Genesis 38.0: 
38
Genesis 38.1: 1 At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Genesis 38.2: 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Genesis 38.3: 3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
Genesis 38.4: 4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38.5: 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
Genesis 38.6: 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38.7: 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
Genesis 38.8: 8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38.9: 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
Genesis 38.10: 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.
Genesis 38.11: 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
Genesis 38.12: 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Genesis 38.13: 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Genesis 38.14: 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38.15: 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Genesis 38.16: 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
Genesis 38.17: 17 He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”
She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
Genesis 38.18: 18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38.19: 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 38.20: 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
Genesis 38.21: 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”
They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
Genesis 38.22: 22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
Genesis 38.23: 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
Genesis 38.24: 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”
Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
Genesis 38.25: 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
Genesis 38.26: 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”
He knew her again no more.
Genesis 38.27: 27 In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis 38.28: 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
Genesis 38.29: 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
Genesis 38.30: 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
Isaiah 0.0: 
The Book of the Prophet
Isaiah
Isaiah 1.0: 
1
Isaiah 1.1: 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah 1.2: 2 Hear, heavens,
and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children
and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 1.3: 3 The ox knows his owner,
and the donkey his master’s crib;
but Israel doesn’t know.
My people don’t consider.”
Isaiah 1.4: 4 Ah sinful nation,
a people loaded with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken Yahweh.
They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
They are estranged and backward.
Isaiah 1.5: 5 Why should you be beaten more,
that you revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 1.6: 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:
wounds, welts, and open sores.
They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Isaiah 1.7: 7 Your country is desolate.
Your cities are burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land in your presence
and it is desolate,
as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 1.8: 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut in a field of melons,
like a besieged city.
Isaiah 1.9: 9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,
we would have been as Sodom.
We would have been like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1.10: 10 Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 1.11: 11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of fed animals.
I don’t delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs,
or of male goats.
Isaiah 1.12: 12 When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 1.13: 13 Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense is an abomination to me.
New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Isaiah 1.14: 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts.
They are a burden to me.
I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 1.15: 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1.16: 16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 1.17: 17 Learn to do well.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Defend the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 1.18: 18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:
“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1.19: 19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good of the land;
Isaiah 1.20: 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Isaiah 1.21: 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute!
She was full of justice.
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now there are murderers.
Isaiah 1.22: 22 Your silver has become dross,
your wine mixed with water.
Isaiah 1.23: 23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.
They don’t defend the fatherless,
neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 1.24: 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
the Mighty One of Israel, says:
“Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 1.25: 25 I will turn my hand on you,
thoroughly purge away your dross,
and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 1.26: 26 I will restore your judges as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness,
a faithful town.’
Isaiah 1.27: 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 1.28: 28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together,
and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
Isaiah 1.29: 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
Isaiah 1.30: 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades,
and as a garden that has no water.
Isaiah 1.31: 31 The strong will be like tinder,
and his work like a spark.
They will both burn together,
and no one will quench them.”
Isaiah 2.0: 
2
Isaiah 2.1: 1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2.2: 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
and shall be raised above the hills;
and all nations shall flow to it.
Isaiah 2.3: 3 Many peoples shall go and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the law shall go out of Zion,
and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2.4: 4 He will judge between the nations,
and will decide concerning many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 2.5: 5 House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.
Isaiah 2.6: 6 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
because they are filled from the east,
with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
Isaiah 2.7: 7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
neither is there any end of their chariots.
Isaiah 2.8: 8 Their land also is full of idols.
They worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made.
Isaiah 2.9: 9 Man is brought low,
and mankind is humbled;
therefore don’t forgive them.
Isaiah 2.10: 10 Enter into the rock,
and hide in the dust,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah 2.11: 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
the arrogance of men will be bowed down,
and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2.12: 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,
and for all that is lifted up;
and it shall be brought low:
Isaiah 2.13: 13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
for all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 2.14: 14 for all the high mountains,
for all the hills that are lifted up,
Isaiah 2.15: 15 for every lofty tower,
for every fortified wall,
Isaiah 2.16: 16 for all the ships of Tarshish,
and for all pleasant imagery.
Isaiah 2.17: 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2.18: 18 The idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 2.19: 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
and into the holes of the earth,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Isaiah 2.20: 20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
and their idols of gold,
which have been made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 2.21: 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks,
and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Isaiah 2.22: 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for of what account is he?
Isaiah 3.0: 
3
Isaiah 3.1: 1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,
the whole supply of bread,
and the whole supply of water;
Isaiah 3.2: 2 the mighty man,
the man of war,
the judge,
the prophet,
the diviner,
the elder,
Isaiah 3.3: 3 the captain of fifty,
the honorable man,
the counselor,
the skilled craftsman,
and the clever enchanter.
Isaiah 3.4: 4 I will give boys to be their princes,
and children shall rule over them.
Isaiah 3.5: 5 The people will be oppressed,
everyone by another,
and everyone by his neighbor.
The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,
and the wicked against the honorable.
Isaiah 3.6: 6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying,
“You have clothing, you be our ruler,
and let this ruin be under your hand.”
Isaiah 3.7: 7 In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
You shall not make me ruler of the people.”
Isaiah 3.8: 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,
to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 3.9: 9 The look of their faces testify against them.
They parade their sin like Sodom.
They don’t hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Isaiah 3.10: 10 Tell the righteous “Good!”
For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah 3.11: 11 Woe to the wicked!
Disaster is upon them;
for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
Isaiah 3.12: 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
and destroy the way of your paths.
Isaiah 3.13: 13 Yahweh stands up to contend,
and stands to judge the peoples.
Isaiah 3.14: 14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people
and their leaders:
“It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 3.15: 15 What do you mean that you crush my people,
and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 3.16: 16 Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant,
and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
walking to trip as they go,
jingling ornaments on their feet;
Isaiah 3.17: 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion,
and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
Isaiah 3.18: 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
Isaiah 3.19: 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
Isaiah 3.20: 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms,
Isaiah 3.21: 21 the signet rings, the nose rings,
Isaiah 3.22: 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,
Isaiah 3.23: 23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
Isaiah 3.24: 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;
instead of a belt, a rope;
instead of well set hair, baldness;
instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth;
and branding instead of beauty.
Isaiah 3.25: 25 Your men shall fall by the sword,
and your mighty in the war.
Isaiah 3.26: 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn.
She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Isaiah 4.0: 
4
Isaiah 4.1: 1 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
Isaiah 4.2: 2 In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
Isaiah 4.3: 3 It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
Isaiah 4.4: 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 4.5: 5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
Isaiah 4.6: 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 5.0: 
5
Isaiah 5.1: 1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Isaiah 5.2: 2 He dug it up,
gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine,
built a tower in the middle of it,
and also cut out a wine press in it.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 5.3: 3 “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5.4: 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Isaiah 5.5: 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 5.6: 6 I will lay it a wasteland.
It won’t be pruned or hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
Isaiah 5.7: 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 5.8: 8 Woe to those who join house to house,
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Isaiah 5.9: 9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Isaiah 5.10: 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
Isaiah 5.11: 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
Isaiah 5.12: 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 5.13: 13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
Their honorable men are famished,
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
Isaiah 5.14: 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire,
and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Isaiah 5.15: 15 So man is brought low,
mankind is humbled,
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
Isaiah 5.16: 16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,
and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 5.17: 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
Isaiah 5.18: 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
and wickedness as with cart rope,
Isaiah 5.19: 19 who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
that we may know it!”
Isaiah 5.20: 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5.21: 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 5.22: 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
and champions at mixing strong drink;
Isaiah 5.23: 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice for the innocent!
Isaiah 5.24: 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust,
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5.25: 25 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,
and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah 5.26: 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
Isaiah 5.27: 27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;
no one shall slumber nor sleep,
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
Isaiah 5.28: 28 whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent.
Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Isaiah 5.29: 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.
Isaiah 5.30: 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
Isaiah 6.0: 
6
Isaiah 6.1: 1 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah 6.2: 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
Isaiah 6.3: 3 One called to another, and said,
“Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!
The whole earth is full of his glory!”
Isaiah 6.4: 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isaiah 6.5: 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
Isaiah 6.6: 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
Isaiah 6.7: 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
Isaiah 6.8: 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
Isaiah 6.9: 9 He said, “Go, and tell this people,
‘You hear indeed,
but don’t understand.
You see indeed,
but don’t perceive.’
Isaiah 6.10: 10 Make the heart of this people fat.
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and turn again, and be healed.”
Isaiah 6.11: 11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
He answered,
“Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
houses without man,
the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 6.12: 12 and Yahweh has removed men far away,
and the forsaken places are many within the land.
Isaiah 6.13: 13 If there is a tenth left in it,
that also will in turn be consumed,
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down;
so the holy seed is its stock.”
Isaiah 7.0: 
7
Isaiah 7.1: 1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7.2: 2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
Isaiah 7.3: 3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
Isaiah 7.4: 4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 7.5: 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
Isaiah 7.6: 6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
Isaiah 7.7: 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Isaiah 7.8: 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
Isaiah 7.9: 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
Isaiah 7.10: 10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah 7.11: 11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
Isaiah 7.12: 12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
Isaiah 7.13: 13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Isaiah 7.14: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7.15: 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Isaiah 7.16: 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
Isaiah 7.17: 17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7.18: 18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7.19: 19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
Isaiah 7.20: 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Isaiah 7.21: 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.
Isaiah 7.22: 22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.
Isaiah 7.23: 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7.24: 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7.25: 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
Isaiah 8.0: 
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Isaiah 8.1: 1 Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
Isaiah 8.2: 2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
Isaiah 8.3: 3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
Isaiah 8.4: 4 For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
Isaiah 8.5: 5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
Isaiah 8.6: 6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
Isaiah 8.7: 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
Isaiah 8.8: 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
Isaiah 8.9: 9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Isaiah 8.10: 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Isaiah 8.11: 11 For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isaiah 8.12: 12 “Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.
Isaiah 8.13: 13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
Isaiah 8.14: 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
Isaiah 8.15: 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
Isaiah 8.16: 16 Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8.17: 17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 8.18: 18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
Isaiah 8.19: 19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 8.20: 20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 8.21: 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
Isaiah 8.22: 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Isaiah 9.0: 
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Isaiah 9.1: 1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isaiah 9.2: 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
Isaiah 9.3: 3 You have multiplied the nation.
You have increased their joy.
They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
Isaiah 9.4: 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 9.5: 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 9.6: 6 For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9.7: 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isaiah 9.8: 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
and it falls on Israel.
Isaiah 9.9: 9 All the people will know,
including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
Isaiah 9.10: 10 “The bricks have fallen,
but we will build with cut stone.
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,
but we will put cedars in their place.”
Isaiah 9.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin,
and will stir up his enemies,
Isaiah 9.12: 12 The Syrians in front,
and the Philistines behind;
and they will devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9.13: 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them,
neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 9.14: 14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail,
palm branch and reed, in one day.
Isaiah 9.15: 15 The elder and the honorable man is the head,
and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
Isaiah 9.16: 16 For those who lead this people lead them astray;
and those who are led by them are destroyed.
Isaiah 9.17: 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men,
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is profane and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9.18: 18 For wickedness burns like a fire.
It devours the briers and thorns;
yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 9.19: 19 Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up;
and the people are the fuel for the fire.
No one spares his brother.
Isaiah 9.20: 20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry;
and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied.
Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
Isaiah 9.21: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10.0: 
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Isaiah 10.1: 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
Isaiah 10.2: 2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 10.3: 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 10.4: 4 They will only bow down under the prisoners,
and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10.5: 5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 10.6: 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10.7: 7 However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isaiah 10.8: 8 For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
Isaiah 10.9: 9 Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
Isaiah 10.10: 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isaiah 10.11: 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Isaiah 10.12: 12 Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Isaiah 10.13: 13 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 10.14: 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Isaiah 10.15: 15 Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Isaiah 10.16: 16 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 10.17: 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Isaiah 10.18: 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
Isaiah 10.19: 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
Isaiah 10.20: 20 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 10.21: 21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
Isaiah 10.22: 22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 10.23: 23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
Isaiah 10.24: 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
Isaiah 10.25: 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
Isaiah 10.26: 26 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
Isaiah 10.27: 27 It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
Isaiah 10.28: 28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
Isaiah 10.29: 29 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
Isaiah 10.30: 30 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
Isaiah 10.31: 31 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
Isaiah 10.32: 32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10.33: 33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
Isaiah 10.34: 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
Isaiah 11.0: 
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Isaiah 11.1: 1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
Isaiah 11.2: 2 Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Isaiah 11.3: 3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Isaiah 11.4: 4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Isaiah 11.5: 5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
Isaiah 11.6: 6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11.7: 7 The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11.8: 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Isaiah 11.9: 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11.10: 10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
Isaiah 11.11: 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11.12: 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 11.13: 13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
Isaiah 11.14: 14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
Isaiah 11.15: 15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
Isaiah 11.16: 16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12.0: 
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Isaiah 12.1: 1 In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
Isaiah 12.2: 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 12.3: 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 12.4: 4 In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
Isaiah 12.5: 5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!
Isaiah 12.6: 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
Isaiah 13.0: 
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Isaiah 13.1: 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
Isaiah 13.2: 2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13.3: 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 13.4: 4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
Isaiah 13.5: 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 13.6: 6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13.7: 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
Isaiah 13.8: 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
Isaiah 13.9: 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
Isaiah 13.10: 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
Isaiah 13.11: 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
Isaiah 13.12: 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13.13: 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 13.14: 14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
Isaiah 13.15: 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13.16: 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
Isaiah 13.17: 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isaiah 13.18: 18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
Isaiah 13.19: 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 13.20: 20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isaiah 13.21: 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
Isaiah 13.22: 22 Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah 14.0: 
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Isaiah 14.1: 1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14.2: 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isaiah 14.3: 3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
Isaiah 14.4: 4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Isaiah 14.5: 5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Isaiah 14.6: 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
Isaiah 14.7: 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
Isaiah 14.8: 8 Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
Isaiah 14.9: 9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14.10: 10 They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
Isaiah 14.11: 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
Isaiah 14.12: 12 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isaiah 14.13: 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isaiah 14.14: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
Isaiah 14.15: 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Isaiah 14.16: 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 14.17: 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
Isaiah 14.18: 18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
Isaiah 14.19: 19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Isaiah 14.20: 20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
Isaiah 14.21: 21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
Isaiah 14.22: 22 “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 14.23: 23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 14.24: 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
Isaiah 14.25: 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
Isaiah 14.26: 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isaiah 14.27: 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
Isaiah 14.28: 28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
Isaiah 14.29: 29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah 14.30: 30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
Isaiah 14.31: 31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
Isaiah 14.32: 32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
Isaiah 15.0: 
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Isaiah 15.1: 1 The burden of Moab.
For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
Isaiah 15.2: 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 15.3: 3 In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah 15.4: 4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
Isaiah 15.5: 5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
Isaiah 15.6: 6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
Isaiah 15.7: 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
Isaiah 15.8: 8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
Isaiah 15.9: 9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 16.0: 
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Isaiah 16.1: 1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 16.2: 2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Isaiah 16.3: 3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
Isaiah 16.4: 4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah 16.5: 5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
Isaiah 16.6: 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
Isaiah 16.7: 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
Isaiah 16.8: 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
Isaiah 16.9: 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
Isaiah 16.10: 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
Isaiah 16.11: 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
Isaiah 16.12: 12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
Isaiah 16.13: 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.
Isaiah 16.14: 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
Isaiah 17.0: 
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Isaiah 17.1: 1 The burden of Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17.2: 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
Isaiah 17.3: 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 17.4: 4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
Isaiah 17.5: 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah 17.6: 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 17.7: 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17.8: 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.
Isaiah 17.9: 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
Isaiah 17.10: 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
Isaiah 17.11: 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah 17.12: 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah 17.13: 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 17.14: 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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Isaiah 18.1: 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
Isaiah 18.2: 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
Isaiah 18.3: 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
Isaiah 18.4: 4 For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Isaiah 18.5: 5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Isaiah 18.6: 6 They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
Isaiah 18.7: 7 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 19.1: 1 The burden of Egypt.
“Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
Isaiah 19.2: 2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Isaiah 19.3: 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
Isaiah 19.4: 4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 19.5: 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
Isaiah 19.6: 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
Isaiah 19.7: 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
Isaiah 19.8: 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
Isaiah 19.9: 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
Isaiah 19.10: 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
Isaiah 19.11: 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
Isaiah 19.12: 12 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
Isaiah 19.13: 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
Isaiah 19.14: 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 19.15: 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
Isaiah 19.16: 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
Isaiah 19.17: 17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
Isaiah 19.18: 18 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”
Isaiah 19.19: 19 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.
