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\p Joshua 8.3: 
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\p 1 Samuel 17.52: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.53: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.54: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.55: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.56: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.57: 
\p 1 Samuel 17.58: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.26: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.27: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.28: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.29: 
\p 1 Samuel 18.30: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 19.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.26: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.27: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.28: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.29: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.30: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.31: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.32: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.33: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.34: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.35: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.36: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.37: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.38: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.39: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.40: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.41: 
\p 1 Samuel 20.42: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 21.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 22.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.26: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.27: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.28: 
\p 1 Samuel 23.29: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 24.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.26: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.27: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.28: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.29: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.30: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.31: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.32: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.33: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.34: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.35: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.36: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.37: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.38: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.39: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.40: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.41: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.42: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.43: 
\p 1 Samuel 25.44: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 26.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 27.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 28.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 29.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.13: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.14: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.15: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.16: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.17: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.18: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.19: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.20: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.21: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.22: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.23: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.24: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.25: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.26: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.27: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.28: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.29: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.30: 
\p 1 Samuel 30.31: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.0: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.1: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.2: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.3: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.4: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.5: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.6: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.7: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.8: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.9: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.10: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.11: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.12: 
\p 1 Samuel 31.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 0.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 1.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 2.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.33: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.34: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.35: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.36: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.37: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.38: 
\p 2 Samuel 3.39: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 4.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 5.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 6.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 7.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 8.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 12.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.33: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.34: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.35: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.36: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.37: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.38: 
\p 2 Samuel 13.39: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 14.33: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.33: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.34: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.35: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.36: 
\p 2 Samuel 15.37: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 16.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 17.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.3: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.4: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.5: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.6: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.7: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.8: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.9: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.10: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.11: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.12: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.13: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.14: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.15: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.16: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.17: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.18: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.19: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.20: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.21: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.22: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.23: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.24: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.25: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.26: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.27: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.28: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.29: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.30: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.31: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.32: 
\p 2 Samuel 18.33: 
\p 2 Samuel 19.0: 
\p 2 Samuel 19.1: 
\p 2 Samuel 19.2: 
\p 2 Samuel 19.3: 
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\p 2 Chronicles 9.1: \v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.2: \v 2 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.3: \v 3 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
\p 2 Chronicles 9.4: \v 4 the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.\f + \fr 9:4 \ft or, she was breathless.\f*
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 9.5: \v 5 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.6: \v 6 However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!
\p 2 Chronicles 9.7: \v 7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.8: \v 8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 9.9: \v 9 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents\f + \fr 9:9 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons\f* of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.10: \v 10 The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees\f + \fr 9:10 \ft possibly Indian sandalwood, which has nice grain and a pleasant scent and is good for woodworking\f* and precious stones.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.11: \v 11 The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.12: \v 12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 9.13: \v 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents\f + \fr 9:13 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons\f* of gold,
\p 2 Chronicles 9.14: \v 14 in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.15: \v 15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels\f + \fr 9:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.\f* of beaten gold went to one buckler.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.16: \v 16 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels\f + \fr 9:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.\f* of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.17: \v 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.18: \v 18 There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.19: \v 19 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.20: \v 20 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.21: \v 21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 9.22: \v 22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.23: \v 23 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.24: \v 24 They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.25: \v 25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.26: \v 26 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.27: \v 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.28: \v 28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 9.29: \v 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
\p 2 Chronicles 9.30: \v 30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
\p 2 Chronicles 9.31: \v 31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.0: \c 10
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\p 2 Chronicles 10.1: \v 1 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.2: \v 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.3: \v 3 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
\p 2 Chronicles 10.4: \v 4 “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 10.5: \v 5 He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.”
\p So the people departed.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.6: \v 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
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\p 2 Chronicles 10.7: \v 7 They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
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\p 2 Chronicles 10.8: \v 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.9: \v 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 10.10: \v 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.11: \v 11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
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\p 2 Chronicles 10.12: \v 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
\p 2 Chronicles 10.13: \v 13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,
\p 2 Chronicles 10.14: \v 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 10.15: \v 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.16: \v 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
\p
\p 2 Chronicles 10.17: \v 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.18: \v 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Chronicles 10.19: \v 19 So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
\p Ezra 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Ezra 9.1: \v 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
\p Ezra 9.2: \v 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
\p
\p Ezra 9.3: \v 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
\p Ezra 9.4: \v 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
\p
\p Ezra 9.5: \v 5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
\p Ezra 9.6: \v 6 and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
\p Ezra 9.7: \v 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
\p Ezra 9.8: \v 8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
\p Ezra 9.9: \v 9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
\p
\p Ezra 9.10: \v 10 “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
\p Ezra 9.11: \v 11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
\p Ezra 9.12: \v 12 Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
\p
\p Ezra 9.13: \v 13 “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
\p Ezra 9.14: \v 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
\p Ezra 9.15: \v 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold,\f + \fr 9:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
\p Ezra 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Ezra 10.1: \v 1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
\p Ezra 10.2: \v 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
\p Ezra 10.3: \v 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
\p Ezra 10.4: \v 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.5: \v 5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
\p Ezra 10.6: \v 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.
\p Ezra 10.7: \v 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
\p Ezra 10.8: \v 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
\p
\p Ezra 10.9: \v 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
\p
\p Ezra 10.10: \v 10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
\p Ezra 10.11: \v 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.12: \v 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.
\p Ezra 10.13: \v 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
\p Ezra 10.14: \v 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
\p
\p Ezra 10.15: \v 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
\p
\p Ezra 10.16: \v 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
\p Ezra 10.17: \v 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
\p
\p Ezra 10.18: \v 18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:
\li1 of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
\p Ezra 10.19: \v 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.20: \v 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.21: \v 21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.22: \v 22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.23: \v 23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.24: \v 24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
\b
\li1
\p Ezra 10.25: \v 25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.26: \v 26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.27: \v 27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.28: \v 28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.29: \v 29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.30: \v 30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.31: \v 31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
\p Ezra 10.32: \v 32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.33: \v 33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.34: \v 34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
\p Ezra 10.35: \v 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
\p Ezra 10.36: \v 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
\p Ezra 10.37: \v 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
\p Ezra 10.38: \v 38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
\p Ezra 10.39: \v 39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
\p Ezra 10.40: \v 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
\p Ezra 10.41: \v 41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
\p Ezra 10.42: \v 42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
\li1
\p Ezra 10.43: \v 43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
\p
\p Ezra 10.44: \v 44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
\p Nehemiah 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.1: \v 1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
\p Nehemiah 9.2: \v 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
\p Nehemiah 9.3: \v 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
\p Nehemiah 9.4: \v 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.5: \v 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
\p Nehemiah 9.6: \v 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
\p Nehemiah 9.7: \v 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
\p Nehemiah 9.8: \v 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.9: \v 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
\p Nehemiah 9.10: \v 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
\p Nehemiah 9.11: \v 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
\p Nehemiah 9.12: \v 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.13: \v 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
\p Nehemiah 9.14: \v 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
\p Nehemiah 9.15: \v 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.16: \v 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
\p Nehemiah 9.17: \v 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
\p Nehemiah 9.18: \v 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;
\p Nehemiah 9.19: \v 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
\p Nehemiah 9.20: \v 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.21: \v 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
\p Nehemiah 9.22: \v 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
\p Nehemiah 9.23: \v 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.24: \v 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
\p Nehemiah 9.25: \v 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.26: \v 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
\p Nehemiah 9.27: \v 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
\p Nehemiah 9.28: \v 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
\p Nehemiah 9.29: \v 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
\p Nehemiah 9.30: \v 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.31: \v 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.32: \v 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
\p Nehemiah 9.33: \v 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
\p Nehemiah 9.34: \v 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
\p Nehemiah 9.35: \v 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
\p
\p Nehemiah 9.36: \v 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
\p Nehemiah 9.37: \v 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
\p Nehemiah 9.38: \v 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
\p Nehemiah 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.1: \v 1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.2: \v 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.3: \v 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
\p Nehemiah 10.4: \v 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
\p Nehemiah 10.5: \v 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.6: \v 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
\p Nehemiah 10.7: \v 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
\p Nehemiah 10.8: \v 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
\p Nehemiah 10.9: \v 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
\p Nehemiah 10.10: \v 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
\p Nehemiah 10.11: \v 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.12: \v 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
\p Nehemiah 10.13: \v 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.
\p Nehemiah 10.14: \v 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
\p Nehemiah 10.15: \v 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
\p Nehemiah 10.16: \v 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
\p Nehemiah 10.17: \v 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
\p Nehemiah 10.18: \v 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
\p Nehemiah 10.19: \v 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
\p Nehemiah 10.20: \v 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
\p Nehemiah 10.21: \v 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
\p Nehemiah 10.22: \v 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.23: \v 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
\p Nehemiah 10.24: \v 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
\p Nehemiah 10.25: \v 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
\p Nehemiah 10.26: \v 26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
\p Nehemiah 10.27: \v 27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.28: \v 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—
\p Nehemiah 10.29: \v 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
\p Nehemiah 10.30: \v 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
\p Nehemiah 10.31: \v 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
\p
\p Nehemiah 10.32: \v 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel\f + \fr 10:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* for the service of the house of our God;
\p Nehemiah 10.33: \v 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
\p Nehemiah 10.34: \v 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
\p Nehemiah 10.35: \v 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
\p Nehemiah 10.36: \v 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
\p Nehemiah 10.37: \v 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
\p Nehemiah 10.38: \v 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
\p Nehemiah 10.39: \v 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
\p Esther 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Esther 5.1: \v 1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.
\p Esther 5.2: \v 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.
\p Esther 5.3: \v 3 Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
\p
\p Esther 5.4: \v 4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
\p
\p Esther 5.5: \v 5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
\p
\p Esther 5.6: \v 6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
\p
\p Esther 5.7: \v 7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.
\p Esther 5.8: \v 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”
\p
\p Esther 5.9: \v 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
\p Esther 5.10: \v 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
\p Esther 5.11: \v 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
\p Esther 5.12: \v 12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
\p Esther 5.13: \v 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
\p
\p Esther 5.14: \v 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits\f + \fr 5:14 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
\p Esther 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Esther 6.1: \v 1 On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
\p Esther 6.2: \v 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
\p Esther 6.3: \v 3 The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”
\p Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
\p
\p Esther 6.4: \v 4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
\p
\p Esther 6.5: \v 5 The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,\f + \fr 6:5 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* Haman stands in the court.”
\p The king said, “Let him come in.”
\p Esther 6.6: \v 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?”
\p Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
\p Esther 6.7: \v 7 Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
\p Esther 6.8: \v 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.
\p Esther 6.9: \v 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
\p
\p Esther 6.10: \v 10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”
\p
\p Esther 6.11: \v 11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
\p
\p Esther 6.12: \v 12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
\p Esther 6.13: \v 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
\p Esther 6.14: \v 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
\p Job 5.0: \c 5
\b
\q1
\p Job 5.1: \v 1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
\q2 To which of the holy ones will you turn?
\q1
\p Job 5.2: \v 2 For resentment kills the foolish man,
\q2 and jealousy kills the simple.
\q1
\p Job 5.3: \v 3 I have seen the foolish taking root,
\q2 but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
\q1
\p Job 5.4: \v 4 His children are far from safety.
\q2 They are crushed in the gate.
\q2 Neither is there any to deliver them,
\q1
\p Job 5.5: \v 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up,
\q2 and take it even out of the thorns.
\q2 The snare gapes for their substance.
\q1
\p Job 5.6: \v 6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
\q2 neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
\q1
\p Job 5.7: \v 7 but man is born to trouble,
\q2 as the sparks fly upward.
\b
\q1
\p Job 5.8: \v 8 “But as for me, I would seek God.
\q2 I would commit my cause to God,
\q1
\p Job 5.9: \v 9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
\q2 marvelous things without number;
\q1
\p Job 5.10: \v 10 who gives rain on the earth,
\q2 and sends waters on the fields;
\q1
\p Job 5.11: \v 11 so that he sets up on high those who are low,
\q2 those who mourn are exalted to safety.
\q1
\p Job 5.12: \v 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
\q2 So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
\q1
\p Job 5.13: \v 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
\q2 the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
\q1
\p Job 5.14: \v 14 They meet with darkness in the day time,
\q2 and grope at noonday as in the night.
\q1
\p Job 5.15: \v 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
\q2 even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
\q1
\p Job 5.16: \v 16 So the poor has hope,
\q2 and injustice shuts her mouth.
\b
\q1
\p Job 5.17: \v 17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
\q2 Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
\q1
\p Job 5.18: \v 18 For he wounds and binds up.
\q2 He injures and his hands make whole.
\q1
\p Job 5.19: \v 19 He will deliver you in six troubles;
\q2 yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
\q1
\p Job 5.20: \v 20 In famine he will redeem you from death;
\q2 in war, from the power of the sword.
\q1
\p Job 5.21: \v 21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
\q2 neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
\q1
\p Job 5.22: \v 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,
\q2 neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
\q1
\p Job 5.23: \v 23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
\q2 The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
\q1
\p Job 5.24: \v 24 You will know that your tent is in peace.
\q2 You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
\q1
\p Job 5.25: \v 25 You will know also that your offspring\f + \fr 5:25 \ft or, seed\f* will be great,
\q2 Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
\q1
\p Job 5.26: \v 26 You will come to your grave in a full age,
\q2 like a shock of grain comes in its season.
\q1
\p Job 5.27: \v 27 Look at this. We have searched it. It is so.
\q2 Hear it, and know it for your good.”
\b
\p Job 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Job 6.1: \v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\p Job 6.2: \v 2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed,
\q2 and all my calamity laid in the balances!
\q1
\p Job 6.3: \v 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas,
\q2 therefore have my words been rash.
\q1
\p Job 6.4: \v 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me.
\q2 My spirit drinks up their poison.
\q1 The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
\q2
\p Job 6.5: \v 5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass?
\q1 Or does the ox low over his fodder?
\q2
\p Job 6.6: \v 6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt?
\q1 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
\q2
\p Job 6.7: \v 7 My soul refuses to touch them.
\q1 They are as loathsome food to me.
\b
\q1
\p Job 6.8: \v 8 “Oh that I might have my request,
\q2 that God would grant the thing that I long for,
\q1
\p Job 6.9: \v 9 even that it would please God to crush me;
\q2 that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
\q1
\p Job 6.10: \v 10 Let still be my consolation,
\q2 yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare,
\q2 that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
\q1
\p Job 6.11: \v 11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
\q2 What is my end, that I should be patient?
\q1
\p Job 6.12: \v 12 Is my strength the strength of stones?
\q2 Or is my flesh of bronze?
\q1
\p Job 6.13: \v 13 Isn’t it that I have no help in me,
\q2 That wisdom is driven quite from me?
\b
\q1
\p Job 6.14: \v 14 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;
\q2 even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
\q1
\p Job 6.15: \v 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
\q2 as the channel of brooks that pass away;
\q1
\p Job 6.16: \v 16 Which are black by reason of the ice,
\q2 in which the snow hides itself.
\q1
\p Job 6.17: \v 17 In the dry season, they vanish.
\q2 When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
\q1
\p Job 6.18: \v 18 The caravans that travel beside them turn away.
\q2 They go up into the waste, and perish.
\q1
\p Job 6.19: \v 19 The caravans of Tema looked.
\q2 The companies of Sheba waited for them.
\q1
\p Job 6.20: \v 20 They were distressed because they were confident.
\q2 They came there, and were confounded.
\q1
\p Job 6.21: \v 21 For now you are nothing.
\q2 You see a terror, and are afraid.
\q1
\p Job 6.22: \v 22 Did I say, ‘Give to me?’
\q2 or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’
\q1
\p Job 6.23: \v 23 or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’
\q2 or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
\b
\q1
\p Job 6.24: \v 24 “Teach me, and I will hold my peace.
\q2 Cause me to understand my error.
\q1
\p Job 6.25: \v 25 How forcible are words of uprightness!
\q2 But your reproof, what does it reprove?
\q1
\p Job 6.26: \v 26 Do you intend to reprove words,
\q2 since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
\q1
\p Job 6.27: \v 27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless,
\q2 and make merchandise of your friend.
\q1
\p Job 6.28: \v 28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me,
\q2 for surely I will not lie to your face.
\q1
\p Job 6.29: \v 29 Please return.
\q2 Let there be no injustice.
\q2 Yes, return again.
\q2 My cause is righteous.
\q1
\p Job 6.30: \v 30 Is there injustice on my tongue?
\q2 Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
\p John 0.0: \id JHN 43-JHN-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
\ide UTF-8
\h John
\toc1 The Good News According to John
\toc2 John
\toc3 Jhn
\mt2 The Good News According to
\mt1 John
\p John 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p John 1.1: \v 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
\p John 1.2: \v 2 The same was in the beginning with God.
\p John 1.3: \v 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
\p John 1.4: \v 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
\p John 1.5: \v 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome \f + \fr 1:5 \ft The word translated “overcome” (κατέλαβεν) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him. \f* it.
\p John 1.6: \v 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
\p John 1.7: \v 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
\p John 1.8: \v 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
\p John 1.9: \v 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
\p
\p John 1.10: \v 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
\p John 1.11: \v 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
\p John 1.12: \v 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
\p John 1.13: \v 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
\p John 1.14: \v 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
\p John 1.15: \v 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
\p John 1.16: \v 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
\p John 1.17: \v 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
\p John 1.18: \v 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,\f + \fr 1:18 \ft NU reads “God”\f* who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
\p
\p John 1.19: \v 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
\p
\p John 1.20: \v 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”
\p
\p John 1.21: \v 21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
\p He said, “I am not.”
\p “Are you the prophet?”
\p He answered, “No.”
\p
\p John 1.22: \v 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
\p
\p John 1.23: \v 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’\x + \xo 1:23 \xt Isaiah 40:3\x* as Isaiah the prophet said.”
\p
\p John 1.24: \v 24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
\p John 1.25: \v 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
\p
\p John 1.26: \v 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
\p John 1.27: \v 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
\p John 1.28: \v 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
\p
\p John 1.29: \v 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:29 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
\p John 1.30: \v 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
\p John 1.31: \v 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”
\p John 1.32: \v 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
\p John 1.33: \v 33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
\p John 1.34: \v 34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
\p
\p John 1.35: \v 35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
\p John 1.36: \v 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
\p John 1.37: \v 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
\p John 1.38: \v 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, \wj “What are you looking for?”\wj*
\p They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”
\p
\p John 1.39: \v 39 He said to them, \wj “Come, and see.”\wj*
\p They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.\f + \fr 1:39 \ft 4:00 p.m.\f*
\p John 1.40: \v 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
\p John 1.41: \v 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ\f + \fr 1:41 \ft “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.\f*).
\p John 1.42: \v 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, \wj “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas”\wj* (which is by interpretation, Peter).\f + \fr 1:42 \ft “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”.\f*
\p John 1.43: \v 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj*
\p John 1.44: \v 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
\p John 1.45: \v 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
\p
\p John 1.46: \v 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
\p Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
\p
\p John 1.47: \v 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, \wj “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”\wj*
\p
\p John 1.48: \v 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
\p Jesus answered him, \wj “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”\wj*
\p
\p John 1.49: \v 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
\p
\p John 1.50: \v 50 Jesus answered him, \wj “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”\wj*
\p John 1.51: \v 51 He said to him, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”\wj*
\p John 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p John 2.1: \v 1 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
\p John 2.2: \v 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
\p John 2.3: \v 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
\p
\p John 2.4: \v 4 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”\wj*
\p
\p John 2.5: \v 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
\p John 2.6: \v 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes\f + \fr 2:6 \ft 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 liters.\f* apiece.
\p John 2.7: \v 7 Jesus said to them, \wj “Fill the water pots with water.”\wj* So they filled them up to the brim.
\p John 2.8: \v 8 He said to them, \wj “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.”\wj* So they took it.
\p John 2.9: \v 9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom
\p John 2.10: \v 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”
\p John 2.11: \v 11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
\p
\p John 2.12: \v 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
\p John 2.13: \v 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
\p John 2.14: \v 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
\p John 2.15: \v 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.
\p John 2.16: \v 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, \wj “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”\wj*
\p John 2.17: \v 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”\x + \xo 2:17 \xt Psalm 69:9\x*
\p
\p John 2.18: \v 18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
\p
\p John 2.19: \v 19 Jesus answered them, \wj “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”\wj*
\p
\p John 2.20: \v 20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
\p John 2.21: \v 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
\p John 2.22: \v 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
\p
\p John 2.23: \v 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
\p John 2.24: \v 24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
\p John 2.25: \v 25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
\p John 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p John 3.1: \v 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
\p John 3.2: \v 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
\p
\p John 3.3: \v 3 Jesus answered him, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, \wj*\f + \fr 3:3 \ft The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (ἄνωθεν) also means “again” and “from above”.\f* \wj he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.4: \v 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
\p
\p John 3.5: \v 5 Jesus answered, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.\wj*
\p John 3.6: \v 6 \wj That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. \wj*
\p John 3.7: \v 7 \wj Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ \wj*
\p John 3.8: \v 8 \wj The wind\wj*\f + \fr 3:8 \ft The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit.\f* \wj blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.9: \v 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
\p
\p John 3.10: \v 10 Jesus answered him, \wj “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? \wj*
\p John 3.11: \v 11 \wj Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. \wj*
\p John 3.12: \v 12 \wj If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? \wj*
\p John 3.13: \v 13 \wj No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. \wj*
\p John 3.14: \v 14 \wj As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, \wj*
\p John 3.15: \v 15 \wj that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\p John 3.16: \v 16 \wj For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. \wj*
\p John 3.17: \v 17 \wj For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. \wj*
\p John 3.18: \v 18 \wj He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. \wj*
\p John 3.19: \v 19 \wj This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. \wj*
\p John 3.20: \v 20 \wj For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. \wj*
\p John 3.21: \v 21 \wj But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”\wj*
\p
\p John 3.22: \v 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.
\p John 3.23: \v 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;
\p John 3.24: \v 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison.
\p John 3.25: \v 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
\p John 3.26: \v 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
\p
\p John 3.27: \v 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
\p John 3.28: \v 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
\p John 3.29: \v 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
\p John 3.30: \v 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
\p John 3.31: \v 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
\p John 3.32: \v 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
\p John 3.33: \v 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
\p John 3.34: \v 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
\p John 3.35: \v 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
\p John 3.36: \v 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys \f + \fr 3:36 \ft The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context.\f* the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
\p John 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p John 4.1: \v 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
\p John 4.2: \v 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
\p John 4.3: \v 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
\p John 4.4: \v 4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
\p John 4.5: \v 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
\p John 4.6: \v 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.\f + \fr 4:6 \ft noon\f*
\p John 4.7: \v 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, \wj “Give me a drink.”\wj*
\p John 4.8: \v 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
\p
\p John 4.9: \v 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
\p
\p John 4.10: \v 10 Jesus answered her, \wj “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.11: \v 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
\p John 4.12: \v 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
\p
\p John 4.13: \v 13 Jesus answered her, \wj “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, \wj*
\p John 4.14: \v 14 \wj but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.15: \v 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
\p
\p John 4.16: \v 16 Jesus said to her, \wj “Go, call your husband, and come here.” \wj*
\p
\p John 4.17: \v 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
\p Jesus said to her, \wj “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ \wj*
\p John 4.18: \v 18 \wj for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.19: \v 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
\p John 4.20: \v 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
\p
\p John 4.21: \v 21 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. \wj*
\p John 4.22: \v 22 \wj You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. \wj*
\p John 4.23: \v 23 \wj But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. \wj*
\p John 4.24: \v 24 \wj God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.25: \v 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
\p
\p John 4.26: \v 26 Jesus said to her, \wj “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”\wj*
\p John 4.27: \v 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”
\p John 4.28: \v 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
\p John 4.29: \v 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”
\p
\p John 4.30: \v 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
\p John 4.31: \v 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
\p
\p John 4.32: \v 32 But he said to them, \wj “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.33: \v 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
\p
\p John 4.34: \v 34 Jesus said to them, \wj “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. \wj*
\p John 4.35: \v 35 \wj Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. \wj*
\p John 4.36: \v 36 \wj He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. \wj*
\p John 4.37: \v 37 \wj For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ \wj*
\p John 4.38: \v 38 \wj I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.39: \v 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
\p John 4.40: \v 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
\p John 4.41: \v 41 Many more believed because of his word.
\p John 4.42: \v 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
\p
\p John 4.43: \v 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
\p John 4.44: \v 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
\p John 4.45: \v 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
\p John 4.46: \v 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
\p John 4.47: \v 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
\p John 4.48: \v 48 Jesus therefore said to him, \wj “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”\wj*
\p
\p John 4.49: \v 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
\p John 4.50: \v 50 Jesus said to him, \wj “Go your way. Your son lives.”\wj* The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
\p John 4.51: \v 51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
\p John 4.52: \v 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,\f + \fr 4:52 \ft 1:00 p.m.\f* the fever left him.”
\p John 4.53: \v 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, \wj “Your son lives.”\wj* He believed, as did his whole house.
\p John 4.54: \v 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
\p John 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p John 5.1: \v 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
\p John 5.2: \v 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
\p John 5.3: \v 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
\p John 5.4: \v 4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.\f + \fr 5:4 \ft NU omits from “waiting” in verse 3 to the end of verse 4.\f*
\p John 5.5: \v 5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
\p John 5.6: \v 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, \wj “Do you want to be made well?”\wj*
\p
\p John 5.7: \v 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
\p
\p John 5.8: \v 8 Jesus said to him, \wj “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”\wj*
\p
\p John 5.9: \v 9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
\p Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
\p John 5.10: \v 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
\p
\p John 5.11: \v 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, \wj ‘Take up your mat and walk.’\wj*”
\p
\p John 5.12: \v 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, \wj ‘Take up your mat and walk’\wj*?”
\p
\p John 5.13: \v 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
\p
\p John 5.14: \v 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, \wj “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” \wj*
\p
\p John 5.15: \v 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
\p John 5.16: \v 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
\p John 5.17: \v 17 But Jesus answered them, \wj “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”\wj*
\p John 5.18: \v 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
\p John 5.19: \v 19 Jesus therefore answered them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. \wj*
\p John 5.20: \v 20 \wj For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. \wj*
\p John 5.21: \v 21 \wj For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. \wj*
\p John 5.22: \v 22 \wj For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, \wj*
\p John 5.23: \v 23 \wj that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.\wj*
\p
\p John 5.24: \v 24 \wj “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. \wj*
\p John 5.25: \v 25 \wj Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. \wj*
\p John 5.26: \v 26 \wj For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. \wj*
\p John 5.27: \v 27 \wj He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. \wj*
\p John 5.28: \v 28 \wj Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, \wj*
\p John 5.29: \v 29 \wj and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. \wj*
\p John 5.30: \v 30 \wj I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.\wj*
\p
\p John 5.31: \v 31 \wj “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. \wj*
\p John 5.32: \v 32 \wj It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. \wj*
\p John 5.33: \v 33 \wj You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. \wj*
\p John 5.34: \v 34 \wj But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. \wj*
\p John 5.35: \v 35 \wj He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. \wj*
\p John 5.36: \v 36 \wj But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. \wj*
\p John 5.37: \v 37 \wj The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. \wj*
\p John 5.38: \v 38 \wj You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.\wj*
\p
\p John 5.39: \v 39 \wj “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. \wj*
\p John 5.40: \v 40 \wj Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. \wj*
\p John 5.41: \v 41 \wj I don’t receive glory from men. \wj*
\p John 5.42: \v 42 \wj But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. \wj*
\p John 5.43: \v 43 \wj I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. \wj*
\p John 5.44: \v 44 \wj How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?\wj*
\p
\p John 5.45: \v 45 \wj “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. \wj*
\p John 5.46: \v 46 \wj For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. \wj*
\p John 5.47: \v 47 \wj But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”\wj*
\p John 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p John 6.1: \v 1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
\p John 6.2: \v 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
\p John 6.3: \v 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
\p John 6.4: \v 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
\p John 6.5: \v 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, \wj “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”\wj*
\p John 6.6: \v 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
\p
\p John 6.7: \v 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii\f + \fr 6:7 \ft A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay.\f* worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”
\p
\p John 6.8: \v 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
\p John 6.9: \v 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”
\p
\p John 6.10: \v 10 Jesus said, \wj “Have the people sit down.”\wj* Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
\p John 6.11: \v 11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
\p John 6.12: \v 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, \wj “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”\wj*
\p John 6.13: \v 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
\p John 6.14: \v 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
\p John 6.15: \v 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
\p
\p John 6.16: \v 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.
\p John 6.17: \v 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
\p John 6.18: \v 18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
\p John 6.19: \v 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, \f + \fr 6:19 \ft 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles\f* they saw Jesus walking on the sea,\x + \xo 6:19 \xt See Job 9:8\x* and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
\p John 6.20: \v 20 But he said to them, \wj “It is I.\wj*\f + \fr 6:20 \ft or, I AM\f* \wj Don’t be afraid.”\wj*
\p John 6.21: \v 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
\p
\p John 6.22: \v 22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
\p John 6.23: \v 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
\p John 6.24: \v 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
\p John 6.25: \v 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
\p
\p John 6.26: \v 26 Jesus answered them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. \wj*
\p John 6.27: \v 27 \wj Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.28: \v 28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”
\p
\p John 6.29: \v 29 Jesus answered them, \wj “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.30: \v 30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?
\p John 6.31: \v 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven\f + \fr 6:31 \ft Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”.\f* to eat.’”\x + \xo 6:31 \xt Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25\x*
\p
\p John 6.32: \v 32 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. \wj*
\p John 6.33: \v 33 \wj For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.34: \v 34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”
\p
\p John 6.35: \v 35 Jesus said to them, \wj “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. \wj*
\p John 6.36: \v 36 \wj But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. \wj*
\p John 6.37: \v 37 \wj All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. \wj*
\p John 6.38: \v 38 \wj For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. \wj*
\p John 6.39: \v 39 \wj This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. \wj*
\p John 6.40: \v 40 \wj This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.41: \v 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, \wj “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”\wj*
\p John 6.42: \v 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, \wj ‘I have come down out of heaven?’” \wj*
\p
\p John 6.43: \v 43 Therefore Jesus answered them, \wj “Don’t murmur among yourselves. \wj*
\p John 6.44: \v 44 \wj No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. \wj*
\p John 6.45: \v 45 \wj It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ \wj* \x + \xo 6:45 \xt Isaiah 54:13\x* \wj Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. \wj*
\p John 6.46: \v 46 \wj Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. \wj*
\p John 6.47: \v 47 \wj Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. \wj*
\p John 6.48: \v 48 \wj I am the bread of life. \wj*
\p John 6.49: \v 49 \wj Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. \wj*
\p John 6.50: \v 50 \wj This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. \wj*
\p John 6.51: \v 51 \wj I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.52: \v 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
\p
\p John 6.53: \v 53 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. \wj*
\p John 6.54: \v 54 \wj He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. \wj*
\p John 6.55: \v 55 \wj For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. \wj*
\p John 6.56: \v 56 \wj He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. \wj*
\p John 6.57: \v 57 \wj As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. \wj*
\p John 6.58: \v 58 \wj This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”\wj*
\p John 6.59: \v 59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
\p
\p John 6.60: \v 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
\p
\p John 6.61: \v 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, \wj “Does this cause you to stumble? \wj*
\p John 6.62: \v 62 \wj Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? \wj*
\p John 6.63: \v 63 \wj It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. \wj*
\p John 6.64: \v 64 \wj But there are some of you who don’t believe.”\wj* For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
\p John 6.65: \v 65 He said, \wj “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.66: \v 66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
\p John 6.67: \v 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, \wj “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”\wj*
\p
\p John 6.68: \v 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
\p John 6.69: \v 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
\p
\p John 6.70: \v 70 Jesus answered them, \wj “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”\wj*
\p John 6.71: \v 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
\p John 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p John 7.1: \v 1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
\p John 7.2: \v 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
\p John 7.3: \v 3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
\p John 7.4: \v 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
\p John 7.5: \v 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
\p
\p John 7.6: \v 6 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. \wj*
\p John 7.7: \v 7 \wj The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. \wj*
\p John 7.8: \v 8 \wj You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”\wj*
\p
\p John 7.9: \v 9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
\p John 7.10: \v 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
\p John 7.11: \v 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
\p John 7.12: \v 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
\p John 7.13: \v 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
\p John 7.14: \v 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
\p John 7.15: \v 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
\p
\p John 7.16: \v 16 Jesus therefore answered them, \wj “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. \wj*
\p John 7.17: \v 17 \wj If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. \wj*
\p John 7.18: \v 18 \wj He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. \wj*
\p John 7.19: \v 19 \wj Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”\wj*
\p
\p John 7.20: \v 20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
\p
\p John 7.21: \v 21 Jesus answered them, \wj “I did one work and you all marvel because of it. \wj*
\p John 7.22: \v 22 \wj Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. \wj*
\p John 7.23: \v 23 \wj If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? \wj*
\p John 7.24: \v 24 \wj Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” \wj*
\p
\p John 7.25: \v 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
\p John 7.26: \v 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
\p John 7.27: \v 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
\p
\p John 7.28: \v 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, \wj “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. \wj*
\p John 7.29: \v 29 \wj I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 7.30: \v 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
\p John 7.31: \v 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
\p John 7.32: \v 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
\p
\p John 7.33: \v 33 Then Jesus said, \wj “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. \wj*
\p John 7.34: \v 34 \wj You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”\wj*
\p
\p John 7.35: \v 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
\p John 7.36: \v 36 What is this word that he said, \wj ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’\wj* and \wj ‘Where I am, you can’t come’\wj*?”
\p
\p John 7.37: \v 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, \wj “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! \wj*
\p John 7.38: \v 38 \wj He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”\wj*
\p John 7.39: \v 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
\p
\p John 7.40: \v 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
\p John 7.41: \v 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
\p John 7.42: \v 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring\f + \fr 7:42 \ft or, seed\f* of David, \x + \xo 7:42 \xt 2 Samuel 7:12\x* and from Bethlehem,\x + \xo 7:42 \xt Micah 5:2\x* the village where David was?”
\p John 7.43: \v 43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
\p John 7.44: \v 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
\p John 7.45: \v 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
\p
\p John 7.46: \v 46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
\p
\p John 7.47: \v 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
\p John 7.48: \v 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
\p John 7.49: \v 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
\p
\p John 7.50: \v 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
\p John 7.51: \v 51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
\p
\p John 7.52: \v 52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”\x + \xo 7:52 \xt See Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16\x*
\p
\p John 7.53: \v 53 Everyone went to his own house,
\p John 8.0: \c 8
\nb
\p John 8.1: \v 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
\p John 8.2: \v 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.
\p John 8.3: \v 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
\p John 8.4: \v 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
\p John 8.5: \v 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.\x + \xo 8:5 \xt Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22\x* What then do you say about her?”
\p John 8.6: \v 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
\p But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
\p John 8.7: \v 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, \wj “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” \wj*
\p John 8.8: \v 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
\p
\p John 8.9: \v 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
\p John 8.10: \v 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, \wj “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.11: \v 11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
\p Jesus said, \wj “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”\wj*\f + \fr 8:11 \ft NU includes John 7:53–John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original.\f*
\p
\p John 8.12: \v 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, \wj “I am the light of the world.\wj*\x + \xo 8:12 \xt Isaiah 60:1\x* \wj He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.13: \v 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
\p
\p John 8.14: \v 14 Jesus answered them, \wj “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. \wj*
\p John 8.15: \v 15 \wj You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. \wj*
\p John 8.16: \v 16 \wj Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. \wj*
\p John 8.17: \v 17 \wj It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.\wj*\x + \xo 8:17 \xt Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15\x*
\p John 8.18: \v 18 \wj I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.19: \v 19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”\wj*
\p John 8.20: \v 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
\p John 8.21: \v 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, \wj “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.” \wj*
\p
\p John 8.22: \v 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, \wj ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’\wj*?”
\p
\p John 8.23: \v 23 He said to them, \wj “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. \wj*
\p John 8.24: \v 24 \wj I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am\wj*\f + \fr 8:24 \ft or, I AM\f* \wj he, you will die in your sins.” \wj*
\p
\p John 8.25: \v 25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. \wj*
\p John 8.26: \v 26 \wj I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.27: \v 27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
\p John 8.28: \v 28 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. \wj*
\p John 8.29: \v 29 \wj He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.30: \v 30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
\p John 8.31: \v 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, \wj “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. \wj*
\p John 8.32: \v 32 \wj You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” \wj*\x + \xo 8:32 \xt Psalm 119:45\x*
\p
\p John 8.33: \v 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, \wj ‘You will be made free’\wj*?”
\p
\p John 8.34: \v 34 Jesus answered them, \wj “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. \wj*
\p John 8.35: \v 35 \wj A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. \wj*
\p John 8.36: \v 36 \wj If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. \wj*
\p John 8.37: \v 37 \wj I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. \wj*
\p John 8.38: \v 38 \wj I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.39: \v 39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. \wj*
\p John 8.40: \v 40 \wj But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. \wj*
\p John 8.41: \v 41 \wj You do the works of your father.”\wj*
\p They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
\p
\p John 8.42: \v 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, \wj “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. \wj*
\p John 8.43: \v 43 \wj Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. \wj*
\p John 8.44: \v 44 \wj You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. \wj*
\p John 8.45: \v 45 \wj But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. \wj*
\p John 8.46: \v 46 \wj Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? \wj*
\p John 8.47: \v 47 \wj He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.48: \v 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
\p
\p John 8.49: \v 49 Jesus answered, \wj “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. \wj*
\p John 8.50: \v 50 \wj But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. \wj*
\p John 8.51: \v 51 \wj Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.52: \v 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, \wj ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’\wj*
\p John 8.53: \v 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
\p
\p John 8.54: \v 54 Jesus answered, \wj “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. \wj*
\p John 8.55: \v 55 \wj You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. \wj*
\p John 8.56: \v 56 \wj Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.57: \v 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
\p
\p John 8.58: \v 58 Jesus said to them, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.\wj*\x + \xo 8:58 \xt Exodus 3:14\x*\wj ”\wj*
\p
\p John 8.59: \v 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
\p John 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p John 9.1: \v 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
\p John 9.2: \v 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
\p
\p John 9.3: \v 3 Jesus answered, \wj “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. \wj*
\p John 9.4: \v 4 \wj I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. \wj*
\p John 9.5: \v 5 \wj While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”\wj*
\p John 9.6: \v 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
\p John 9.7: \v 7 and said to him, \wj “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”\wj* (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
\p John 9.8: \v 8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
\p John 9.9: \v 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
\p He said, “I am he.”
\p John 9.10: \v 10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
\p
\p John 9.11: \v 11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, \wj ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’\wj* So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
\p
\p John 9.12: \v 12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
\p He said, “I don’t know.”
\p
\p John 9.13: \v 13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
\p John 9.14: \v 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
\p John 9.15: \v 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
\p
\p John 9.16: \v 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.
\p John 9.17: \v 17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
\p He said, “He is a prophet.”
\p
\p John 9.18: \v 18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
\p John 9.19: \v 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
\p
\p John 9.20: \v 20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
\p John 9.21: \v 21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
\p John 9.22: \v 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
\p John 9.23: \v 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
\p
\p John 9.24: \v 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
\p
\p John 9.25: \v 25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
\p
\p John 9.26: \v 26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
\p
\p John 9.27: \v 27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
\p
\p John 9.28: \v 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
\p John 9.29: \v 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
\p
\p John 9.30: \v 30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
\p John 9.31: \v 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.\x + \xo 9:31 \xt Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9\x*
\p John 9.32: \v 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
\p John 9.33: \v 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
\p
\p John 9.34: \v 34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
\p
\p John 9.35: \v 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, \wj “Do you believe in the Son of God?”\wj*
\p
\p John 9.36: \v 36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
\p
\p John 9.37: \v 37 Jesus said to him, \wj “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”\wj*
\p
\p John 9.38: \v 38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
\p
\p John 9.39: \v 39 Jesus said, \wj “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”\wj*
\p
\p John 9.40: \v 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
\p
\p John 9.41: \v 41 Jesus said to them, \wj “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.\wj*
\p John 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p John 10.1: \v 1 \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. \wj*
\p John 10.2: \v 2 \wj But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. \wj*
\p John 10.3: \v 3 \wj The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. \wj*
\p John 10.4: \v 4 \wj Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. \wj*
\p John 10.5: \v 5 \wj They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”\wj*
\p John 10.6: \v 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
\p
\p John 10.7: \v 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, \wj “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. \wj*
\p John 10.8: \v 8 \wj All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. \wj*
\p John 10.9: \v 9 \wj I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. \wj*
\p John 10.10: \v 10 \wj The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. \wj*
\p John 10.11: \v 11 \wj I am the good shepherd.\wj*\x + \xo 10:11 \xt Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22\x* \wj The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. \wj*
\p John 10.12: \v 12 \wj He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. \wj*
\p John 10.13: \v 13 \wj The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. \wj*
\p John 10.14: \v 14 \wj I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; \wj*
\p John 10.15: \v 15 \wj even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. \wj*
\p John 10.16: \v 16 \wj I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.\wj*\x + \xo 10:16 \xt Isaiah 56:8 \x* \wj I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. \wj*
\p John 10.17: \v 17 \wj Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, \wj*\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Isaiah 53:7-8\x* \wj that I may take it again. \wj*
\p John 10.18: \v 18 \wj No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”\wj*
\p
\p John 10.19: \v 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
\p John 10.20: \v 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
\p John 10.21: \v 21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”\x + \xo 10:21 \xt Exodus 4:11\x*
\p
\p John 10.22: \v 22 It was the Feast of the Dedication\f + \fr 10:22 \ft The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.\f* at Jerusalem.
\p John 10.23: \v 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
\p John 10.24: \v 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
\p
\p John 10.25: \v 25 Jesus answered them, \wj “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. \wj*
\p John 10.26: \v 26 \wj But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. \wj*
\p John 10.27: \v 27 \wj My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. \wj*
\p John 10.28: \v 28 \wj I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. \wj*
\p John 10.29: \v 29 \wj My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. \wj*
\p John 10.30: \v 30 \wj I and the Father are one.”\wj*
\p
\p John 10.31: \v 31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
\p John 10.32: \v 32 Jesus answered them, \wj “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”\wj*
\p
\p John 10.33: \v 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
\p
\p John 10.34: \v 34 Jesus answered them, \wj “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’\wj*\x + \xo 10:34 \xt Psalm 82:6\x*
\p John 10.35: \v 35 \wj If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), \wj*
\p John 10.36: \v 36 \wj do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ \wj*
\p John 10.37: \v 37 \wj If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. \wj*
\p John 10.38: \v 38 \wj But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” \wj*
\p
\p John 10.39: \v 39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
\p John 10.40: \v 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.
\p John 10.41: \v 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
\p John 10.42: \v 42 Many believed in him there.
\p John 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p John 11.1: \v 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
\p John 11.2: \v 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
\p John 11.3: \v 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
\p John 11.4: \v 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, \wj “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”\wj*
\p John 11.5: \v 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
\p John 11.6: \v 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
\p John 11.7: \v 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, \wj “Let’s go into Judea again.”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.8: \v 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
\p
\p John 11.9: \v 9 Jesus answered, \wj “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. \wj*
\p John 11.10: \v 10 \wj But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”\wj*
\p John 11.11: \v 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, \wj “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.12: \v 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
\p
\p John 11.13: \v 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
\p John 11.14: \v 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, \wj “Lazarus is dead. \wj*
\p John 11.15: \v 15 \wj I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.16: \v 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,\f + \fr 11:16 \ft “Didymus” means “Twin”.\f* said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
\p
\p John 11.17: \v 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
\p John 11.18: \v 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia\f + \fr 11:18 \ft 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles\f* away.
\p John 11.19: \v 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
\p John 11.20: \v 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
\p John 11.21: \v 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
\p John 11.22: \v 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
\p John 11.23: \v 23 Jesus said to her, \wj “Your brother will rise again.”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.24: \v 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
\p
\p John 11.25: \v 25 Jesus said to her, \wj “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. \wj*
\p John 11.26: \v 26 \wj Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.27: \v 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.”
\p
\p John 11.28: \v 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”
\p
\p John 11.29: \v 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.
\p John 11.30: \v 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
\p John 11.31: \v 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.”
\p John 11.32: \v 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.”
\p
\p John 11.33: \v 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
\p John 11.34: \v 34 and said, \wj “Where have you laid him?”\wj*
\p They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
\p
\p John 11.35: \v 35 Jesus wept.
\p
\p John 11.36: \v 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
\p John 11.37: \v 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?”
\p
\p John 11.38: \v 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
\p John 11.39: \v 39 Jesus said, \wj “Take away the stone.”\wj*
\p 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.”
\p
\p John 11.40: \v 40 Jesus said to her, \wj “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.41: \v 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.\f + \fr 11:41 \ft NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.”\f* Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, \wj “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. \wj*
\p John 11.42: \v 42 \wj 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.” \wj*
\p John 11.43: \v 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, \wj “Lazarus, come out!”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.44: \v 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “Free him, and let him go.”\wj*
\p
\p John 11.45: \v 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
\p John 11.46: \v 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
\p John 11.47: \v 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
\p John 11.48: \v 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.”
\p
\p John 11.49: \v 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
\p John 11.50: \v 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.”
\p John 11.51: \v 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
\p John 11.52: \v 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
\p John 11.53: \v 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
\p John 11.54: \v 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.
\p
\p John 11.55: \v 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
\p John 11.56: \v 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?”
\p John 11.57: \v 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.
\p John 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p John 12.1: \v 1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
\p John 12.2: \v 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
\p John 12.3: \v 3 Therefore Mary took a pound\f + \fr 12:3 \ft a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams\f* of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
\p John 12.4: \v 4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
\p John 12.5: \v 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,\f + \fr 12:5 \ft 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.\f* and given to the poor?”
\p John 12.6: \v 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
\p John 12.7: \v 7 But Jesus said, \wj “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. \wj*
\p John 12.8: \v 8 \wj For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 12.9: \v 9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
\p John 12.10: \v 10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
\p John 12.11: \v 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
\p
\p John 12.12: \v 12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
\p John 12.13: \v 13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna!\f + \fr 12:13 \ft “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”.\f* Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,\x + \xo 12:13 \xt Psalm 118:25-26 \x* the King of Israel!”
\p
\p John 12.14: \v 14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
\p John 12.15: \v 15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”\x + \xo 12:15 \xt Zechariah 9:9\x*
\p John 12.16: \v 16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
\p John 12.17: \v 17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
\p John 12.18: \v 18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
\p John 12.19: \v 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
\p
\p John 12.20: \v 20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
\p John 12.21: \v 21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
\p John 12.22: \v 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
\p John 12.23: \v 23 Jesus answered them, \wj “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. \wj*
\p John 12.24: \v 24 \wj Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. \wj*
\p John 12.25: \v 25 \wj He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. \wj*
\p John 12.26: \v 26 \wj If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.\wj*
\p
\p John 12.27: \v 27 \wj “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause. \wj*
\p John 12.28: \v 28 \wj Father, glorify your name!”\wj*
\p Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
\p
\p John 12.29: \v 29 Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
\p
\p John 12.30: \v 30 Jesus answered, \wj “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. \wj*
\p John 12.31: \v 31 \wj Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. \wj*
\p John 12.32: \v 32 \wj And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”\wj*
\p John 12.33: \v 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
\p John 12.34: \v 34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever.\x + \xo 12:34 \xt Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8\x* How do you say, \wj ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’\wj* Who is this Son of Man?”
\p
\p John 12.35: \v 35 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. \wj*
\p John 12.36: \v 36 \wj While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.”\wj* Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
\p John 12.37: \v 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
\p John 12.38: \v 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
\q1 “Lord, who has believed our report?
\q2 To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”\x + \xo 12:38 \xt Isaiah 53:1\x*
\p
\p John 12.39: \v 39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
\q1
\p John 12.40: \v 40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
\q2 lest they should see with their eyes,
\q2 and perceive with their heart,
\q2 and would turn,
\q2 and I would heal them.”\x + \xo 12:40 \xt Isaiah 6:10\x*
\p
\p John 12.41: \v 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. \x + \xo 12:41 \xt Isaiah 6:1\x*
\p John 12.42: \v 42 Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
\p John 12.43: \v 43 for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
\p
\p John 12.44: \v 44 Jesus cried out and said, \wj “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. \wj*
\p John 12.45: \v 45 \wj He who sees me sees him who sent me. \wj*
\p John 12.46: \v 46 \wj I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. \wj*
\p John 12.47: \v 47 \wj If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. \wj*
\p John 12.48: \v 48 \wj He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day. \wj*
\p John 12.49: \v 49 \wj For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. \wj*
\p John 12.50: \v 50 \wj I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”\wj*
\p John 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p John 13.1: \v 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
\p John 13.2: \v 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
\p John 13.3: \v 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
\p John 13.4: \v 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.
\p John 13.5: \v 5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
\p John 13.6: \v 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
\p
\p John 13.7: \v 7 Jesus answered him, \wj “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.8: \v 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
\p Jesus answered him, \wj “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” \wj*
\p
\p John 13.9: \v 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
\p
\p John 13.10: \v 10 Jesus said to him, \wj “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” \wj*
\p John 13.11: \v 11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, \wj “You are not all clean.”\wj*
\p John 13.12: \v 12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, \wj “Do you know what I have done to you? \wj*
\p John 13.13: \v 13 \wj You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. \wj*
\p John 13.14: \v 14 \wj If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. \wj*
\p John 13.15: \v 15 \wj For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. \wj*
\p John 13.16: \v 16 \wj Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. \wj*
\p John 13.17: \v 17 \wj If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. \wj*
\p John 13.18: \v 18 \wj I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’\wj*\x + \xo 13:18 \xt Psalm 41:9\x*
\p John 13.19: \v 19 \wj From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. \wj*
\p John 13.20: \v 20 \wj Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.21: \v 21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, \wj “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.22: \v 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
\p John 13.23: \v 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.
\p John 13.24: \v 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
\p
\p John 13.25: \v 25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
\p
\p John 13.26: \v 26 Jesus therefore answered, \wj “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.”\wj* So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
\p John 13.27: \v 27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him.
\p Then Jesus said to him, \wj “What you do, do quickly.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.28: \v 28 Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him.
\p John 13.29: \v 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
\p John 13.30: \v 30 Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
\p
\p John 13.31: \v 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, \wj “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. \wj*
\p John 13.32: \v 32 \wj If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. \wj*
\p John 13.33: \v 33 \wj Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. \wj*
\p John 13.34: \v 34 \wj A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. \wj*
\p John 13.35: \v 35 \wj By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.36: \v 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”\wj*
\p
\p John 13.37: \v 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
\p
\p John 13.38: \v 38 Jesus answered him, \wj “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.\wj*
\p John 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p John 14.1: \v 1 \wj “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. \wj*
\p John 14.2: \v 2 \wj In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. \wj*
\p John 14.3: \v 3 \wj If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. \wj*
\p John 14.4: \v 4 \wj You know where I go, and you know the way.”\wj*
\p
\p John 14.5: \v 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
\p
\p John 14.6: \v 6 Jesus said to him, \wj “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. \wj*
\p John 14.7: \v 7 \wj If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”\wj*
\p
\p John 14.8: \v 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
\p
\p John 14.9: \v 9 Jesus said to him, \wj “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ \wj*
\p John 14.10: \v 10 \wj Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. \wj*
\p John 14.11: \v 11 \wj Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. \wj*
\p John 14.12: \v 12 \wj Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. \wj*
\p John 14.13: \v 13 \wj Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. \wj*
\p John 14.14: \v 14 \wj If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. \wj*
\p John 14.15: \v 15 \wj If you love me, keep my commandments. \wj*
\p John 14.16: \v 16 \wj I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, \wj*\f + \fr 14:16 \ft Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.\f* \wj that he may be with you forever:\wj*
\p John 14.17: \v 17 \wj the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. \wj*
\p John 14.18: \v 18 \wj I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. \wj*
\p John 14.19: \v 19 \wj Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. \wj*
\p John 14.20: \v 20 \wj In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. \wj*
\p John 14.21: \v 21 \wj One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”\wj*
\p
\p John 14.22: \v 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
\p
\p John 14.23: \v 23 Jesus answered him, \wj “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. \wj*
\p John 14.24: \v 24 \wj He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. \wj*
\p John 14.25: \v 25 \wj I have said these things to you while still living with you. \wj*
\p John 14.26: \v 26 \wj But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. \wj*
\p John 14.27: \v 27 \wj Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. \wj*
\p John 14.28: \v 28 \wj You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. \wj*
\p John 14.29: \v 29 \wj Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. \wj*
\p John 14.30: \v 30 \wj I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. \wj*
\p John 14.31: \v 31 \wj But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.\wj*
\p John 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p John 15.1: \v 1 \wj “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. \wj*
\p John 15.2: \v 2 \wj Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. \wj*
\p John 15.3: \v 3 \wj You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. \wj*
\p John 15.4: \v 4 \wj Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. \wj*
\p John 15.5: \v 5 \wj I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. \wj*
\p John 15.6: \v 6 \wj If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. \wj*
\p John 15.7: \v 7 \wj If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.\wj*
\p
\p John 15.8: \v 8 \wj “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. \wj*
\p John 15.9: \v 9 \wj Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. \wj*
\p John 15.10: \v 10 \wj If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. \wj*
\p John 15.11: \v 11 \wj I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.\wj*
\p
\p John 15.12: \v 12 \wj “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. \wj*
\p John 15.13: \v 13 \wj Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. \wj*
\p John 15.14: \v 14 \wj You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. \wj*
\p John 15.15: \v 15 \wj No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. \wj*
\p John 15.16: \v 16 \wj You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.\wj*
\p
\p John 15.17: \v 17 \wj “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. \wj*
\p John 15.18: \v 18 \wj If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. \wj*
\p John 15.19: \v 19 \wj If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. \wj*
\p John 15.20: \v 20 \wj Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’\wj*\x + \xo 15:20 \xt John 13:16\x* \wj If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. \wj*
\p John 15.21: \v 21 \wj But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. \wj*
\p John 15.22: \v 22 \wj If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. \wj*
\p John 15.23: \v 23 \wj He who hates me, hates my Father also. \wj*
\p John 15.24: \v 24 \wj If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. \wj*
\p John 15.25: \v 25 \wj But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’\wj*\x + \xo 15:25 \xt Psalm 35:19; 69:4\x*
\p
\p John 15.26: \v 26 \wj “When the Counselor\wj*\f + \fr 15:26 \ft Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.\f* \wj has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. \wj*
\p John 15.27: \v 27 \wj You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.\wj*
\p John 16.0: \c 16
\p
\p John 16.1: \v 1 \wj “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. \wj*
\p John 16.2: \v 2 \wj They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. \wj*
\p John 16.3: \v 3 \wj They will do these things\wj*\f + \fr 16:3 \ft TR adds “to you”\f* \wj because they have not known the Father, nor me. \wj*
\p John 16.4: \v 4 \wj But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. \wj*
\p John 16.5: \v 5 \wj But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ \wj*
\p John 16.6: \v 6 \wj But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. \wj*
\p John 16.7: \v 7 \wj Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. \wj*
\p John 16.8: \v 8 \wj When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; \wj*
\p John 16.9: \v 9 \wj about sin, because they don’t believe in me; \wj*
\p John 16.10: \v 10 \wj about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; \wj*
\p John 16.11: \v 11 \wj about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. \wj*
\p
\p John 16.12: \v 12 \wj “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. \wj*
\p John 16.13: \v 13 \wj However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. \wj*
\p John 16.14: \v 14 \wj He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. \wj*
\p John 16.15: \v 15 \wj All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes\wj*\f + \fr 16:15 \ft TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”\f* \wj of mine and will declare it to you. \wj*
\p John 16.16: \v 16 \wj A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 16.17: \v 17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, \wj ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’\wj* and, \wj ‘Because I go to the Father’\wj*?”
\p John 16.18: \v 18 They said therefore, “What is this that he says, \wj ‘A little while’\wj*? We don’t know what he is saying.”
\p
\p John 16.19: \v 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, \wj “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ \wj*
\p John 16.20: \v 20 \wj Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. \wj*
\p John 16.21: \v 21 \wj A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. \wj*
\p John 16.22: \v 22 \wj Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.\wj*
\p
\p John 16.23: \v 23 \wj “In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. \wj*
\p John 16.24: \v 24 \wj Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. \wj*
\p John 16.25: \v 25 \wj I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. \wj*
\p John 16.26: \v 26 \wj In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, \wj*
\p John 16.27: \v 27 \wj for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. \wj*
\p John 16.28: \v 28 \wj I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”\wj*
\p
\p John 16.29: \v 29 His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
\p John 16.30: \v 30 Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
\p
\p John 16.31: \v 31 Jesus answered them, \wj “Do you now believe? \wj*
\p John 16.32: \v 32 \wj Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. \wj*
\p John 16.33: \v 33 \wj I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.” \wj*
\p John 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p John 17.1: \v 1 Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, \wj “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; \wj*
\p John 17.2: \v 2 \wj even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. \wj*
\p John 17.3: \v 3 \wj This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. \wj*
\p John 17.4: \v 4 \wj I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. \wj*
\p John 17.5: \v 5 \wj Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. \wj*
\p John 17.6: \v 6 \wj I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. \wj*
\p John 17.7: \v 7 \wj Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, \wj*
\p John 17.8: \v 8 \wj for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. \wj*
\p John 17.9: \v 9 \wj I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. \wj*
\p John 17.10: \v 10 \wj All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. \wj*
\p John 17.11: \v 11 \wj I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. \wj*
\p John 17.12: \v 12 \wj While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. \wj*
\p John 17.13: \v 13 \wj But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. \wj*
\p John 17.14: \v 14 \wj I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. \wj*
\p John 17.15: \v 15 \wj I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. \wj*
\p John 17.16: \v 16 \wj They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. \wj*
\p John 17.17: \v 17 \wj Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.\wj*\x + \xo 17:17 \xt Psalm 119:142\x*
\p John 17.18: \v 18 \wj As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. \wj*
\p John 17.19: \v 19 \wj For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. \wj*
\p John 17.20: \v 20 \wj Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, \wj*
\p John 17.21: \v 21 \wj that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. \wj*
\p John 17.22: \v 22 \wj The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; \wj*
\p John 17.23: \v 23 \wj I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. \wj*
\p John 17.24: \v 24 \wj Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. \wj*
\p John 17.25: \v 25 \wj Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. \wj*
\p John 17.26: \v 26 \wj I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”\wj*
\p John 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p John 18.1: \v 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
\p John 18.2: \v 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
\p John 18.3: \v 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
\p John 18.4: \v 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, \wj “Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.5: \v 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
\p Jesus said to them, \wj “I am he.”\wj*
\p Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
\p John 18.6: \v 6 When therefore he said to them, \wj “I am he,”\wj* they went backward, and fell to the ground.
\p
\p John 18.7: \v 7 Again therefore he asked them, \wj “Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
\p
\p John 18.8: \v 8 Jesus answered, \wj “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”\wj*
\p John 18.9: \v 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, \wj “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”\wj*\x + \xo 18:9 \xt John 6:39\x*
\p
\p John 18.10: \v 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
\p John 18.11: \v 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, \wj “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.12: \v 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
\p John 18.13: \v 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
\p John 18.14: \v 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
\p John 18.15: \v 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
\p John 18.16: \v 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
\p John 18.17: \v 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?”
\p He said, “I am not.”
\p
\p John 18.18: \v 18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
\p John 18.19: \v 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
\p John 18.20: \v 20 Jesus answered him, \wj “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. \wj*
\p John 18.21: \v 21 \wj Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.22: \v 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
\p
\p John 18.23: \v 23 Jesus answered him, \wj “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.24: \v 24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
\p John 18.25: \v 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”
\p He denied it and said, “I am not.”
\p
\p John 18.26: \v 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
\p
\p John 18.27: \v 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
\p
\p John 18.28: \v 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
\p John 18.29: \v 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
\p
\p John 18.30: \v 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
\p
\p John 18.31: \v 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
\p Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
\p John 18.32: \v 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
\p
\p John 18.33: \v 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
\p
\p John 18.34: \v 34 Jesus answered him, \wj “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.35: \v 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
\p
\p John 18.36: \v 36 Jesus answered, \wj “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.37: \v 37 Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
\p Jesus answered, \wj “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”\wj*
\p
\p John 18.38: \v 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
\p When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
\p John 18.39: \v 39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
\p
\p John 18.40: \v 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
\p John 19.0: \c 19
\p
\p John 19.1: \v 1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
\p John 19.2: \v 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
\p John 19.3: \v 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
\p
\p John 19.4: \v 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
\p
\p John 19.5: \v 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
\p
\p John 19.6: \v 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
\p Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
\p
\p John 19.7: \v 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
\p
\p John 19.8: \v 8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
\p John 19.9: \v 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
\p John 19.10: \v 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
\p
\p John 19.11: \v 11 Jesus answered, \wj “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”\wj*
\p
\p John 19.12: \v 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
\p
\p John 19.13: \v 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
\p John 19.14: \v 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.\f + \fr 19:14 \ft “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then. \f* He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
\p
\p John 19.15: \v 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
\p Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
\p The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
\p
\p John 19.16: \v 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
\p John 19.17: \v 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
\p John 19.18: \v 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
\p John 19.19: \v 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
\p John 19.20: \v 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
\p John 19.21: \v 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”
\p
\p John 19.22: \v 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
\p
\p John 19.23: \v 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
\p John 19.24: \v 24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
\q1 “They parted my garments among them.
\q2 For my cloak they cast lots.”\x + \xo 19:24 \xt Psalm 22:18\x*
\p Therefore the soldiers did these things.
\p John 19.25: \v 25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
\p John 19.26: \v 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, \wj “Woman, behold, your son!” \wj*
\p John 19.27: \v 27 Then he said to the disciple, \wj “Behold, your mother!”\wj* From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
\p
\p John 19.28: \v 28 After this, Jesus, seeing\f + \fr 19:28 \ft NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing” \f* that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, \wj “I am thirsty.”\wj*
\p John 19.29: \v 29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
\p John 19.30: \v 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, \wj “It is finished.”\wj* He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
\p
\p John 19.31: \v 31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
\p John 19.32: \v 32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
\p John 19.33: \v 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
\p John 19.34: \v 34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
\p John 19.35: \v 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
\p John 19.36: \v 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”\x + \xo 19:36 \xt Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20 \x*
\p John 19.37: \v 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”\x + \xo 19:37 \xt Zechariah 12:10\x*
\p
\p John 19.38: \v 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
\p John 19.39: \v 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.\f + \fr 19:39 \ft 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.\f*
\p John 19.40: \v 40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
\p John 19.41: \v 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
\p John 19.42: \v 42 Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
\p John 20.0: \c 20
\p
\p John 20.1: \v 1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
\p John 20.2: \v 2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
\p
\p John 20.3: \v 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
\p John 20.4: \v 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
\p John 20.5: \v 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
\p John 20.6: \v 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
\p John 20.7: \v 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
\p John 20.8: \v 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
\p John 20.9: \v 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
\p John 20.10: \v 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
\p
\p John 20.11: \v 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
\p John 20.12: \v 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
\p John 20.13: \v 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
\p She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
\p John 20.14: \v 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
\p
\p John 20.15: \v 15 Jesus said to her, \wj “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”\wj*
\p She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
\p
\p John 20.16: \v 16 Jesus said to her, \wj “Mary.”\wj*
\p She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”\f + \fr 20:16 \ft Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”\f* which is to say, “Teacher!”\f + \fr 20:16 \ft or, Master\f*
\p
\p John 20.17: \v 17 Jesus said to her, \wj “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”\wj*
\p
\p John 20.18: \v 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
\p John 20.19: \v 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, \wj “Peace be to you.”\wj*
\p
\p John 20.20: \v 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
\p John 20.21: \v 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, \wj “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”\wj*
\p John 20.22: \v 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, \wj “Receive the Holy Spirit! \wj*
\p John 20.23: \v 23 \wj If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”\wj*
\p
\p John 20.24: \v 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
\p John 20.25: \v 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
\p But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
\p
\p John 20.26: \v 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, \wj “Peace be to you.”\wj*
\p John 20.27: \v 27 Then he said to Thomas, \wj “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”\wj*
\p
\p John 20.28: \v 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
\p
\p John 20.29: \v 29 Jesus said to him, \wj “Because you have seen me,\wj*\f + \fr 20:29 \ft TR adds “Thomas,”\f* \wj you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”\wj*
\p
\p John 20.30: \v 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
\p John 20.31: \v 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
\p John 21.0: \c 21
\p
\p John 21.1: \v 1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
\p John 21.2: \v 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
\p John 21.3: \v 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
\p They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
\p John 21.4: \v 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
\p John 21.5: \v 5 Jesus therefore said to them, \wj “Children, have you anything to eat?” \wj*
\p They answered him, “No.”
\p
\p John 21.6: \v 6 He said to them, \wj “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”\wj*
\p They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
\p John 21.7: \v 7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”
\p So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
\p John 21.8: \v 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits\f + \fr 21:8 \ft 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters\f* away), dragging the net full of fish.
\p John 21.9: \v 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.
\p John 21.10: \v 10 Jesus said to them, \wj “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”\wj*
\p
\p John 21.11: \v 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
\p
\p John 21.12: \v 12 Jesus said to them, \wj “Come and eat breakfast!”\wj*
\p None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
\p
\p John 21.13: \v 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
\p John 21.14: \v 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
\p John 21.15: \v 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”\wj*
\p He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
\p He said to him, \wj “Feed my lambs.”\wj*
\p John 21.16: \v 16 He said to him again a second time, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?”\wj*
\p He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
\p He said to him, \wj “Tend my sheep.”\wj*
\p John 21.17: \v 17 He said to him the third time, \wj “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?”\wj*
\p Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, \wj “Do you have affection for me?”\wj* He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”
\p Jesus said to him, \wj “Feed my sheep. \wj*
\p John 21.18: \v 18 \wj Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”\wj*
\p
\p John 21.19: \v 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, \wj “Follow me.”\wj*
\p
\p John 21.20: \v 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
\p John 21.21: \v 21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
\p
\p John 21.22: \v 22 Jesus said to him, \wj “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”\wj*
\p John 21.23: \v 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers,\f + \fr 21:23 \ft The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, \wj “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”\wj*
\p John 21.24: \v 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
\p John 21.25: \v 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
\p 2 Corinthians 0.0: \id 2CO 47-2CO-web.sfm World English Bible (WEB)
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\h 2 Corinthians
\toc1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians
\toc2 2 Corinthians
\toc3 2Co
\mt1 Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians
\p 2 Corinthians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
\p 2 Corinthians 1.2: \v 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.3: \v 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
\p 2 Corinthians 1.4: \v 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.5: \v 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.6: \v 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.7: \v 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.8: \v 8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers,\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”\f* concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.9: \v 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.10: \v 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
\p 2 Corinthians 1.11: \v 11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.12: \v 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.13: \v 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.14: \v 14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.15: \v 15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.16: \v 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.17: \v 17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.18: \v 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.19: \v 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
\p 2 Corinthians 1.20: \v 20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.21: \v 21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
\p 2 Corinthians 1.22: \v 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 1.23: \v 23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
\p 2 Corinthians 1.24: \v 24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.1: \v 1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.2: \v 2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
\p 2 Corinthians 2.3: \v 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.4: \v 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.5: \v 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.6: \v 6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
\p 2 Corinthians 2.7: \v 7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.8: \v 8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.9: \v 9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.10: \v 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 2.11: \v 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.12: \v 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
\p 2 Corinthians 2.13: \v 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 2.14: \v 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
\p 2 Corinthians 2.15: \v 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:
\p 2 Corinthians 2.16: \v 16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
\p 2 Corinthians 2.17: \v 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 3.1: \v 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
\p 2 Corinthians 3.2: \v 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.3: \v 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.4: \v 4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.5: \v 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.6: \v 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.7: \v 7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.8: \v 8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
\p 2 Corinthians 3.9: \v 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.10: \v 10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.11: \v 11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 3.12: \v 12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
\p 2 Corinthians 3.13: \v 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.14: \v 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.15: \v 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.16: \v 16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.17: \v 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
\p 2 Corinthians 3.18: \v 18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.1: \v 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.2: \v 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.3: \v 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.4: \v 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.5: \v 5 For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.6: \v 6 seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,”\x + \xo 4:6 \xt Genesis 1:3\x* who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.7: \v 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.8: \v 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.9: \v 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.10: \v 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.11: \v 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.12: \v 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.13: \v 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.”\x + \xo 4:13 \xt Psalm 116:10\x* We also believe, and therefore we also speak;
\p 2 Corinthians 4.14: \v 14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.15: \v 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 4.16: \v 16 Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
\p 2 Corinthians 4.17: \v 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
\p 2 Corinthians 4.18: \v 18 while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.1: \v 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.2: \v 2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
\p 2 Corinthians 5.3: \v 3 if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.4: \v 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.5: \v 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.6: \v 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
\p 2 Corinthians 5.7: \v 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.8: \v 8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.9: \v 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.10: \v 10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.11: \v 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.12: \v 12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.13: \v 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.14: \v 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.15: \v 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.16: \v 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.17: \v 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,\f + \fr 5:17 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* all things have become new.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.18: \v 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
\p 2 Corinthians 5.19: \v 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 5.20: \v 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
\p 2 Corinthians 5.21: \v 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 6.1: \v 1 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.2: \v 2 for he says,
\q1 “At an acceptable time I listened to you.
\q1 In a day of salvation I helped you.”\x + \xo 6:2 \xt Isaiah 49:8\x*
\p Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.3: \v 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.4: \v 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.5: \v 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.6: \v 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.7: \v 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
\p 2 Corinthians 6.8: \v 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.9: \v 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
\p 2 Corinthians 6.10: \v 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 6.11: \v 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.12: \v 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.13: \v 13 Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.
\p 2 Corinthians 6.14: \v 14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
\p 2 Corinthians 6.15: \v 15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
\p 2 Corinthians 6.16: \v 16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”\x + \xo 6:16 \xt Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 6.17: \v 17 Therefore
\q1 “‘Come out from among them,
\q2 and be separate,’ says the Lord.
\q1 ‘Touch no unclean thing.
\q2 I will receive you.\x + \xo 6:17 \xt Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41\x*
\q1
\p 2 Corinthians 6.18: \v 18 I will be to you a Father.
\q2 You will be to me sons and daughters,’
\p says the Lord Almighty.”\x + \xo 6:18 \xt 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.1: \v 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.2: \v 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.3: \v 3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.4: \v 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.5: \v 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.6: \v 6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
\p 2 Corinthians 7.7: \v 7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 7.8: \v 8 For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.9: \v 9 I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.10: \v 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.11: \v 11 For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.12: \v 12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.13: \v 13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.14: \v 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.15: \v 15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
\p 2 Corinthians 7.16: \v 16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 8.1: \v 1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.2: \v 2 how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.3: \v 3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.4: \v 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.5: \v 5 This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.6: \v 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.7: \v 7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.8: \v 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.9: \v 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.10: \v 10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.11: \v 11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.12: \v 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.13: \v 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
\p 2 Corinthians 8.14: \v 14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.15: \v 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”\x + \xo 8:15 \xt Exodus 16:18\x*
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 8.16: \v 16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.17: \v 17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.18: \v 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.19: \v 19 Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.20: \v 20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.21: \v 21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.22: \v 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.23: \v 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 8.24: \v 24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.1: \v 1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.2: \v 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.3: \v 3 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.4: \v 4 lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.5: \v 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.6: \v 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.7: \v 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.8: \v 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.9: \v 9 As it is written,
\q1 “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.
\q2 His righteousness remains forever.”\x + \xo 9:9 \xt Psalm 112:9\x*
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 9.10: \v 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.11: \v 11 you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.12: \v 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.13: \v 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
\p 2 Corinthians 9.14: \v 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 9.15: \v 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
\p 2 Corinthians 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 10.1: \v 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.2: \v 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.3: \v 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
\p 2 Corinthians 10.4: \v 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.5: \v 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.6: \v 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.7: \v 7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.8: \v 8 For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.9: \v 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.10: \v 10 For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
\p 2 Corinthians 10.11: \v 11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.12: \v 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.13: \v 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.14: \v 14 For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.15: \v 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
\p 2 Corinthians 10.16: \v 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
\p 2 Corinthians 10.17: \v 17 But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”\x + \xo 10:17 \xt Jeremiah 9:24 \x*
\p 2 Corinthians 10.18: \v 18 For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.1: \v 1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.2: \v 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.3: \v 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.4: \v 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.5: \v 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.6: \v 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.7: \v 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.8: \v 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.9: \v 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.10: \v 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.11: \v 11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.12: \v 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.13: \v 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.14: \v 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.15: \v 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.16: \v 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.17: \v 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.18: \v 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.19: \v 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.20: \v 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.21: \v 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.22: \v 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring\f + \fr 11:22 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham? So am I.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.23: \v 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.24: \v 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.25: \v 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.26: \v 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
\p 2 Corinthians 11.27: \v 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 11.28: \v 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.29: \v 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
\p 2 Corinthians 11.30: \v 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.31: \v 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.32: \v 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
\p 2 Corinthians 11.33: \v 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.1: \v 1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.2: \v 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.3: \v 3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
\p 2 Corinthians 12.4: \v 4 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.5: \v 5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.6: \v 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.7: \v 7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.8: \v 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.9: \v 9 He has said to me, \wj “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”\wj* Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.10: \v 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.11: \v 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.12: \v 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.13: \v 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.14: \v 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.15: \v 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
\p 2 Corinthians 12.16: \v 16 Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”
\p 2 Corinthians 12.17: \v 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
\p 2 Corinthians 12.18: \v 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 12.19: \v 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
\p 2 Corinthians 12.20: \v 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
\p 2 Corinthians 12.21: \v 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.1: \v 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”\x + \xo 13:1 \xt Deuteronomy 19:15\x*
\p 2 Corinthians 13.2: \v 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
\p 2 Corinthians 13.3: \v 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.4: \v 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.5: \v 5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.6: \v 6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.7: \v 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.8: \v 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.9: \v 9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.10: \v 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.11: \v 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
\p 2 Corinthians 13.12: \v 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.13: \v 13 All the saints greet you.
\p
\p 2 Corinthians 13.14: \v 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
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\p Galatians 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Galatians 1.1: \v 1 Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
\p Galatians 1.2: \v 2 and all the brothers\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” \f* who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
\p Galatians 1.3: \v 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
\p Galatians 1.4: \v 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
\p Galatians 1.5: \v 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
\p
\p Galatians 1.6: \v 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
\p Galatians 1.7: \v 7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
\p Galatians 1.8: \v 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
\p Galatians 1.9: \v 9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
\p Galatians 1.10: \v 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
\p
\p Galatians 1.11: \v 11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
\p Galatians 1.12: \v 12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
\p Galatians 1.13: \v 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
\p Galatians 1.14: \v 14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
\p Galatians 1.15: \v 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace
\p Galatians 1.16: \v 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
\p Galatians 1.17: \v 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
\p
\p Galatians 1.18: \v 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
\p Galatians 1.19: \v 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
\p Galatians 1.20: \v 20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold,\f + \fr 1:20 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* before God, I’m not lying.
\p Galatians 1.21: \v 21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
\p Galatians 1.22: \v 22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
\p Galatians 1.23: \v 23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
\p Galatians 1.24: \v 24 So they glorified God in me.
\p Galatians 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Galatians 2.1: \v 1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
\p Galatians 2.2: \v 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
\p Galatians 2.3: \v 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
\p Galatians 2.4: \v 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
\p Galatians 2.5: \v 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
\p Galatians 2.6: \v 6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
\p Galatians 2.7: \v 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
\p Galatians 2.8: \v 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
\p Galatians 2.9: \v 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
\p Galatians 2.10: \v 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
\p
\p Galatians 2.11: \v 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
\p Galatians 2.12: \v 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
\p Galatians 2.13: \v 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
\p Galatians 2.14: \v 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
\p
\p Galatians 2.15: \v 15 “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
\p Galatians 2.16: \v 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
\p Galatians 2.17: \v 17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
\p Galatians 2.18: \v 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
\p Galatians 2.19: \v 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
\p Galatians 2.20: \v 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
\p Galatians 2.21: \v 21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
\p Galatians 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Galatians 3.1: \v 1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
\p Galatians 3.2: \v 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.3: \v 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
\p Galatians 3.4: \v 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
\p Galatians 3.5: \v 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
\p Galatians 3.6: \v 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”\x + \xo 3:6 \xt Genesis 15:6\x*
\p Galatians 3.7: \v 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.8: \v 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”\x + \xo 3:8 \xt Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18\x*
\p Galatians 3.9: \v 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
\p Galatians 3.10: \v 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”\x + \xo 3:10 \xt Deuteronomy 27:26\x*
\p Galatians 3.11: \v 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”\x + \xo 3:11 \xt Habakkuk 2:4\x*
\p Galatians 3.12: \v 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”\x + \xo 3:12 \xt Leviticus 18:5\x*
\p
\p Galatians 3.13: \v 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”\x + \xo 3:13 \xt Deuteronomy 21:23\x*
\p Galatians 3.14: \v 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
\p
\p Galatians 3.15: \v 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
\p Galatians 3.16: \v 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seed\f* He doesn’t say, “To descendants\f + \fr 3:16 \ft or, seeds\f*”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,\x + \xo 3:16 \xt Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7\x* which is Christ.
\p Galatians 3.17: \v 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
\p Galatians 3.18: \v 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
\p
\p Galatians 3.19: \v 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
\p Galatians 3.20: \v 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
\p Galatians 3.21: \v 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
\p Galatians 3.22: \v 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
\p
\p Galatians 3.23: \v 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
\p Galatians 3.24: \v 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
\p Galatians 3.25: \v 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
\p Galatians 3.26: \v 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.27: \v 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
\p Galatians 3.28: \v 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
\p Galatians 3.29: \v 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
\p Galatians 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Galatians 4.1: \v 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
\p Galatians 4.2: \v 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
\p Galatians 4.3: \v 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
\p Galatians 4.4: \v 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
\p Galatians 4.5: \v 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
\p Galatians 4.6: \v 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,\f + \fr 4:6 \ft Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way. \f* Father!”
\p Galatians 4.7: \v 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
\p
\p Galatians 4.8: \v 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
\p Galatians 4.9: \v 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
\p Galatians 4.10: \v 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
\p Galatians 4.11: \v 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.12: \v 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
\p Galatians 4.13: \v 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
\p Galatians 4.14: \v 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
\p
\p Galatians 4.15: \v 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
\p Galatians 4.16: \v 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
\p Galatians 4.17: \v 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
\p Galatians 4.18: \v 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.19: \v 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
\p Galatians 4.20: \v 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
\p
\p Galatians 4.21: \v 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
\p Galatians 4.22: \v 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
\p Galatians 4.23: \v 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
\p Galatians 4.24: \v 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
\p Galatians 4.25: \v 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
\p Galatians 4.26: \v 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
\p Galatians 4.27: \v 27 For it is written,
\q1 “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
\q2 Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
\q2 For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.” \x + \xo 4:27 \xt Isaiah 54:1\x*
\p
\p Galatians 4.28: \v 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
\p Galatians 4.29: \v 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
\p Galatians 4.30: \v 30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”\x + \xo 4:30 \xt Genesis 21:10\x*
\p Galatians 4.31: \v 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
\p Galatians 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Galatians 5.1: \v 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
\p
\p Galatians 5.2: \v 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
\p Galatians 5.3: \v 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
\p Galatians 5.4: \v 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
\p Galatians 5.5: \v 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
\p Galatians 5.6: \v 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
\p Galatians 5.7: \v 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
\p Galatians 5.8: \v 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
\p Galatians 5.9: \v 9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
\p Galatians 5.10: \v 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
\p
\p Galatians 5.11: \v 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
\p Galatians 5.12: \v 12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
\p
\p Galatians 5.13: \v 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
\p Galatians 5.14: \v 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”\x + \xo 5:14 \xt Leviticus 19:18\x*
\p Galatians 5.15: \v 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
\p
\p Galatians 5.16: \v 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
\p Galatians 5.17: \v 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
\p Galatians 5.18: \v 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
\p Galatians 5.19: \v 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
\p Galatians 5.20: \v 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
\p Galatians 5.21: \v 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
\p
\p Galatians 5.22: \v 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,\f + \fr 5:22 \ft or, faithfulness\f*
\p Galatians 5.23: \v 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
\p Galatians 5.24: \v 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
\p
\p Galatians 5.25: \v 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
\p Galatians 5.26: \v 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
\p Galatians 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Galatians 6.1: \v 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
\p Galatians 6.2: \v 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
\p Galatians 6.3: \v 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
\p Galatians 6.4: \v 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
\p Galatians 6.5: \v 5 For each man will bear his own burden.
\p
\p Galatians 6.6: \v 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
\p Galatians 6.7: \v 7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
\p Galatians 6.8: \v 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
\p Galatians 6.9: \v 9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
\p Galatians 6.10: \v 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
\p
\p Galatians 6.11: \v 11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
\p Galatians 6.12: \v 12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
\p Galatians 6.13: \v 13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
\p Galatians 6.14: \v 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
\p Galatians 6.15: \v 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
\p Galatians 6.16: \v 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
\p
\p Galatians 6.17: \v 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
\p
\p Galatians 6.18: \v 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
\p Tobit 0.0: \id TOB - Tobit
\h Tobit
\toc1 Tobit
\toc2 Tobit
\toc3 Tob
\mt1 TOBIT
\ip \bk Tobit\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
\p Tobit 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Tobit 1.1: \v 1 The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;
\p Tobit 1.2: \v 2 who in the days of Enemessar\f + \fr 1:2 \ft That is, \fqa Shalmaneser. \ft Compare 2 Kings 17:3, 23. \f* king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.
\p
\p Tobit 1.3: \v 3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
\p Tobit 1.4: \v 4 When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.
\p Tobit 1.5: \v 5 All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father.
\p Tobit 1.6: \v 6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.
\p Tobit 1.7: \v 7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.
\p Tobit 1.8: \v 8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
\p Tobit 1.9: \v 9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
\p Tobit 1.10: \v 10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;
\p Tobit 1.11: \v 11 but I kept myself from eating,
\p Tobit 1.12: \v 12 because I remembered God with all my soul.
\p Tobit 1.13: \v 13 So the Most High gave me grace and favor\f + \fr 1:13 \ft Gr. \fqa beauty. \f* in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent.
\p Tobit 1.14: \v 14 And I went into Media, and left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages of Media.
\p
\p Tobit 1.15: \v 15 And when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place. In his time, the highways were troubled,\f + \fr 1:15 \ft Gr. \fqa his highways were troubled. \f* and I could no longer go into Media.
\p Tobit 1.16: \v 16 In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,
\p Tobit 1.17: \v 17 and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on\f + \fr 1:17 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa behind. \f* the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.
\p Tobit 1.18: \v 18 If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found.
\p Tobit 1.19: \v 19 But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.
\p Tobit 1.20: \v 20 And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
\p Tobit 1.21: \v 21 No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus\f + \fr 1:21 \ft That is, \fqa Esar-haddon, \ft and so in verse 22. \f* his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs.
\p Tobit 1.22: \v 22 Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son.
\p Tobit 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Tobit 2.1: \v 1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.
\p Tobit 2.2: \v 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
\p
\p Tobit 2.3: \v 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
\p Tobit 2.4: \v 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
\p Tobit 2.5: \v 5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
\p Tobit 2.6: \v 6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,
\q1 \x + \xo 2:6 \xt Amos 8:10\x*“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,
\q2 and all your mirth into lamentation.
\p
\p Tobit 2.7: \v 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
\p Tobit 2.8: \v 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
\p Tobit 2.9: \v 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
\p Tobit 2.10: \v 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went\f + \fr 2:10 \ft Some authorities read \fqa until he went. \f* into Elymais.
\p
\p Tobit 2.11: \v 11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
\p Tobit 2.12: \v 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
\p Tobit 2.13: \v 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
\p Tobit 2.14: \v 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”
\p I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.
\p But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.\f + \fr 2:14 \ft Gr. \fqa all things are known with you. \f*”
\p Tobit 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Tobit 3.1: \v 1 I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,
\p
\p Tobit 3.2: \v 2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever.
\p Tobit 3.3: \v 3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you.
\p Tobit 3.4: \v 4 For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
\p Tobit 3.5: \v 5 Now your judgments are many and true; that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers; because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you.
\p Tobit 3.6: \v 6 Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”
\p
\p Tobit 3.7: \v 7 The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;
\p Tobit 3.8: \v 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit\f + \fr 3:8 \ft Gr. \fqa demon. \f* killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.
\p Tobit 3.9: \v 9 Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”
\p Tobit 3.10: \v 10 When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, “I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.\f + \fr 3:10 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f*”
\p Tobit 3.11: \v 11 Then she prayed by the window, and said, “Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever!
\p Tobit 3.12: \v 12 And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face toward you.
\p Tobit 3.13: \v 13 Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach.
\p Tobit 3.14: \v 14 You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
\p Tobit 3.15: \v 15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
\p
\p Tobit 3.16: \v 16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
\p Tobit 3.17: \v 17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit\f + \fr 3:17 \ft Gr. \fqa demon. \f*; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
\p Tobit 4.0: \c 4
\p
\p Tobit 4.1: \v 1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,
\p Tobit 4.2: \v 2 and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?
\p Tobit 4.3: \v 3 And he called him, and said,
\p “My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her.
\p Tobit 4.4: \v 4 Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
\p Tobit 4.5: \v 5 My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.
\p Tobit 4.6: \v 6 For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness.
\p Tobit 4.7: \v 7 Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.
\p Tobit 4.8: \v 8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little;
\p Tobit 4.9: \v 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;
\p Tobit 4.10: \v 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.
\p Tobit 4.11: \v 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it.
\p Tobit 4.12: \v 12 Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land.
\p Tobit 4.13: \v 13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.
\p Tobit 4.14: \v 14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.
\p Tobit 4.15: \v 15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.
\p Tobit 4.16: \v 16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.
\p Tobit 4.17: \v 17 Pour out your bread on the burial\f + \fr 4:17 \ft Or, \fqa tomb \f* of the just, and give nothing to sinners.
\p Tobit 4.18: \v 18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.
\p Tobit 4.19: \v 19 Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind.
\p Tobit 4.20: \v 20 And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media.
\p Tobit 4.21: \v 21 And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.”
\p Tobit 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Tobit 5.1: \v 1 Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.
\p Tobit 5.2: \v 2 But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”
\p
\p Tobit 5.3: \v 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.4: \v 4 He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel;
\p Tobit 5.5: \v 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”
\p
\p Tobit 5.6: \v 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.7: \v 7 Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I will tell my father.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.8: \v 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”
\p But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.9: \v 9 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.
\p Tobit 5.10: \v 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.11: \v 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”
\p And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.12: \v 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.13: \v 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.
\p Tobit 5.14: \v 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?
\p Tobit 5.15: \v 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.16: \v 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”
\p Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them.
\p Tobit 5.17: \v 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?
\p Tobit 5.18: \v 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.
\p Tobit 5.19: \v 19 For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.20: \v 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.
\p Tobit 5.21: \v 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”
\p
\p Tobit 5.22: \v 22 So she stopped weeping.
\p Tobit 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Tobit 6.1: \v 1 Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.
\p Tobit 6.2: \v 2 But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leaped out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man.
\p Tobit 6.3: \v 3 But the angel said to him, “Grab the fish!”
\p So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land.
\p
\p Tobit 6.4: \v 4 And the angel said to him, “Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you.”
\p Tobit 6.5: \v 5 And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana.
\p
\p Tobit 6.6: \v 6 The young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?”
\p
\p Tobit 6.7: \v 7 He said to him, “About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee.
\p Tobit 6.8: \v 8 But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed.”
