Judges 13.0:

Judges 13.1: 13The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 13.2: 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

Judges 13.3: 3 Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

Judges 13.4: 4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

Judges 13.5: 5 for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 13.6: 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;

Judges 13.7: 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Judges 13.8: 8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”

Judges 13.9: 9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.

Judges 13.10: 10 The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me,”

Judges 13.11: 11 Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”

He said, “I am.”

Judges 13.12: 12 Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”

Judges 13.13: 13 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

Judges 13.14: 14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

Judges 13.15: 15 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”

Judges 13.16: 16 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.

Judges 13.17: 17 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”

Judges 13.18: 18 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible1?”

Judges 13.19: 19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

Judges 13.20: 20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

Judges 13.21: 21 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.

Judges 13.22: 22 Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”

Judges 13.23: 23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”

Judges 13.24: 24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

Judges 13.25: 25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 16.0:

Judges 16.1: 16Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

Judges 16.2: 2 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

Judges 16.3: 3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

Judges 16.4: 4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16.5: 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

Judges 16.6: 6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

Judges 16.7: 7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Judges 16.8: 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Judges 16.9: 9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

Judges 16.10: 10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Judges 16.11: 11 He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Judges 16.12: 12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

Judges 16.13: 13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”

He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”

Judges 16.14: 14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.

Judges 16.15: 15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

Judges 16.16: 16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

Judges 16.17: 17 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

Judges 16.18: 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

Judges 16.19: 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

Judges 16.20: 20 She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!”

He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Judges 16.21: 21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Judges 16.22: 22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

Judges 16.23: 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

Judges 16.24: 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

Judges 16.25: 25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

Judges 16.26: 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”

Judges 16.27: 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

Judges 16.28: 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Judges 16.29: 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

Judges 16.30: 30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Judges 16.31: 31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

Psalms 6.0:

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.

Psalms 6.1: 6Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger,

neither discipline me in your wrath.

Psalms 6.2: 2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint.

Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalms 6.3: 3 My soul is also in great anguish.

But you, Yahweh—how long?

Psalms 6.4: 4 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul,

and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

Psalms 6.5: 5 For in death there is no memory of you.

In Sheol,1 who shall give you thanks?

Psalms 6.6: 6 I am weary with my groaning.

Every night I flood my bed.

I drench my couch with my tears.

Psalms 6.7: 7 My eye wastes away because of grief.

It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Psalms 6.8: 8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,

for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 6.9: 9 Yahweh has heard my supplication.

Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Psalms 6.10: 10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.

They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

Psalms 12.0:

For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

Psalms 12.1: 12Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.

For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Psalms 12.2: 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor.

They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 12.3: 3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

and the tongue that boasts,

Psalms 12.4: 4 who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.

Our lips are our own.

Who is lord over us?”

Psalms 12.5: 5 “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,

I will now arise,” says Yahweh;

“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Psalms 12.6: 6 Yahweh’s words are flawless words,

as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Psalms 12.7: 7 You will keep them, Yahweh.

You will preserve them from this generation forever.

Psalms 12.8: 8 The wicked walk on every side,

when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalms 29.0:

A Psalm by David.

Psalms 29.1: 29Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,

ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Psalms 29.2: 2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.

Worship Yahweh in holy array.

Psalms 29.3: 3 Yahweh’s voice is on the waters.

The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Psalms 29.4: 4 Yahweh’s voice is powerful.

Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.

Psalms 29.5: 5 Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars.

Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalms 29.6: 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf;

Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

Psalms 29.7: 7 Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Psalms 29.8: 8 Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness.

Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 29.9: 9 Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve,

and strips the forests bare.

In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

Psalms 29.10: 10 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood.

Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

Psalms 29.11: 11 Yahweh will give strength to his people.

Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Psalms 77.0:

For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.

Psalms 77.1: 77My cry goes to God!

Indeed, I cry to God for help,

and for him to listen to me.

Psalms 77.2: 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.

My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired.

My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalms 77.3: 3 I remember God, and I groan.

I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalms 77.4: 4 You hold my eyelids open.

I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

Psalms 77.5: 5 I have considered the days of old,

the years of ancient times.

Psalms 77.6: 6 I remember my song in the night.

I consider in my own heart;

my spirit diligently inquires:

Psalms 77.7: 7 “Will the Lord reject us forever?

Will he be favorable no more?

Psalms 77.8: 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever?

Does his promise fail for generations?

Psalms 77.9: 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?

Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

Psalms 77.10: 10 Then I thought, “I will appeal to this:

the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

Psalms 77.11: 11 I will remember Yah’s deeds;

for I will remember your wonders of old.

Psalms 77.12: 12 I will also meditate on all your work,

and consider your doings.

Psalms 77.13: 13 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.

What god is great like God?

Psalms 77.14: 14 You are the God who does wonders.

You have made your strength known among the peoples.

Psalms 77.15: 15 You have redeemed your people with your arm,

the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Psalms 77.16: 16 The waters saw you, God.

The waters saw you, and they writhed.

The depths also convulsed.

Psalms 77.17: 17 The clouds poured out water.

The skies resounded with thunder.

Your arrows also flashed around.

Psalms 77.18: 18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.

The lightnings lit up the world.

The earth trembled and shook.

Psalms 77.19: 19 Your way was through the sea;

your paths through the great waters.

Your footsteps were not known.

Psalms 77.20: 20 You led your people like a flock,

by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Ezekiel 4.0:

Ezekiel 4.1: 4“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4.2: 2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

Ezekiel 4.3: 3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.4: 4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4.5: 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4.6: 6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

Ezekiel 4.7: 7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4.8: 8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4.9: 9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Ezekiel 4.10: 10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels1 a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4.11: 11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin.2 From time to time you shall drink.

Ezekiel 4.12: 12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

Ezekiel 4.13: 13 Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ezekiel 4.14: 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

Ezekiel 4.15: 15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”

Ezekiel 4.16: 16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

Ezekiel 4.17: 17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Ezekiel 5.0:

Ezekiel 5.1: 5“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5.2: 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.3: 3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe.

Ezekiel 5.4: 4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5.5: 5 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.

Ezekiel 5.6: 6 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’

Ezekiel 5.7: 7 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;

Ezekiel 5.8: 8 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5.9: 9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do anything like it any more, because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 5.10: 10 Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

Ezekiel 5.11: 11 Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 5.12: 12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

Ezekiel 5.13: 13 “‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

Ezekiel 5.14: 14 “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Ezekiel 5.15: 15 So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

Ezekiel 5.16: 16 when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

Ezekiel 5.17: 17 I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’”