Isaiah 19.20: 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
Isaiah 19.21: 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
Isaiah 19.22: 22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
Isaiah 19.23: 23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
Isaiah 19.24: 24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
Isaiah 19.25: 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”
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Isaiah 20.1: 1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
Isaiah 20.2: 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20.3: 3 Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
Isaiah 20.4: 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 20.5: 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 20.6: 6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”
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Isaiah 21.1: 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
Isaiah 21.2: 2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
Isaiah 21.3: 3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
Isaiah 21.4: 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Isaiah 21.5: 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Isaiah 21.6: 6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isaiah 21.7: 7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
Isaiah 21.8: 8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
Isaiah 21.9: 9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
Isaiah 21.10: 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
Isaiah 21.11: 11 The burden of Dumah.
One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
Isaiah 21.12: 12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
Isaiah 21.13: 13 The burden on Arabia.
In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 21.14: 14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
Isaiah 21.15: 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
Isaiah 21.16: 16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
Isaiah 21.17: 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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Isaiah 22.1: 1 The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah 22.2: 2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
Isaiah 22.3: 3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Isaiah 22.4: 4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 22.5: 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”
Isaiah 22.6: 6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 22.7: 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
Isaiah 22.8: 8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
Isaiah 22.9: 9 You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah 22.10: 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
Isaiah 22.11: 11 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.
Isaiah 22.12: 12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 22.13: 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
Isaiah 22.14: 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 22.15: 15 The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
Isaiah 22.16: 16 ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
Isaiah 22.17: 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
Isaiah 22.18: 18 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.
Isaiah 22.19: 19 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
Isaiah 22.20: 20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
Isaiah 22.21: 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Isaiah 22.22: 22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
Isaiah 22.23: 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.
Isaiah 22.24: 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.
Isaiah 22.25: 25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
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Isaiah 23.1: 1 The burden of Tyre.
Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23.2: 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Isaiah 23.3: 3 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
Isaiah 23.4: 4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
Isaiah 23.5: 5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
Isaiah 23.6: 6 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
Isaiah 23.7: 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
Isaiah 23.8: 8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Isaiah 23.9: 9 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
Isaiah 23.10: 10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.
Isaiah 23.11: 11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.
Isaiah 23.12: 12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
Isaiah 23.13: 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
Isaiah 23.14: 14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!
Isaiah 23.15: 15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
Isaiah 23.16: 16 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
Isaiah 23.17: 17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
Isaiah 23.18: 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
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Isaiah 24.1: 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 24.2: 2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
Isaiah 24.3: 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
Isaiah 24.4: 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Isaiah 24.5: 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24.6: 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
Isaiah 24.7: 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
Isaiah 24.8: 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Isaiah 24.9: 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
Isaiah 24.10: 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah 24.11: 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah 24.12: 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Isaiah 24.13: 13 For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
Isaiah 24.14: 14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
Isaiah 24.15: 15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
Isaiah 24.16: 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!
But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Isaiah 24.17: 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.
Isaiah 24.18: 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Isaiah 24.19: 19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
Isaiah 24.20: 20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
Isaiah 24.21: 21 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
Isaiah 24.22: 22 They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.
Isaiah 24.23: 23 Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.
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Isaiah 25.1: 1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
Isaiah 25.2: 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Isaiah 25.3: 3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
Isaiah 25.4: 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 25.5: 5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
Isaiah 25.6: 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isaiah 25.7: 7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isaiah 25.8: 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isaiah 25.9: 9 It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
Isaiah 25.10: 10 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain.
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
Isaiah 25.11: 11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
Isaiah 25.12: 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
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Isaiah 26.1: 1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city.
God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah 26.2: 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:
the one which keeps faith.
Isaiah 26.3: 3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26.4: 4 Trust in Yahweh forever;
for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
Isaiah 26.5: 5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.
He lays it low.
He lays it low even to the ground.
He brings it even to the dust.
Isaiah 26.6: 6 The foot shall tread it down,
even the feet of the poor
and the steps of the needy.”
Isaiah 26.7: 7 The way of the just is uprightness.
You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
Isaiah 26.8: 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26.9: 9 With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;
for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26.10: 10 Let favor be shown to the wicked,
yet he will not learn righteousness.
In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
Isaiah 26.11: 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see;
but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed.
Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
Isaiah 26.12: 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
Isaiah 26.13: 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,
but we will only acknowledge your name.
Isaiah 26.14: 14 The dead shall not live.
The departed spirits shall not rise.
Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,
and caused all memory of them to perish.
Isaiah 26.15: 15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh.
You have increased the nation!
You are glorified!
You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isaiah 26.16: 16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.
They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Isaiah 26.17: 17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
so we have been before you, Yahweh.
Isaiah 26.18: 18 We have been with child.
We have been in pain.
We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Isaiah 26.19: 19 Your dead shall live.
My dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Isaiah 26.20: 20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms,
and shut your doors behind you.
Hide yourself for a little moment,
until the indignation is past.
Isaiah 26.21: 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
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Isaiah 27.1: 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 27.2: 2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
Isaiah 27.3: 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah 27.4: 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
Isaiah 27.5: 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
Isaiah 27.6: 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 27.7: 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
Isaiah 27.8: 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah 27.9: 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isaiah 27.10: 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
Isaiah 27.11: 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 27.12: 12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
Isaiah 27.13: 13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 28.1: 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28.2: 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
Isaiah 28.3: 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
Isaiah 28.4: 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
Isaiah 28.5: 5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,
Isaiah 28.6: 6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isaiah 28.7: 7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
Isaiah 28.8: 8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
Isaiah 28.9: 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Isaiah 28.10: 10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
Isaiah 28.11: 11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,
Isaiah 28.12: 12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.
Isaiah 28.13: 13 Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
Isaiah 28.14: 14 Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 28.15: 15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
Isaiah 28.16: 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Isaiah 28.17: 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Isaiah 28.18: 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
Isaiah 28.19: 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
Isaiah 28.20: 20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Isaiah 28.21: 21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
Isaiah 28.22: 22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
Isaiah 28.23: 23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
Isaiah 28.24: 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
Isaiah 28.25: 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Isaiah 28.26: 26 For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.
Isaiah 28.27: 27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
Isaiah 28.28: 28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
Isaiah 28.29: 29 This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
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Isaiah 29.1: 1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
Isaiah 29.2: 2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
Isaiah 29.3: 3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
Isaiah 29.4: 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 29.5: 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
Isaiah 29.6: 6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
Isaiah 29.7: 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isaiah 29.8: 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
Isaiah 29.9: 9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah 29.10: 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 29.11: 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”
Isaiah 29.12: 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
Isaiah 29.13: 13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
Isaiah 29.14: 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
Isaiah 29.15: 15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
Isaiah 29.16: 16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
Isaiah 29.17: 17 Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
Isaiah 29.18: 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isaiah 29.19: 19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 29.20: 20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
Isaiah 29.21: 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Isaiah 29.22: 22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
Isaiah 29.23: 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isaiah 29.24: 24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
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Isaiah 30.1: 1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
Isaiah 30.2: 2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30.3: 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 30.4: 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
Isaiah 30.5: 5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
Isaiah 30.6: 6 The burden of the animals of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
Isaiah 30.7: 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
Isaiah 30.8: 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Isaiah 30.9: 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
Isaiah 30.10: 10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 30.11: 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Isaiah 30.12: 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Isaiah 30.13: 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Isaiah 30.14: 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
Isaiah 30.15: 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
Isaiah 30.16: 16 but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
Isaiah 30.17: 17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
Isaiah 30.18: 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 30.19: 19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isaiah 30.20: 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
Isaiah 30.21: 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Isaiah 30.22: 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
Isaiah 30.23: 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Isaiah 30.24: 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Isaiah 30.25: 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 30.26: 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isaiah 30.27: 27 Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.
Isaiah 30.28: 28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
Isaiah 30.29: 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
Isaiah 30.30: 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
Isaiah 30.31: 31 For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
Isaiah 30.32: 32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
Isaiah 30.33: 33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
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Isaiah 31.1: 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel,
and they don’t seek Yahweh!
Isaiah 31.2: 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Isaiah 31.3: 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,
and he who is helped shall fall,
and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 31.4: 4 For Yahweh says to me,
“As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,
will not be dismayed at their voice,
nor abase himself for their noise,
so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31.5: 5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect and deliver it.
He will pass over and preserve it.”
Isaiah 31.6: 6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
Isaiah 31.7: 7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
Isaiah 31.8: 8 “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;
and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.
He will flee from the sword,
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
Isaiah 31.9: 9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror,
and his princes will be afraid of the banner,”
says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 32.1: 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32.2: 2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the storm,
as streams of water in a dry place,
as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32.3: 3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Isaiah 32.4: 4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 32.5: 5 The fool will no longer be called noble,
nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
Isaiah 32.6: 6 For the fool will speak folly,
and his heart will work iniquity,
to practice profanity,
and to utter error against Yahweh,
to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 32.7: 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil.
He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words,
even when the needy speaks right.
Isaiah 32.8: 8 But the noble devises noble things;
and he will continue in noble things.
Isaiah 32.9: 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice!
You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isaiah 32.10: 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;
for the vintage will fail.
The harvest won’t come.
Isaiah 32.11: 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease!
Be troubled, you careless ones!
Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
and put sackcloth on your waist.
Isaiah 32.12: 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 32.13: 13 Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land;
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 32.14: 14 For the palace will be forsaken.
The populous city will be deserted.
The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,
a delight for wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks,
Isaiah 32.15: 15 until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 32.16: 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;
and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 32.17: 17 The work of righteousness will be peace,
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 32.18: 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation,
in safe dwellings,
and in quiet resting places,
Isaiah 32.19: 19 though hail flattens the forest,
and the city is leveled completely.
Isaiah 32.20: 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
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Isaiah 33.1: 1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
Isaiah 33.2: 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
Be our strength every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 33.3: 3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
Isaiah 33.4: 4 Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
Isaiah 33.5: 5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33.6: 6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
Isaiah 33.7: 7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
Isaiah 33.8: 8 The highways are desolate.
The traveling man ceases.
The covenant is broken.
He has despised the cities.
He doesn’t respect man.
Isaiah 33.9: 9 The land mourns and languishes.
Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
Isaiah 33.10: 10 “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
“Now I will lift myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
Isaiah 33.11: 11 You will conceive chaff.
You will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
Isaiah 33.12: 12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33.13: 13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
Isaiah 33.14: 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.
Trembling has seized the godless ones.
Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
Isaiah 33.15: 15 He who walks righteously
and speaks blamelessly,
he who despises the gain of oppressions,
who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Isaiah 33.16: 16 he will dwell on high.
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
His bread will be supplied.
His waters will be sure.
Isaiah 33.17: 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
They will see a distant land.
Isaiah 33.18: 18 Your heart will meditate on the terror.
Where is he who counted?
Where is he who weighed?
Where is he who counted the towers?
Isaiah 33.19: 19 You will no longer see the fierce people,
a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
with a strange language that you can’t understand.
Isaiah 33.20: 20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
a tent that won’t be removed.
Its stakes will never be plucked up,
nor will any of its cords be broken.
Isaiah 33.21: 21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
a place of wide rivers and streams,
in which no galley with oars will go,
neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
Isaiah 33.22: 22 For Yahweh is our judge.
Yahweh is our lawgiver.
Yahweh is our king.
He will save us.
Isaiah 33.23: 23 Your rigging is untied.
They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast.
They couldn’t spread the sail.
Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.
The lame took the prey.
Isaiah 33.24: 24 The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
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Isaiah 34.1: 1 Come near, you nations, to hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and all it contains hear,
the world, and everything that comes from it.
Isaiah 34.2: 2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,
and angry with all their armies.
He has utterly destroyed them.
He has given them over for slaughter.
Isaiah 34.3: 3 Their slain will also be cast out,
and the stench of their dead bodies will come up.
The mountains will melt in their blood.
Isaiah 34.4: 4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all its armies will fade away,
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Isaiah 34.5: 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
Isaiah 34.6: 6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 34.7: 7 The wild oxen will come down with them,
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
and their land will be drunken with blood,
and their dust made greasy with fat.
Isaiah 34.8: 8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isaiah 34.9: 9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
And its land will become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34.10: 10 It won’t be quenched night nor day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation, it will lie waste.
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
Isaiah 34.11: 11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isaiah 34.12: 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;
and all its princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah 34.13: 13 Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
and it will be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches.
Isaiah 34.14: 14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,
and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
Yes, the night creature shall settle there,
and shall find herself a place of rest.
Isaiah 34.15: 15 The arrow snake will make her nest there,
and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
Isaiah 34.16: 16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:
not one of these will be missing.
None will lack her mate.
For my mouth has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
Isaiah 34.17: 17 He has cast the lot for them,
and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever.
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
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Isaiah 35.1: 1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.
The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isaiah 35.2: 2 It will blossom abundantly,
and rejoice even with joy and singing.
Lebanon’s glory will be given to it,
the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see Yahweh’s glory,
the excellence of our God.
Isaiah 35.3: 3 Strengthen the weak hands,
and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35.4: 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong!
Don’t be afraid!
Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution.
He will come and save you.
Isaiah 35.5: 5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Isaiah 35.6: 6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing;
for waters will break out in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 35.7: 7 The burning sand will become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water.
Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
Isaiah 35.8: 8 A highway will be there, a road,
and it will be called “The Holy Way”.
The unclean shall not pass over it,
but it will be for those who walk in the Way.
Wicked fools shall not go there.
Isaiah 35.9: 9 No lion will be there,
nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
They will not be found there;
but the redeemed will walk there.
Isaiah 35.10: 10 Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return,
and come with singing to Zion;
and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
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Isaiah 36.1: 1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Isaiah 36.2: 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
Isaiah 36.3: 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
Isaiah 36.4: 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
Isaiah 36.5: 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Isaiah 36.6: 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isaiah 36.7: 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
Isaiah 36.8: 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Isaiah 36.9: 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Isaiah 36.10: 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
Isaiah 36.11: 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Isaiah 36.12: 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
Isaiah 36.13: 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Isaiah 36.14: 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah 36.15: 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
Isaiah 36.16: 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isaiah 36.17: 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36.18: 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36.19: 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isaiah 36.20: 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
Isaiah 36.21: 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
Isaiah 36.22: 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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Isaiah 37.1: 1 When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
Isaiah 37.2: 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Isaiah 37.3: 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
Isaiah 37.4: 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Isaiah 37.5: 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isaiah 37.6: 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Isaiah 37.7: 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
Isaiah 37.8: 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Isaiah 37.9: 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isaiah 37.10: 10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
Isaiah 37.11: 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Isaiah 37.12: 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isaiah 37.13: 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
Isaiah 37.14: 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
Isaiah 37.15: 15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Isaiah 37.16: 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 37.17: 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
Isaiah 37.18: 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
Isaiah 37.19: 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 37.20: 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
Isaiah 37.21: 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Isaiah 37.22: 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
Isaiah 37.23: 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37.24: 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
Isaiah 37.25: 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
Isaiah 37.26: 26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah 37.27: 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
Isaiah 37.28: 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
Isaiah 37.29: 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
Isaiah 37.30: 30 “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 37.31: 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 37.32: 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
Isaiah 37.33: 33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
Isaiah 37.34: 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
Isaiah 37.35: 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
Isaiah 37.36: 36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Isaiah 37.37: 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
Isaiah 37.38: 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
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Isaiah 38.1: 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. 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.’”
Isaiah 38.2: 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
Isaiah 38.3: 3 and said, “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.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Isaiah 38.4: 4 Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
Isaiah 38.5: 5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Isaiah 38.6: 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
Isaiah 38.7: 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
Isaiah 38.8: 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
Isaiah 38.9: 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.
Isaiah 38.10: 10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
Isaiah 38.11: 11 I said, “I won’t see Yah,
Yah in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah 38.12: 12 My dwelling is removed,
and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
He will cut me off from the loom.
From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38.13: 13 I waited patiently until morning.
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38.14: 14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed.
Be my security.”
Isaiah 38.15: 15 What will I say?
He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Isaiah 38.16: 16 Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them:
you restore me, and cause me to live.
Isaiah 38.17: 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;
for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 38.18: 18 For Sheol can’t praise you.
Death can’t celebrate you.
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
Isaiah 38.19: 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Isaiah 38.20: 20 Yahweh will save me.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
Isaiah 38.21: 21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
Isaiah 38.22: 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
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Isaiah 39.1: 1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
Isaiah 39.2: 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
Isaiah 39.3: 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”
Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”
Isaiah 39.4: 4 Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?”
Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
Isaiah 39.5: 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:
Isaiah 39.6: 6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
Isaiah 39.7: 7 ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”
Isaiah 39.8: 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
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Isaiah 40.1: 1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
Isaiah 40.2: 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
Isaiah 40.3: 3 The voice of one who calls out,
“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!
Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Isaiah 40.4: 4 Every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The uneven shall be made level,
and the rough places a plain.