\p
\p Tobit 6.9: \v 9 But when they drew near to Rages,
\p Tobit 6.10: \v 10 the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife.
\p Tobit 6.11: \v 11 For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred.
\p Tobit 6.12: \v 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”
\p
\p Tobit 6.13: \v 13 Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber.
\p Tobit 6.14: \v 14 Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”
\p
\p Tobit 6.15: \v 15 But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.
\p Tobit 6.16: \v 16 And when\f + \fr 6:16 \ft Gr. \fqa if. \f* you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them.
\p Tobit 6.17: \v 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.”
\p When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.
\p Tobit 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Tobit 7.1: \v 1 They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house.
\p Tobit 7.2: \v 2 Raguel said to Edna his wife, “This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!”
\p Tobit 7.3: \v 3 And Raguel asked them, “Where are you two from, kindred?”
\p They said to him, “We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”
\p
\p Tobit 7.4: \v 4 He said to them, “Do you know Tobit our brother?”
\p They said, “We know him.”
\p Then he said to them, “Is he in good health?”
\p
\p Tobit 7.5: \v 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.”
\p
\p Tobit 7.6: \v 6 And Raguel sprang up, and kissed him, wept,
\p Tobit 7.7: \v 7 blessed him, and said to him, “You are the son of an honest and good man.” When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept;
\p Tobit 7.8: \v 8 and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat.
\p But Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished.”
\p
\p Tobit 7.9: \v 9 So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and make merry:
\p Tobit 7.10: \v 10 for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth.
\p Tobit 7.11: \v 11 I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.”
\p And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”
\p
\p Tobit 7.12: \v 12 Raguel said, “Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you.”
\p Tobit 7.13: \v 13 And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.
\p Tobit 7.14: \v 14 He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it.
\p Tobit 7.15: \v 15 Then they began to eat.
\p
\p Tobit 7.16: \v 16 And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”
\p Tobit 7.17: \v 17 She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,
\p Tobit 7.18: \v 18 “Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor\f + \fr 7:18 \ft Many ancient authorities read \fqa joy. \f* for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”
\p Tobit 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Tobit 8.1: \v 1 When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her.
\p Tobit 8.2: \v 2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.
\p Tobit 8.3: \v 3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
\p Tobit 8.4: \v 4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”
\p Tobit 8.5: \v 5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.
\p Tobit 8.6: \v 6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.
\p Tobit 8.7: \v 7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”
\p
\p Tobit 8.8: \v 8 She said with him, “Amen.” And they both slept that night.
\p
\p Tobit 8.9: \v 9 Raguel arose, and went and dug a grave,
\p Tobit 8.10: \v 10 saying, “Lest he also should die.”
\p Tobit 8.11: \v 11 And Raguel came into his house,
\p Tobit 8.12: \v 12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”
\p
\p Tobit 8.13: \v 13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
\p Tobit 8.14: \v 14 and came out, and told them that he was alive.
\p
\p Tobit 8.15: \v 15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!
\p Tobit 8.16: \v 16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
\p Tobit 8.17: \v 17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.
\p
\p Tobit 8.18: \v 18 He commanded his servants to fill the grave.
\p Tobit 8.19: \v 19 He kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
\p Tobit 8.20: \v 20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
\p Tobit 8.21: \v 21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.
\p Tobit 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Tobit 9.1: \v 1 And Tobias called Raphael, and said to him,
\p Tobit 9.2: \v 2 “Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,
\p Tobit 9.3: \v 3 because Raguel has sworn that I must not depart.
\p Tobit 9.4: \v 4 My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved.
\p Tobit 9.5: \v 5 So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.
\p Tobit 9.6: \v 6 Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.
\p Tobit 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Tobit 10.1: \v 1 Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,
\p Tobit 10.2: \v 2 he said, “Is he perchance detained?\f + \fr 10:2 \ft Many ancient authorities read \fqa “Are they perchance put to shame?” \f* Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”
\p Tobit 10.3: \v 3 He was very grieved.
\p
\p Tobit 10.4: \v 4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,
\p Tobit 10.5: \v 5 “I care about nothing,\f + \fr 10:5 \ft Some authorities read \fqa “Woe is me.”\f* my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”
\p Tobit 10.6: \v 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”
\p
\p Tobit 10.7: \v 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.
\p Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”
\p Tobit 10.8: \v 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”
\p Tobit 10.9: \v 9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.”
\p
\p Tobit 10.10: \v 10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;
\p Tobit 10.11: \v 11 and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”
\p Tobit 10.12: \v 12 And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.
\p Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.
\p Tobit 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Tobit 11.1: \v 1 After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.
\p Tobit 11.2: \v 2 Raphael said to Tobias, “Don’t you know, brother, how you left your father?
\p Tobit 11.3: \v 3 Let’s run forward before your wife, and prepare the house.
\p Tobit 11.4: \v 4 But take in your hand the bile of the fish.” So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
\p
\p Tobit 11.5: \v 5 Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son.
\p Tobit 11.6: \v 6 She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”
\p
\p Tobit 11.7: \v 7 Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.
\p Tobit 11.8: \v 8 Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”
\p
\p Tobit 11.9: \v 9 Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.
\p
\p Tobit 11.10: \v 10 Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him,
\p Tobit 11.11: \v 11 and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”
\p Tobit 11.12: \v 12 When his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them.
\p Tobit 11.13: \v 13 Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.
\p
\p Tobit 11.14: \v 14 He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!
\p Tobit 11.15: \v 15 For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.
\p
\p Tobit 11.16: \v 16 Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight.
\p Tobit 11.17: \v 17 Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.
\p Tobit 11.18: \v 18 Achiacharus and Nasbas his brother’s son came.
\p Tobit 11.19: \v 19 Tobias’ wedding feast was kept seven days with great gladness.
\p Tobit 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Tobit 12.1: \v 1 And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”
\p
\p Tobit 12.2: \v 2 And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;
\p Tobit 12.3: \v 3 for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”
\p
\p Tobit 12.4: \v 4 The old man said, “It is due to him.”
\p
\p Tobit 12.5: \v 5 And he called the angel, and said to him, “Take half of all that you all have brought.”
\p
\p Tobit 12.6: \v 6 Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honor the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.
\p Tobit 12.7: \v 7 It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.
\p Tobit 12.8: \v 8 Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.
\p Tobit 12.9: \v 9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;
\p Tobit 12.10: \v 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life.
\p Tobit 12.11: \v 11 Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’
\p Tobit 12.12: \v 12 And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.
\p Tobit 12.13: \v 13 And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.
\p Tobit 12.14: \v 14 And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law.
\p Tobit 12.15: \v 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”
\p
\p Tobit 12.16: \v 16 And they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they were afraid.
\p Tobit 12.17: \v 17 And he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. You will all have peace; but bless God forever.
\p Tobit 12.18: \v 18 For I came not of any favor of my own, but by the will of your God. Therefore bless him forever.
\p Tobit 12.19: \v 19 All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.
\p Tobit 12.20: \v 20 Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”
\p Tobit 12.21: \v 21 Then they rose up, and saw him no more.
\p Tobit 12.22: \v 22 They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.
\p Tobit 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p Tobit 13.1: \v 1 And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said,
\q1 “Blessed is God who lives forever!
\q2 Blessed is his kingdom!
\q1
\p Tobit 13.2: \v 2 For he scourges, and shows mercy.
\q2 He leads down to the grave,\f + \fr 13:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* and brings up again.
\q2 There is no one that will escape his hand.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.3: \v 3 Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!
\q2 For he has scattered us among them.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.4: \v 4 Declare his greatness, there.
\q2 Extol him before all the living;
\q1 because he is our Lord,
\q2 and God is our Father forever.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.5: \v 5 He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy,
\q2 and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.6: \v 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,
\q2 to do truth before him,
\q1 then he will turn to you,
\q2 and won’t hide his face from you.
\q1 See what he will do with you.
\q2 Give him thanks with your whole mouth.
\q1 Bless the Lord of righteousness.
\q2 Exalt the everlasting King.
\q1 I give him thanks in the land of my captivity,
\q2 and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners.
\q1 Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him.
\q2 Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?
\q1
\p Tobit 13.7: \v 7 I exalt my God.
\q2 My soul exalts the King of heaven,
\q2 and rejoices in his greatness.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.8: \v 8 Let all men speak,
\q2 and let them give him thanks in Jerusalem.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.9: \v 9 O Jerusalem, the holy city,
\q2 he will scourge you for the works of your sons,
\q2 and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.10: \v 10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness,
\q2 and bless the everlasting King,
\q1 that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy,
\q2 and that he may make glad in you those who are captives,
\q2 and love in you forever those who are miserable.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.11: \v 11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God
\q2 with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven.
\q1 Generations of generations will praise you,
\q2 and sing songs of rejoicing.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.12: \v 12 All those who hate you are cursed.
\q2 All those who love you forever will be blessed.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.13: \v 13 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous;
\q2 for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.14: \v 14 Oh blessed are those who love you.
\q2 They will rejoice for your peace.
\q1 Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges;
\q2 because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory.
\q1 They will be made glad forever.
\q2
\p Tobit 13.15: \v 15 Let my soul bless God the great King.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.16: \v 16 For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;
\q2 your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.
\q1
\p Tobit 13.17: \v 17 The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.
\q2
\p Tobit 13.18: \v 18 All her streets will say, “Hallelujah!”
\q2 and give praise, saying, “Blessed be God, who has exalted you forever!”
\p Tobit 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Tobit 14.1: \v 1 Then Tobit finished giving thanks.
\p Tobit 14.2: \v 2 He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.
\p
\p Tobit 14.3: \v 3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.
\p Tobit 14.4: \v 4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and will be desolate for a time.
\p Tobit 14.5: \v 5 God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.
\p Tobit 14.6: \v 6 And all the nations will turn to fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.
\p Tobit 14.7: \v 7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.
\p Tobit 14.8: \v 8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.
\p Tobit 14.9: \v 9 But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.
\p Tobit 14.10: \v 10 Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.
\p Tobit 14.11: \v 11 And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
\p While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.
\p Tobit 14.12: \v 12 When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,
\p Tobit 14.13: \v 13 and he grew old in honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.
\p Tobit 14.14: \v 14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.
\p Tobit 14.15: \v 15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.
\p Sirach 0.0: \id SIR Ecclesiasticus
\h Sirach
\toc1 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus
\toc2 Sirach
\toc3 Sir
\mt1 THE WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH,
\mt2 OR
\mt1 ECCLESIASTICUS
\ip \bk The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach\bk*, also called \bk Ecclesiasticus\bk*, is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
\is1 The Prologue of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.
\ip WHEREAS many and great things have been delivered to us by the law and the prophets, and by the others that have followed in their steps, for which we must give Israel the praise for instruction and wisdom; and since not only the readers need to become skillful themselves, but also those who love learning must be able to profit those who are outside, both by speaking and writing; my grandfather Jesus, having much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and the other books of our fathers, and having gained great familiarity with them, was also drawn on himself to write somewhat pertaining to instruction and wisdom, in order that those who love learning, and are devoted to these things, might make progress much more by living according to the law. You are entreated therefore to read with favor and attention, and to pardon us, if in any parts of what we have labored to interpret, we may seem to fail in some of the phrases. For things originally spoken in Hebrew don’t have the same force in them when they are translated into another language. Not only these, but the law itself, and the prophecies, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their original language. For having come into Egypt in the thirty-eighth year of Energetes the king, and having continued there some time, I found a copy giving no small instruction. I thought it therefore most necessary for me to apply some diligence and travail to translate this book, applying indeed much watchfulness and skill in that space of time to bring the book to an end and publish for them also, who in the land of their travels are desiring to learn, preparing their character in advance, so as to live according to the law.
\p Sirach 1.0: \c 1
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 1.1: \v 1 All wisdom comes from the Lord,
\q2 and is with him forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.2: \v 2 Who can count the sand of the seas,
\q2 the drops of rain,
\q2 and the days of eternity?
\q1
\p Sirach 1.3: \v 3 Who will search out the height of the sky,
\q2 the breadth of the earth, the deep,
\q2 and wisdom?
\q1
\p Sirach 1.4: \v 4 Wisdom has been created before all things,
\q2 and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.
\p Sirach 1.5: \v 5 \f + \fr 1:5 \ft Verse 5 is omitted by the best authorities: \fqa The source of wisdom is God's word in the highest heaven, and her ways are the eternal commandments.\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 1.6: \v 6 To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed?
\q2 Who has known her shrewd counsels?
\p Sirach 1.7: \v 7 \f + \fr 1:7 \ft Verse 7 is omitted by the best authorities: \fqa To whom was the knowledge of wisdom manifested? Who has understood her abundant experience?\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 1.8: \v 8 There is one wise, greatly to be feared,
\q2 sitting upon his throne: the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.9: \v 9 He created her.
\q2 He saw and measured her.
\q2 He poured her out upon all his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.10: \v 10 She is with all flesh according to his gift.
\q2 He gave her freely to those who love him.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.11: \v 11 The fear of the Lord is glory, exultation,
\q2 and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.12: \v 12 The fear of the Lord will delight the heart,
\q2 and will give gladness, joy, and length of days.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.13: \v 13 Whoever fears the Lord, it will go well with him at the last.
\q2 He will be blessed in the day of his death .
\q1
\p Sirach 1.14: \v 14 To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
\q2 It was created together with the faithful in the womb.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.15: \v 15 She \f + \fr 1:15 \ft Gr. \fqa nested. \f* laid an eternal foundation with men.
\q2 She will be trusted among their offspring.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.16: \v 16 To fear the Lord is the fullness of wisdom.
\q2 She inebriates men with her fruits.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.17: \v 17 She will fill all her house with desirable things,
\q2 and her storehouses with her produce.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.18: \v 18 The fear of the Lord is the crown of wisdom,
\q2 making peace and \f + \fr 1:18 \ft Gr. \fqa health of cure. \f* perfect health to flourish. \f + \fr 1:18 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities: \fqa Both are gifts of God for peace; glory opens out for those who love him. He saw her and took her measure.\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 1.19: \v 19 He both saw and measured her.
\q2 He rained down skill and knowledge of understanding,
\q2 and exalted the honor of those who hold her fast.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.20: \v 20 To fear the Lord is the root of wisdom.
\q2 Her branches are length of days.
\p Sirach 1.21: \v 21 \f + \fr 1:21 \ft Verse 21 is omitted by the best authorities: \fqa The fear of the Lord drives away sins. Where it resides, it will turn away all anger. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 1.22: \v 22 Unjust wrath can never be justified,
\q2 for the sway of his wrath is his downfall.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.23: \v 23 A man that is patient will resist for a season,
\q2 and afterward gladness will spring up to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.24: \v 24 He will hide his words for a season,
\q2 and the lips of many will tell of his understanding.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.25: \v 25 A parable of knowledge is in the treasures of wisdom;
\q2 but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.26: \v 26 If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments
\q2 and the Lord will give her to you freely;
\q1
\p Sirach 1.27: \v 27 for the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction.
\q2 Faith and humility are his good pleasure.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.28: \v 28 Don’t disobey the fear of the Lord.
\q2 Don’t come to him with a double heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.29: \v 29 Don’t be a hypocrite in the mouths of men.
\q2 Keep watch over your lips.
\q1
\p Sirach 1.30: \v 30 Don’t exalt yourself,
\q2 lest you fall and bring dishonor upon your soul.
\q1 The Lord will reveal your secrets
\q2 and will cast you down in the midst of the congregation,
\q2 because you didn’t come to the fear of the Lord
\q2 and your heart was full of deceit.
\b
\p Sirach 2.0: \c 2
\q1
\p Sirach 2.1: \v 1 My son, if you come to serve the Lord,
\q2 prepare your soul for temptation.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.2: \v 2 Set your heart aright, constantly endure,
\q2 and don’t make haste in time of calamity.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.3: \v 3 Cling to him, and don’t depart,
\q2 that you may be increased at your latter end.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.4: \v 4 Accept whatever is brought upon you,
\q2 and be patient when you suffer humiliation.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.5: \v 5 For gold is tried in the fire,
\q2 and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.6: \v 6 Put your trust in him, and he will help you.
\q2 Make your ways straight, and set your hope on him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 2.7: \v 7 All you who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy.
\q2 Don’t turn aside, lest you fall.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.8: \v 8 All you who fear the Lord, put your trust in him,
\q2 and your reward will not fail.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.9: \v 9 All you who fear the Lord, hope for good things,
\q2 and for eternal gladness and mercy.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.10: \v 10 Look at the generations of old, and see:
\q2 Who ever put his trust in the Lord, and was ashamed?
\q2 Or who remained in his fear, and was forsaken?
\q2 Or who called upon him, and he despised him?
\q1
\p Sirach 2.11: \v 11 For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
\q2 He forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 2.12: \v 12 Woe to fearful hearts, to faint hands,
\q2 and to the sinner that goes two ways!
\q1
\p Sirach 2.13: \v 13 Woe to the faint heart! For it doesn’t believe.
\q2 Therefore it won’t be defended.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.14: \v 14 Woe to you who have lost your patience!
\q2 And what will you all do when the Lord visits you?
\q1
\p Sirach 2.15: \v 15 Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words.
\q2 Those who love him will keep his ways.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.16: \v 16 Those who fear the Lord will seek his good pleasure.
\q2 Those who love him will be filled with the law.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.17: \v 17 Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts,
\q2 and will humble their souls in his sight.
\q1
\p Sirach 2.18: \v 18 We will fall into the hands of the Lord,
\q2 and not into the hands of men;
\q1 for as his majesty is,
\q2 so also is his mercy.
\b
\p Sirach 3.0: \c 3
\q1
\p Sirach 3.1: \v 1 Hear me, your father, O my children,
\q2 and do what you hear, that you all may be saved.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.2: \v 2 For the Lord has given the father glory concerning the children,
\q2 and has confirmed the judgement of the mother concerning the sons.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.3: \v 3 He who honors his father will make atonement for sins.
\q2
\p Sirach 3.4: \v 4 He that gives glory to his mother is as one who lays up treasure.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.5: \v 5 Whoever honors his father will have joy in his own children.
\q2 He will be heard in the day of his prayer.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.6: \v 6 He who gives glory to his father will have length of days.
\q2 He who listens to the Lord will bring rest to his mother,
\q1
\p Sirach 3.7: \v 7 \f + \fr 3:7 \ft Some manuscripts add \fqa those who fear the Lord honor their father,\f* and will serve under his parents, as to masters.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.8: \v 8 Honor your father in deed and word,
\q2 that a blessing may come upon you from him.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.9: \v 9 For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children,
\q2 but the curse of the mother roots out the foundations.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 3.10: \v 10 Don’t glorify yourself in the dishonor of your father,
\q2 for your father’s dishonor is no glory to you.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.11: \v 11 For the glory of a man is from the honor of his father,
\q2 and a mother in dishonor is a reproach to her children.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.12: \v 12 My son, help your father in his old age,
\q2 and don’t grieve him as long as he lives.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.13: \v 13 If he fails in understanding, have patience with him.
\q2 Don’t dishonor him in your full strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.14: \v 14 For the relieving of your father will not be forgotten.
\q2 Instead of sins it will be added to build you up.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.15: \v 15 In the day of your affliction it will remember you,
\q2 as fair weather upon ice,
\q2 ao will your sins also melt away.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.16: \v 16 He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer.
\q2 He who provokes his mother is cursed by the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 3.17: \v 17 My son, go on with your business in humility;
\q2 so will you be loved by an acceptable man.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.18: \v 18 The greater you are, humble yourself the more,
\q2 and you will find favor before the Lord.
\p Sirach 3.19: \v 19 \f + \fr 3:19 \ft Some manuscripts add \fqa Many are lofty and renowned, but he reveals his secrets to the humble.\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 3.20: \v 20 For the power of the Lord is great,
\q2 and he is glorified by those who are lowly.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.21: \v 21 Don’t seek things that are too hard for you,
\q2 and don’t search out things that are above your strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.22: \v 22 Think about the things that have been commanded you,
\q2 for you have no need of the things that are secret.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.23: \v 23 Don’t be overly busy in your superfluous works,
\q2 for more things are showed to you than men can understand.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.24: \v 24 For the conceit of many has led them astray.
\q2 Evil opinion has caused their judgement to slip.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.25: \v 25 \f + \fr 3:25 \ft Some manuscripts omit verse 25.\f*There is no light without eyes.
\q2 There is no wisdom without knowledge.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 3.26: \v 26 A stubborn heart will do badly at the end.
\q2 He who loves danger will perish in it.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.27: \v 27 A stubborn heart will be burdened with troubles.
\q2 The sinner will heap sin upon sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.28: \v 28 The calamity of the proud is no healing,
\q2 for a weed of wickedness has taken root in him.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.29: \v 29 The heart of the prudent will understand a parable.
\q2 A wise man desires the ear of a listener.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.30: \v 30 Water will quench a flaming fire;
\q2 almsgiving will make atonement for sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 3.31: \v 31 He repays good turns is mindful of that which comes afterward.
\q2 In the time of his falling he will find a support.
\b
\p Sirach 4.0: \c 4
\q1
\p Sirach 4.1: \v 1 My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
\q2 Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.2: \v 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful,
\q2 or provoke a man in his distress.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.3: \v 3 Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked.
\q2 Don’t put off giving to him who is in need.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.4: \v 4 Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction.
\q2 Don’t turn your face away from a poor man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.5: \v 5 Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks.
\q2 Give no occasion to a man to curse you.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.6: \v 6 For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul,
\q2 he who made him will hear his supplication.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.7: \v 7 Endear yourself to the assembly.
\q2 Bow your head to a great man.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.8: \v 8 Incline your ear to a poor man.
\q2 Answer him with peaceful words in humility.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.9: \v 9 Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him;
\q2 Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.10: \v 10 Be as a father to the fatherless,
\q2 and like a husband to their mother.
\q1 So you will be as a son of the Most High,
\q2 and he will love you more than your mother does.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.11: \v 11 Wisdom exalts her sons,
\q2 and takes hold of those who seek her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.12: \v 12 He who loves her loves life.
\q2 Those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.13: \v 13 He who holds her fast will inherit glory.
