\p Genesis 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Genesis 13.1: \v 1 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
\p Genesis 13.2: \v 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
\p Genesis 13.3: \v 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
\p Genesis 13.4: \v 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
\p Genesis 13.5: \v 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
\p Genesis 13.6: \v 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
\p Genesis 13.7: \v 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
\p Genesis 13.8: \v 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
\p Genesis 13.9: \v 9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
\p
\p Genesis 13.10: \v 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
\p Genesis 13.11: \v 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
\p Genesis 13.12: \v 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
\p Genesis 13.13: \v 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
\p
\p Genesis 13.14: \v 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
\p Genesis 13.15: \v 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
\p Genesis 13.16: \v 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
\p Genesis 13.17: \v 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
\p
\p Genesis 13.18: \v 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
\p Deuteronomy 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Deuteronomy 7.1: \v 1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
\p Deuteronomy 7.2: \v 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.3: \v 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
\p Deuteronomy 7.4: \v 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
\p Deuteronomy 7.5: \v 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
\p Deuteronomy 7.6: \v 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\p Deuteronomy 7.7: \v 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
\p Deuteronomy 7.8: \v 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
\p Deuteronomy 7.9: \v 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
\p Deuteronomy 7.10: \v 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
\p Deuteronomy 7.11: \v 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.12: \v 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
\p Deuteronomy 7.13: \v 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.14: \v 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
\p Deuteronomy 7.15: \v 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.16: \v 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.17: \v 17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
\p Deuteronomy 7.18: \v 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
\p Deuteronomy 7.19: \v 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
\p Deuteronomy 7.20: \v 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.21: \v 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
\p Deuteronomy 7.22: \v 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
\p Deuteronomy 7.23: \v 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
\p Deuteronomy 7.24: \v 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
\p Deuteronomy 7.25: \v 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
\p Deuteronomy 7.26: \v 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
\p Psalms 144.0: \c 144
\d By David.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.1: \v 1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
\q2 who teaches my hands to war,
\q2 and my fingers to battle:
\q1
\p Psalms 144.2: \v 2 my loving kindness, my fortress,
\q2 my high tower, my deliverer,
\q2 my shield, and he in whom I take refuge,
\q2 who subdues my people under me.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.3: \v 3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him?
\q2 Or the son of man, that you think of him?
\q1
\p Psalms 144.4: \v 4 Man is like a breath.
\q2 His days are like a shadow that passes away.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.5: \v 5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down.
\q2 Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.6: \v 6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them.
\q2 Send out your arrows, and rout them.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.7: \v 7 Stretch out your hand from above,
\q2 rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
\q2 out of the hands of foreigners,
\q2
\p Psalms 144.8: \v 8 whose mouths speak deceit,
\q2 whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.9: \v 9 I will sing a new song to you, God.
\q2 On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.10: \v 10 You are he who gives salvation to kings,
\q2 who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.11: \v 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners,
\q2 whose mouths speak deceit,
\q2 whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
\b
\q1
\p Psalms 144.12: \v 12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants,
\q2 our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.13: \v 13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.
\q2 Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.14: \v 14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads.
\q2 There is no breaking in, and no going away,
\q2 and no outcry in our streets.
\q1
\p Psalms 144.15: \v 15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation.
\q2 Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
\p Isaiah 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p Isaiah 16.1: \v 1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
\p Isaiah 16.2: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.3: \v 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!
\p Isaiah 16.4: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.5: \v 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.
\p
\p Isaiah 16.6: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.7: \v 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
\p Isaiah 16.8: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.9: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.10: \v 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.
\p Isaiah 16.11: \v 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
\p Isaiah 16.12: \v 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.
\p
\p Isaiah 16.13: \v 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.
\p Isaiah 16.14: \v 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.”
\p 2 Timothy 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
\p 2 Timothy 1.2: \v 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.3: \v 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
\p 2 Timothy 1.4: \v 4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
\p 2 Timothy 1.5: \v 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.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.6: \v 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.
\p 2 Timothy 1.7: \v 7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
\p 2 Timothy 1.8: \v 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,
\p 2 Timothy 1.9: \v 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,
\p 2 Timothy 1.10: \v 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.
\p 2 Timothy 1.11: \v 11 For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
\p 2 Timothy 1.12: \v 12 For this cause I also suffer these things.
\p 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.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.13: \v 13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
\p 2 Timothy 1.14: \v 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
\p
\p 2 Timothy 1.15: \v 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
\p 2 Timothy 1.16: \v 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
\p 2 Timothy 1.17: \v 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
\p 2 Timothy 1.18: \v 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.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.1: \v 1 But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”
\p Esther (Greek) 4.2: \v 2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.3: \v 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.4: \v 4 The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.5: \v 5 So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.7: \v 7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.8: \v 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.9: \v 9 So Hathach went in and told her all these words.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.10: \v 10 Esther said to Hathach, “Go to Mordecai, and say,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.11: \v 11 ‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.12: \v 12 So Hathach reported to Mordecai all the words of Esther.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.13: \v 13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.14: \v 14 For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.15: \v 15 And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mordecai, saying,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.16: \v 16 “Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.17: \v 17 So Mordecai went and did all that Esther commanded him. \f + \fr 4:17 \fl Note: \ft The part between brackets, \fl i.e. \ft to the end of chap. \fl iv. is not in the \fl Hebrew \f*
\p Esther (Greek) 4.18: \v 18 [He prayed to the Lord, making mention of all the works of the Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.19: \v 19 He said, “Lord \f + \fr 4:19 \ft See 3 Kings 8.53. \fl Note. \f* God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;
\p Esther (Greek) 4.20: \v 20 for you have made the heaven and the earth and every wonderful thing under heaven.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.21: \v 21 You are Lord of all, and there is no one who can resist you, Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.22: \v 22 You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.23: \v 23 For I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet for the safety of Israel.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.24: \v 24 But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.25: \v 25 And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.26: \v 26 Do not overlook your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.27: \v 27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”
\p
\p Esther (Greek) 4.28: \v 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.29: \v 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.30: \v 30 Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.31: \v 31 She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.32: \v 32 for my danger is \f + \fr 4:32 \fl Greek \ft in my hand. \f*near at hand.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.33: \v 33 I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.34: \v 34 And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.35: \v 35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.36: \v 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols
\p Esther (Greek) 4.37: \v 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,
\p Esther (Greek) 4.38: \v 38 and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to \add speak\add* the \f + \fr 4:38 \fl Greek \ft virtues. \f* praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.39: \v 39 O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has \f + \fr 4:39 \fl Greek \ft begun against us. \f* begun to injure us.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.40: \v 40 Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!
\p Esther (Greek) 4.41: \v 41 Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.42: \v 42 But deliver us by your hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but you, O Lord.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.43: \v 43 You know all things, and know that I hate the \f + \fr 4:43 \fl Or, \ft opinion. \f*glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.44: \v 44 You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my \f + \fr 4:44 \fl Greek \ft vision.\f* splendor. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquility.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.45: \v 45 Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honored the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.46: \v 46 Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
\p Esther (Greek) 4.47: \v 47 O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]
\p 1 Maccabees 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.1: \v 1 And the king of Egypt gathered together great forces, as the sand which is by the sea shore, and many ships, and sought to make himself master of Alexander’s kingdom by deceit, and to add it to his own kingdom.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.2: \v 2 And he went forth into Syria with words of peace, and they of the cities opened to him, and met him; For king Alexander’s commandment was that they should meet him, because he was his father-in-law.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.3: \v 3 Now as he entered into the cities of Ptolemais, he set his forces for a garrison in each city.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.4: \v 4 But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and the pasture lands thereof pulled down, and the bodies cast abroad, and those who had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.5: \v 5 And they told the king what things Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him: and the king held his peace.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.6: \v 6 And Jonathan met the king with pomp at Joppa, and they saluted one another, and they slept there.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.7: \v 7 And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, and returned to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.8: \v 8 But king Ptolemy became master of the cities upon the sea coast, to Selucia which is by the sea, and he devised evil plans concerning Alexander.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.9: \v 9 And he sent ambassadors to king Demetrius, saying, Come! Let’s make a covenant with one another, and I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom;
\p 1 Maccabees 11.10: \v 10 for I have repented that I gave my daughter to him, for he sought to kill me.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.11: \v 11 And he cast blame on him, because he coveted his kingdom.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.12: \v 12 And taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly seen.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.13: \v 13 And Ptolemy entered into Antioch, and put on himself the diadem of Asia; and he put two diadems upon his head, the diadem of Egypt and that of Asia.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.14: \v 14 But king Alexander was in Cilicia at that season, because they of those parts were in revolt.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.15: \v 15 And Alexander heard of it, and he came against him in war: and Ptolemy led forth \add his army, \add* and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.16: \v 16 And Alexander fled into Arabia, that he might be sheltered there; but king Ptolemy was exalted.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.17: \v 17 And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.18: \v 18 And king Ptolemy died the third day after, and those who were in his strongholds were slain by those who were in the strongholds.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.19: \v 19 And Demetrius reigned in \f + \fr 11:19 \ft circa B.C. 146. \f* the hundred and threescore and seventh year.
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.20: \v 20 In those days Jonathan gathered together them of Judea, to take the citadel that was at Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.21: \v 21 And certain that hated their own nation, men that transgressed the law, went to the king, and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.22: \v 22 And he heard, and was angered; but when he heard it, he set forth immediately, and came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege it, and that he should meet him and speak with him at Ptolemais with all speed.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.23: \v 23 But when Jonathan heard this, he commanded to besiege it \add still: \add* and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and of the priests, and put himself in peril,
\p 1 Maccabees 11.24: \v 24 and taking silver and gold and raiment and various presents besides, went to Ptolemais to the king. And he found favor in his sight.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.25: \v 25 And certain lawless men of those who were of the nation made complaints against him,
\p 1 Maccabees 11.26: \v 26 and the king did to him even as his predecessors had done to him, and exalted him in the sight of all his \f + \fr 11:26 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends,
\p 1 Maccabees 11.27: \v 27 and confirmed to him the high priesthood, and all the other honors that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his \f + \fr 11:27 \ft See 1 Maccabees 10:65. \f* Chief Friends.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.28: \v 28 And Jonathan requested of the king, that he would make Judea free from tribute, and the three \f + \fr 11:28 \ft Gr. \fqa toparchies \f* provinces, and the country of Samaria; and promised him three hundred talents.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.29: \v 29 And the king consented, and wrote letters to Jonathan concerning all these things after this manner:
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.30: \v 30 King Demetrius to his brother Jonathan, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
\p 1 Maccabees 11.31: \v 31 The copy of the letter which we wrote to Lasthenes our kinsman concerning you, we have written also to you, that you° may see it.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.32: \v 32 King Demetrius to Lasthenes his father, greeting:
\p 1 Maccabees 11.33: \v 33 We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are our friends, and observe what is just toward us, because of their good will toward us.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.34: \v 34 We have confirmed therefore to them the borders of Judea, and also the three governments of Aphaerema and Lydda and Ramathaim (\add these \add* were added to Judea from the country of Samaria), and all things appertaining to them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the king’s dues which the king received of them yearly aforetime from the produce of the earth and the fruits of trees.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.35: \v 35 And as for the other things that pertain to us from henceforth, of the tenths and the tolls that pertain to us, and the salt pits, and the crowns that pertain to us, all these we will bestow upon them.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.36: \v 36 And not one of these things shall be annulled from this time forth and forever.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.37: \v 37 Now therefore be careful to make a copy of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan, and let it be set up on the holy mount in a meet and conspicuous place.
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.38: \v 38 And king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made to him, and he sent away all his forces, each man to his own place, except the foreign forces, which he had raised from the isles of the Gentiles: and all the forces of his fathers hated him.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.39: \v 39 Now Tryphon was of those who aforetime had been of Alexander’s part, and he saw that all the forces murmured against Demetrius, and he went to Imalcue the Arabian, who was nourishing up Antiochus the young child of Alexander,
\p 1 Maccabees 11.40: \v 40 and pressed sore upon him that he should deliver him to him, that he might reign in his father’s stead: and he told him all that Demetrius had done, and the hatred wherewith his forces hated him; and he abode there many days.
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.41: \v 41 And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, that he should cast out of Jerusalem them of the citadel, and those who were in the strongholds; for they fought against Israel continually.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.42: \v 42 And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation, if I find fair occasion.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.43: \v 43 Now therefore you shall do well, if you send me men who shall fight for me; for all my forces are revolted.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.44: \v 44 And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was glad at their coming.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.45: \v 45 And they of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and they were minded to kill the king.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.46: \v 46 And the king fled into the court of the palace, and they of the city seized the passages of the city, and began to fight.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.47: \v 47 And the king called the Jews to help him, and they were gathered together to him all at once, and they dispersed themselves in the city, and killed that day to the number of a hundred thousand.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.48: \v 48 And they set the city on fire, and got many spoils that day, and saved the king.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.49: \v 49 And they of the city saw that the Jews had made themselves masters of the city as they would, and they waxed faint in their hearts, and they cried out to the king with supplication, saying,
\p 1 Maccabees 11.50: \v 50 Give us your right hand, and let the Jews cease from fighting against us and the city.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.51: \v 51 And they cast away their arms, and made peace; and the Jews were glorified in the sight of the king, and before all that were in his kingdom; and they returned to Jerusalem, having many spoils.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.52: \v 52 And king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.53: \v 53 And he lied in all that he spoke, and estranged himself from Jonathan, and recompensed him not according to the benefits with which he had recompensed him, and afflicted him exceedingly.
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.54: \v 54 Now after this Tryphon returned, and with him the young child Antiochus; and he reigned, and put on a diadem.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.55: \v 55 And there were gathered to him all the forces which Demetrius had sent away with disgrace, and they fought against him, and he fled and was put to the rout.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.56: \v 56 And Tryphon took the elephants, and became master of Antioch.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.57: \v 57 And the young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, I confirm to you the high priesthood, and appoint you over the four governments, and to be one of the king’s \f + \fr 11:57 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.58: \v 58 And he sent to him golden vessels and furniture for the table, and gave him leave to drink in golden vessels, and to be clothed in purple, and to have a golden buckle.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.59: \v 59 And his brother Simon he made captain from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.60: \v 60 And Jonathan went forth, and took his journey beyond the river and through the cities; and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him for to be his allies. And he came to Ascalon, and they of the city met him honorably.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.61: \v 61 And he departed thence to Gaza, and they of Gaza shut him out; and he laid siege to it, and burned the pasture lands thereof with fire, and plundered them.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.62: \v 62 And they of Gaza made request to Jonathan, and he gave them his right hand, and took the sons of their princes for hostages, and sent them away to Jerusalem; and he passed through the country as far as Damascus.
\p
\p 1 Maccabees 11.63: \v 63 And Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Kedesh, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from his office;
\p 1 Maccabees 11.64: \v 64 and he went to meet them, but Simon his brother he left in the country.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.65: \v 65 And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and shut it up:
\p 1 Maccabees 11.66: \v 66 and they made request to him that he would give them his right hand, and he gave it to them; and he put them out from thence, and took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.67: \v 67 And Jonathan and his army encamped at the water of Gennesareth, and early in the morning they got them to the plain of Hazor.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.68: \v 68 And, behold, an army of strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains, but themselves met him face to face.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.69: \v 69 But those who lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle; and all those who were of Jonathan’s side fled:
\p 1 Maccabees 11.70: \v 70 not one of them was left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Chalphi, captains of the forces.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.71: \v 71 And Jonathan tore his clothes, and put earth upon his head, and prayed.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.72: \v 72 And he turned again to them in battle, and put them to the rout, and they fled.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.73: \v 73 And they of his side that fled saw it, and returned to him, and pursued with him to Kedesh to their camp, and they encamped there.
\p 1 Maccabees 11.74: \v 74 And there fell of the strangers on that day about three thousand men: and Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.0: \c 4
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\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.1: \v 1 Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.2: \v 2 O sirs, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over the sea and land, and all things in them?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.3: \v 3 But yet is the king stronger: and he is their lord, and has dominion over them; and in whatever he commands them they obey him.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.4: \v 4 If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.5: \v 5 They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the plunder, as all things else.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.6: \v 6 Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.7: \v 7 And he is \f + \fr 4:7 \ft Or, \fqa one and alone\f* but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.8: \v 8 if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.9: \v 9 if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.10: \v 10 So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.11: \v 11 and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him \add in anything. \add*
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.12: \v 12 O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace.
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.13: \v 13 Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.14: \v 14 O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.15: \v 15 Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.16: \v 16 Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.17: \v 17 These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.18: \v 18 Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, \f + \fr 4:18 \ft Another reading is, \fqa do they not love etc.\f* and see a woman which is comely in favor and beauty,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.19: \v 19 they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.20: \v 20 A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and joins with his wife.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.21: \v 21 And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.22: \v 22 By this also you° must know that women have dominion over you: do you° not labor and toil, and give and bring all to women?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.23: \v 23 Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.24: \v 24 and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.25: \v 25 Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.26: \v 26 Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.27: \v 27 Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.28: \v 28 And now do you° not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.29: \v 29 Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.30: \v 30 and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; yes, she struck the king with her left hand:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.31: \v 31 and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.32: \v 32 O sirs, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.33: \v 33 Then the king and the nobles looked one upon another: so he began to speak concerning truth.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.34: \v 34 O sirs, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he encircles the heavens round about, and fetches his course again to his own place in one day.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.35: \v 35 Is he not great that makes these things? therefore great is truth, and stronger than all things.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.36: \v 36 All the earth calls upon truth, and the heaven blesses her: all works shake and tremble, but with \f + \fr 4:36 \ft Another reading is, him.\f* her is no unrighteous thing.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.37: \v 37 Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the children of men are unrighteous, and unrighteous are all such their works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.38: \v 38 But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.39: \v 39 With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she does the things that are just, \add and refrains\add* from all unrighteous and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.40: \v 40 Neither in her judgment is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, and the kingdom, and the power, and the majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.41: \v 41 And with that he held his tongue. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and strong above all things.