Isaiah 40.5: 5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together;
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Isaiah 40.6: 6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!”
One said, “What shall I cry?”
“All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40.7: 7 The grass withers,
the flower fades,
because Yahweh’s breath blows on it.
Surely the people are like grass.
Isaiah 40.8: 8 The grass withers,
the flower fades;
but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40.9: 9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.
You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength!
Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
Isaiah 40.10: 10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one,
and his arm will rule for him.
Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
Isaiah 40.11: 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
He will gather the lambs in his arm,
and carry them in his bosom.
He will gently lead those who have their young.
Isaiah 40.12: 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
and marked off the sky with his span,
and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket,
and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40.13: 13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,
or has taught him as his counselor?
Isaiah 40.14: 14 Who did he take counsel with,
and who instructed him,
and taught him in the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40.15: 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Isaiah 40.16: 16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40.17: 17 All the nations are like nothing before him.
They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40.18: 18 To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Isaiah 40.19: 19 A workman has cast an image,
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
and casts silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40.20: 20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.
He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
Isaiah 40.21: 21 Haven’t you known?
Haven’t you heard?
Haven’t you been told from the beginning?
Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah 40.22: 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
Isaiah 40.23: 23 who brings princes to nothing,
who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 40.24: 24 They are planted scarcely.
They are sown scarcely.
Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.
He merely blows on them, and they wither,
and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40.25: 25 “To whom then will you liken me?
Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40.26: 26 Lift up your eyes on high,
and see who has created these,
who brings out their army by number.
He calls them all by name.
by the greatness of his might,
and because he is strong in power,
not one is lacking.
Isaiah 40.27: 27 Why do you say, Jacob,
and speak, Israel,
“My way is hidden from Yahweh,
and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
Isaiah 40.28: 28 Haven’t you known?
Haven’t you heard?
The everlasting God, Yahweh,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
He isn’t weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40.29: 29 He gives power to the weak.
He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40.30: 30 Even the youths faint and get weary,
and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40.31: 31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint.
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Isaiah 41.1: 1 “Keep silent before me, islands,
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
then let them speak.
Let’s meet together for judgment.
Isaiah 41.2: 2 Who has raised up one from the east?
Who called him to his foot in righteousness?
He hands over nations to him
and makes him rule over kings.
He gives them like the dust to his sword,
like the driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah 41.3: 3 He pursues them
and passes by safely,
even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
Isaiah 41.4: 4 Who has worked and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
Isaiah 41.5: 5 The islands have seen, and fear.
The ends of the earth tremble.
They approach, and come.
Isaiah 41.6: 6 Everyone helps his neighbor.
They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
Isaiah 41.7: 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.
He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good;”
and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
Isaiah 41.8: 8 “But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham my friend,
Isaiah 41.9: 9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
and called from its corners,
and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’
Isaiah 41.10: 10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
Yes, I will help you.
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41.11: 11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.
Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
Isaiah 41.12: 12 You will seek them, and won’t find them,
even those who contend with you.
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a non-existent thing.
Isaiah 41.13: 13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
I will help you.’
Isaiah 41.14: 14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,
and you men of Israel.
I will help you,” says Yahweh.
“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41.15: 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.
You will thresh the mountains,
and beat them small,
and will make the hills like chaff.
Isaiah 41.16: 16 You will winnow them,
and the wind will carry them away,
and the whirlwind will scatter them.
You will rejoice in Yahweh.
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41.17: 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
Their tongue fails for thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them.
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Isaiah 41.18: 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and springs in the middle of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah 41.19: 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.
I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
Isaiah 41.20: 20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,
that Yahweh’s hand has done this,
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Isaiah 41.21: 21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
“Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41.22: 22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!
Declare the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
or show us things to come.
Isaiah 41.23: 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that you are gods.
Yes, do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed,
and see it together.
Isaiah 41.24: 24 Behold, you are nothing,
and your work is nothing.
He who chooses you is an abomination.
Isaiah 41.25: 25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name,
and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,
and as the potter treads clay.
Isaiah 41.26: 26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know?
and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’
Surely, there is no one who declares.
Surely, there is no one who shows.
Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
Isaiah 41.27: 27 I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’
and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 41.28: 28 When I look, there is no man,
even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
Isaiah 41.29: 29 Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.
Their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Isaiah 42.1: 1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
I have put my Spirit on him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
Isaiah 42.2: 2 He will not shout,
nor raise his voice,
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
Isaiah 42.3: 3 He won’t break a bruised reed.
He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
He will faithfully bring justice.
Isaiah 42.4: 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
until he has set justice in the earth,
and the islands wait for his law.”
Isaiah 42.5: 5 God Yahweh,
he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
Isaiah 42.6: 6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
I will hold your hand.
I will keep you,
and make you a covenant for the people,
as a light for the nations,
Isaiah 42.7: 7 to open the blind eyes,
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Isaiah 42.8: 8 “I am Yahweh.
That is my name.
I will not give my glory to another,
nor my praise to engraved images.
Isaiah 42.9: 9 Behold, the former things have happened
and I declare new things.
I tell you about them before they come up.”
Isaiah 42.10: 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
and his praise from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea,
and all that is therein,
the islands and their inhabitants.
Isaiah 42.11: 11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,
with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
Isaiah 42.12: 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh,
and declare his praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42.13: 13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
He will raise a war cry.
Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will triumph over his enemies.
Isaiah 42.14: 14 “I have been silent a long time.
I have been quiet and restrained myself.
Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Isaiah 42.15: 15 I will destroy mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs.
I will make the rivers islands,
and will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 42.16: 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.
I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked places straight.
I will do these things,
and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42.17: 17 “Those who trust in engraved images,
who tell molten images,
‘You are our gods,’
will be turned back.
They will be utterly disappointed.
Isaiah 42.18: 18 “Hear, you deaf,
and look, you blind,
that you may see.
Isaiah 42.19: 19 Who is blind, but my servant?
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
Isaiah 42.20: 20 You see many things, but don’t observe.
His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
Isaiah 42.21: 21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law
and make it honorable.
Isaiah 42.22: 22 But this is a robbed and plundered people.
All of them are snared in holes,
and they are hidden in prisons.
They have become captives, and no one delivers,
and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
Isaiah 42.23: 23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah 42.24: 24 Who gave Jacob as plunder,
and Israel to the robbers?
Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?
For they would not walk in his ways,
and they disobeyed his law.
Isaiah 42.25: 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,
and the strength of battle.
It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know.
It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
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Isaiah 43.1: 1 But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob,
and he who formed you, Israel, says:
“Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
I have called you by your name.
You are mine.
Isaiah 43.2: 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,
and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,
and flame will not scorch you.
Isaiah 43.3: 3 For I am Yahweh your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
your Savior.
I have given Egypt as your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 43.4: 4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
and I have loved you,
therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.
Isaiah 43.5: 5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
I will bring your offspring from the east,
and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43.6: 6 I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
Bring my sons from far away,
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
Isaiah 43.7: 7 everyone who is called by my name,
and whom I have created for my glory,
whom I have formed,
yes, whom I have made.’”
Isaiah 43.8: 8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
and the deaf who have ears.
Isaiah 43.9: 9 Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the peoples be assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
and show us former things?
Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified,
or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
Isaiah 43.10: 10 “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh,
“With my servant whom I have chosen;
that you may know and believe me,
and understand that I am he.
Before me there was no God formed,
neither will there be after me.
Isaiah 43.11: 11 I myself am Yahweh.
Besides me, there is no savior.
Isaiah 43.12: 12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,
and there was no strange god among you.
Therefore you are my witnesses”,
says Yahweh, “and I am God.
Isaiah 43.13: 13 Yes, since the day was, I am he.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
I will work, and who can hinder it?”
Isaiah 43.14: 14 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
Isaiah 43.15: 15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
Isaiah 43.16: 16 Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
and a path in the mighty waters,
Isaiah 43.17: 17 who brings out the chariot and horse,
the army and the mighty man
(they lie down together, they shall not rise;
they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:
Isaiah 43.18: 18 “Don’t remember the former things,
and don’t consider the things of old.
Isaiah 43.19: 19 Behold, I will do a new thing.
It springs out now.
Don’t you know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43.20: 20 The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,
because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isaiah 43.21: 21 the people which I formed for myself,
that they might declare my praise.
Isaiah 43.22: 22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;
but you have been weary of me, Israel.
Isaiah 43.23: 23 You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings,
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
nor wearied you with frankincense.
Isaiah 43.24: 24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money,
nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices,
but you have burdened me with your sins.
You have wearied me with your iniquities.
Isaiah 43.25: 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43.26: 26 Put me in remembrance.
Let us plead together.
Declare your case,
that you may be justified.
Isaiah 43.27: 27 Your first father sinned,
and your teachers have transgressed against me.
Isaiah 43.28: 28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
and I will make Jacob a curse,
and Israel an insult.”
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Isaiah 44.1: 1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
and Israel, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44.2: 2 This is what Yahweh who made you,
and formed you from the womb,
who will help you says:
“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;
and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44.3: 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
and streams on the dry ground.
I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,
and my blessing on your offspring:
Isaiah 44.4: 4 and they will spring up among the grass,
as willows by the watercourses.
Isaiah 44.5: 5 One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’
and another will be called by the name of Jacob;
and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’
and honor the name of Israel.”
Isaiah 44.6: 6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,
and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:
“I am the first, and I am the last;
and besides me there is no God.
Isaiah 44.7: 7 Who is like me?
Who will call,
and will declare it,
and set it in order for me,
since I established the ancient people?
Let them declare the things that are coming,
and that will happen.
Isaiah 44.8: 8 Don’t fear,
neither be afraid.
Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,
and shown it?
You are my witnesses.
Is there a God besides me?
Indeed, there is not.
I don’t know any other Rock.”
Isaiah 44.9: 9 Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.
The things that they delight in will not profit.
Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Isaiah 44.10: 10 Who has fashioned a god,
or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 44.11: 11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;
and the workmen are mere men.
Let them all be gathered together.
Let them stand up.
They will fear.
They will be put to shame together.
Isaiah 44.12: 12 The blacksmith takes an ax,
works in the coals,
fashions it with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
He is hungry,
and his strength fails;
he drinks no water,
and is faint.
Isaiah 44.13: 13 The carpenter stretches out a line.
He marks it out with a pencil.
He shapes it with planes.
He marks it out with compasses,
and shapes it like the figure of a man,
with the beauty of a man,
to reside in a house.
Isaiah 44.14: 14 He cuts down cedars for himself,
and takes the cypress and the oak,
and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
He plants a cypress tree,
and the rain nourishes it.
Isaiah 44.15: 15 Then it will be for a man to burn;
and he takes some of it, and warms himself.
Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.
Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;
he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
Isaiah 44.16: 16 He burns part of it in the fire.
With part of it, he eats meat.
He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.
Yes, he warms himself,
and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
Isaiah 44.17: 17 The rest of it he makes into a god,
even his engraved image.
He bows down to it and worships,
and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”
Isaiah 44.18: 18 They don’t know, neither do they consider:
for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see;
and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
Isaiah 44.19: 19 No one thinks,
neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
“I have burned part of it in the fire.
Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.
I have roasted meat and eaten it.
Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?
Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
Isaiah 44.20: 20 He feeds on ashes.
A deceived heart has turned him aside;
and he can’t deliver his soul,
nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Isaiah 44.21: 21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;
for you are my servant.
I have formed you.
You are my servant.
Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Isaiah 44.22: 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins.
Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44.23: 23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!
Shout, you lower parts of the earth!
Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,
for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,
and will glorify himself in Israel.
Isaiah 44.24: 24 Yahweh, your Redeemer,
and he who formed you from the womb says:
“I am Yahweh, who makes all things;
who alone stretches out the heavens;
who spreads out the earth by myself;
Isaiah 44.25: 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars,
and makes diviners mad;
who turns wise men backward,
and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 44.26: 26 who confirms the word of his servant,
and performs the counsel of his messengers;
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’
and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’
and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
Isaiah 44.27: 27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’
and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
Isaiah 44.28: 28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’
even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’
and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”
Isaiah 45.0: 
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Isaiah 45.1: 1 Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Isaiah 45.2: 2 “I will go before you
and make the rough places smooth.
I will break the doors of bronze in pieces
and cut apart the bars of iron.
Isaiah 45.3: 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
and hidden riches of secret places,
that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name,
even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 45.4: 4 For Jacob my servant’s sake,
and Israel my chosen,
I have called you by your name.
I have given you a title,
though you have not known me.
Isaiah 45.5: 5 I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Besides me, there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not known me,
Isaiah 45.6: 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun,
and from the west,
that there is no one besides me.
I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Isaiah 45.7: 7 I form the light
and create darkness.
I make peace
and create calamity.
I am Yahweh,
who does all these things.
Isaiah 45.8: 8 Rain, you heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,
and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.
I, Yahweh, have created it.
Isaiah 45.9: 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker—
a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!
Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’
or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
Isaiah 45.10: 10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’
or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”
Isaiah 45.11: 11 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
and his Maker says:
“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
Isaiah 45.12: 12 I have made the earth, and created man on it.
I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens.
I have commanded all their army.
Isaiah 45.13: 13 I have raised him up in righteousness,
and I will make all his ways straight.
He shall build my city,
and he shall let my exiles go free,
not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 45.14: 14 Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,
and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,
and they will be yours.
They will go after you.
They shall come over in chains.
They will bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you:
‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.
There is no other god.
Isaiah 45.15: 15 Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,
God of Israel, the Savior.’”
Isaiah 45.16: 16 They will be disappointed,
yes, confounded, all of them.
Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
Isaiah 45.17: 17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.
You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
Isaiah 45.18: 18 For Yahweh who created the heavens,
the God who formed the earth and made it,
who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
who formed it to be inhabited says:
“I am Yahweh.
There is no other.
Isaiah 45.19: 19 I have not spoken in secret,
in a place of the land of darkness.
I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.
I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 45.20: 20 “Assemble yourselves and come.
Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,
and pray to a god that can’t save.
Isaiah 45.21: 21 Declare and present it.
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has shown this from ancient time?
Who has declared it of old?
Haven’t I, Yahweh?
There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior.
There is no one besides me.
Isaiah 45.22: 22 “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45.23: 23 I have sworn by myself.
The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked,
that to me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall take an oath.
Isaiah 45.24: 24 They will say of me,
‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’”
Even to him will men come.
All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
Isaiah 45.25: 25 All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh,
and will rejoice!
Isaiah 46.0: 
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Isaiah 46.1: 1 Bel bows down.
Nebo stoops.
Their idols are carried by animals,
and on the livestock.
The things that you carried around are heavy loads,
a burden for the weary.
Isaiah 46.2: 2 They stoop and they bow down together.
They could not deliver the burden,
but they have gone into captivity.
Isaiah 46.3: 3 “Listen to me, house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of Israel,
that have been carried from their birth,
that have been carried from the womb.
Isaiah 46.4: 4 Even to old age I am he,
and even to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear.
Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
Isaiah 46.5: 5 “To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal,
and compare me, as if we were the same?
Isaiah 46.6: 6 Some pour out gold from the bag,
and weigh silver in the balance.
They hire a goldsmith,
and he makes it a god.
They fall down—
yes, they worship.
Isaiah 46.7: 7 They bear it on their shoulder.
They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there.
It cannot move from its place.
Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer.
It cannot save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 46.8: 8 “Remember this, and show yourselves men.
Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
Isaiah 46.9: 9 Remember the former things of old:
for I am God, and there is no other.
I am God, and there is none like me.
Isaiah 46.10: 10 I declare the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not yet done.
I say: My counsel will stand,
and I will do all that I please.
Isaiah 46.11: 11 I call a ravenous bird from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken.
I will also bring it to pass.
I have planned.
I will also do it.
Isaiah 46.12: 12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
who are far from righteousness!
Isaiah 46.13: 13 I bring my righteousness near.
It is not far off,
and my salvation will not wait.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my glory to Israel.
Isaiah 47.0: 
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Isaiah 47.1: 1 “Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.
For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47.2: 2 Take the millstones and grind flour.
Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,
and wade through the rivers.
Isaiah 47.3: 3 Your nakedness will be uncovered.
Yes, your shame will be seen.
I will take vengeance,
and will spare no one.”
Isaiah 47.4: 4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,
is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47.5: 5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
daughter of the Chaldeans.
For you shall no longer be called
the mistress of kingdoms.
Isaiah 47.6: 6 I was angry with my people.
I profaned my inheritance
and gave them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy.
You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
Isaiah 47.7: 7 You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’
so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart,
nor did you remember the results.
Isaiah 47.8: 8 “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
I won’t sit as a widow,
neither will I know the loss of children.’
Isaiah 47.9: 9 But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in their full measure,
in the multitude of your sorceries,
and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Isaiah 47.10: 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness.
You have said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.
You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
Isaiah 47.11: 11 Therefore disaster will come on you.
You won’t know when it dawns.
Mischief will fall on you.
You won’t be able to put it away.
Desolation will come on you suddenly,
which you don’t understand.
Isaiah 47.12: 12 “Stand now with your enchantments
and with the multitude of your sorceries,
in which you have labored from your youth,
as if you might profit,
as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 47.13: 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
Isaiah 47.14: 14 Behold, they are like stubble.
The fire will burn them.
They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.
It won’t be a coal to warm at
or a fire to sit by.
Isaiah 47.15: 15 The things that you labored in will be like this:
those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.
There will be no one to save you.
Isaiah 48.0: 
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Isaiah 48.1: 1 “Hear this, house of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
and make mention of the God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
Isaiah 48.2: 2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,
and rely on the God of Israel;
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Isaiah 48.3: 3 I have declared the former things from of old.
Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them.
I did them suddenly, and they happened.
Isaiah 48.4: 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow bronze;
Isaiah 48.5: 5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
before it came to pass I showed it to you;
lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
Isaiah 48.6: 6 You have heard it.
Now see all this.
And you, won’t you declare it?
“I have shown you new things from this time,
even hidden things, which you have not known.
Isaiah 48.7: 7 They are created now, and not from of old.
Before today, you didn’t hear them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
Isaiah 48.8: 8 Yes, you didn’t hear.
Yes, you didn’t know.
Yes, from of old your ear was not opened,
for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,
and were called a transgressor from the womb.
Isaiah 48.9: 9 For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
and for my praise, I hold it back for you
so that I don’t cut you off.
Isaiah 48.10: 10 Behold, I have refined you,
but not as silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48.11: 11 For my own sake,
for my own sake, I will do it;
for how would my name be profaned?
I will not give my glory to another.
Isaiah 48.12: 12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel my called:
I am he.
I am the first.
I am also the last.
Isaiah 48.13: 13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
when I call to them, they stand up together.
Isaiah 48.14: 14 “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 48.15: 15 I, even I, have spoken.
Yes, I have called him.
I have brought him
and he shall make his way prosperous.
Isaiah 48.16: 16 “Come near to me and hear this:
“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it happened, I was there.”
Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me
with his Spirit.
Isaiah 48.17: 17 Yahweh,
your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel says:
“I am Yahweh your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you by the way that you should go.
Isaiah 48.18: 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48.19: 19 Your offspring also would have been as the sand
and the descendants of your body like its grains.
His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Isaiah 48.20: 20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing announce this,
tell it even to the end of the earth:
say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
Isaiah 48.21: 21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.
He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 48.22: 22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
Isaiah 49.0: 
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Isaiah 49.1: 1 Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
Isaiah 49.2: 2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me a polished shaft.
He has kept me close in his quiver.
Isaiah 49.3: 3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
Isaiah 49.4: 4 But I said, “I have labored in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh,
and my reward with my God.”
Isaiah 49.5: 5 Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
and to gather Israel to him,
for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes,
and my God has become my strength.
Isaiah 49.6: 6 Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also give you as a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 49.7: 7 Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:
“Kings shall see and rise up,
princes, and they shall worship,
because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 49.8: 8 Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
I have helped you in a day of salvation.
I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,
to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
Isaiah 49.9: 9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They shall feed along the paths,
and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
Isaiah 49.10: 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:
for he who has mercy on them will lead them.
He will guide them by springs of water.
Isaiah 49.11: 11 I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 49.12: 12 Behold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, these from the north and from the west;
and these from the land of Sinim.”
Isaiah 49.13: 13 Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
Break out into singing, mountains,
for Yahweh has comforted his people,
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 49.14: 14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
Isaiah 49.15: 15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, these may forget,
yet I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49.16: 16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
Your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49.17: 17 Your children hurry.
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
Isaiah 49.18: 18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament,
and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
Isaiah 49.19: 19 “For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
Isaiah 49.20: 20 The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a place to live in.’
Isaiah 49.21: 21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children
and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth?
Who has brought these up?
Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’”
Isaiah 49.22: 22 The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and lift up my banner to the peoples.
They shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Isaiah 49.23: 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
Isaiah 49.24: 24 Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered?
Isaiah 49.25: 25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the plunder retrieved from the fierce,
for I will contend with him who contends with you
and I will save your children.
Isaiah 49.26: 26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh;
and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine.
Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Isaiah 50.0: 
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Isaiah 50.1: 1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away?
Or to which of my creditors have I sold you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
Isaiah 50.2: 2 Why, when I came, was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.
I make the rivers a wilderness.
Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
Isaiah 50.3: 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness.
I make sackcloth their covering.”
Isaiah 50.4: 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.
He awakens morning by morning,
he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Isaiah 50.5: 5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.
I was not rebellious.
I have not turned back.
Isaiah 50.6: 6 I gave my back to those who beat me,
and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 50.7: 7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me.
Therefore I have not been confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
Isaiah 50.8: 8 He who justifies me is near.
Who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Isaiah 50.9: 9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me!
Who is he who will condemn me?
Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.
The moths will eat them up.
Isaiah 50.10: 10 Who among you fears Yahweh
and obeys the voice of his servant?
He who walks in darkness
and has no light,
let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
and rely on his God.
Isaiah 50.11: 11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves,
walk in the flame of your fire,
and among the torches that you have kindled.
You will have this from my hand:
you will lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51.0: 
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Isaiah 51.1: 1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek Yahweh.
Look to the rock you were cut from,
and to the quarry you were dug from.
Isaiah 51.2: 2 Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him,
I blessed him,
and made him many.
Isaiah 51.3: 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion.
He has comforted all her waste places,
and has made her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of Yahweh.
Joy and gladness will be found in them,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51.4: 4 “Listen to me, my people;
and hear me, my nation,
for a law will go out from me,
and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isaiah 51.5: 5 My righteousness is near.
My salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples.
The islands will wait for me,
and they will trust my arm.
Isaiah 51.6: 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like a garment.
Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
but my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will not be abolished.
Isaiah 51.7: 7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law.
Don’t fear the reproach of men,
and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
Isaiah 51.8: 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool;
but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
Isaiah 51.9: 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!
Awake, as in the days of old,
the generations of ancient times.
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the monster?
Isaiah 51.10: 10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Isaiah 51.11: 11 Those ransomed by Yahweh will return,
and come with singing to Zion.
Everlasting joy shall be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy.
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 51.12: 12 “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Isaiah 51.13: 13 Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth?
Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,
when he prepares to destroy?
Where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51.14: 14 The captive exile will speedily be freed.
He will not die and go down into the pit.
His bread won’t fail.
Isaiah 51.15: 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar.
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Isaiah 51.16: 16 I have put my words in your mouth
and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth,
and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
Isaiah 51.17: 17 Awake, awake!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath.
You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,
and drained it.
Isaiah 51.18: 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;
and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
Isaiah 51.19: 19 These two things have happened to you—
who will grieve with you?—
desolation and destruction,
and famine and the sword.
How can I comfort you?
Isaiah 51.20: 20 Your sons have fainted.
They lie at the head of all the streets,
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of Yahweh’s wrath,
the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 51.21: 21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,
and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah 51.22: 22 Your Lord Yahweh,
your God who pleads the cause of his people, says,
“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering,
even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.
You will not drink it any more.
Isaiah 51.23: 23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’
and you have laid your back as the ground,
like a street to those who walk over.”
Isaiah 52.0: 
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Isaiah 52.1: 1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
Isaiah 52.2: 2 Shake yourself from the dust!
Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
Isaiah 52.3: 3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing;
and you will be redeemed without money.”
Isaiah 52.4: 4 For the Lord Yahweh says:
“My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there:
and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 52.5: 5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh,
“seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?
Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh,
“and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Isaiah 52.6: 6 Therefore my people shall know my name.
Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.
Behold, it is I.”
Isaiah 52.7: 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace,
who brings good news,
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Isaiah 52.8: 8 Your watchmen lift up their voice.
Together they sing;
for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
Isaiah 52.9: 9 Break out into joy!
Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people.
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 52.10: 10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 52.11: 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!
Go out from among her!
Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
Isaiah 52.12: 12 For you shall not go out in haste,
neither shall you go by flight:
for Yahweh will go before you;
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 52.13: 13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
He will be exalted and lifted up,
and will be very high.
Isaiah 52.14: 14 Just as many were astonished at you—
his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
Isaiah 52.15: 15 so he will cleanse many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths at him;
for they will see that which had not been told them,
and they will understand that which they had not heard.
Isaiah 53.0: 
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Isaiah 53.1: 1 Who has believed our message?
To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
Isaiah 53.2: 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground.
He has no good looks or majesty.
When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53.3: 3 He was despised
and rejected by men,
a man of suffering
and acquainted with disease.
He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
and we didn’t respect him.
Isaiah 53.4: 4 Surely he has borne our sickness
and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
struck by God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53.5: 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53.6: 6 All we like sheep have gone astray.
Everyone has turned to his own way;
and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53.7: 7 He was oppressed,
yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he didn’t open his mouth.
Isaiah 53.8: 8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment.
As for his generation,
who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Isaiah 53.9: 9 They made his grave with the wicked,
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53.10: 10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
He has caused him to suffer.
When you make his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring.
He will prolong his days
and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53.11: 11 After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
and he will bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53.12: 12 Therefore I will give him a portion with the great.
He will divide the plunder with the strong;
because he poured out his soul to death
and was counted with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sins of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 54.0: 
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Isaiah 54.1: 1 “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth;
break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child:
for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 54.2: 2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations;
don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 54.3: 3 For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left;
and your offspring will possess the nations
and settle in desolate cities.
Isaiah 54.4: 4 “Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed.
Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed.
For you will forget the shame of your youth.
You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.
Isaiah 54.5: 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
He will be called the God of the whole earth.
Isaiah 54.6: 6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
Isaiah 54.7: 7 “For a small moment I have forsaken you,
but I will gather you with great mercies.
Isaiah 54.8: 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54.9: 9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to me;
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isaiah 54.10: 10 For the mountains may depart,
and the hills be removed;
but my loving kindness will not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace will not be removed,”
says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 54.11: 11 “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors,
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 54.12: 12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
Isaiah 54.13: 13 All your children will be taught by Yahweh;
and your children’s peace will be great.
Isaiah 54.14: 14 You will be established in righteousness.
You will be far from oppression,
for you will not be afraid,
and far from terror,
for it shall not come near you.
Isaiah 54.15: 15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me.
Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.
Isaiah 54.16: 16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame,
and forges a weapon for his work;
and I have created the destroyer to destroy.
Isaiah 54.17: 17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;
and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants,
and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55.0: 
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Isaiah 55.1: 1 “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55.2: 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Isaiah 55.3: 3 Turn your ear, and come to me.
Hear, and your soul will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Isaiah 55.4: 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples.
Isaiah 55.5: 5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;
and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you,
because of Yahweh your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you.”
Isaiah 55.6: 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 55.7: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 55.8: 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55.9: 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55.10: 10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,
and makes it grow and bud,
and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Isaiah 55.11: 11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Isaiah 55.12: 12 For you shall go out with joy,
and be led out with peace.
The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;
and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55.13: 13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;
and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.
It will make a name for Yahweh,
for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
Isaiah 56.0: 
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Isaiah 56.1: 1 Yahweh says,
“Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is near
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Isaiah 56.2: 2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast;
who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Isaiah 56.3: 3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying,
“Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”
Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
Isaiah 56.4: 4 For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
choose the things that please me,
and hold fast to my covenant,
Isaiah 56.5: 5 I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters.
I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Isaiah 56.6: 6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh
to serve him,
and to love Yahweh’s name,
to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and holds fast my covenant,
Isaiah 56.7: 7 I will bring these to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Isaiah 56.8: 8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“I will yet gather others to him,
in addition to his own who are gathered.”
Isaiah 56.9: 9 All you animals of the field,
come to devour,
all you animals in the forest.
Isaiah 56.10: 10 His watchmen are blind.
They are all without knowledge.
They are all mute dogs.
They can’t bark—
dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 56.11: 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy.
They can never have enough.
They are shepherds who can’t understand.
They have all turned to their own way,
each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Isaiah 56.12: 12 “Come,” say they, “I will get wine,
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow will be as today,
great beyond measure.”
Isaiah 57.0: 
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Isaiah 57.1: 1 The righteous perish,
and no one lays it to heart.
Merciful men are taken away,
and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Isaiah 57.2: 2 He enters into peace.
They rest in their beds,
each one who walks in his uprightness.
Isaiah 57.3: 3 “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
Isaiah 57.4: 4 Whom do you mock?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
and stick out your tongue?
Aren’t you children of disobedience
and offspring of falsehood,
Isaiah 57.5: 5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks,
under every green tree;
who kill the children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 57.6: 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion.
They, they are your lot.
You have even poured a drink offering to them.
You have offered an offering.
Shall I be appeased for these things?
Isaiah 57.7: 7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
Isaiah 57.8: 8 You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,
for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,
and have gone up.
You have enlarged your bed
and made you a covenant with them.
You loved what you saw on their bed.
Isaiah 57.9: 9 You went to the king with oil,
increased your perfumes,
sent your ambassadors far off,
and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
Isaiah 57.10: 10 You were wearied with the length of your ways;
yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’
You found a reviving of your strength;
therefore you weren’t faint.
Isaiah 57.11: 11 “Whom have you dreaded and feared,
so that you lie,
and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?
Haven’t I held my peace for a long time,
and you don’t fear me?
Isaiah 57.12: 12 I will declare your righteousness;
and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
Isaiah 57.13: 13 When you cry,
let those whom you have gathered deliver you;
but the wind will take them.
a breath will carry them all away:
but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,
and will inherit my holy mountain.”
Isaiah 57.14: 14 He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!
Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
Isaiah 57.15: 15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy, says:
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57.16: 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
for the spirit would faint before me,
and the souls whom I have made.
Isaiah 57.17: 17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.
I hid myself and was angry;
and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
Isaiah 57.18: 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.
I will lead him also,
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 57.19: 19 I create the fruit of the lips:
Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,”
says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
Isaiah 57.20: 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea;
for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
Isaiah 57.21: 21 “There is no peace”, says my God,
“for the wicked.”
Isaiah 58.0: 
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Isaiah 58.1: 1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 58.2: 2 Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God,
they ask of me righteous judgments.
They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58.3: 3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’
“Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
and oppress all your laborers.
Isaiah 58.4: 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58.5: 5 Is this the fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to humble his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
Will you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Isaiah 58.6: 6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58.7: 7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?
When you see the naked,
that you cover him;
and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 58.8: 8 Then your light will break out as the morning,
and your healing will appear quickly;
then your righteousness shall go before you,
and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58.9: 9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer.
You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you take away from among you the yoke,
finger pointing,
and speaking wickedly;
Isaiah 58.10: 10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
Isaiah 58.11: 11 and Yahweh will guide you continually,
satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water
whose waters don’t fail.
Isaiah 58.12: 12 Those who will be of you will build the old waste places.
You will raise up the foundations of many generations.
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
Isaiah 58.13: 13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
and call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy of Yahweh honorable;
and honor it,
not doing your own ways,
nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,
Isaiah 58.14: 14 then you will delight yourself in Yahweh,
and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,
and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”
for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
Isaiah 59.0: 
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Isaiah 59.1: 1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
Isaiah 59.2: 2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59.3: 3 For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies.
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59.4: 4 No one sues in righteousness,
and no one pleads in truth.
They trust in vanity,
and speak lies.
They conceive mischief,
and give birth to iniquity.
Isaiah 59.5: 5 They hatch adders’ eggs,
and weave the spider’s web.
He who eats of their eggs dies;
and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Isaiah 59.6: 6 Their webs won’t become garments.
They won’t cover themselves with their works.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 59.7: 7 Their feet run to evil,
and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59.8: 8 They don’t know the way of peace;
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked paths for themselves;
whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Isaiah 59.9: 9 Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.
We look for light, but see darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Isaiah 59.10: 10 We grope for the wall like the blind.
Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.
We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.
Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
Isaiah 59.11: 11 We all roar like bears
and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isaiah 59.12: 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and as for our iniquities, we know them:
Isaiah 59.13: 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh,
and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59.14: 14 Justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has fallen in the street,
and uprightness can’t enter.
Isaiah 59.15: 15 Yes, truth is lacking;
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Yahweh saw it,
and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Isaiah 59.16: 16 He saw that there was no man,
and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness sustained him.
Isaiah 59.17: 17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head.
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Isaiah 59.18: 18 According to their deeds,
he will repay as appropriate,
wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies;
he will repay the islands their due.
Isaiah 59.19: 19 So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he will come as a rushing stream,
which Yahweh’s breath drives.
Isaiah 59.20: 20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 59.21: 21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
Isaiah 60.0: 
60
Isaiah 60.1: 1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come,
and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
Isaiah 60.2: 2 For, behold, darkness will cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but Yahweh will arise on you,
and his glory shall be seen on you.