\q2 Where \f + \fr 4:13 \ft Or, \fqa she \f* he enters, the Lord will bless.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.14: \v 14 Those who serve her minister to the Holy One.
\q2 The Lord loves those who love her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.15: \v 15 He who gives ear to her will judge the nations.
\q2 He who heeds her will dwell securely.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.16: \v 16 If he trusts her, he will inherit her,
\q2 and his generations will possess her.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.17: \v 17 For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways,
\q2 and will bring fear and dread upon him,
\q2 and torment him with her discipline,
\q2 until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgments.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.18: \v 18 Then she will return him again to the straight way,
\q2 and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.19: \v 19 If he goes astray, she will forsake him,
\q2 and hand him over to his fall.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.20: \v 20 Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil.
\q2 Don’t be ashamed of your soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.21: \v 21 For there is a shame that brings sin,
\q2 and there is a shame that is glory and grace.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.22: \v 22 Don’t show partiality against your soul.
\q2 Don’t revere any man to your falling.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.23: \v 23 Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety.
\q2 \f + \fr 4:23 \ft Some manuscripts omit this line. \f*Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.24: \v 24 For wisdom will be known by speech,
\q2 and instruction by the word of the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.25: \v 25 Don’t speak against the truth
\q1 and be shamed for your ignorance.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.26: \v 26 Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins.
\q2 Don’t fight the river’s current.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.27: \v 27 Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon.
\q2 Don’t be partial to one that is mighty.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.28: \v 28 Strive for the truth to death,
\q2 and the Lord God will fight for you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 4.29: \v 29 Don’t be rough hasty with your tongue,
\q2 or slack and negligent in your deeds.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.30: \v 30 Don’t be like a lion in your house,
\q2 or suspicious of your servants.
\q1
\p Sirach 4.31: \v 31 Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive,
\q2 and closed when you should repay.
\p Sirach 5.0: \c 5
\q1
\p Sirach 5.1: \v 1 Don’t set your heart upon your goods.
\q2 Don’t say, “They are sufficient for me.”
\q1
\p Sirach 5.2: \v 2 Don’t follow your own mind and your strength
\q2 to walk in the desires of your heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.3: \v 3 Don’t say, “Who will have dominion over me?”
\q2 for the Lord will surely take vengeance on you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 5.4: \v 4 Don’t say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?”
\q2 for the Lord is patient.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.5: \v 5 Don’t be so confident of atonement
\q2 that you add sin upon sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.6: \v 6 Don’t say, “His compassion is great.
\q2 He will be pacified for the multitude of my sins,”
\q2 for mercy and wrath are with him,
\q2 and his indignation will rest on sinners.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.7: \v 7 Don’t wait to turn to the Lord.
\q2 Don’t put off from day to day;
\q2 for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come on you,
\q2 and you will perish in the time of vengeance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 5.8: \v 8 Don’t set your heart upon unrighteous gains,
\q2 for you will profit nothing in the day of calamity.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.9: \v 9 Don’t winnow with every wind.
\q2 Don’t walk in every path.
\q2 This is what the sinner who has a double tongue does.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.10: \v 10 Be steadfast in your understanding.
\q2 Let your speech be consistent.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 5.11: \v 11 Be swift to hear
\q2 and answer with patience.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.12: \v 12 If you have understanding, answer your neighbor;
\q2 but if not, put your hand over your mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.13: \v 13 Glory and dishonor is in talk.
\q2 A man’s tongue may be his downfall.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.14: \v 14 Don’t be called a whisperer.
\q2 Don’t lie in wait with your tongue;
\q2 for shame is on the thief,
\q2 and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 5.15: \v 15 Don’t be ignorant in a great and small matters.
\p Sirach 6.0: \c 6
\q1
\p Sirach 6.1: \v 1 Don’t become an enemy instead of a friend;
\q2 for an evil name will inherit shame and reproach.
\q2 So it is with the sinner who has a double tongue.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.2: \v 2 Don’t exalt yourself in the counsel of your soul,
\q2 that your soul be not torn in pieces as a bull.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.3: \v 3 You will eat up your leaves, destroy your fruit,
\q2 and leave yourself as a dry tree.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.4: \v 4 A wicked soul will destroy him who has it,
\q2 and will make him a laughing stock to his enemies.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.5: \v 5 Sweet words will multiply a man’s friends.
\q2 A gracious tongue will multiply courtesies.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.6: \v 6 Let those that are at peace with you be many,
\q2 but your advisers one of a thousand.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.7: \v 7 If you want to gain a friend, get him in a time of testing,
\q2 and don’t be in a hurry to trust him.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.8: \v 8 For there is a friend just for an occasion.
\q2 He won’t continue in the day of your affliction.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.9: \v 9 And there is a friend who turns into an enemy.
\q2 He will discover strife to your reproach.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.10: \v 10 And there is a friend who is a companion at the table,
\q2 but he won’t continue in the day of your affliction.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.11: \v 11 In your prosperity he will be as yourself,
\q2 and will be bold over your servants.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.12: \v 12 If you are brought low, he will be against you,
\q2 and will hide himself from your face.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.13: \v 13 Separate yourself from your enemies,
\q2 and beware of your friends.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.14: \v 14 A faithful friend is a strong defense.
\q2 He who has found him has found a treasure.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.15: \v 15 There is nothing that can be taken in exchange for a faithful friend.
\q2 His excellency is beyond price.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.16: \v 16 A faithful friend is a life-saving medicine.
\q2 Those who fear the Lord will find him.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.17: \v 17 He who fears the Lord directs his friendship properly;
\q2 for as he is, so is his neighbor also.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.18: \v 18 My son, gather instruction from your youth up.
\q2 Even when you have gray hair you will find wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.19: \v 19 Come to her as one who plows and sows
\q2 and wait for her good fruit;
\q1 for your toil will be little in her tillage,
\q2 and you will soon eat of her fruit.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.20: \v 20 How exceedingly harsh she is to the unlearned!
\q2 He who is without understanding will not remain in her.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.21: \v 21 She will rest upon him as a mighty stone of trial.
\q2 He won’t hesitate to cast her from him.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.22: \v 22 For wisdom is according to her name.
\q1 She isn’t manifest to many.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.23: \v 23 Give ear, my son, and accept my judgement.
\q2 Don’t refuse my counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.24: \v 24 Bring your feet into her fetters,
\q2 and your neck into her chain.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.25: \v 25 Put your shoulder under her and bear her.
\q2 Don’t be grieved with her bonds.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.26: \v 26 Come to her with all your soul.
\q2 Keep her ways with your whole power.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.27: \v 27 Search and seek, and she will be made known to you.
\q2 When you get hold of her, don’t let her go.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.28: \v 28 For at the last you will find her rest;
\q2 and she will be turned for you into gladness.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.29: \v 29 Her fetters will be to you for a covering of strength,
\q2 and her chains for a robe of glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.30: \v 30 For there is a golden ornament upon her,
\q2 and her bands are \x + \xo 6:30 \xt Numbers 15:38\x* a blue ribbon.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.31: \v 31 You shall put her on as a robe of glory,
\q2 and shall put her on as a crown of rejoicing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 6.32: \v 32 My son, if you are willing, you will be instructed.
\q2 If you will yield your soul, you will be prudent.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.33: \v 33 If you love to hear, you will receive.
\q2 If you incline your ear, you will be wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.34: \v 34 Stand in the multitude of the elders.
\q2 Attach yourself to whoever is wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.35: \v 35 Be willing to listen to every godly discourse.
\q2 Don’t let the proverbs of understanding escape you.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.36: \v 36 If you see a man of understanding, get to him early.
\q2 Let your foot wear out the steps of his doors.
\q1
\p Sirach 6.37: \v 37 Let your mind dwell on the ordinances of the Lord
\q2 and meditate continually on his commandments.
\q1 He will establish your heart
\q2 and your desire for wisdom will be given to you.
\b
\p Sirach 7.0: \c 7
\q1
\p Sirach 7.1: \v 1 Do no evil,
\q2 so will no evil overtake you.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.2: \v 2 Depart from wrong,
\q2 and it will turn away from you.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.3: \v 3 My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness,
\q2 and you won’t reap them sevenfold.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.4: \v 4 Don’t seek preeminence from the Lord,
\q2 nor the seat of honor from the king.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.5: \v 5 Don’t justify yourself in the presence of the Lord,
\q2 and don’t display your wisdom before the king.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.6: \v 6 Don’t seek to be a judge,
\q2 lest you not be able to take away iniquities,
\q2 lest perhaps you fear the person of a mighty man,
\q2 and lay a stumbling block in the way of your uprightness.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.7: \v 7 Don’t sin against the multitude of the city.
\q2 Don’t cast yourself down in the crowd.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.8: \v 8 Don’t commit a sin twice,
\q2 for even in one you will not be unpunished.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.9: \v 9 Don’t say, “He will look upon the multitude of my gifts.
\q2 When I make an offering to the Most High God, he will accept it.”
\q1
\p Sirach 7.10: \v 10 Don’t be faint-hearted in your prayer.
\q2 Don’t neglect to give alms.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.11: \v 11 Don’t laugh a man to scorn when he is in the bitterness of his soul,
\q2 for there is one who humbles and exalts.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.12: \v 12 \f + \fr 7:12 \ft Gr. \fqa Don’t plow\f* Don’t devise a lie against your brother,
\q2 or do the same to a friend.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.13: \v 13 Don’t love to make any manner of lie,
\q2 for that is not a good habit.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.14: \v 14 Don’t babble in the multitude of elders.
\q2 Don’t repeat your words in your prayer.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.15: \v 15 Don’t hate hard labor
\q2 or farm work, which the Most High has created.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.16: \v 16 Don’t number yourself among the multitude of sinners.
\q2 Remember that wrath will not wait.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.17: \v 17 Humble your soul greatly,
\q2 for the punishment of the ungodly man is fire and the worm.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.18: \v 18 Don’t exchange a friend for something,
\q2 neither a true brother for the gold of Ophir.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.19: \v 19 Don’t deprive yourself of a wise and good wife,
\q2 for her grace is worth more than gold.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.20: \v 20 Don’t abuse a servant that works faithfully,
\q2 or a hireling who gives you his life.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.21: \v 21 Let your soul love a wise servant.
\q2 Don’t defraud him of liberty.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.22: \v 22 Do you have cattle? Look after them;
\q2 if they are profitable to you, let them stay by you.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.23: \v 23 Do you have children? Correct them,
\q2 and bow down their necks from their youth.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.24: \v 24 Do you have daughters? Take care of their bodies,
\q2 and don’t be overly indulgent toward them.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.25: \v 25 Give your daughter in marriage, and you will have accomplished a great matter.
\q2 Give her to a man of understanding.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.26: \v 26 Do you have a wife after your mind? Don’t cast her out.
\q2 \f + \fr 7:26 \ft Many authorities omit this line \f* But don’t trust yourself to one who is hateful.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.27: \v 27 Give glory to your father with your whole heart,
\q2 and don’t forget the birth pangs of your mother.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.28: \v 28 Remember that you were born of them.
\q2 What will you repay them for the things that they have done for you?
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.29: \v 29 Fear the Lord with all your soul;
\q2 and revere his priests.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.30: \v 30 With all your strength love him who made you.
\q2 Don’t forsake his ministers.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.31: \v 31 Fear the Lord and honor the priest.
\q2 Give him his portion, even as it is commanded you:
\q2 the first fruits, the trespass offering, the gift of the shoulders,
\q2 the sacrifice of sanctification, and the first fruits of holy things.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 7.32: \v 32 Also stretch out your hand to the poor man,
\q2 that your blessing may be perfected.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.33: \v 33 A gift has grace in the sight of every living man.
\q2 Don’t withhold grace for a dead man.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.34: \v 34 Don’t be lacking to those who weep,
\q2 and mourn with those who mourn.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.35: \v 35 Don’t be slow to visit a sick man,
\q2 for by such things you will gain love.
\q1
\p Sirach 7.36: \v 36 In all your words, remember eternity,
\q2 and you will never sin.
\b
\p Sirach 8.0: \c 8
\q1
\p Sirach 8.1: \v 1 Don’t contend with a mighty man,
\q2 lest perhaps you fall into his hands.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.2: \v 2 Don’t strive with a rich man, lest perhaps he overpower you;
\q2 for gold has destroyed many,
\q2 and turned away the hearts of kings.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.3: \v 3 Don’t contend with a talkative man.
\q2 Don’t heap wood upon his fire.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 8.4: \v 4 Don’t jest with a rude man,
\q2 Lest your ancestors be dishonored.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.5: \v 5 Don’t reproach a man when he turns from sin.
\q2 Remember that we are all worthy of punishment.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.6: \v 6 Don’t dishonor a man in his old age;
\q2 for some of us are also growing old.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.7: \v 7 Don’t rejoice over one who is dead.
\q2 Remember that we all die.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 8.8: \v 8 Don’t neglect the discourse of the wise.
\q2 Be conversant with their proverbs;
\q2 for from them you will learn instruction
\q2 and how to minister to great men.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.9: \v 9 Don’t miss the discourse of the aged,
\q2 for they also learned from their fathers,
\q2 because from them you will learn understanding,
\q2 and to give an answer in time of need.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 8.10: \v 10 Don’t kindle the coals of a sinner,
\q2 lest you be burned with the flame of his fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.11: \v 11 Don’t rise up from the presence of an insolent man,
\q2 lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.12: \v 12 Don’t lend to a man who is mightier than yourself;
\q2 and if you lend, be as one who has lost.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.13: \v 13 Don’t be surety above your power.
\q2 If you are surety, think as one who will have to pay.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 8.14: \v 14 Don’t go to law with a judge;
\q2 for according to his honor they will give judgement for him.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.15: \v 15 Don’t go in the way with a rash man,
\q2 lest he be burdonsome to you;
\q2 for he will do according to his own will,
\q2 and you will perish with his folly.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.16: \v 16 Don’t fight with a wrathful man.
\q2 Don’t travel with him through the desert,
\q2 for blood is as nothing in his sight.
\q2 Where there is no help, he will overthrow you.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.17: \v 17 Don’t take counsel with a fool,
\q2 for he will not be able to conceal the matter.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.18: \v 18 Do no secret thing before a stranger,
\q2 For you don’t know what it will cause.
\q1
\p Sirach 8.19: \v 19 Don’t open your heart to every man.
\q2 Don’t let him return you a favor.
\b
\p Sirach 9.0: \c 9
\q1
\p Sirach 9.1: \v 1 Don’t be jealous over the wife of your bosom,
\q2 and don’t teach her an evil lesson against yourself.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.2: \v 2 Don’t give your soul to a woman,
\q2 that she should set her foot upon your strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.3: \v 3 Don’t go to meet a woman who plays the prostitute,
\q2 lest perhaps you fall into her snares.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.4: \v 4 Don’t use the company of a woman who is a singer,
\q2 lest perhaps you be caught by her attempts.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.5: \v 5 Don’t gaze at a maid,
\q2 lest perhaps you be trapped in her penalties.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.6: \v 6 Don’t give your soul to prostitutes,
\q2 that you not lose your inheritance.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.7: \v 7 Don’t look around you in the streets of the city,
\q2 neither wander in its solitary places.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.8: \v 8 Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman,
\q2 and don’t gaze at another’s beauty.
\q1 Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman;
\q2 and with this, affection is kindled as a fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.9: \v 9 Don’t sit at all with a woman who has a husband,
\q2 or revel with her at the wine,\f + \fr 9:9 \ft The preceding line of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q2 lest perhaps your soul turn away to her,
\q2 and with your spirit you slide into destruction.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.10: \v 10 Don’t forsake an old friend;
\q2 for the new is not comparable to him.
\q1 A new friend is like new wine:
\q2 if it becomes old, you will drink it with gladness.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.11: \v 11 Don’t envy the glory of a sinner;
\q2 for you don’t know what his overthrow will be.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.12: \v 12 Don’t delight in the delights of the ungodly.
\q2 Remember they will not go unpunished to \f + \fr 9:12 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.13: \v 13 Keep yourself far from the man who has \f + \fr 9:13 \ft Or, \fqa authority \f* power to kill,
\q2 and you will have no suspicion of the fear of death.
\q1 If you come to him, commit no fault,
\q2 lest he take away your life.
\q1 Know surely that you go about in the midst of snares,
\q2 and walk upon the battlements of a city.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.14: \v 14 As well as you can, aim to know your neighbors,
\q2 and take counsel with the wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.15: \v 15 Let your conversation be with men of understanding.
\q2 Let all your discourse be in the law of the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.16: \v 16 Let just men be companions at your table.
\q2 Let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 9.17: \v 17 A work is commended because of the hand of the artisan;
\q2 so he who rules the people will be considered wise for his speech.
\q1
\p Sirach 9.18: \v 18 A talkative man is dangerous in his city.
\q2 He who is headlong in his speech will be hated.
\b
\p Sirach 10.0: \c 10
\q1
\p Sirach 10.1: \v 1 A wise judge will instruct his people.
\q2 The government of a man of understanding will be well ordered.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.2: \v 2 As is the judge of his people, so are his ministers.
\q2 As the city’s ruler is, so are all those who dwell in it.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.3: \v 3 An uninstructed king will destroy his people.
\q2 A city will be established through the understanding of the powerful.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.4: \v 4 The authority of the earth is in the Lord’s hand.
\q2 In due time, he will raise up over it one who is profitable.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.5: \v 5 A man’s prosperity is in the Lord’s hand.
\q2 He will lay his honor upon the person of the scribe.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 10.6: \v 6 Don’t be angry with your neighbor for every wrong.
\q2 Do nothing by works of violence.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.7: \v 7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men.
\q2 Unrighteousness is abhorrent in the judgement of both.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.8: \v 8 Sovereignty is transferred from nation to nation
\q2 because of iniquities, deeds of violence, and greed for money.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.9: \v 9 Why are dirt and ashes proud? \f + \fr 10:9 \ft Two lines of this verse are here omitted by the best authorities.\f*
\q2 Because in life, my body decays.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.10: \v 10 A long disease mocks the physician.
\q2 He is a king today, and tomorrow he will die.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.11: \v 11 For when a man is dead,
\q2 he will inherit creeping things, and beasts, and worms.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.12: \v 12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord.
\q2 His heart has departed from him who made him.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.13: \v 13 For the beginning of pride is sin.
\q2 He who keeps it will pour out abomination.
\q1 For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities
\q2 and utterly overthrew them.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.14: \v 14 The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers
\q2 and set the meek in their place.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.15: \v 15 The Lord plucked up the roots of nations
\q2 and planted the lowly in their place.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.16: \v 16 The Lord overthrew the lands of nations
\q2 and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.17: \v 17 He took some of them away and destroyed them,
\q2 and made their memorial to cease from the earth.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.18: \v 18 Pride has not been created for men,
\q2 nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 10.19: \v 19 What manner of seed has honor?
\q2 The seed of man, those who fear the Lord.
\q1 What manner of seed has no honor?
\q2 The seed of man, those who transgress the commandments.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.20: \v 20 In the midst of kindred he who rules them has honor.
\q2 Those who fear the Lord have honor in his eyes.
\p Sirach 10.21: \v 21 \f + \fr 10:21 \ft Verse 21 is omitted by the best authorities: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of acceptance, but obstinance and pride are the beginning of rejection.\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 10.22: \v 22 The rich man, the honorable, and the poor
\q2 all glory in the fear of the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.23: \v 23 It is not right to dishonor a poor man who has understanding.
\q2 It is not fitting to glorify a man who is a sinner.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.24: \v 24 The great man, the judge, and the mighty man will be glorified.
\q2 There is not one of them greater than he who fears the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.25: \v 25 Free men will minister to a wise servant.
\q2 A man who has knowledge will not complain.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 10.26: \v 26 Don’t flaunt your wisdom in doing your work.
\q2 Don’t glorify yourself in the time of your distress.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.27: \v 27 \f + \fr 10:27 \ft The Greek text of this verse is uncertain. \f* Better is he who labors and abounds in all things,
\q2 Than he who glorifies himself and lacks bread.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.28: \v 28 My son, glorify your soul in humility,
\q2 and esteem yourself honor according to your worthiness.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.29: \v 29 Who will justify him who sins against his own soul?
\q2 Who will glorify him who dishonors his own life?
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 10.30: \v 30 A poor man is glorified for his knowledge.
\q2 A rich man is glorified for his riches.
\q1
\p Sirach 10.31: \v 31 But he who is glorified in poverty, how much more in riches?
\q2 And he who is dishonored in riches, how much more in poverty?
\b
\p Sirach 11.0: \c 11
\q1
\p Sirach 11.1: \v 1 The wisdom of the lowly will lift up his head,
\q2 and make him sit in the midst of great men.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.2: \v 2 Don’t commend a man for his beauty.
\q2 Don’t abhor a man for his outward appearance.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.3: \v 3 The bee is little among flying creatures,
\q2 but what it produces is the best of confections.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.4: \v 4 Don’t boast about the clothes you wear,
\q2 and don’t exalt yourself in the day of honor;
\q1 for the Lord’s works are wonderful,
\q2 and his works are hidden among men.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.5: \v 5 Many \f + \fr 11:5 \ft Gr. \fqa tyrants \f* kings have sat down upon the ground,
\q2 but one who was never thought of has worn a crown.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.6: \v 6 Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced.
\q2 Men of renown have been delivered into other men’s hands.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.7: \v 7 Don’t blame before you investigate.
\q2 Understand first, and then rebuke.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.8: \v 8 Don’t answer before you have heard.
\q2 Don’t interrupt while someone else is speaking.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.9: \v 9 Don’t argue about a matter that doesn’t concern you.
\q2 Don’t sit with sinners when they judge.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.10: \v 10 My son, don’t be busy about many matters;
\q2 for if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished.
\q1 If you pursue, you will not overtake,
\q2 and you will not escape by fleeing.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.11: \v 11 There is one who toils, labors, and makes haste,
\q2 and is even more behind.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.12: \v 12 There is one who is sluggish, and needs help,
\q2 lacking in strength, and who abounds in poverty;
\q1 But the Lord’s eyes looked upon him for good,
\q2 and he raised him up from his low condition,
\q1
\p Sirach 11.13: \v 13 and lifted up his head
\q2 so that many marveled at him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.14: \v 14 Good things and evil, life and death,
\q2 poverty and riches, are from the Lord.
\p Sirach 11.15: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 11:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 11.16: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 11:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 11.17: \v 17 The Lord’s gift remains with the godly.
\q2 His good pleasure will prosper forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.18: \v 18 One grows rich by his diligence and self-denial,
\q2 and this is the portion of his reward:
\q1
\p Sirach 11.19: \v 19 when he says, “I have found rest,
\q2 and now I will eat of my goods!”
\q1 he doesn’t know how much time will pass
\q2 until he leaves them to others and dies.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.20: \v 20 Be steadfast in your covenant and be doing it,
\q2 and grow old in your work.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.21: \v 21 Don’t marvel at the works of a sinner,
\q2 but trust the Lord and stay in your labor;
\q1 for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord
\q2 to swiftly and suddenly make a poor man rich.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.22: \v 22 The Lord’s blessing is in the reward of the godly.
\q2 He makes his blessing flourish in an hour that comes swiftly.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.23: \v 23 Don’t say, “What use is there of me?
\q2 What further good things can be mine?”
\q1
\p Sirach 11.24: \v 24 Don’t say, “I have enough.
\q2 What harm could happen to me now?”
\q1
\p Sirach 11.25: \v 25 In the day of good things, evil things are forgotten.
\q2 In the day of evil things, a man will not remember things that are good.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.26: \v 26 For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord
\q2 to reward a man in the day of death according to his ways.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.27: \v 27 The affliction of an hour causes delights to be forgotten.
\q2 In the end, a man’s deeds are revealed.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.28: \v 28 Call no man happy before his death.
\q2 A man will be known in his children.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 11.29: \v 29 Don’t bring every man into your house,
\q2 for many are the plots of a deceitful man.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.30: \v 30 Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of a proud man.
\q2 Like a spy, he looks for your weakness.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.31: \v 31 For he lies in wait to turn things that are good into evil,
\q2 and assigns blame in things that are praiseworthy.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.32: \v 32 From a spark of fire, a heap of many coals is kindled,
\q2 and a sinful man lies in wait for blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.33: \v 33 Take heed of an evil-doer, for he plans wicked things,
\q2 lest perhaps he ruin your reputation forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 11.34: \v 34 Receive a stranger into your house, and he will distract you with arguments
\q2 and estrange you from your own.
\b
\p Sirach 12.0: \c 12
\q1
\p Sirach 12.1: \v 1 If you do good, know to whom you do it,
\q2 and your good deeds will have thanks.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.2: \v 2 Do good to a godly man, and you will find a reward—
\q2 if not from him, then from the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.3: \v 3 No good will come to him who continues to do evil,
\q2 nor to him who gives no alms.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.4: \v 4 Give to the godly man,
\q2 and don’t help the sinner.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.5: \v 5 Do good to one who is lowly.
\q2 Don’t give to an ungodly man.
\q1 Keep back his bread, and don’t give it to him,
\q2 lest he subdue you with it;
\q1 for you would receive twice as much evil
\q2 for all the good you would have done to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.6: \v 6 For the Most High also hates sinners,
\q2 and will repay vengeance to the ungodly. \f + \fr 12:6 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 12.7: \v 7 Give to the good man,
\q2 and don’t help the sinner.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 12.8: \v 8 A man’s friend won’t be \f + \fr 12:8 \ft Or, \fqa punished \f* fully tried in prosperity.
\q2 His enemy won’t be hidden in adversity.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.9: \v 9 In a man’s prosperity, his enemies are grieved.
\q2 In his adversity, even his friend leaves.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.10: \v 10 Never trust your enemy,
\q2 for his wickedness is like corrosion in copper.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.11: \v 11 Though he humbles himself and walks bowed down,
\q2 still be careful and beware of him.
\q1 You will be to him as one who has wiped a mirror,
\q2 to be sure it doesn’t completely tarnish.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.12: \v 12 Don’t set him next to you,
\q2 lest he overthrow you and stand in your place.
\q1 Don’t let him sit on your right hand,
\q2 lest he seek to take your seat,
\q1 and at the last you acknowledge my words,
\q2 and be pricked with my sayings.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.13: \v 13 Who will pity a charmer that is bitten by a snake,
\q2 or any who come near wild beasts?
\q1
\p Sirach 12.14: \v 14 Even so, who will pity him who goes to a sinner,
\q2 and is associated with him in his sins?
\q1
\p Sirach 12.15: \v 15 For a while he will stay with you,
\q2 and if you falter, he will not stay.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.16: \v 16 The enemy will speak sweetly with his lips,
\q2 and in his heart plan to throw you into a pit.
\q1 The enemy may weep with his eyes,
\q2 but if he finds opportunity, he will want more blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.17: \v 17 If adversity meets you, you will find him there before you.
\q2 Pretending to help you, he will trip you.
\q1
\p Sirach 12.18: \v 18 He will shake his head, clap his hands,
\q2 whisper much, and change his countenance.
\b
\p Sirach 13.0: \c 13
\q1
\p Sirach 13.1: \v 1 He who touches pitch will be defiled.
\q2 He who has fellowship with a proud man will become like to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.2: \v 2 Don’t take up a burden above your strength.
\q2 Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than yourself.
\q1 What fellowship would the earthen pot have with the kettle?
\q2 The kettle will strike, and the pot will be dashed in pieces.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.3: \v 3 The rich man does a wrong and threatens.
\q2 The poor is wronged and apologizes.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.4: \v 4 If you are profitable, he will make merchandise of you.
\q2 If you are in lack, he will forsake you.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.5: \v 5 If you own something, he will live with you.
\q2 He will drain you bare and will not be sorry.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.6: \v 6 Does he need you? Then he will deceive you,
\q2 smile at you, and give you hope.
\q2 He will speak kindly to you and say, “What do you need?”
\q1
\p Sirach 13.7: \v 7 He will shame you by his meats
\q2 until he has made you bare twice or thrice,
\q2 and in the end he will laugh you to scorn.
\q1 Afterward he will see you, will forsake you,
\q2 and shake his head at you.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.8: \v 8 Beware that you are not deceived
\q2 and brought low in your mirth.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.9: \v 9 If a mighty man invites you, be reserved,
\q2 and he will invite you more.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.10: \v 10 Don’t press him, lest you be thrust back.
\q2 Don’t stand far off, lest you be forgotten.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.11: \v 11 Don’t try to speak with him as an equal,
\q2 and don’t believe his many words;
\q1 For he will test you with much talk,
\q2 and will examine you in a smiling manner.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.12: \v 12 He who doesn’t keep secrets to himself is unmerciful.
\q2 He won’t hesitate to harm and to bind.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.13: \v 13 Keep them to yourself and be careful,
\q2 for you walk \f + \fr 13:13 \ft Gr. \fqa along with. \f* in danger of falling.
\p Sirach 13.14: \v 14 \f + \fr 13:14 \ft The remainder of verse 13, and verse 14, are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 13.15: \v 15 Every living creature loves his own kind,
\q2 and every man loves his neighbor.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.16: \v 16 All flesh associates with their own kind.
\q2 A man will stick to people like himself.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.17: \v 17 What fellowship would the wolf have with the lamb?
\q2 So is the sinner to the godly.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.18: \v 18 What peace is there between a hyena and a dog?
\q2 What peace is there between a rich man and the poor?
\q1
\p Sirach 13.19: \v 19 Wild donkeys are the prey of lions in the wilderness;
\q2 likewise poor men are feeding grounds for the rich.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.20: \v 20 Lowliness is an abomination to a proud man;
\q2 likewise a poor man is an abomination to the rich.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 13.21: \v 21 When a rich man is shaken, he is supported by his friends,
\q2 but when one of low degree is down, he is pushed away even by his friends.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.22: \v 22 When a rich man falls, there are many helpers.
\q2 He speaks things not to be spoken, and men justify him.
\q1 A man of low degree falls, and men rebuke him.
\q2 He utters wisdom, and is not listened to.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.23: \v 23 A rich man speaks, and all keep silence.
\q2 They extol what he says extol to the clouds.
\q1 A poor man speaks, and they say, “Who is this?”
\q2 If he stumbles, they will help to overthrow him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 13.24: \v 24 Riches are good if they have no sin.
\q2 Poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.
\q1
\p Sirach 13.25: \v 25 The heart of a man changes his countenance,
\q2 whether it is for good or for evil. \f + \fr 13:25 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 13.26: \v 26 A cheerful countenance is a sign of a prosperous heart.
\q2 Devising proverbs takes strenuous thinking.
\p Sirach 14.0: \c 14
\q1
\p Sirach 14.1: \v 1 Blessed is the man who has not slipped with his mouth,
\q2 and doesn’t suffer from sorrow for sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.2: \v 2 Blessed is he whose soul does not condemn him,
\q2 and who has not given up hope.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 14.3: \v 3 Riches are not appropriate for a stingy person.
\q2 What would an envious man do with money?
\q1
\p Sirach 14.4: \v 4 He who gathers by denying himself gathers for others.
\q2 Others will revel in his goods.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.5: \v 5 If one is mean to himself, to whom will he be good?
\q2 He won’t enjoy his possessions.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.6: \v 6 There is none more evil than he who is stingy with himself.
\q2 This is a punishment for his wickedness.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.7: \v 7 Even if he does good, he does it in forgetfulness.
\q2 In the end, he reveals his wickedness.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.8: \v 8 A miser is evil.
\q2 He turns away and disregards souls.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.9: \v 9 A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion.
\q2 Wicked injustice dries up his soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.10: \v 10 A miser begrudges bread,
\q2 and it is lacking at his table.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 14.11: \v 11 My son, according to what you have, treat yourself well,
\q2 and bring worthy offerings to the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.12: \v 12 Remember that death will not wait,
\q2 and that the covenant of Hades hasn’t been shown to you.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.13: \v 13 Do good to your friend before you die.
\q2 According to your ability, reach out and give to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.14: \v 14 Don’t defraud yourself of a good day.
\q2 Don’t let the portion of a good desire pass you by.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.15: \v 15 Won’t you leave your labors to another,
\q2 and your toils be divided by lot?
\q1
\p Sirach 14.16: \v 16 Give, take, and treat yourself well,
\q2 because there is no seeking of luxury in Hades.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.17: \v 17 All flesh grows old like a garment,
\q2 for the covenant from the beginning is, “You must die.”
\q1
\p Sirach 14.18: \v 18 Like the leaves flourishing on a thick tree,
\q2 some it sheds, and some grow,
\q1 so also are the generations of flesh and blood:
\q2 one comes to an end and another is born.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.19: \v 19 Every work rots and falls away,
\q2 and its builder will depart with it.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 14.20: \v 20 Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom,
\q2 and who reasons by his understanding.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.21: \v 21 He who considers her ways in his heart
\q2 will also have knowledge of her secrets.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.22: \v 22 Go after her like one who tracks,
\q2 and lie in wait in her ways.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.23: \v 23 He who pries in at her windows
\q1 Shall also listen at her doors.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.24: \v 24 He that lodges close to her house
\q1 Shall also fasten a nail in her walls.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.25: \v 25 He shall pitch his tent near at hand to her,
\q1 And will lodge in a lodging where good things are.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.26: \v 26 He will set his children under her shelter,
\q1 And will rest under her branches.
\q1
\p Sirach 14.27: \v 27 By her he will be covered from heat,
\q1 And will lodge in her glory.
\p Sirach 15.0: \c 15
\q1
\p Sirach 15.1: \v 1 He that fears the Lord will do this;
\q1 And he that has possession of the law will obtain her.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.2: \v 2 And as a mother shall she meet him,
\q1 And receive him as a wife married in her virginity.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.3: \v 3 She will feed him with bread of understanding,
\q1 And give him water of wisdom to drink.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.4: \v 4 He will be stayed upon her, and will not be moved;
\q1 And will rely upon her, and will not be confounded.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.5: \v 5 And she will exalt him above his neighbors;
\q1 And she will open his mouth in the midst of the congregation.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.6: \v 6 He will inherit joy, and a crown of gladness,
\q1 And an everlasting name.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.7: \v 7 Foolish men will not obtain her;
\q1 And sinners will not see her.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.8: \v 8 She is far from pride;
\q1 And liars will not remember her.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.9: \v 9 Praise is not comely in the mouth of a sinner;
\q1 For it was not sent him from the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.10: \v 10 For praise will be spoken in wisdom;
\q1 And the Lord will prosper it.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 15.11: \v 11 Don’t say you, It is through the Lord that I fell away;
\q1 For you shall not do the things that he hates.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.12: \v 12 Don’t say you, It is he that caused me to err;
\q1 For he has no need of a sinful man.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.13: \v 13 The Lord hates every abomination;
\q1 And those who fear him love it not.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.14: \v 14 He himself made man from the beginning,
\q1 And left him in the hand of his own counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.15: \v 15 If you will, you shall keep the commandments;
\q1 And to perform faithfulness is of \add your own \add* good pleasure.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.16: \v 16 He has set fire and water before you:
\q1 You will stretch forth your hand to whichever you will.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.17: \v 17 Before man is life and death;
\q1 And whichever he likes, it shall be given him.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.18: \v 18 For great is the wisdom of the Lord:
\q1 He is mighty in power, and sees all things;
\q1
\p Sirach 15.19: \v 19 And his eyes are upon those who fear him;
\q1 And he will take knowledge of every work of man.
\q1
\p Sirach 15.20: \v 20 He has not commanded any man to be ungodly;
\q1 And he has not given any man licence to sin.
\b
\p Sirach 16.0: \c 16
\q1
\p Sirach 16.1: \v 1 Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children,
\q1 Neither delight in ungodly sons.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.2: \v 2 If they multiply, delight not in them,
\q1 Except the fear of the Lord be with them.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.3: \v 3 Trust not you in their life,
\q1 Neither rely on their condition:
\q1 For one is better than a thousand;
\q1 And to die childless than to have ungodly children.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.4: \v 4 For from one that has understanding will a city be populated;
\q1 But a race of wicked men will be made desolate.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.5: \v 5 Many such things I have seen with my eyes;
\q1 And my ear has heard mightier things than these.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 16.6: \v 6 In the congregation of sinners will a fire be kindled;
\q1 And in a disobedient nation wrath is kindled.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.7: \v 7 He was not pacified toward the giants of old time,
\q1 Who revolted in their strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.8: \v 8 He spared not those with whom Lot sojourned,
\q1 Whom he abhorred for their pride.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.9: \v 9 He pitied not the people of perdition,
\q1 Who were taken away in their sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.10: \v 10 And in like manner the six hundred thousand footmen,
\q1 Who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.11: \v 11 Even if there be one stiff-necked person,
\q1 It is marvel if he will be unpunished:
\q1 For mercy and wrath are with him;
\q1 He is mighty to forgive, and he pours out wrath.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.12: \v 12 As his mercy is great, so is his correction also:
\q1 He judges a man according to his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.13: \v 13 The sinner will not escape with \add his \add* plunder;
\q1 And the perseverance of the godly will not be frustrated.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.14: \v 14 He will make room for every work of mercy;
\q1 Each man will find according to his works.
\p Sirach 16.15: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 16:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 16.16: \v 15-16 \f + \fr 16:15-16 \ft Verses 15 and 16 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 16.17: \v 17 Don’t say, I shall be hidden from the Lord;
\q1 And who will remember me from on high?
\q1 I will not be known among so many people;
\q1 For what is my soul in a boundless creation?
\q1
\p Sirach 16.18: \v 18 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens,
\q1 The deep, and the earth, will be moved when he shall visit.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.19: \v 19 The mountains and the foundations of the earth together
\q1 Are shaken with trembling, when he looks upon them.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.20: \v 20 And no heart will think upon these things:
\q1 And who shall conceive his ways?
\q1
\p Sirach 16.21: \v 21 And \add there is \add* a tempest which no man will see;
\q1 Yes, the more part of his works are \f + \fr 16:21 \ft Gr. \fqa among hidden things. \f* hid.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.22: \v 22 Who will declare the works of \add his \add* righteousness?
\q1 Or who will endure them?
\q1 For his covenant is afar off. \f + \fr 16:22 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 16.23: \v 23 He that is lacking in \f + \fr 16:23 \ft Gr. \fqa heart. \f* understanding thinks upon these things;
\q1 And an unwise and erring man thinks follies.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.24: \v 24 My son, listen to me, and learn knowledge,
\q1 And give heed to my words with your heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.25: \v 25 I will show forth instruction by weight,
\q1 And declare knowledge exactly.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.26: \v 26 In the judgement of the Lord are his works from the beginning;
\q1 And from the making of them he disposed the parts thereof.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.27: \v 27 He garnished his works forever,
\q1 And the beginnings of them to their generations:
\q1 They neither hunger, nor are weary,
\q1 And they cease not from their works.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.28: \v 28 No one thrusts aside his neighbor;
\q1 And they will never disobey his word.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.29: \v 29 After this also the Lord looked upon the earth,
\q1 And filled it with his blessings.
\q1
\p Sirach 16.30: \v 30 \f + \fr 16:30 \ft The Greek text of this line is uncertain. \f* \f + \fr 16:30 \ft Gr. \fqa The soul of every living thing. \f* All manner of living things covered the face thereof;
\q1 And into it is their return.
\b
\p Sirach 17.0: \c 17
\q1
\p Sirach 17.1: \v 1 The Lord created man of the earth,
\q1 And turned him back to it again.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.2: \v 2 He gave them days by number, and a set time,
\q1 And gave them authority over the things that are on it.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.3: \v 3 He endowed them with strength proper to them;
\q1 And made them according to his own image.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.4: \v 4 He put the fear of \f + \fr 17:4 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* man upon all flesh,
\q1 And \add gave him \add* to have dominion over beasts and fowls.
\p Sirach 17.5: \v 5 \f + \fr 17:5 \ft Verse 5 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.6: \v 6 Counsel, and tongue, and eyes,
\q1 Ears, and heart, gave he them to understand withal.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.7: \v 7 He filled them with the knowledge of wisdom,
\q1 And showed them good and evil.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.8: \v 8 He set his eye upon their hearts,
\q1 To show them the majesty of his works.
\p Sirach 17.9: \v 9 \f + \fr 17:9 \ft Verse 9 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.10: \v 10 And they will praise the name of \add his \add* holiness,
\q1 \f + \fr 17:10 \ft This line is added by the best authorities. \f* That they may declare the majesty of his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.11: \v 11 He added to them knowledge,
\q1 And gave them a law of life for a heritage.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.12: \v 12 He made an everlasting covenant with them,
\q1 And showed them his judgments.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.13: \v 13 Their eyes saw the majesty of \add his \add* glory;
\q1 And their ear heard the glory of \f + \fr 17:13 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa their. \f* his voice.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.14: \v 14 And he said to them, Beware of all unrighteousness;
\q1 And he gave them commandment, each man concerning his neighbor.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 17.15: \v 15 Their ways are ever before him;
\q1 They will not be hid from his eyes.
\p Sirach 17.16: \v 16 \f + \fr 17:16 \ft Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.17: \v 17 \f + \fr 17:17 \ft The preceding part of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f* For every nation he appointed a ruler;
\q1 And Israel is the Lord’s portion.
\p Sirach 17.18: \v 18 \f + \fr 17:18 \ft Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.19: \v 19 All their works are as the sun before him;
\q1 And his eyes are continually upon their ways.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.20: \v 20 Their iniquities are not hid from him;
\q1 And all their sins are before the Lord.
\p Sirach 17.21: \v 21 \f + \fr 17:21 \ft Verses 16, 18, and 21 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.22: \v 22 With him the alms of a man is as a signet;
\q1 And he will keep the bounty of a man as the apple of the eye. \f + \fr 17:22 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 17.23: \v 23 Afterwards he will rise up and recompense them,
\q1 And render their recompense upon their head.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.24: \v 24 However to those who repent he grants a return;
\q1 And he comforts those who are losing patience.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 17.25: \v 25 Return to the Lord, and forsake sins:
\q1 Make your prayer before \add his \add* face, and lessen the offence.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.26: \v 26 Turn again to the Most High, and turn away from iniquity; \f + \fr 17:26 \ft A line is here omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1 And greatly hate the abominable thing.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.27: \v 27 Who will give praise to the Most High in \f + \fr 17:27 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave,
\q1 Instead of them which live and return thanks?
\q1
\p Sirach 17.28: \v 28 Thanksgiving perishes from the dead, as from one that is not:
\q1 He that is in life and health will praise the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.29: \v 29 How great is the mercy of the Lord,
\q1 And his forgiveness to those who turn to him!
\q1
\p Sirach 17.30: \v 30 For all things can’t be in men,
\q1 Because the son of man is not immortal.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.31: \v 31 What is brighter than the sun? yet this fails:
\q1 And an evil man will think on flesh and blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 17.32: \v 32 He looks upon the power of the height of heaven:
\q1 And all men are earth and ashes.
\b
\p Sirach 18.0: \c 18
\q1
\p Sirach 18.1: \v 1 He that lives forever created all things in common.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.2: \v 2 The Lord alone will be justified.
\p Sirach 18.3: \v 3 \f + \fr 18:3 \ft The remainder of verse 2, and verse 3, are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 18.4: \v 4 To none has he given power to declare his works:
\q1 And who will trace out his mighty deeds?
\q1
\p Sirach 18.5: \v 5 Who shall number the strength of his majesty?
\q1 And who shall also tell out his mercies?
\q1
\p Sirach 18.6: \v 6 As for the wondrous works of the Lord, it is not possible to take from them nor add to them,
\q1 Neither is it possible to track them out.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.7: \v 7 When a man has finished, then he is but at the beginning;
\q1 And when he ceases, then he will be in perplexity.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.8: \v 8 What is man, and what purpose do they serve?
\q1 What is his good, and what is his evil?