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.42: \v 42 Then said the king to him, Ask what you will more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it you, inasmuch as you are found wisest; and you shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.43: \v 43 Then said he to the king, Remember your vow, which you did vow to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.44: \v 44 and to send away all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them again there.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.45: \v 45 You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.46: \v 46 And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that shall proceed from you: I pray therefore that you make good the vow, the performance whereof you have vowed to the King of heaven with your own mouth.
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.47: \v 47 Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.48: \v 48 He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.49: \v 49 Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.50: \v 50 and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.51: \v 51 and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.52: \v 52 and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.53: \v 53 and that all those who should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.54: \v 54 He wrote also \add to give them\add* their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.55: \v 55 and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem built up.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.56: \v 56 And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.57: \v 57 He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he charged also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem.
\p
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.58: \v 58 Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.59: \v 59 and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.60: \v 60 Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.61: \v 61 And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred.
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.62: \v 62 And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty
\p 1 Esdras (Greek) 4.63: \v 63 to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.1: \v 1 The Lord says, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.2: \v 2 The mother that bare them says to them, go your way, O my children; for I am a widow and forsaken.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.3: \v 3 I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you° have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.4: \v 4 But what shall I now do to you? for I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.5: \v 5 As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of \add these \add* children, because they would not keep my covenant,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.6: \v 6 that you bring them to confusion, and their mother to a plunder, that there may be no offspring of them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.7: \v 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be blotted out of the earth: for they have despised my \f + \fr 2:7 \ft Another reading is, \fqa sacrament, \ft or, \fqa oath \f* covenant.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.8: \v 8 Woe to you, Assur, you that hide the unrighteous with you! O you wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.9: \v 9 whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so I will also do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.10: \v 10 The Lord says to Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.11: \v 11 I will also take their glory me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.12: \v 12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.13: \v 13 \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Go. \f* Ask, and you° shall receive: pray for few days to you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.14: \v 14 Take heaven and earth to witness, take them to witness; for I have given up the evil, and created the good: for I live, says the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.15: \v 15 Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.16: \v 16 And I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I \f + \fr 2:16 \ft Or, \fqa recognize \f* have known my name in them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.17: \v 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of the children: for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.18: \v 18 For your help I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.19: \v 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.20: \v 20 Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.21: \v 21 heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.22: \v 22 Keep the old and young within your walls.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.23: \v 23 Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.24: \v 24 Stay still, O my people, and take your rest, for your quietness shall come.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.25: \v 25 Nourish your children, O you good nurse, and establish their feet.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.26: \v 26 As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.27: \v 27 Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.28: \v 28 The nations shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.29: \v 29 My hands shall cover you, so that your children see not \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Lat. \fqa Gehenna. \f* hell.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.30: \v 30 Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.31: \v 31 Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.32: \v 32 Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.33: \v 33 I Esdras received a charge from the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go to Israel; but when I came to them, they would none of me, and rejected the commandment of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.34: \v 34 And therefore I say to you, O you° nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.35: \v 35 Be ready to the rewards of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.36: \v 36 Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.37: \v 37 O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.38: \v 38 Arise up and stand, and behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.39: \v 39 those who withdrew them from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.40: \v 40 \f + \fr 2:40 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Take. \f* Look upon your number, O Sion, and make up the reckoning of those of your that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.41: \v 41 The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that your people, which have been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.42: \v 42 I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.43: \v 43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted. I marveled greatly at this.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.44: \v 44 So I asked the angel, and said, What are these, my Lord?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.45: \v 45 He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.46: \v 46 Then said I to the angel, What young man is he that sets crowns upon them, and gives them palms in their hands?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.47: \v 47 So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 2.48: \v 48 Then the angel said to me, Go your way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord God you have seen.