Isaiah 60.3: 3 Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 60.4: 4 “Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
they all gather themselves together.
They come to you.
Your sons will come from far away,
and your daughters will be carried in arms.
Isaiah 60.5: 5 Then you shall see and be radiant,
and your heart will thrill and be enlarged;
because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you.
The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isaiah 60.6: 6 A multitude of camels will cover you,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah.
All from Sheba will come.
They will bring gold and frankincense,
and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
Isaiah 60.7: 7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you.
The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.
They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;
and I will beautify my glorious house.
Isaiah 60.8: 8 “Who are these who fly as a cloud,
and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah 60.9: 9 Surely the islands will wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first,
to bring your sons from far,
their silver and their gold with them,
for the name of Yahweh your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because he has glorified you.
Isaiah 60.10: 10 “Foreigners will build up your walls,
and their kings will serve you:
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
Isaiah 60.11: 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
Isaiah 60.12: 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah 60.13: 13 “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Isaiah 60.14: 14 The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you;
and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.
They will call you Yahweh’s City,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 60.15: 15 “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
so that no one passed through you,
I will make you an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations.
Isaiah 60.16: 16 You will also drink the milk of the nations,
and will nurse from royal breasts.
Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
your Redeemer,
the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 60.17: 17 For bronze I will bring gold;
for iron I will bring silver;
for wood, bronze,
and for stones, iron.
I will also make peace your governor,
and righteousness your ruler.
Isaiah 60.18: 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
nor desolation or destruction within your borders;
but you will call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
Isaiah 60.19: 19 The sun will be no more your light by day;
nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you,
but Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.
Isaiah 60.20: 20 Your sun will not go down any more,
nor will your moon withdraw itself;
for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your mourning will end.
Isaiah 60.21: 21 Then your people will all be righteous.
They will inherit the land forever,
the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified.
Isaiah 60.22: 22 The little one will become a thousand,
and the small one a strong nation.
I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”
Isaiah 61.0: 
61
Isaiah 61.1: 1 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and release to those who are bound,
Isaiah 61.2: 2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 61.3: 3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
that they may be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of Yahweh,
that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 61.4: 4 They will rebuild the old ruins.
They will raise up the former devastated places.
They will repair the ruined cities
that have been devastated for many generations.
Isaiah 61.5: 5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
Isaiah 61.6: 6 But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
Men will call you the servants of our God.
You will eat the wealth of the nations.
You will boast in their glory.
Isaiah 61.7: 7 Instead of your shame you will have double.
Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
Everlasting joy will be to them.
Isaiah 61.8: 8 “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
I hate robbery and iniquity.
I will give them their reward in truth
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 61.9: 9 Their offspring will be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge them,
that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
Isaiah 61.10: 10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61.11: 11 For as the earth produces its bud,
and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Isaiah 62.0: 
62
Isaiah 62.1: 1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
and her salvation like a burning lamp.
Isaiah 62.2: 2 The nations will see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name,
which Yahweh’s mouth will name.
Isaiah 62.3: 3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand,
and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
Isaiah 62.4: 4 You will not be called Forsaken any more,
nor will your land be called Desolate any more;
but you will be called Hephzibah,
and your land Beulah;
for Yahweh delights in you,
and your land will be married.
Isaiah 62.5: 5 For as a young man marries a virgin,
so your sons will marry you.
As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62.6: 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
Isaiah 62.7: 7 and give him no rest, until he establishes,
and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah 62.8: 8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength,
“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,
and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
Isaiah 62.9: 9 but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.
Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
Isaiah 62.10: 10 Go through, go through the gates!
Prepare the way of the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
Gather out the stones!
Lift up a banner for the peoples.
Isaiah 62.11: 11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your salvation comes!
Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him!’”
Isaiah 62.12: 12 They will call them “The Holy People,
Yahweh’s Redeemed”.
You will be called “Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken”.
Isaiah 63.0: 
63
Isaiah 63.1: 1 Who is this who comes from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bozrah?
Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I who speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
Isaiah 63.2: 2 Why is your clothing red,
and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
Isaiah 63.3: 3 “I have trodden the wine press alone.
Of the peoples, no one was with me.
Yes, I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath.
Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
and I have stained all my clothing.
Isaiah 63.4: 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redeemed has come.
Isaiah 63.5: 5 I looked, and there was no one to help;
and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.
Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.
My own wrath upheld me.
Isaiah 63.6: 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger
and made them drunk in my wrath.
I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
Isaiah 63.7: 7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
and the praises of Yahweh,
according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has given to them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Isaiah 63.8: 8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely;”
so he became their Savior.
Isaiah 63.9: 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
He bore them,
and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63.10: 10 But they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
and he himself fought against them.
Isaiah 63.11: 11 Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying,
“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
Isaiah 63.12: 12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Isaiah 63.13: 13 Who led them through the depths,
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they didn’t stumble?
Isaiah 63.14: 14 As the livestock that go down into the valley,
Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
Isaiah 63.15: 15 Look down from heaven,
and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
Isaiah 63.16: 16 For you are our Father,
though Abraham doesn’t know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father.
Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
Isaiah 63.17: 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,
and harden our heart from your fear?
Return for your servants’ sake,
the tribes of your inheritance.
Isaiah 63.18: 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
Isaiah 63.19: 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled,
like those who were not called by your name.
Isaiah 64.0: 
64
Isaiah 64.1: 1 Oh that you would tear the heavens,
that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence.
Isaiah 64.2: 2 As when fire kindles the brushwood,
and the fire causes the water to boil;
Make your name known to your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Isaiah 64.3: 3 When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for,
you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
Isaiah 64.4: 4 For from of old men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear,
nor has the eye seen a God besides you,
who works for him who waits for him.
Isaiah 64.5: 5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
We have been in sin for a long time.
Shall we be saved?
Isaiah 64.6: 6 For we have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 64.7: 7 There is no one who calls on your name,
who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Isaiah 64.8: 8 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
We are the clay and you our potter.
We all are the work of your hand.
Isaiah 64.9: 9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
we are all your people.
Isaiah 64.10: 10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64.11: 11 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you
is burned with fire.
All our pleasant places are laid waste.
Isaiah 64.12: 12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh?
Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
Isaiah 65.0: 
65
Isaiah 65.1: 1 “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isaiah 65.2: 2 I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
after their own thoughts;
Isaiah 65.3: 3 a people who provoke me to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens,
and burning incense on bricks;
Isaiah 65.4: 4 who sit among the graves,
and spend nights in secret places;
who eat pig’s meat,
and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah 65.5: 5 who say, ‘Stay by yourself,
don’t come near to me,
for I am holier than you.’
These are smoke in my nose,
a fire that burns all day.
Isaiah 65.6: 6 “Behold, it is written before me:
I will not keep silence,
but will repay,
yes, I will repay into their bosom,
Isaiah 65.7: 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,
“who have burned incense on the mountains,
and blasphemed me on the hills.
Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”
Isaiah 65.8: 8 Yahweh says,
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I will do for my servants’ sake,
that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah 65.9: 9 I will bring offspring out of Jacob,
and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
My chosen will inherit it,
and my servants will dwell there.
Isaiah 65.10: 10 Sharon will be a fold of flocks,
and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in,
for my people who have sought me.
Isaiah 65.11: 11 “But you who forsake Yahweh,
who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune,
and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
Isaiah 65.12: 12 I will destine you to the sword,
and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you didn’t answer.
When I spoke, you didn’t listen;
but you did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Isaiah 65.13: 13 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
“Behold, my servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
but you will be disappointed;
Isaiah 65.14: 14 Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
but you will cry for sorrow of heart,
and will wail for anguish of spirit.
Isaiah 65.15: 15 You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.
He will call his servants by another name,
Isaiah 65.16: 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hidden from my eyes.
Isaiah 65.17: 17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
and the former things will not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
Isaiah 65.18: 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
and her people a joy.
Isaiah 65.19: 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying
will be heard in her no more.
Isaiah 65.20: 20 “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
Isaiah 65.21: 21 They will build houses and inhabit them.
They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 65.22: 22 They will not build and another inhabit.
They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isaiah 65.23: 23 They will not labor in vain
nor give birth for calamity;
for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed
and their descendants with them.
Isaiah 65.24: 24 It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Isaiah 65.25: 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
says Yahweh.
Isaiah 66.0: 
66
Isaiah 66.1: 1 Yahweh says,
“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build to me?
Where will I rest?
Isaiah 66.2: 2 For my hand has made all these things,
and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:
“but I will look to this man,
even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and who trembles at my word.
Isaiah 66.3: 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;
he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood;
he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol.
Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations:
Isaiah 66.4: 4 I also will choose their delusions,
and will bring their fears on them;
because when I called, no one answered;
when I spoke, they didn’t listen;
but they did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Isaiah 66.5: 5 Hear Yahweh’s word,
you who tremble at his word:
“Your brothers who hate you,
who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said,
‘Let Yahweh be glorified,
that we may see your joy;’
but it is those who shall be disappointed.
Isaiah 66.6: 6 A voice of tumult from the city,
a voice from the temple,
a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
Isaiah 66.7: 7 “Before she travailed, she gave birth.
Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
Isaiah 66.8: 8 Who has heard of such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion travailed,
she gave birth to her children.
Isaiah 66.9: 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh.
“Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
Isaiah 66.10: 10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
Isaiah 66.11: 11 that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts;
that you may drink deeply,
and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”
Isaiah 66.12: 12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and you will nurse.
You will be carried on her side,
and will be dandled on her knees.
Isaiah 66.13: 13 As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you.
You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 66.14: 14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.
Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
and he will have indignation against his enemies.
Isaiah 66.15: 15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire,
and his chariots will be like the whirlwind;
to render his anger with fierceness,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah 66.16: 16 For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh;
and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
Isaiah 66.17: 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.
Isaiah 66.18: 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.
Isaiah 66.19: 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.
Isaiah 66.20: 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.
Isaiah 66.21: 21 Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 66.22: 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.
Isaiah 66.23: 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.
Isaiah 66.24: 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.”
Acts 0.0: 
The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 1.0: 
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Acts 1.1: 1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
Acts 1.2: 2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
Acts 1.3: 3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
Acts 1.4: 4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. 
Acts 1.5: 5 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Acts 1.6: 6 Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
Acts 1.7: 7 He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. 
Acts 1.8: 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Acts 1.9: 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Acts 1.10: 10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
Acts 1.11: 11 who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
Acts 1.12: 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
Acts 1.13: 13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Acts 1.14: 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 1.15: 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
Acts 1.16: 16 “Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Acts 1.17: 17 For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Acts 1.18: 18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 1.19: 19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’
Acts 1.20: 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms,
‘Let his habitation be made desolate.
Let no one dwell in it;’
and,
‘Let another take his office.’
Acts 1.21: 21 “Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Acts 1.22: 22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
Acts 1.23: 23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.
Acts 1.24: 24 They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
Acts 1.25: 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Acts 1.26: 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles.
Acts 2.0: 
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Acts 2.1: 1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2.2: 2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2.3: 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
Acts 2.4: 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
Acts 2.5: 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
Acts 2.6: 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
Acts 2.7: 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?
Acts 2.8: 8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
Acts 2.9: 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
Acts 2.10: 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 2.11: 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”
Acts 2.12: 12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
Acts 2.13: 13 Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
Acts 2.14: 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
Acts 2.15: 15 For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
Acts 2.16: 16 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
Acts 2.17: 17 ‘It will be in the last days, says God,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions.
Your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2.18: 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days,
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
Acts 2.19: 19 I will show wonders in the sky above,
and signs on the earth beneath:
blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
Acts 2.20: 20 The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
Acts 2.21: 21 It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Acts 2.22: 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
Acts 2.23: 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Acts 2.24: 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
Acts 2.25: 25 For David says concerning him,
‘I saw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Acts 2.26: 26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced.
Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
Acts 2.27: 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades,
neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Acts 2.28: 28 You made known to me the ways of life.
You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
Acts 2.29: 29 “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 2.30: 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Acts 2.31: 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
Acts 2.32: 32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
Acts 2.33: 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
Acts 2.34: 34 For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,
‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
Acts 2.35: 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
Acts 2.36: 36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 2.37: 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 2.38: 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2.39: 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
Acts 2.40: 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Acts 2.41: 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2.42: 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Acts 2.43: 43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
Acts 2.44: 44 All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 2.45: 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
Acts 2.46: 46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts 2.47: 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 3.0: 
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Acts 3.1: 1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 3.2: 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
Acts 3.3: 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
Acts 3.4: 4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”
Acts 3.5: 5 He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Acts 3.6: 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
Acts 3.7: 7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
Acts 3.8: 8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
Acts 3.9: 9 All the people saw him walking and praising God.
Acts 3.10: 10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Acts 3.11: 11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
Acts 3.12: 12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
Acts 3.13: 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
Acts 3.14: 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 3.15: 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
Acts 3.16: 16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts 3.17: 17 “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
Acts 3.18: 18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 3.19: 19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 3.20: 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,
Acts 3.21: 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
Acts 3.22: 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
Acts 3.23: 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 3.24: 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
Acts 3.25: 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’
Acts 3.26: 26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
Acts 4.0: 
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Acts 4.1: 1 As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Acts 4.2: 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4.3: 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Acts 4.4: 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Acts 4.5: 5 In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
Acts 4.6: 6 Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
Acts 4.7: 7 When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
Acts 4.8: 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts 4.9: 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Acts 4.10: 10 may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.
Acts 4.11: 11 He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
Acts 4.12: 12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
Acts 4.13: 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4.14: 14 Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Acts 4.15: 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Acts 4.16: 16 saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.
Acts 4.17: 17 But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
Acts 4.18: 18 They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Acts 4.19: 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
Acts 4.20: 20 for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Acts 4.21: 21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
Acts 4.22: 22 For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
Acts 4.23: 23 Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Acts 4.24: 24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Acts 4.25: 25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said,
‘Why do the nations rage,
and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Acts 4.26: 26 The kings of the earth take a stand,
and the rulers take council together,
against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
Acts 4.27: 27 “For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,
Acts 4.28: 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
Acts 4.29: 29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
Acts 4.30: 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
Acts 4.31: 31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4.32: 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
Acts 4.33: 33 With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
Acts 4.34: 34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
Acts 4.35: 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
Acts 4.36: 36 Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
Acts 4.37: 37 having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Acts 5.0: 
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Acts 5.1: 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
Acts 5.2: 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Acts 5.3: 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts 5.4: 4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
Acts 5.5: 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
Acts 5.6: 6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5.7: 7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
Acts 5.8: 8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
Acts 5.9: 9 But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
Acts 5.10: 10 She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
Acts 5.11: 11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
Acts 5.12: 12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
Acts 5.13: 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
Acts 5.14: 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
Acts 5.15: 15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
Acts 5.16: 16 The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
Acts 5.17: 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Acts 5.18: 18 and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
Acts 5.19: 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,
Acts 5.20: 20 “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
Acts 5.21: 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Acts 5.22: 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
Acts 5.23: 23 “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
Acts 5.24: 24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
Acts 5.25: 25 One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”
Acts 5.26: 26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
Acts 5.27: 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
Acts 5.28: 28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
Acts 5.29: 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 5.30: 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 5.31: 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Acts 5.32: 32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 5.33: 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
Acts 5.34: 34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Acts 5.35: 35 He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
Acts 5.36: 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
Acts 5.37: 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Acts 5.38: 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
Acts 5.39: 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
Acts 5.40: 40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 5.41: 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
Acts 5.42: 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
Acts 6.0: 
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Acts 6.1: 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
Acts 6.2: 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.
Acts 6.3: 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.
Acts 6.4: 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
Acts 6.5: 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;
Acts 6.6: 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Acts 6.7: 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.
Acts 6.8: 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 6.9: 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.
Acts 6.10: 10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
Acts 6.11: 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
Acts 6.12: 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,
Acts 6.13: 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
Acts 6.14: 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.”
Acts 6.15: 15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
Acts 7.0: 
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Acts 7.1: 1 The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
Acts 7.2: 2 He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Acts 7.3: 3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
Acts 7.4: 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.
Acts 7.5: 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
Acts 7.6: 6 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Acts 7.7: 7 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out, and serve me in this place.’
Acts 7.8: 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7.9: 9 “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
Acts 7.10: 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7.11: 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
Acts 7.12: 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
Acts 7.13: 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.
Acts 7.14: 14 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Acts 7.15: 15 Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,
Acts 7.16: 16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
Acts 7.17: 17 “But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Acts 7.18: 18 until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.
Acts 7.19: 19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
Acts 7.20: 20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
Acts 7.21: 21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.
Acts 7.22: 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
Acts 7.23: 23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Acts 7.24: 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
Acts 7.25: 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
Acts 7.26: 26 “The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’
Acts 7.27: 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7.28: 28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
Acts 7.29: 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Acts 7.30: 30 “When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts 7.31: 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
Acts 7.32: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look.
