashion the clay with his arm,
\q1 And will bend its strength in front of his feet;
\q1 He will apply his heart to finish the glazing;
\q1 And he will be wakeful to make clean the furnace.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.31: \v 31 All these put their trust in their hands;
\q1 And each becomes wise in his own work.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.32: \v 32 Without these shall not a city be inhabited,
\q1 And men shall not sojourn nor walk up and down \add therein. \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 38.33: \v 33 \f + \fr 38:33 \ft This line is absent from the oldest MSS. \f* They shall not be sought for in the council of the people,
\q1 And in the assembly they shall not mount on high;
\q1 They shall not sit on the seat of the judge,
\q1 And they shall not understand the covenant of judgement:
\q1 Neither shall they declare instruction and judgement;
\q1 And where parables are they shall not be found.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.34: \v 34 But they will maintain the fabric of the \f + \fr 38:34 \ft Gr. \fqa age. \f* world;
\q1 And in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.
\b
\p 2 Maccabees 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.1: \v 1 But Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.2: \v 2 And they called upon the Lord, \add beseeching him \add* to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.3: \v 3 and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made even even with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.4: \v 4 and to remember also the lawless \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa destruction.\f* slaughter of the innocent infants, and \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa concerning the blasphemies. \f* the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.5: \v 5 And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.6: \v 6 \f + \fr 8:6 \ft The Greek text of verses 6 and 7 is uncertain. \f* And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.7: \v 7 he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.8: \v 8 But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.9: \v 9 And \add Ptolemy \add* quickly appointed Nicanor the \add son \add* of Patroclus, one of the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 8:9 \ft See 1 Maccabees 10:65. Compare 2 Maccabees 1:14; 7:24; 10:13; 14:11; 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.10: \v 10 And Nicanor \f + \fr 8:10 \ft Or, \fqa resolved \f* undertook by \add the sale of \add* the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.11: \v 11 And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.12: \v 12 But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.13: \v 13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God \f + \fr 8:13 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* ran away and left the country.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.14: \v 14 And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold \add as slaves \add* by the impious Nicanor or ever he met them;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.15: \v 15 and \add this, \add* if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.16: \v 16 And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.17: \v 17 setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.18: \v 18 For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.19: \v 19 And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the \add help given \add* in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.20: \v 20 and the \add help given \add* in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Gr. \fqa Galatians. \f* Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, \add and how that, \add* the Macedonians being hard pressed, the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Some authorities read \fqa eight. \f* six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.21: \v 21 And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.22: \v 22 \f + \fr 8:22 \ft Gr. \fqa appointing his kindred also leaders. \f* appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, \add to wit, \add* Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.23: \v 23 and moreover Eleazer also: \add then, \add* having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.24: \v 24 And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and \f + \fr 8:24 \ft Gr. \fqa disabled in their limbs. \f* disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee:
\p 2 Maccabees 8.25: \v 25 and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some \f + \fr 8:25 \ft Or, \fqa while \f* distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.26: \v 26 for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.27: \v 27 \f + \fr 8:27 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered \f + \fr 8:27 \ft Gr. \fqa their arms...the spoils of the enemy. \f* the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.28: \v 28 And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the \f + \fr 8:28 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed among themselves and their children.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.29: \v 29 And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.
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\p 2 Maccabees 8.30: \v 30 And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the \f + \fr 8:30 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.31: \v 31 \f + \fr 8:31 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered the arms \f + \fr 8:31 \ft Gr. \fqa of them. \f* of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.32: \v 32 And they killed the \f + \fr 8:32 \ft That is, probably, the captain of an irregular auxiliary force. Some write \fqa Phylarches, \ft as a proper name. \f* phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.33: \v 33 \f + \fr 8:33 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* And as they kept the feast of victory in the \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa country \f* city of their fathers, they burned those that had set the sacred \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates on fire, \add and among them \add* Callisthenes, who had fled into \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa a solitary hut \f* an outhouse; and \add so \add* they received the meet reward of their impiety.
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\p 2 Maccabees 8.34: \v 34 And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews \add for slaves, \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 8.35: \v 35 being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and \add passing \add* through the midland, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Gr. \fqa having made himself solitary. \f* shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Or, \fqa having won the greatest possible favor by reason of the destruction of his army \f* having, \add as he thought, \add* had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.36: \v 36 And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that \f + \fr 8:36 \ft Or, \fqa because of this \ft their \fqa way of life \ft Gr. \fqa because of this manner. \f* because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.0: \c 9
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\p 4 Maccabees 9.1: \v 1 Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are more ready to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.2: \v 2 And we should be disgracing our fathers if we didn’t obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.3: \v 3 O tyrant, counselor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.4: \v 4 For we account escape to be worse than death.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.5: \v 5 And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.6: \v 6 But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.7: \v 7 Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.8: \v 8 For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.9: \v 9 But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.10: \v 10 When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.11: \v 11 So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.12: \v 12 And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.13: \v 13 And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.14: \v 14 And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.15: \v 15 O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.16: \v 16 And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,—
\p 4 Maccabees 9.17: \v 17 he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.18: \v 18 For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.19: \v 19 While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.20: \v 20 And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.21: \v 21 And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.22: \v 22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying
\p 4 Maccabees 9.23: \v 23 Imitate me, O kindred, nor ever desert your station, nor renounce my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;
\p 4 Maccabees 9.24: \v 24 by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.25: \v 25 And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.26: \v 26 And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.27: \v 27 And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.28: \v 28 after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.29: \v 29 How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.30: \v 30 Thinkest you not, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in behalf of our religion?
\p 4 Maccabees 9.31: \v 31 For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.32: \v 32 But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.0: \c 12
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\p 4 Maccabees 12.1: \v 1 When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the cauldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:
\p 4 Maccabees 12.2: \v 2 whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.3: \v 3 seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.4: \v 4 You see the end of the madness of your kindred: for they have died in torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.5: \v 5 But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.6: \v 6 And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.7: \v 7 And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.8: \v 8 Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.9: \v 9 And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.10: \v 10 And he, running up to the pans, said,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.11: \v 11 Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?
\p 4 Maccabees 12.12: \v 12 Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.13: \v 13 Were you not ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?
\p 4 Maccabees 12.14: \v 14 But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.15: \v 15 But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.16: \v 16 Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.17: \v 17 will not forsake my kindred.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.18: \v 18 And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.19: \v 19 But you, both living and dead, he will punish.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.20: \v 20 Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired.