2 Chronicles 0.0:

The Second Book of Chronicles

Lamentations 1.0:

Lamentations 1.1: 1How the city sits solitary,

that was full of people!

She has become as a widow,

who was great among the nations!

She who was a princess among the provinces

has become a slave!

Lamentations 1.2: 2 She weeps bitterly in the night.

Her tears are on her cheeks.

Among all her lovers

she has no one to comfort her.

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.

They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1.3: 3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,

and because of great servitude.

She dwells among the nations.

She finds no rest.

All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

Lamentations 1.4: 4 The roads to Zion mourn,

because no one comes to the solemn assembly.

All her gates are desolate.

Her priests sigh.

Her virgins are afflicted,

and she herself is in bitterness.

Lamentations 1.5: 5 Her adversaries have become the head.

Her enemies prosper;

for Yahweh1 has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.

Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Lamentations 1.6: 6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.

Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.

They have gone without strength before the pursuer.

Lamentations 1.7: 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries

all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;

when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,

and no one helped her.

The adversaries saw her.

They mocked at her desolations.

Lamentations 1.8: 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.

Therefore she has become unclean.

All who honored her despise her,

because they have seen her nakedness.

Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

Lamentations 1.9: 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.

She didn’t remember her latter end.

Therefore she has come down astoundingly.

She has no comforter.

“See, Yahweh, my affliction;

for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Lamentations 1.10: 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;

for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,

concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

Lamentations 1.11: 11 All her people sigh.

They seek bread.

They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.

“Look, Yahweh, and see;

for I have become despised.”

Lamentations 1.12: 12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,

which is brought on me,

with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lamentations 1.13: 13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,

and it prevails against them.

He has spread a net for my feet.

He has turned me back.

He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

Lamentations 1.14: 14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.

They are knit together.

They have come up on my neck.

He made my strength fail.

The Lord2 has delivered me into their hands,

against whom I am not able to stand.

Lamentations 1.15: 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.

He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.

The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.

Lamentations 1.16: 16 “For these things I weep.

My eye, my eye runs down with water,

because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.

My children are desolate,

because the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1.17: 17 Zion spreads out her hands.

There is no one to comfort her.

Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,

that those who are around him should be his adversaries.

Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Lamentations 1.18: 18 “Yahweh is righteous;

for I have rebelled against his commandment.

Please hear all you peoples,

and see my sorrow.

My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1.19: 19 “I called for my lovers,

but they deceived me.

My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,

while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

Lamentations 1.20: 20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.

My heart is troubled.

My heart turns over within me,

for I have grievously rebelled.

Abroad, the sword bereaves.

At home, it is like death.

Lamentations 1.21: 21 “They have heard that I sigh.

There is no one to comfort me.

All my enemies have heard of my trouble.

They are glad that you have done it.

You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,

and they will be like me.

Lamentations 1.22: 22 “Let all their wickedness come before you.

Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.

For my sighs are many,

and my heart is faint.

Ezekiel 30.0:

Ezekiel 30.1: 30Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

Ezekiel 30.3: 3 For the day is near,

even Yahweh’s day is near.

It will be a day of clouds,

a time of the nations.

Ezekiel 30.4: 4 A sword will come on Egypt,

and anguish will be in Ethiopia,

when the slain fall in Egypt.

They take away her multitude,

and her foundations are broken down.

Ezekiel 30.5: 5 “‘“Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”

Ezekiel 30.6: 6 “‘Yahweh says:

“They also who uphold Egypt will fall.

The pride of her power will come down.

They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,”

says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 30.7: 7 “They will be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate.

Her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

Ezekiel 30.8: 8 They will know that I am Yahweh

when I have set a fire in Egypt,

and all her helpers are destroyed.

Ezekiel 30.9: 9 “‘“In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

Ezekiel 30.10: 10 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,

by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30.11: 11 He and his people with him,

the terrible of the nations,

will be brought in to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 30.12: 12 I will make the rivers dry,

and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.

I will make the land desolate,

and all that is therein,

by the hand of strangers:

I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

Ezekiel 30.13: 13 “‘The Lord Yahweh says:

“I will also destroy the idols,

and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis.

There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt.

I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30.14: 14 I will make Pathros desolate,

and will set a fire in Zoan,

and will execute judgments on No.

Ezekiel 30.15: 15 I will pour my wrath on Sin,

the stronghold of Egypt.

I will cut off the multitude of No.

Ezekiel 30.16: 16 I will set a fire in Egypt

Sin will be in great anguish.

No will be broken up.

Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

Ezekiel 30.17: 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword.

They will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30.18: 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,

when I break the yokes of Egypt, there.

The pride of her power will cease in her.

As for her, a cloud will cover her,

and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30.19: 19 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.

Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Ezekiel 30.20: 20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 30.21: 21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

Ezekiel 30.22: 22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezekiel 30.23: 23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezekiel 30.24: 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

Ezekiel 30.25: 25 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30.26: 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

John 11.0:

John 11.1: 11Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

John 11.2: 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

John 11.3: 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

John 11.4: 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

John 11.5: 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

John 11.6: 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

John 11.7: 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

John 11.8: 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

John 11.9: 9 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

John 11.10: 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

John 11.11: 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

John 11.12: 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

John 11.13: 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

John 11.14: 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

John 11.15: 15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

John 11.16: 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,1 said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

John 11.17: 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

John 11.18: 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia2 away.

John 11.19: 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

John 11.20: 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

John 11.21: 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

John 11.22: 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

John 11.23: 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

John 11.24: 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

John 11.25: 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

John 11.26: 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11.27: 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

John 11.28: 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

John 11.29: 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.