Acts 7.33: 33 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
Acts 7.34: 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
Acts 7.35: 35 “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7.36: 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Acts 7.37: 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
Acts 7.38: 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
Acts 7.39: 39 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
Acts 7.40: 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
Acts 7.41: 41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Acts 7.42: 42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 7.43: 43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
the star of your god Rephan,
the figures which you made to worship.
I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
Acts 7.44: 44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
Acts 7.45: 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
Acts 7.46: 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7.47: 47 But Solomon built him a house.
Acts 7.48: 48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
Acts 7.49: 49 ‘heaven is my throne,
and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord.
‘Or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7.50: 50 Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
Acts 7.51: 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Acts 7.52: 52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Acts 7.53: 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
Acts 7.54: 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Acts 7.55: 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
Acts 7.56: 56 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Acts 7.57: 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
Acts 7.58: 58 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 7.59: 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Acts 7.60: 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Acts 8.0: 
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Acts 8.1: 1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Acts 8.2: 2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
Acts 8.3: 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
Acts 8.4: 4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
Acts 8.5: 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
Acts 8.6: 6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
Acts 8.7: 7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
Acts 8.8: 8 There was great joy in that city.
Acts 8.9: 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
Acts 8.10: 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”
Acts 8.11: 11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
Acts 8.12: 12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Acts 8.13: 13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
Acts 8.14: 14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
Acts 8.15: 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
Acts 8.16: 16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
Acts 8.17: 17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8.18: 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
Acts 8.19: 19 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 8.20: 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
Acts 8.21: 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Acts 8.22: 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Acts 8.23: 23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
Acts 8.24: 24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”
Acts 8.25: 25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.
Acts 8.26: 26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
Acts 8.27: 27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
Acts 8.28: 28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
Acts 8.29: 29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”
Acts 8.30: 30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
Acts 8.31: 31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
Acts 8.32: 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,
“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
so he doesn’t open his mouth.
Acts 8.33: 33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
Who will declare His generation?
For his life is taken from the earth.”
Acts 8.34: 34 The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”
Acts 8.35: 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.
Acts 8.36: 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
Acts 8.37: 37 
Acts 8.38: 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Acts 8.39: 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 8.40: 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 9.0: 
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Acts 9.1: 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9.2: 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 9.3: 3 As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
Acts 9.4: 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
Acts 9.5: 5 He said, “Who are you, Lord?”
The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 9.6: 6 But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
Acts 9.7: 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.
Acts 9.8: 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
Acts 9.9: 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
Acts 9.10: 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!”
He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”
Acts 9.11: 11 The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, 
Acts 9.12: 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”
Acts 9.13: 13 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
Acts 9.14: 14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
Acts 9.15: 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. 
Acts 9.16: 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Acts 9.17: 17 Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 9.18: 18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
Acts 9.19: 19 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
Acts 9.20: 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
Acts 9.21: 21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
Acts 9.22: 22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 9.23: 23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
Acts 9.24: 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
Acts 9.25: 25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Acts 9.26: 26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
Acts 9.27: 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
Acts 9.28: 28 He was with them entering into Jerusalem,
Acts 9.29: 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Acts 9.30: 30 When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 9.31: 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9.32: 32 As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
Acts 9.33: 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
Acts 9.34: 34 Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately he arose.
Acts 9.35: 35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
Acts 9.36: 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
Acts 9.37: 37 In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
Acts 9.38: 38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.
Acts 9.39: 39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Acts 9.40: 40 Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Acts 9.41: 41 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
Acts 9.42: 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Acts 9.43: 43 He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
Acts 10.0: 
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Acts 10.1: 1 Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
Acts 10.2: 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Acts 10.3: 3 At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Acts 10.4: 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?”
He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10.5: 5 Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.
Acts 10.6: 6 He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside. 
Acts 10.7: 7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
Acts 10.8: 8 Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Acts 10.9: 9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
Acts 10.10: 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
Acts 10.11: 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
Acts 10.12: 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
Acts 10.13: 13 A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
Acts 10.14: 14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
Acts 10.15: 15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
Acts 10.16: 16 This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.
Acts 10.17: 17 Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,
Acts 10.18: 18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.
Acts 10.19: 19 While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
Acts 10.20: 20 But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
Acts 10.21: 21 Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”
Acts 10.22: 22 They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
Acts 10.23: 23 So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
Acts 10.24: 24 On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.
Acts 10.25: 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
Acts 10.26: 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”
Acts 10.27: 27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.
Acts 10.28: 28 He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
Acts 10.29: 29 Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”
Acts 10.30: 30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
Acts 10.31: 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
Acts 10.32: 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
Acts 10.33: 33 Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
Acts 10.34: 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
Acts 10.35: 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
Acts 10.36: 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
Acts 10.37: 37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts 10.38: 38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Acts 10.39: 39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 10.40: 40 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
Acts 10.41: 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 10.42: 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 10.43: 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
Acts 10.44: 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
Acts 10.45: 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
Acts 10.46: 46 For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God.
Then Peter answered,
Acts 10.47: 47 “Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
Acts 10.48: 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
Acts 11.0: 
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Acts 11.1: 1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts 11.2: 2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts 11.3: 3 saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”
Acts 11.4: 4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
Acts 11.5: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
Acts 11.6: 6 When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
Acts 11.7: 7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’ 
Acts 11.8: 8 But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
Acts 11.9: 9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
Acts 11.10: 10 This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.
Acts 11.11: 11 Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
Acts 11.12: 12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.
Acts 11.13: 13 He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,
Acts 11.14: 14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
Acts 11.15: 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
Acts 11.16: 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’
Acts 11.17: 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
Acts 11.18: 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
Acts 11.19: 19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Acts 11.20: 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11.21: 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 11.22: 22 The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
Acts 11.23: 23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
Acts 11.24: 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
Acts 11.25: 25 Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
Acts 11.26: 26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Acts 11.27: 27 Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 11.28: 28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
Acts 11.29: 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
Acts 11.30: 30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 12.0: 
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Acts 12.1: 1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
Acts 12.2: 2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Acts 12.3: 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Acts 12.4: 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.
Acts 12.5: 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
Acts 12.6: 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.
Acts 12.7: 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.
Acts 12.8: 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.”
Acts 12.9: 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.
Acts 12.10: 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.
Acts 12.11: 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.”
Acts 12.12: 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.
Acts 12.13: 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
Acts 12.14: 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.
Acts 12.15: 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
Acts 12.16: 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
Acts 12.17: 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.
Acts 12.18: 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
Acts 12.19: 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.
Acts 12.20: 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.
Acts 12.21: 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
Acts 12.22: 22 The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Acts 12.23: 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.
Acts 12.24: 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts 12.25: 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.
Acts 13.0: 
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Acts 13.1: 1 Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 13.2: 2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13.3: 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 13.4: 4 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
Acts 13.5: 5 When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
Acts 13.6: 6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
Acts 13.7: 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
Acts 13.8: 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
Acts 13.9: 9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
Acts 13.10: 10 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 13.11: 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!”
Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
Acts 13.12: 12 Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 13.13: 13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
Acts 13.14: 14 But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts 13.15: 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
Acts 13.16: 16 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
Acts 13.17: 17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
Acts 13.18: 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
Acts 13.19: 19 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.
Acts 13.20: 20 After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
Acts 13.21: 21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
Acts 13.22: 22 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Acts 13.23: 23 From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
Acts 13.24: 24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
Acts 13.25: 25 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
Acts 13.26: 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Acts 13.27: 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
Acts 13.28: 28 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
Acts 13.29: 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
Acts 13.30: 30 But God raised him from the dead,
Acts 13.31: 31 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
Acts 13.32: 32 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
Acts 13.33: 33 that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm,
‘You are my Son.
Today I have become your father.’
Acts 13.34: 34 “Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
Acts 13.35: 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’
Acts 13.36: 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
Acts 13.37: 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
Acts 13.38: 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
Acts 13.39: 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 13.40: 40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
Acts 13.41: 41 ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish;
for I work a work in your days,
a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’” 
Acts 13.42: 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Acts 13.43: 43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Acts 13.44: 44 The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
Acts 13.45: 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
Acts 13.46: 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13.47: 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,
‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” 
Acts 13.48: 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 13.49: 49 The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
Acts 13.50: 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
Acts 13.51: 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
Acts 13.52: 52 The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14.0: 
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Acts 14.1: 1 In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
Acts 14.2: 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
Acts 14.3: 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 14.4: 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Acts 14.5: 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
Acts 14.6: 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
Acts 14.7: 7 There they preached the Good News.
Acts 14.8: 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
Acts 14.9: 9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
Acts 14.10: 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
Acts 14.11: 11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
Acts 14.12: 12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.
Acts 14.13: 13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
Acts 14.14: 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
Acts 14.15: 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Acts 14.16: 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 14.17: 17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
Acts 14.18: 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
Acts 14.19: 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 14.20: 20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14.21: 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 14.22: 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
Acts 14.23: 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
Acts 14.24: 24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
Acts 14.25: 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
Acts 14.26: 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
Acts 14.27: 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Acts 14.28: 28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
Acts 15.0: 
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Acts 15.1: 1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
Acts 15.2: 2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 15.3: 3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15.4: 4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.
Acts 15.5: 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
Acts 15.6: 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
Acts 15.7: 7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
Acts 15.8: 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Acts 15.9: 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Acts 15.10: 10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15.11: 11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
Acts 15.12: 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
Acts 15.13: 13 After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
Acts 15.14: 14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts 15.15: 15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
Acts 15.16: 16 ‘After these things I will return.
I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen.
I will again build its ruins.
I will set it up
Acts 15.17: 17 that the rest of men may seek after the Lord;
all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord, who does all these things.’
Acts 15.18: 18 “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
Acts 15.19: 19 Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 15.20: 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15.21: 21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Acts 15.22: 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. 
Acts 15.23: 23 They wrote these things by their hand:
“The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
Acts 15.24: 24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
Acts 15.25: 25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts 15.26: 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 15.27: 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
Acts 15.28: 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
Acts 15.29: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Acts 15.30: 30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
Acts 15.31: 31 When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
Acts 15.32: 32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
Acts 15.33: 33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.
Acts 15.34: 34 
Acts 15.35: 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
Acts 15.36: 36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
Acts 15.37: 37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
Acts 15.38: 38 But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
Acts 15.39: 39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
Acts 15.40: 40 but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
Acts 15.41: 41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
Acts 16.0: 
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Acts 16.1: 1 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
Acts 16.2: 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
Acts 16.3: 3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 16.4: 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
Acts 16.5: 5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Acts 16.6: 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Acts 16.7: 7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.
Acts 16.8: 8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
Acts 16.9: 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 16.10: 10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
Acts 16.11: 11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
Acts 16.12: 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
Acts 16.13: 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
Acts 16.14: 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts 16.15: 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
Acts 16.16: 16 As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
Acts 16.17: 17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
Acts 16.18: 18 She was doing this for many days.
But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.
Acts 16.19: 19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
Acts 16.20: 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
Acts 16.21: 21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
Acts 16.22: 22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
Acts 16.23: 23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
Acts 16.24: 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Acts 16.25: 25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16.26: 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
Acts 16.27: 27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
Acts 16.28: 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
Acts 16.29: 29 He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
Acts 16.30: 30 brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 16.31: 31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16.32: 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
Acts 16.33: 33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Acts 16.34: 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
Acts 16.35: 35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”
Acts 16.36: 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”
Acts 16.37: 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
Acts 16.38: 38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
Acts 16.39: 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
Acts 16.40: 40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.
Acts 17.0: 
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Acts 17.1: 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17.2: 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17.3: 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
Acts 17.4: 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Acts 17.5: 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts 17.6: 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17.7: 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Acts 17.8: 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Acts 17.9: 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Acts 17.10: 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17.11: 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17.12: 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Acts 17.13: 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Acts 17.14: 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Acts 17.15: 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Acts 17.16: 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Acts 17.17: 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Acts 17.18: 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17.19: 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Acts 17.20: 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Acts 17.21: 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Acts 17.22: 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Acts 17.23: 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Acts 17.24: 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Acts 17.25: 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
Acts 17.26: 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Acts 17.27: 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Acts 17.28: 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Acts 17.29: 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
Acts 17.30: 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Acts 17.31: 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Acts 17.32: 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Acts 17.33: 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Acts 17.34: 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 18.0: 
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Acts 18.1: 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Acts 18.2: 2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
Acts 18.3: 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
Acts 18.4: 4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
Acts 18.5: 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 18.6: 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
Acts 18.7: 7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
Acts 18.8: 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
Acts 18.9: 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; 
Acts 18.10: 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Acts 18.11: 11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
Acts 18.12: 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
Acts 18.13: 13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
Acts 18.14: 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
Acts 18.15: 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
Acts 18.16: 16 So he drove them from the judgment seat.
Acts 18.17: 17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
Acts 18.18: 18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
Acts 18.19: 19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Acts 18.20: 20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
Acts 18.21: 21 but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.
Acts 18.22: 22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
Acts 18.23: 23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
Acts 18.24: 24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
Acts 18.25: 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 18.26: 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 18.27: 27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
Acts 18.28: 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 19.0: 
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Acts 19.1: 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.
Acts 19.2: 2 He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 19.3: 3 He said, “Into what then were you baptized?”
They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
Acts 19.4: 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.”
Acts 19.5: 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 19.6: 6 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
Acts 19.7: 7 They were about twelve men in all.
Acts 19.8: 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.
Acts 19.9: 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.
Acts 19.10: 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.
Acts 19.11: 11 God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
Acts 19.12: 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.
Acts 19.13: 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.”
Acts 19.14: 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
Acts 19.15: 15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
Acts 19.16: 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.
Acts 19.17: 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.
Acts 19.18: 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
Acts 19.19: 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.
Acts 19.20: 20 So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
Acts 19.21: 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.”
Acts 19.22: 22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
Acts 19.23: 23 About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
Acts 19.24: 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
Acts 19.25: 25 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
Acts 19.26: 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.
Acts 19.27: 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.”
Acts 19.28: 28 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 19.29: 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.
Acts 19.30: 30 When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
Acts 19.31: 31 Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
Acts 19.32: 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.
Acts 19.33: 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.
Acts 19.34: 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!”
Acts 19.35: 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?
Acts 19.36: 36 Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.
Acts 19.37: 37 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
Acts 19.38: 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.
Acts 19.39: 39 But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
Acts 19.40: 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.”
Acts 19.41: 41 When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
Acts 20.0: 
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Acts 20.1: 1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
Acts 20.2: 2 When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
Acts 20.3: 3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
Acts 20.4: 4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Acts 20.5: 5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Acts 20.6: 6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Acts 20.7: 7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
Acts 20.8: 8 There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.
Acts 20.9: 9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
Acts 20.10: 10 Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
Acts 20.11: 11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
Acts 20.12: 12 They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
Acts 20.13: 13 But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
Acts 20.14: 14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
Acts 20.15: 15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
Acts 20.16: 16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
Acts 20.17: 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
Acts 20.18: 18 When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20.19: 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 20.20: 20 how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20.21: 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20.22: 22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
Acts 20.23: 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Acts 20.24: 24 But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
Acts 20.25: 25 “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
Acts 20.26: 26 Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Acts 20.27: 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 20.28: 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Acts 20.29: 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Acts 20.30: 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 20.31: 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Acts 20.32: 32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Acts 20.33: 33 I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
Acts 20.34: 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
Acts 20.35: 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 20.36: 36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Acts 20.37: 37 They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
Acts 20.38: 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.
Acts 21.0: 
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Acts 21.1: 1 When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
Acts 21.2: 2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Acts 21.3: 3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.
Acts 21.4: 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.5: 5 When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
Acts 21.6: 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
Acts 21.7: 7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.
Acts 21.8: 8 On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea.
We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
Acts 21.9: 9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
Acts 21.10: 10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Acts 21.11: 11 Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
Acts 21.12: 12 When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.13: 13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Acts 21.14: 14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
Acts 21.15: 15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.16: 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
Acts 21.17: 17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
Acts 21.18: 18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
Acts 21.19: 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 21.20: 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
Acts 21.21: 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.
Acts 21.22: 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
Acts 21.23: 23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
Acts 21.24: 24 Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
Acts 21.25: 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
Acts 21.26: 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
Acts 21.27: 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
Acts 21.28: 28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
Acts 21.29: 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Acts 21.30: 30 All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
Acts 21.31: 31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21.32: 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Acts 21.33: 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
Acts 21.34: 34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
Acts 21.35: 35 When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
Acts 21.36: 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
Acts 21.37: 37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”
He said, “Do you know Greek?
Acts 21.38: 38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”
Acts 21.39: 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
Acts 21.40: 40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
Acts 22.0: 
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Acts 22.1: 1 “Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
Acts 22.2: 2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
Acts 22.3: 3 “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
Acts 22.4: 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts 22.5: 5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
Acts 22.6: 6 As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.
Acts 22.7: 7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
Acts 22.8: 8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’
Acts 22.9: 9 “Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
Acts 22.10: 10 I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’
Acts 22.11: 11 When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
Acts 22.12: 12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
Acts 22.13: 13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
Acts 22.14: 14 He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
Acts 22.15: 15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
Acts 22.16: 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
Acts 22.17: 17 “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
Acts 22.18: 18 and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
Acts 22.19: 19 I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
Acts 22.20: 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
Acts 22.21: 21 “He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
Acts 22.22: 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
Acts 22.23: 23 As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
Acts 22.24: 24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
Acts 22.25: 25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
Acts 22.26: 26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
Acts 22.27: 27 The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?”
He said, “Yes.”
Acts 22.28: 28 The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.”
Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
Acts 22.29: 29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
Acts 22.30: 30 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
Acts 23.0: 
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Acts 23.1: 1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
Acts 23.2: 2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
Acts 23.3: 3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
Acts 23.4: 4 Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”
Acts 23.5: 5 Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
Acts 23.6: 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
Acts 23.7: 7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
Acts 23.8: 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
Acts 23.9: 9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”
Acts 23.10: 10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
Acts 23.11: 11 The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
Acts 23.12: 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23.13: 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
Acts 23.14: 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23.15: 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
Acts 23.16: 16 But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
Acts 23.17: 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”
Acts 23.18: 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”
Acts 23.19: 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
Acts 23.20: 20 He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
Acts 23.21: 21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
Acts 23.22: 22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”
Acts 23.23: 23 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
Acts 23.24: 24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Acts 23.25: 25 He wrote a letter like this:
Acts 23.26: 26 “Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
Acts 23.27: 27 “This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
Acts 23.28: 28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
Acts 23.29: 29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
Acts 23.30: 30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
Acts 23.31: 31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23.32: 32 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
Acts 23.33: 33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
Acts 23.34: 34 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
Acts 23.35: 35 “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
Acts 24.0: 
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Acts 24.1: 1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
Acts 24.2: 2 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,
Acts 24.3: 3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
Acts 24.4: 4 But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
Acts 24.5: 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 24.6: 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
Acts 24.7: 7 
Acts 24.8: 8 By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”
Acts 24.9: 9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
Acts 24.10: 10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
Acts 24.11: 11 seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
Acts 24.12: 12 In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
Acts 24.13: 13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
Acts 24.14: 14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
Acts 24.15: 15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts 24.16: 16 In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Acts 24.17: 17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
Acts 24.18: 18 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
Acts 24.19: 19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
Acts 24.20: 20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
Acts 24.21: 21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’”
Acts 24.22: 22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”
Acts 24.23: 23 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
Acts 24.24: 24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
Acts 24.25: 25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
Acts 24.26: 26 Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
Acts 24.27: 27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
Acts 25.0: 
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Acts 25.1: 1 Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 25.2: 2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
Acts 25.3: 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
Acts 25.4: 4 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
Acts 25.5: 5 “Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
Acts 25.6: 6 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
Acts 25.7: 7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
Acts 25.8: 8 while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
Acts 25.9: 9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
Acts 25.10: 10 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
Acts 25.11: 11 For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Acts 25.12: 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”
Acts 25.13: 13 Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
Acts 25.14: 14 As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
Acts 25.15: 15 about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
Acts 25.16: 16 I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
Acts 25.17: 17 When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.
Acts 25.18: 18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed;
Acts 25.19: 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Acts 25.20: 20 Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.
Acts 25.21: 21 But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”
Acts 25.22: 22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.”
“Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”
Acts 25.23: 23 So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
Acts 25.24: 24 Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 25.25: 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,
Acts 25.26: 26 of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
Acts 25.27: 27 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”
Acts 26.0: 
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Acts 26.1: 1 Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.”
Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
Acts 26.2: 2 “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
Acts 26.3: 3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
Acts 26.4: 4 “Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
Acts 26.5: 5 having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts 26.6: 6 Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
Acts 26.7: 7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
Acts 26.8: 8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
Acts 26.9: 9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26.10: 10 I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
Acts 26.11: 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Acts 26.12: 12 “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
Acts 26.13: 13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
Acts 26.14: 14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Acts 26.15: 15 “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
“He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 
Acts 26.16: 16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; 
Acts 26.17: 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 
Acts 26.18: 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 26.19: 19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Acts 26.20: 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
Acts 26.21: 21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
Acts 26.22: 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
Acts 26.23: 23 how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
Acts 26.24: 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
Acts 26.25: 25 But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
Acts 26.26: 26 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
Acts 26.27: 27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
Acts 26.28: 28 Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
Acts 26.29: 29 Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
Acts 26.30: 30 The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
Acts 26.31: 31 When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
Acts 26.32: 32 Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
Acts 27.0: 
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Acts 27.1: 1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
Acts 27.2: 2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
Acts 27.3: 3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
Acts 27.4: 4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
Acts 27.5: 5 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Acts 27.6: 6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.
Acts 27.7: 7 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
Acts 27.8: 8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
Acts 27.9: 9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
Acts 27.10: 10 and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
Acts 27.11: 11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts 27.12: 12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.
Acts 27.13: 13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.
Acts 27.14: 14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. 
Acts 27.15: 15 When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
Acts 27.16: 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.
Acts 27.17: 17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
Acts 27.18: 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
Acts 27.19: 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
Acts 27.20: 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
Acts 27.21: 21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.
Acts 27.22: 22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
Acts 27.23: 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
Acts 27.24: 24 saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
Acts 27.25: 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
Acts 27.26: 26 But we must run aground on a certain island.”
Acts 27.27: 27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.
Acts 27.28: 28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
Acts 27.29: 29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
Acts 27.30: 30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
Acts 27.31: 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”
Acts 27.32: 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.
Acts 27.33: 33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts 27.34: 34 Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
Acts 27.35: 35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.
Acts 27.36: 36 Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
Acts 27.37: 37 In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
Acts 27.38: 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Acts 27.39: 39 When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
Acts 27.40: 40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
Acts 27.41: 41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
Acts 27.42: 42 The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
Acts 27.43: 43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
Acts 27.44: 44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.
Acts 28.0: 
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Acts 28.1: 1 When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.
Acts 28.2: 2 The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
Acts 28.3: 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Acts 28.4: 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
Acts 28.5: 5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
Acts 28.6: 6 But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Acts 28.7: 7 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.
Acts 28.8: 8 The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him.
Acts 28.9: 9 Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured.
Acts 28.10: 10 They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
Acts 28.11: 11 After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”
Acts 28.12: 12 Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
Acts 28.13: 13 From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
Acts 28.14: 14 where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
Acts 28.15: 15 From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
Acts 28.16: 16 When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
Acts 28.17: 17 After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
Acts 28.18: 18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts 28.19: 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
Acts 28.20: 20 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
Acts 28.21: 21 They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
Acts 28.22: 22 But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
Acts 28.23: 23 When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
Acts 28.24: 24 Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
Acts 28.25: 25 When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
Acts 28.26: 26 saying,
‘Go to this people and say,
in hearing, you will hear,
but will in no way understand.
In seeing, you will see,
but will in no way perceive.
Acts 28.27: 27 For this people’s heart has grown callous.
Their ears are dull of hearing.
Their eyes they have closed.
Lest they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and would turn again,
then I would heal them.’
Acts 28.28: 28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
Acts 28.29: 29 When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.
Acts 28.30: 30 Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
Acts 28.31: 31 preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
1 Thessalonians 3.0: 
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1 Thessalonians 3.1: 1 Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
1 Thessalonians 3.2: 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
1 Thessalonians 3.3: 3 that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
1 Thessalonians 3.4: 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
1 Thessalonians 3.5: 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3.6: 6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
1 Thessalonians 3.7: 7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3.8: 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3.9: 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
1 Thessalonians 3.10: 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
1 Thessalonians 3.11: 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
1 Thessalonians 3.12: 12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
1 Thessalonians 3.13: 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
2 Timothy 0.0: 
Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy
2 Timothy 1.0: 
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2 Timothy 1.1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 Timothy 1.2: 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1.3: 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
2 Timothy 1.4: 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
2 Timothy 1.5: 5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
2 Timothy 1.6: 6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
2 Timothy 1.7: 7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
2 Timothy 1.8: 8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
2 Timothy 1.9: 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
2 Timothy 1.10: 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
2 Timothy 1.11: 11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
2 Timothy 1.12: 12 For this cause I also suffer these things.
Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
2 Timothy 1.13: 13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1.14: 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
2 Timothy 1.15: 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy 1.16: 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
2 Timothy 1.17: 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
2 Timothy 1.18: 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
2 Timothy 2.0: 
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2 Timothy 2.1: 1 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2.2: 2 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2.3: 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2.4: 4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2.5: 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
2 Timothy 2.6: 6 The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
2 Timothy 2.7: 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
2 Timothy 2.8: 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,
2 Timothy 2.9: 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
2 Timothy 2.10: 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Timothy 2.11: 11 This saying is trustworthy:
“For if we died with him,
we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2.12: 12 If we endure,
we will also reign with him.
If we deny him,
he also will deny us.
2 Timothy 2.13: 13 If we are faithless,
he remains faithful;
for he can’t deny himself.”
2 Timothy 2.14: 14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
2 Timothy 2.15: 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
2 Timothy 2.16: 16 But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
2 Timothy 2.17: 17 and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
2 Timothy 2.18: 18 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.
2 Timothy 2.19: 19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
2 Timothy 2.20: 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.
2 Timothy 2.21: 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 2.22: 22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2.23: 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
2 Timothy 2.24: 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
2 Timothy 2.25: 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
2 Timothy 2.26: 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
2 Timothy 3.0: 
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2 Timothy 3.1: 1 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2 Timothy 3.2: 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3.3: 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
2 Timothy 3.4: 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2 Timothy 3.5: 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
2 Timothy 3.6: 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2 Timothy 3.7: 7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3.8: 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
2 Timothy 3.9: 9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
2 Timothy 3.10: 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
2 Timothy 3.11: 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
2 Timothy 3.12: 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 3.13: 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3.14: 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
2 Timothy 3.15: 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3.16: 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3.17: 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 4.0: 
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2 Timothy 4.1: 1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
2 Timothy 4.2: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4.3: 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
2 Timothy 4.4: 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
2 Timothy 4.5: 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4.6: 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
2 Timothy 4.7: 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4.8: 8 From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
2 Timothy 4.9: 9 Be diligent to come to me soon,
2 Timothy 4.10: 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 4.11: 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
2 Timothy 4.12: 12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
2 Timothy 4.13: 13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
2 Timothy 4.14: 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
2 Timothy 4.15: 15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
2 Timothy 4.16: 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
2 Timothy 4.17: 17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
2 Timothy 4.18: 18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 4.19: 19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
2 Timothy 4.20: 20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
2 Timothy 4.21: 21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
2 Timothy 4.22: 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
2 John 0.0: 
John’s Second Letter
2 John 1.0: 
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2 John 1.1: 1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,
2 John 1.2: 2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
2 John 1.3: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
2 John 1.4: 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
2 John 1.5: 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John 1.6: 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
2 John 1.7: 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
2 John 1.8: 8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
2 John 1.9: 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1.10: 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
2 John 1.11: 11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.
2 John 1.12: 12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
2 John 1.13: 13 The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.
Judith 0.0: 
JUDITH
Judith is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Judith 1.0: 
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Judith 1.1: 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,
Judith 1.2: 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;
Judith 1.3: 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;
Judith 1.4: 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—
Judith 1.5: 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.
Judith 1.6: 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.
Judith 1.7: 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,
Judith 1.8: 8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,
Judith 1.9: 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,
Judith 1.10: 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
Judith 1.11: 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.
Judith 1.12: 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.
Judith 1.13: 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.
Judith 1.14: 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.
Judith 1.15: 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.
Judith 1.16: 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.
Judith 2.0: 
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Judith 2.1: 1 In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.
Judith 2.2: 2 He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.
Judith 2.3: 3 They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth.
Judith 2.4: 4 It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him,
Judith 2.5: 5 “The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders.
Judith 2.6: 6 And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.
Judith 2.7: 7 You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.
Judith 2.8: 8 Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows.
Judith 2.9: 9 I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
Judith 2.10: 10 But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you, then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof.
Judith 2.11: 11 As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land.
Judith 2.12: 12 For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand.
Judith 2.13: 13 Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.”
Judith 2.14: 14 So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur.
Judith 2.15: 15 He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback.
Judith 2.16: 16 He arranged them as a great multitude is ordered for the war.
Judith 2.17: 17 He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,
Judith 2.18: 18 and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house.
Judith 2.19: 19 He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.
Judith 2.20: 20 A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.
Judith 2.21: 21 And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
Judith 2.22: 22 And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,
Judith 2.23: 23 and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.
Judith 2.24: 24 And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.
Judith 2.25: 25 And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, opposite Arabia.
Judith 2.26: 26 He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds.
Judith 2.27: 27 He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword.
Judith 2.28: 28 And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.
Judith 3.0: 
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Judith 3.1: 1 And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying,
Judith 3.2: 2 “Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.
Judith 3.3: 3 Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.
Judith 3.4: 4 Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”
Judith 3.5: 5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.
Judith 3.6: 6 He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.
Judith 3.7: 7 They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.
Judith 3.8: 8 He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.
Judith 3.9: 9 Then he came toward Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.
Judith 3.10: 10 He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.
Judith 4.0: 
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Judith 4.1: 1 The children of Israel that lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly.
Judith 4.2: 2 They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;
Judith 4.3: 3 because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned.
Judith 4.4: 4 And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem;
Judith 4.5: 5 and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped.
Judith 4.6: 6 Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon toward the plain that is near to Dothaim,
Judith 4.7: 7 charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most.
Judith 4.8: 8 And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem.
Judith 4.9: 9 And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls.
Judith 4.10: 10 They, their wives, their children, their cattle, and every sojourner, hireling, and servant bought with their money put sackcloth on their loins.
Judith 4.11: 11 Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar.
Judith 4.12: 12 They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at.
Judith 4.13: 13 The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.
Judith 4.14: 14 And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people.
Judith 4.15: 15 They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good.
Judith 5.0: 
5
Judith 5.1: 1 Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains.
Judith 5.2: 2 Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,
Judith 5.3: 3 and he said to them, “Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army?
Judith 5.4: 4 Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”
Judith 5.5: 5 Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.
Judith 5.6: 6 These people are descended from the Chaldeans.
Judith 5.7: 7 They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.
Judith 5.8: 8 They departed from the way of their parents, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
Judith 5.9: 9 Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.
Judith 5.10: 10 Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation.
Judith 5.11: 11 Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labor in brick, and made them slaves.
Judith 5.12: 12 They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
Judith 5.13: 13 God dried up the Red sea before them,
Judith 5.14: 14 and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness.
Judith 5.15: 15 They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.
Judith 5.16: 16 They cast out before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Shechemite, and all the Girgashites, and they lived in that country many days.
Judith 5.17: 17 And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them.
Judith 5.18: 18 But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries.
Judith 5.19: 19 And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.
Judith 5.20: 20 And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them.
Judith 5.21: 21 But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth.”
Judith 5.22: 22 It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.
Judith 5.23: 23 For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong.
Judith 5.24: 24 Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.”
Judith 6.0: 
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Judith 6.1: 1 And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab before all the people of the foreigners,
Judith 6.2: 2 “And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
Judith 6.3: 3 He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses.
Judith 6.4: 4 For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken will not be in vain.’
Judith 6.5: 5 But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.
Judith 6.6: 6 And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall among their slain when I return.
Judith 6.7: 7 Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents.
Judith 6.8: 8 You will not perish until you are destroyed with them.
Judith 6.9: 9 And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground.”
Judith 6.10: 10 Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
Judith 6.11: 11 So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia.
Judith 6.12: 12 When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them.
Judith 6.13: 13 They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord.
Judith 6.14: 14 But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city;
Judith 6.15: 15 which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
Judith 6.16: 16 Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened.
Judith 6.17: 17 He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel.
Judith 6.18: 18 Then the people fell down and worshiped God, and cried, saying,
Judith 6.19: 19 “O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day.”
Judith 6.20: 20 They comforted Achior, and praised him exceedingly.
Judith 6.21: 21 Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night.
Judith 7.0: 
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Judith 7.1: 1 The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp toward Bethulia, take beforehand the ascents of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel.
Judith 7.2: 2 Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage, and the men that were on foot among them: an exceedingly great multitude.
Judith 7.3: 3 They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon.
Judith 7.4: 4 But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight.
Judith 7.5: 5 Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
Judith 7.6: 6 But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,
Judith 7.7: 7 viewed the ascents to their city, and searched out the springs of the waters, seized upon them, and set garrisons of men of war over them. Then he departed back to his people.