John 11.30: 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

John 11.31: 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

John 11.32: 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

John 11.33: 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

John 11.34: 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?”

They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

John 11.35: 35 Jesus wept.

John 11.36: 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

John 11.37: 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

John 11.38: 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

John 11.39: 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

John 11.40: 40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

John 11.41: 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.3 Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

John 11.42: 42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

John 11.43: 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

John 11.44: 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

John 11.45: 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

John 11.46: 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

John 11.47: 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

John 11.48: 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

John 11.49: 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

John 11.50: 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

John 11.51: 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

John 11.52: 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

John 11.53: 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

John 11.54: 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

John 11.55: 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

John 11.56: 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”

John 11.57: 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

1 Corinthians 0.0:

Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians

Sirach 1.0:

Sirach 1.1: 1All wisdom comes from the Lord,

and is with him forever.

Sirach 1.2: 2 Who can count the sand of the seas,

the drops of rain,

and the days of eternity?

Sirach 1.3: 3 Who will search out the height of the sky,

the breadth of the earth, the deep,

and wisdom?

Sirach 1.4: 4 Wisdom has been created before all things,

and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.

Sirach 1.5: 5 1

Sirach 1.6: 6 To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed?

Who has known her shrewd counsels?

Sirach 1.7: 7 2

Sirach 1.8: 8 There is one wise, greatly to be feared,

sitting upon his throne: the Lord.

Sirach 1.9: 9 He created her.

He saw and measured her.

He poured her out upon all his works.

Sirach 1.10: 10 She is with all flesh according to his gift.

He gave her freely to those who love him.

Sirach 1.11: 11 The fear of the Lord is glory, exultation,

and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.

Sirach 1.12: 12 The fear of the Lord will delight the heart,

and will give gladness, joy, and length of days.

Sirach 1.13: 13 Whoever fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last.

He will be blessed in the day of his death .

Sirach 1.14: 14 To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

It was created together with the faithful in the womb.

Sirach 1.15: 15 She 3 laid an eternal foundation with men.

She will be trusted among their offspring.

Sirach 1.16: 16 To fear the Lord is the fullness of wisdom.

She inebriates men with her fruits.

Sirach 1.17: 17 She will fill all her house with desirable things,

and her storehouses with her produce.

Sirach 1.18: 18 The fear of the Lord is the crown of wisdom,

making peace and 4 perfect health to flourish. 5

Sirach 1.19: 19 He both saw and measured her.

He rained down skill and knowledge of understanding,

and exalted the honor of those who hold her fast.

Sirach 1.20: 20 To fear the Lord is the root of wisdom.

Her branches are length of days.

Sirach 1.21: 21 6

Sirach 1.22: 22 Unjust wrath can never be justified,

for the sway of his wrath is his downfall.

Sirach 1.23: 23 A man that is patient will resist for a season,

and afterward gladness will spring up to him.

Sirach 1.24: 24 He will hide his words for a season,

and the lips of many will tell of his understanding.

Sirach 1.25: 25 A parable of knowledge is in the treasures of wisdom;

but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.

Sirach 1.26: 26 If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments

and the Lord will give her to you freely;

Sirach 1.27: 27 for the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction.

Faith and humility are his good pleasure.

Sirach 1.28: 28 Don’t disobey the fear of the Lord.

Don’t come to him with a double heart.

Sirach 1.29: 29 Don’t be a hypocrite in the mouths of men.

Keep watch over your lips.

Sirach 1.30: 30 Don’t exalt yourself,

lest you fall and bring dishonor upon your soul.

The Lord will reveal your secrets

and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation,

because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord

and your heart was full of deceit.

Sirach 8.0:

Sirach 8.1: 8Don’t contend with a mighty man,

lest perhaps you fall into his hands.

Sirach 8.2: 2 Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you;

for gold has destroyed many,

and turned away the hearts of kings.

Sirach 8.3: 3 Don’t contend with a talkative man.

Don’t heap wood upon his fire.

Sirach 8.4: 4 Don’t jest with a rude man,

Lest your ancestors be dishonored.

Sirach 8.5: 5 Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin.

Remember that we are all worthy of punishment.

Sirach 8.6: 6 Don’t dishonor a man in his old age;

for some of us are also growing old.

Sirach 8.7: 7 Don’t rejoice over one who is dead.

Remember that we all die.

Sirach 8.8: 8 Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise.

Be conversant with their proverbs;

for from them you will learn instruction

and how to minister to great men.

Sirach 8.9: 9 Don’t miss the discourse of the aged,

for they also learned from their fathers,

because from them you will learn understanding,

and to give an answer in time of need.

Sirach 8.10: 10 Don’t kindle the coals of a sinner,

lest you be burned with the flame of his fire.

Sirach 8.11: 11 Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man,

lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth.

Sirach 8.12: 12 Don’t lend to a man who is mightier than yourself;

and if you lend, be as one who has lost.

Sirach 8.13: 13 Don’t be surety above your power.

If you are surety, think as one who will have to pay.

Sirach 8.14: 14 Don’t go to law with a judge;

for according to his honor they will give judgement for him.

Sirach 8.15: 15 Don’t go in the way with a rash man,

lest he be burdonsome to you;

for he will do according to his own will,

and you will perish with his folly.

Sirach 8.16: 16 Don’t fight with a wrathful man.

Don’t travel with him through the desert,

for blood is as nothing in his sight.

Where there is no help, he will overthrow you.

Sirach 8.17: 17 Don’t take counsel with a fool,

for he will not be able to conceal the matter.

Sirach 8.18: 18 Do no secret thing before a stranger,

For you don’t know what it will cause.

Sirach 8.19: 19 Don’t open your heart to every man.

Don’t let him return you a favor.