Judith 7.8: 8 All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said,
Judith 7.9: 9 “Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not losses in your army.
Judith 7.10: 10 For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.
Judith 7.11: 11 And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish.
Judith 7.12: 12 Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain,
Judith 7.13: 13 because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city.
Judith 7.14: 14 They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell.
Judith 7.15: 15 And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace.”
Judith 7.16: 16 Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken.
Judith 7.17: 17 And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel.
Judith 7.18: 18 The children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and encamped in the hill country near Dothaim. They sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east, near Ekrebel, which is near Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur. The rest of the army of the Assyrians encamped in the plain, and covered all the face of the land. Their tents and baggage were pitched upon it in a great crowd. They were an exceedingly great multitude.
Judith 7.19: 19 The children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, for their spirit fainted; for all their enemies had surrounded them. There was no way to escape out from among them.
Judith 7.20: 20 All the army of Asshur remained around them, their footmen and their chariots and their horsemen, thirty-four days. All their vessels of water ran dry for all the inhabitants of Bethulia.
Judith 7.21: 21 The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure.
Judith 7.22: 22 Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them.
Judith 7.23: 23 All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
Judith 7.24: 24 “God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur.
Judith 7.25: 25 Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction.
Judith 7.26: 26 And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.
Judith 7.27: 27 For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.
Judith 7.28: 28 We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!”
Judith 7.29: 29 And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.
Judith 7.30: 30 And Ozias said to them, “Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.
Judith 7.31: 31 But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say.”
Judith 7.32: 32 Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city.
Judith 8.0: 
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Judith 8.1: 1 In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel.
Judith 8.2: 2 Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest.
Judith 8.3: 3 For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon.
Judith 8.4: 4 Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.
Judith 8.5: 5 She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her.
Judith 8.6: 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel.
Judith 8.7: 7 She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands.
Judith 8.8: 8 No one said anything evil about her; for she feared God exceedingly.
Judith 8.9: 9 She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.
Judith 8.10: 10 So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city.
Judith 8.11: 11 They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.
Judith 8.12: 12 Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God among the children of men?
Judith 8.13: 13 Now try the Lord Almighty, and you will never know anything.
Judith 8.14: 14 For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger!
Judith 8.15: 15 For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies.
Judith 8.16: 16 But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty.
Judith 8.17: 17 Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him.
Judith 8.18: 18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;
Judith 8.19: 19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.
Judith 8.20: 20 But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.
Judith 8.21: 21 For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it.
Judith 8.22: 22 And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach before those who take us for a possession.
Judith 8.23: 23 For our bondage will not be ordered to favor; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor.
Judith 8.24: 24 And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us.
Judith 8.25: 25 Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also.
Judith 8.26: 26 Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
Judith 8.27: 27 For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord does scourge them that come near to him, to admonish them.”
Judith 8.28: 28 And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words.
Judith 8.29: 29 For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good.
Judith 8.30: 30 But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.
Judith 8.31: 31 And now pray you for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more.”
Judith 8.32: 32 Then Judith said to them, “Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations among the children of our race.
Judith 8.33: 33 You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand.
Judith 8.34: 34 But you shall not inquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you, until the things are finished that I will do.”
Judith 8.35: 35 Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, “Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies.”
Judith 8.36: 36 So they returned from the tent, and went to their stations.
Judith 9.0: 
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Judith 9.1: 1 But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said,
Judith 9.2: 2 “O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so.
Judith 9.3: 3 Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived, to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones;
Judith 9.4: 4 and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow.
Judith 9.5: 5 For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass.
Judith 9.6: 6 Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’
Judith 9.7: 7 For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name.
Judith 9.8: 8 Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword.
Judith 9.9: 9 Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived.
Judith 9.10: 10 Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman.
Judith 9.11: 11 For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a savior of those who are without hope.
Judith 9.12: 12 Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth. Creator of the waters, King of every creature, hear my prayer.
Judith 9.13: 13 Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children.
Judith 9.14: 14 Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you.”
Judith 10.0: 
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Judith 10.1: 1 It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words,
Judith 10.2: 2 that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days.
Judith 10.3: 3 She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband.
Judith 10.4: 4 She took sandals for her feet, and put her chains around her, and her bracelets, her rings, her earrings, and all her jewelry, and decked herself bravely, to deceive the eyes of all men who would see her.
Judith 10.5: 5 She gave her maid a leather container of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, lumps of figs, and fine bread. She packed all her vessels together, and laid them upon her.
Judith 10.6: 6 They went out to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found Ozias and the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis standing by it.
Judith 10.7: 7 But when they saw her, that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very exceedingly, and said to her,
Judith 10.8: 8 “May the God of our fathers give you favor, and accomplish your purposes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem.”
Then she worshiped God,
Judith 10.9: 9 and said to them, “Command that they open the gate of the city for me, and I will go out to accomplish the things you spoke with me about.”
And they commanded the young men to open to her, as she had spoken;
Judith 10.10: 10 and they did so.
Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more.
Judith 10.11: 11 They went straight onward in the valley. The watch of the Assyrians met her;
Judith 10.12: 12 and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed.
Judith 10.13: 13 I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.”
Judith 10.14: 14 Now when the men heard her words, and considered her countenance, the beauty thereof was exceedingly marvelous in their eyes. They said to her,
Judith 10.15: 15 “You have saved your life, in that you have hurried to come down to the presence of our master. Now come to his tent. Some of us will guide you until they deliver you into his hands.
Judith 10.16: 16 But when you stand before him, don’t be afraid in your heart, but declare to him according to your words; and he will treat you well.”
Judith 10.17: 17 They chose out of them a hundred men, and appointed them to accompany her and her maid; and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.
Judith 10.18: 18 And there was great excitement throughout all the camp, for her coming was reported among the tents. They came and surrounded her as she stood outside Holofernes’ tent, until they told him about her.
Judith 10.19: 19 They marveled at her beauty, and marveled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbor, “Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let go, they will be able to deceive the whole earth.
Judith 10.20: 20 Those who lay near Holofernes, and all his servants, went out and brought her into the tent.
Judith 10.21: 21 And Holofernes was resting upon his bed under the canopy, which was woven with purple, gold, emeralds, and precious stones.
Judith 10.22: 22 And they told him about her; and he came out into the space before his tent, with silver lamps going before him.
Judith 10.23: 23 But when Judith had come before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance. She fell down upon her face, and bowed down to him, but his servants raised her up.
Judith 11.0: 
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Judith 11.1: 1 Holofernes said to her, “Woman, take courage. Don’t be afraid in your heart; for I never hurt anyone who has chosen to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.
Judith 11.2: 2 And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.
Judith 11.3: 3 And now tell me why you fled from them and came to us; for you have come to save yourself. Take courage! You will live tonight, and hereafter;
Judith 11.4: 4 for there is no one that will wrong you, but all will treat you well, as is done to the servants of king Nebuchadnezzar my lord.”
Judith 11.5: 5 And Judith said to him, “Receive the words of your servant, and let your handmaid speak in your presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.
Judith 11.6: 6 If you will follow the words of your handmaid, God will bring the thing to pass perfectly with you; and my lord will not fail to accomplish his purposes.
Judith 11.7: 7 As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.
Judith 11.8: 8 For we have heard of your wisdom and the subtle plans of your soul. It has been reported in all the earth that you only are brave in all the kingdom, mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.
Judith 11.9: 9 And now as concerning the matter which Achior spoke in your council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared to them all that he had spoken before you.
Judith 11.10: 10 Therefore, O lord and master, don’t neglect his word; but lay it up in your heart, for it is true; for our race will not be punished, neither will the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.
Judith 11.11: 11 And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.
Judith 11.12: 12 Since their food failed them, and all their water was scant, they took counsel to lay hands upon their cattle, and determined to consume all those things which God charged them by his laws that they should not eat.
Judith 11.13: 13 They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn, and the tenths of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem; which things it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
Judith 11.14: 14 They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders.
Judith 11.15: 15 It will be, when word comes to them and they do it, they will be given to you to be destroyed the same day.
Judith 11.16: 16 Therefore I your servant, knowing all this, fled away from their presence. God sent me to work things with you, at which all the earth will be astonished, even as many as hear it.
Judith 11.17: 17 For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night. Now, my lord, I will stay with you, and your servant will go out by night into the valley. I will pray to God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
Judith 11.18: 18 Then I will come and show it also to you. Then you shall go out with all your army, and there will be none of them that will resist you.
Judith 11.19: 19 And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”
Judith 11.20: 20 Her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants. They marveled at her wisdom, and said,
Judith 11.21: 21 “There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”
Judith 11.22: 22 Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction among those who slighted my lord.
Judith 11.23: 23 And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and wise in your words. If you will do as you have spoken, your God will be my God, and you will dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and will be renowned through the whole earth.”
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Judith 12.1: 1 He commanded that she should be brought in where his silver vessels were set, and asked that his servants should prepare some of his own meats for her, and that she should drink from his own wine.
Judith 12.2: 2 And Judith said, “I will not eat of it, lest there be an occasion of stumbling: but provision will be made for me of the things that have come with me.”
Judith 12.3: 3 And Holofernes said to her, “But if the things that are with you should fail, from where will we be able to give you more like it? For there is none of your race with us.”
Judith 12.4: 4 And Judith said to him, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not spend those things that are with me, until the Lord works by my hand the things that he has determined.”
Judith 12.5: 5 Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up toward the morning watch,
Judith 12.6: 6 and sent to Holofernes, saying, “Let my lord now command that they allow your servant to go out to pray.”
Judith 12.7: 7 Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp.
Judith 12.8: 8 And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of his people.
Judith 12.9: 9 She came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she ate her food toward evening.
Judith 12.10: 10 It came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.
Judith 12.11: 11 And he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, “Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she come to us, and eat and drink with us.
Judith 12.12: 12 For, behold, it is a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we don’t draw her to ourselves, she will laugh us to scorn.”
Judith 12.13: 13 Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and came in to her, and said, “Let this fair lady not fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to be made this day as one of the daughters of the children of Asshur, which wait in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”
Judith 12.14: 14 Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”
Judith 12.15: 15 She arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire; and her servant went and laid fleeces on the ground for her next to Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.
Judith 12.16: 16 Judith came in and sat down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her. His soul was moved, and he exceedingly desired her company. He was watching for a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.
Judith 12.17: 17 Holofernes said to her, “Drink now, and be merry with us.”
Judith 12.18: 18 Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”
Judith 12.19: 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her servant had prepared.
Judith 12.20: 20 Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceedingly much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.
Judith 13.0: 
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Judith 13.1: 1 But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
Judith 13.2: 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.
Judith 13.3: 3 Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.
Judith 13.4: 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.
Judith 13.5: 5 For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.
Judith 13.6: 6 She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.
Judith 13.7: 7 She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”
Judith 13.8: 8 She struck twice upon his neck with all her might, and took away his head from him,
Judith 13.9: 9 tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;
Judith 13.10: 10 and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.
Judith 13.11: 11 Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”
Judith 13.12: 12 It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.
Judith 13.13: 13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.
Judith 13.14: 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”
Judith 13.15: 15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.
Judith 13.16: 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”
Judith 13.17: 17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”
Judith 13.18: 18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.
Judith 13.19: 19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.
Judith 13.20: 20 May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”
And all the people said, “Amen! Amen!”
Judith 14.0: 
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Judith 14.1: 1 Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall.
Judith 14.2: 2 It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain toward the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down.
Judith 14.3: 3 These shall take up their full armor, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face.
Judith 14.4: 4 You men, and all that inhabit every coast of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go.
Judith 14.5: 5 But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death.
Judith 14.6: 6 And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed.
Judith 14.7: 7 But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith’s feet, and bowed down to her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah, and in every nation, which hearing your name will be troubled.
Judith 14.8: 8 Now tell me all the things that you have done in these days.”
And Judith declared to him in the midst of the people all the things that she had done, from the day that she went out until the time that she spoke to them.
Judith 14.9: 9 But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.
Judith 14.10: 10 But when Achior saw all the things that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God exceedingly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the house of Israel, to this day.
Judith 14.11: 11 But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons, and they went forth by bands to the ascents of the mountain.
Judith 14.12: 12 But when the children of Asshur saw them, they sent word to their leaders; but they went to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.
Judith 14.13: 13 They came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that was over all that he had, “Wake our lord up, now; for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.”
Judith 14.14: 14 Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.
Judith 14.15: 15 But when no one listened to him, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead, and his head had been taken from him.
Judith 14.16: 16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping and groaning and a mighty cry, and tore his garments.
Judith 14.17: 17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud,
Judith 14.18: 18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of king Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”
Judith 14.19: 19 But when the rulers of the army of Asshur heard the words, they tore their coats, and their soul was troubled exceedingly. There was a cry and an exceedingly great noise in the midst of the camp.
Judith 15.0: 
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Judith 15.1: 1 When those who were in the tents heard, they were amazed at what happened.
Judith 15.2: 2 Trembling and fear fell upon them, and no man dared stay any more in the sight of his neighbor, but rushing out with one accord, they fled into every way of the plain and of the hill country.
Judith 15.3: 3 Those who had encamped in the hill country round about Bethulia fled away. And then the children of Israel, every one who was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.
Judith 15.4: 4 Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.
Judith 15.5: 5 But wnen the children of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord, and struck them to Chobai. Yes, and in like manner also they of Jerusalem and of all the hill country came (for men had told them about what happened in their enemies’ camp), and those who were in Gilead and in Galilee fell upon their flank with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and its borders.
Judith 15.6: 6 The rest of the people who lived at Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, and plundered them, and were enriched exceedingly.
Judith 15.7: 7 The children of Israel returned from the slaughter, and got possession of that which remained. The villages and the cities that were in the hill country and in the plain country, took many spoils; for there was an exceedingly great supply.
Judith 15.8: 8 Joakim the high priest, and the elders of the children of Israel who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things which the Lord had showed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.
Judith 15.9: 9 When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!
Judith 15.10: 10 You have done all these things by your hand. You have done with Israel the things that are good, and God is pleased with it. Blessed be you with the Almighty Lord forever.”
And all the people said, “Amen!”
Judith 15.11: 11 And the people plundered the camp for the space of thirty days: and they gave Holofernes’ tent to Judith, along with all his silver cups, his beds, his bowls, and all his furniture. She took them, and placed them on her mule, and prepared her wagons, and heaped them on it.
Judith 15.12: 12 And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance among them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.
Judith 15.13: 13 Then they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.
Judith 16.0: 
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Judith 16.1: 1 And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.
Judith 16.2: 2 Judith said,
“Begin a song to my God with timbrels.
Sing to my Lord with cymbals.
Make melody to him psalm and praise.
Exalt him, and call upon his name.
Judith 16.3: 3 For the Lord is the God that crushes battles.
For in his armies in the midst of the people,
he delivered me out of the hand of those who persecuted me.
Judith 16.4: 4 Asshur came out of the mountains from the north.
He came with ten thousands of his army.
Its multitude stopped the torrents.
Their horsemen covered the hills.
Judith 16.5: 5 He said that he would burn up my borders,
kill my young men with the sword,
throw my nursing children to the ground,
give my infants up as prey,
and make my virgins a plunder.
Judith 16.6: 6 “The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman.
Judith 16.7: 7 For their mighty one didn’t fall by young men,
neither did sons of the Titans strike him.
Tall giants didn’t attack him,
but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.
Judith 16.8: 8 “For she put off the apparel of her widowhood
for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel.
She anointed her face with ointment,
bound her hair in a tiara,
and took a linen garment to deceive him.
Judith 16.9: 9 Her sandal ravished his eye.
Her beauty took his soul prisoner.
The scimitar passed through his neck.
Judith 16.10: 10 “The Persians quaked at her daring.
The Medes were daunted at her boldness.
Judith 16.11: 11 “Then my lowly ones shouted aloud.
My weak ones were terrified and trembled for fear.
They lifted up their voice, and they fled.
Judith 16.12: 12 The sons of ladies pierced them through,
and wounded them as fugitives’ children.
They perished by the battle of my Lord.
Judith 16.13: 13 “I will sing to my God a new song:
O Lord, you are great and glorious,
marvelous in strength, invincible.
Judith 16.14: 14 Let all your creation serve you;
for you spoke, and they were made.
You sent out your spirit, and it built them.
There is no one who can resist your voice.
Judith 16.15: 15 For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters,
and the rocks will melt as wax at your presence:
But you are yet merciful to those who fear you.
Judith 16.16: 16 For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor,
And all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you;
But he who fears the Lord is great continually.
Judith 16.17: 17 “Woe to the nations who rise up against my race!
The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgement,
to put fire and worms in their flesh;
and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”
Judith 16.18: 18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.
Judith 16.19: 19 Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.
Judith 16.20: 20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.
Judith 16.21: 21 But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
Judith 16.22: 22 Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.
Judith 16.23: 23 She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
Judith 16.24: 24 The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.
Judith 16.25: 25 There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.
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