\q1
\p Sirach 18.9: \v 9 The number of man’s days at the most are a hundred years.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.10: \v 10 As a drop of water from the sea, and a pebble from the sand;
\q1 So are a few years in the day of eternity.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.11: \v 11 For this cause the Lord was patient over them,
\q1 And poured out his mercy upon them.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.12: \v 12 He saw and perceived their end, that it is evil;
\q1 Therefore he multiplied his forgiveness.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.13: \v 13 The mercy of a man is upon his neighbor;
\q1 But the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh;
\q1 Reproving, and chastening, and teaching,
\q1 And bringing again, as a shepherd does his flock.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.14: \v 14 He has mercy on those who accept chastening,
\q1 And that diligently seek after his judgments.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 18.15: \v 15 My son, to your good deeds add no blemish;
\q1 And no grief of words in any of your giving.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.16: \v 16 Shall not the dew assuage the scorching heat?
\q1 So is a word better than a gift.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.17: \v 17 Behold, is not a word better than a gift?
\q1 And both are with a gracious man.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.18: \v 18 A fool will upbrade ungraciously;
\q1 And the gift of an envious man consumes the eyes.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 18.19: \v 19 Learn before you speak;
\q1 And have a care of your health or ever you be sick.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.20: \v 20 Before judgement examine yourself;
\q1 And in the hour of visitation you will find forgiveness.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.21: \v 21 Humble yourself before you be sick;
\q1 And in the time of sins show repentance.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.22: \v 22 Let nothing hinder you to pay your vow in due time;
\q1 And wait not until death to be justified.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.23: \v 23 Before you make a vow, prepare yourself;
\q1 And be not as a man that tempts the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.24: \v 24 Think upon the wrath \add that will be \add* in the days of the end,
\q1 And the time of vengeance, when he turns away his face.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.25: \v 25 In the days of fullness remember the time of hunger,
\q1 \add And \add* poverty and lack in the days of wealth.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.26: \v 26 From morning until evening the time changes;
\q1 And all things are speedy before the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.27: \v 27 A wise man will fear in everything;
\q1 And in days of sinning he will beware of offence. \f + \fr 18:27 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 18.28: \v 28 Every man of understanding knows wisdom;
\q1 And he will give thanks to him that found her.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.29: \v 29 They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise themselves,
\q1 And poured forth apt proverbs.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 18.30: \v 30 Go not after your lusts;
\q1 And refrain yourself from your appetites.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.31: \v 31 If you give fully to your soul the delight of her desire,
\q1 She will make you \f + \fr 18:31 \ft Or, \fqa a rejoicing to \f* the laughing stock of your enemies.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.32: \v 32 Make not merry in much luxury;
\q1 Neither be tied to the expense thereof.
\q1
\p Sirach 18.33: \v 33 Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing,
\q1 When you have nothing in your purse. \f + \fr 18:33 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\p Sirach 19.0: \c 19
\q1
\p Sirach 19.1: \v 1 A workman that is a drunkard will not become rich:
\q1 He that despises small things will fall by little and little.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.2: \v 2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away:
\q1 And he that joins with prostitutes will be the more reckless.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.3: \v 3 Moths and worms will have him to heritage;
\q1 And a reckless soul will be taken away.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 19.4: \v 4 He that is hasty to trust is light-minded;
\q1 And he that sins will offend against his own soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.5: \v 5 He that makes merry in his heart will be condemned: \f + \fr 19:5 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 19.6: \v 6 \f + \fr 19:6 \ft The preceding part of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f* And he that hates talk has the less wickedness.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.7: \v 7 Never repeat what is told you,
\q1 And you will fare never the worse.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.8: \v 8 Whether it be of friend or foe, tell it not;
\q1 And unless it is a sin to you, reveal it not.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.9: \v 9 For he has heard you, and observed you,
\q1 And when the time comes he will hate you.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.10: \v 10 Have you heard a word? let it die with you:
\q1 Be of good courage, it will not burst you.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.11: \v 11 A fool will travail in pain with a word,
\q1 As a woman in labor with a child.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.12: \v 12 As an arrow that sticks in the \f + \fr 19:12 \ft Gr. \fqa thigh of flesh. \f* flesh of the thigh,
\q1 So is a word in a fool’s belly.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 19.13: \v 13 Reprove a friend; it may be he did it not:
\q1 And if he did something, that he may do it no more.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.14: \v 14 Reprove your neighbor; it may be he said it not:
\q1 And if he has said it, that he may not say it again.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.15: \v 15 Reprove a friend; for many times there is slander:
\q1 And trust not every word.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.16: \v 16 There is one that slips, and not from the heart:
\q1 And who is he that has not sinned with his tongue?
\q1
\p Sirach 19.17: \v 17 Reprove your neighbor before you threaten him;
\q1 And give place to the law of the Most High.
\p Sirach 19.18: \v 18-19 \f + \fr 19:18-19 \ft Verses 18 and 19 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 19.19: \v 18-19 \f + \fr 19:18-19 \ft Verses 18 and 19 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 19.20: \v 20 All wisdom is the fear of the Lord;
\q1 And in all wisdom is the doing of the law.
\p Sirach 19.21: \v 21 \f + \fr 19:21 \ft The remainder of verse 20, and verse 21, are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 19.22: \v 22 And the knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom;
\q1 And the prudence of sinners is not counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.23: \v 23 There is a wickedness, and it is abomination;
\q1 And there is a fool lacking in wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.24: \v 24 Better is one that has small understanding, and fears,
\q1 Than one that has much prudence, and transgresses the law.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.25: \v 25 There is an exquisite subtlety, and it is unjust;
\q1 And there is one that perverts favor \f + \fr 19:25 \ft Gr. \fqa to bring to light. \f* to gain a judgement. \f + \fr 19:25 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 19.26: \v 26 There is one that does wickedly, that hangs down his head with mourning;
\q1 But inwardly he is full of deceit,
\q1
\p Sirach 19.27: \v 27 Bowing down his face, and making as if he were deaf of one ear:
\q1 Where he is not known, he will be beforehand with you.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.28: \v 28 And if for lack of power he be hindered from sinning,
\q1 If he find opportunity, he will do mischief.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.29: \v 29 A man will be known by his look,
\q1 And one that has understanding will be known by his face, when you meet him.
\q1
\p Sirach 19.30: \v 30 A man’s attire, and \f + \fr 19:30 \ft Gr. \fqa laughter of the teeth. \f* grinning laughter,
\q1 And gait, show what he is.
\b
\p Sirach 20.0: \c 20
\q1
\p Sirach 20.1: \v 1 There is a reproof that is not comely;
\q1 And there is a man that keeps silence, and he is wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.2: \v 2 How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry;
\q1 And he that makes confession will be kept back from hurt.
\p Sirach 20.3: \v 3 \f + \fr 20:3 \ft Verse 3 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 20.4: \v 4 As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin;
\q1 So is he that executes judgments with violence.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.5: \v 5 There is one that keeps silence, and is found wise;
\q1 And there is one that is hated for his much talk.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.6: \v 6 There is one that keeps silence, for he has no answer to make;
\q1 And there is that keeps silence, as knowing his time.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.7: \v 7 A wise man will be silent till his time come;
\q1 But the braggart and fool will overpass his time.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.8: \v 8 He that uses many words will be abhorred;
\q1 And he that takes to himself authority therein will be hated.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 20.9: \v 9 There is a prosperity that a man finds in misfortunes;
\q1 And there is a gain that turns to loss.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.10: \v 10 There is a gift that will not profit you;
\q1 And there is a gift whose recompense is double.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.11: \v 11 There is an abasement because of glory;
\q1 And there is that has lifted up his head from a low estate.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.12: \v 12 There is that buys much for a little,
\q1 And pays for it again sevenfold.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.13: \v 13 He that is wise in words will make himself beloved;
\q1 But the pleasantries of fools will be wasted.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.14: \v 14 The gift of a fool will not profit you;\f + \fr 20:14 \ft A line of this verse is here omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1 For his eyes are many instead of one.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.15: \v 15 He will give little, and upbraid much;
\q1 And he will open his mouth like a crier:
\q1 Today he will lend, and tomorrow he will ask it again:
\q1 Such an one is a hateful man.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.16: \v 16 The fool will say, I have no friend,
\q1 And I have no thanks for my good deeds;
\q1 They that eat my bread are of evil tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.17: \v 17 How often, and of how many, will he be laughed to scorn! \f + \fr 20:17 \ft The latter part of verse 17 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 20.18: \v 18 A slip on a pavement is better than \add a slip \add* with the tongue;
\q1 So the fall of the wicked will come speedily.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.19: \v 19 A man without grace is \add as \add* a tale out of season:
\q1 It will be continually in the mouth of the ignorant.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.20: \v 20 A \f + \fr 20:20 \ft Gr. \fqa parable. \f* wise sentence from a fool’s mouth will be rejected;
\q1 For he will not speak it in its season.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 20.21: \v 21 There is that is hindered from sinning through lack;
\q1 And when he takes rest, he will not be troubled.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.22: \v 22 There is that destroys his soul through bashfulness;
\q1 And by a foolish countenance he will destroy it.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.23: \v 23 There is that for bashfulness promises to his friend;
\q1 And he makes him his enemy for nothing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 20.24: \v 24 A lie is a foul blot in a man:
\q1 It will be continually in the mouth of the ignorant.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.25: \v 25 A thief is better than a man that is continually lying:
\q1 But they both will inherit destruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.26: \v 26 The disposition of a liar is dishonor;
\q1 And his shame is with him continually.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 20.27: \v 27 He that is wise in words will advance himself;
\q1 And one that is prudent will please great men.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.28: \v 28 He that tils his land will raise his heap high;
\q1 And he that pleases great men will get pardon for iniquity.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.29: \v 29 Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise,
\q1 And as a muzzle on the mouth, turn away reproofs.
\q1
\p Sirach 20.30: \v 30 Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is out of sight,
\q1 What profit is in them both?
\q1
\p Sirach 20.31: \v 31 Better is a man that hides his folly
\q1 Than a man that hides his wisdom.
\p Sirach 20.32: \v 32 \f + \fr 20:32 \ft Verse 32 is omitted by the best authorities.\f*
\b
\p Sirach 21.0: \c 21
\q1
\p Sirach 21.1: \v 1 My son, have you sinned? add no more thereto;
\q1 And make supplication for your former \add sins. \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 21.2: \v 2 Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent;
\q1 For if you draw near it will bite you:
\q1 The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion,
\q1 Slaying the souls of men.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.3: \v 3 All iniquity is as a two-edged sword;
\q1 Its stroke has no healing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.4: \v 4 Terror and violence will lay waste riches;
\q1 So the house of an arrogant man will be laid waste.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.5: \v 5 Supplication from a poor man’s mouth reaches to the ears of \f + \fr 21:5 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* God,
\q1 And his judgement comes speedily.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.6: \v 6 One that hates reproof is in the path of the sinner;
\q1 And he that fears the Lord will turn again in his heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.7: \v 7 He that is mighty in tongue is known afar off:
\q1 But the man of understanding knows when he slips.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.8: \v 8 He that builds his house with other men’s money
\q1 Is like one that gathers himself stones against winter.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.9: \v 9 The congregation of wicked men is \add as \add* tow wrapped together;
\q1 And the end of them is a flame of fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.10: \v 10 The way of sinners is made smooth with stones;
\q1 And at the last end thereof is the pit of Hades.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.11: \v 11 He that keeps the law becomes master of the intent thereof;
\q1 And the end of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.12: \v 12 He that is not clever will not be instructed;
\q1 And there is a cleverness which makes bitterness to abound.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.13: \v 13 The knowledge of a wise man will be made to abound as a flood;
\q1 And his counsel as a fountain of life.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.14: \v 14 The inward parts of a fool are like a broken vessel;
\q1 And he will hold no knowledge.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.15: \v 15 If a man of knowledge hear a wise word,
\q1 He will commend it, and add to it:
\q1 The dissolute man hears it, and it displeases him,
\q1 And he puts it away behind his back.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.16: \v 16 The discourse of a fool is like a burden in the way;
\q1 But grace will be found on the lips of the wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.17: \v 17 The mouth of the prudent man will be sought for in the congregation;
\q1 And they will ponder his words in their heart.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.18: \v 18 As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool;
\q1 And the knowledge of an unwise man is \add as \add* \f + \fr 21:18 \ft Gr. \fqa unexamined words. \f* talk without sense.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.19: \v 19 Instruction is \add as \add* fetters on the feet of an unwise man,
\q1 And as manacles on the right hand.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.20: \v 20 A fool lifts up his voice with laughter;
\q1 But a clever man will scarce smile quietly.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.21: \v 21 Instruction is to a prudent man as an ornament of gold,
\q1 And as a bracelet upon his right arm.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.22: \v 22 The foot of a fool is soon in \add another man’s \add* house;
\q1 But a man of experience will be ashamed of entering.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.23: \v 23 A foolish man peeps in from the door of \add another man’s \add* house;
\q1 But a man that is instructed will stand without.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.24: \v 24 It is a lack of instruction in a man to listen at the door;
\q1 But the prudent man will be grieved with the disgrace.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.25: \v 25 \f + \fr 21:25 \ft The text seems to be uncertain. \f* The lips of strangers will be grieved at these things;
\q1 But the words of prudent men will be weighed in the balance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 21.26: \v 26 The heart of fools is in their mouth;
\q1 But the mouth of wise men is their heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.27: \v 27 When the ungodly curses Satan,
\q1 He curses his own soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 21.28: \v 28 A whisperer defiles his own soul,
\q1 And will be hated wherever he travels.
\b
\p Sirach 22.0: \c 22
\q1
\p Sirach 22.1: \v 1 A slothful man is compared to a stone that is defiled;
\q1 And every one will hiss him out in his disgrace.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.2: \v 2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill:
\q1 Every man that takes it up will shake out his hand.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.3: \v 3 A father has shame in having begotten an uninstructed \add son; \add*
\q1 And a \add foolish \add* daughter is born to his loss.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.4: \v 4 A prudent daughter will inherit a husband of her own;
\q1 And she that brings shame is the grief of her father.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.5: \v 5 She that is bold brings shame upon father and husband;
\q1 And she will be despised of them both.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.6: \v 6 Unseasonable discourse is \add as \add* music in mourning;
\q1 But stripes and correction are wisdom at every season.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.7: \v 7 He that teaches a fool is \add as \add* one that glues a potsherd together;
\q1 \add Even as \add* one that wakes a sleeper out of a deep sleep.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.8: \v 8 He who teaches a fool is \add as \add* one who teaches a man who slumbers;
\q1 And at the end he will say, What is it?
\p Sirach 22.9: \v 9-10 \f + \fr 22:9-10 \ft Verses 9 and 10 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 22.10: \v 9-10 \f + \fr 22:9-10 \ft Verses 9 and 10 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 22.11: \v 11 Weep for the dead, for light has failed \add him; \add*
\q1 And weep for a fool, for understanding has failed \add him: \add*
\q1 Weep more sweetly for the dead, because he has found rest;
\q1 But the life of the fool is worse than death.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.12: \v 12 Seven days are \add the days of \add* mourning for the dead;
\q1 But for a fool and an ungodly man, all the days of his life.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.13: \v 13 Talk not much with a foolish man,
\q1 And go not to one that has no understanding:
\q1 Beware of him, lest you have trouble;
\q1 And \add so \add* you shall not be \f + \fr 22:13 \ft Or, \fqa defiled: in his onslaught turn \f* defiled in his onslaught:
\q1 Turn away from him, and you will find rest;
\q1 And \add so \add* you shall not be wearied in his madness.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.14: \v 14 What shall be heavier than lead?
\q1 And what is the name thereof, but a fool?
\q1
\p Sirach 22.15: \v 15 Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear,
\q1 Than a man without understanding.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.16: \v 16 Timber girded and bound into a building will not be released with shaking:
\q1 So a heart established in due season on well advised counsel will not be afraid.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.17: \v 17 A heart settled upon a thoughtful understanding
\q1 Is as an ornament of plaster on a polished wall.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.18: \v 18 Pales set on a high place will not stand against the wind:
\q1 So a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.19: \v 19 He that pricks the eye will make tears to fall;
\q1 And he that pricks the heart makes it to show feeling.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.20: \v 20 Whoso casts a stone at birds frays them away;
\q1 And he that upbraids a friend will dissolve friendship.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.21: \v 21 If you have drawn a sword against a friend, despair not;
\q1 For there may be a returning.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.22: \v 22 If you have opened your mouth against a friend, fear not;
\q1 For there may be a reconciling;
\q1 Except it be for upbraiding, and arrogance, and disclosing of a secret, and a treacherous blow:
\q1 For these things every friend will flee.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.23: \v 23 Gain trust with your neighbor in his poverty,
\q1 That in his prosperity you may have gladness:
\q1 Stay steadfast to him in the time of his affliction,
\q1 That you may be heir with him in his inheritance. \f + \fr 22:23 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 22.24: \v 24 Before fire is the vapor and smoke of a furnace;
\q1 So revilings before bloodshed.
\q1
\p Sirach 22.25: \v 25 I will not be ashamed to shelter a friend;
\q1 And I will not hide myself from his face:
\q1
\p Sirach 22.26: \v 26 And if any evil happen to me because of him,
\q1 Every one that hears it will beware of him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 22.27: \v 27 Who shall set a watch over my mouth,
\q1 And a seal of shrewdness upon my lips,
\q1 That I fall not from it, and that my tongue destroy me not?
\p Sirach 23.0: \c 23
\q1
\p Sirach 23.1: \v 1 O Lord, Father and Master of my life,
\q1 Abandon me not to their counsel:
\q1 Suffer me not to fall by them.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.2: \v 2 Who will set scourges over my thought,
\q1 And a discipline of wisdom over my heart?
\q1 That they spare me not for my ignorances,
\q1 And \add my heart \add* pass not by their sins:
\q1
\p Sirach 23.3: \v 3 That my ignorances be not multiplied,
\q1 And my sins abound not;
\q1 And I will fall before my adversaries,
\q1 And my enemy rejoice over me. \f + \fr 23:3 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 23.4: \v 4 O Lord, Father and God of my life,
\q1 Give me not a \f + \fr 23:4 \ft Gr. \fqa lifting up of eyes. \f* proud look, \f + \fr 23:4 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 23.5: \v 5 And turn away concupiscense from me. \f + \fr 23:5 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 23.6: \v 6 Let not \f + \fr 23:6 \ft Gr. \fqa appetite of the belly. \f* greediness and chambering overtake me;
\q1 And give me not over to a shameless mind.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 23.7: \v 7 Hear you°, my children, the discipline of the mouth;
\q1 And he that keeps it will not be taken.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.8: \v 8 The sinner will be \f + \fr 23:8 \ft Most authorities read \fqa left. \f* overtaken in his lips;
\q1 And the reviler and the proud man will stumble therein.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.9: \v 9 Accustom not your mouth to an oath;
\q1 And be not accustomed to the naming of the Holy One.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.10: \v 10 For as a servant that is continually scourged will not lack a bruise,
\q1 So he also that swears and names \add God \add* continually will not be cleansed from sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.11: \v 11 A man of many oaths will be filled with iniquity;
\q1 And the scourge will not depart from his house:
\q1 If he shall offend, his sin will be upon him;
\q1 And if he disregard it, he has sinned doubly;
\q1 And if he has sworn in vain, he will not be justified;
\q1 For his house will be filled with calamities.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.12: \v 12 There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death:
\q1 Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob;
\q1 For all these things will be far from the godly,
\q1 And they will not wallow in sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.13: \v 13 Accustom not your mouth to gross rudeness,
\q1 For therein is the word of sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.14: \v 14 Remember your father and your mother,
\q1 For you sit in the midst of great men;
\q1 That you be not forgetful before them,
\q1 And become a fool by your custom;
\q1 So will you wish that you had not been born,
\q1 And curse the day of your nativity.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.15: \v 15 A man that is accustomed to words of reproach
\q1 Will not be corrected all the days of his life.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 23.16: \v 16 Two sorts \add of men \add* multiply sins,
\q1 And the third will bring wrath:
\q1 A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed:
\q1 A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has \f + \fr 23:16 \ft Or, \fqa made a fire blaze up \f* burned out the fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.17: \v 17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator:
\q1 He will not leave off till he die.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.18: \v 18 A man that goes astray from his own bed,
\q1 Saying in his heart, Who sees me?
\q1 Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me,
\q1 And no man sees me; of whom am I afraid?
\q1 The Most High will not remember my sins;
\q1
\p Sirach 23.19: \v 19 —And the eyes of men are his terror,
\q1 And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,
\q1 Beholding all the ways of men,
\q1 And looking into secret places.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.20: \v 20 All things were known to him or ever they were created;
\q1 And in like manner also after they were perfected.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.21: \v 21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city;
\q1 And where he suspected not he will be taken.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.22: \v 22 So also a wife that leaves her husband,
\q1 And brings in an heir by a stranger.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.23: \v 23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High;
\q1 And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband;
\q1 And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom,
\q1 And brought in children by a stranger.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.24: \v 24 She shall be brought out into the congregation;
\q1 And upon her children will there be visitation.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.25: \v 25 Her children will not spread into roots,
\q1 And her branches will bear no fruit.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.26: \v 26 She will leave her memory for a curse;
\q1 And her reproach will not be blotted out.
\q1
\p Sirach 23.27: \v 27 And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,
\q1 And nothing sweeter than to take heed to the commandments of the Lord.
\p Sirach 23.28: \v 28 \f + \fr 23:28 \ft Verse 28 is omitted by the best authorities.\f*
\p Sirach 24.0: \c 24
\q1
\p Sirach 24.1: \v 1 Wisdom will praise \f + \fr 24:1 \ft Gr. \fqa her own soul. \f* herself,
\q1 And will glory in the midst of her people.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.2: \v 2 She will open her mouth in the congregation of the Most High,
\q1 And glory in the presence of his power.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.3: \v 3 I came forth from the mouth of the Most High,
\q1 And covered the earth as a mist.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.4: \v 4 I lived in high places,
\q1 And my throne is in the pillar of the cloud.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.5: \v 5 Alone I compassed the circuit of heaven,
\q1 And walked in the depth of the abyss.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.6: \v 6 In the waves of the sea, and in all the earth,
\q1 And in every people and nation, I got a possession.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.7: \v 7 With all these I sought rest;
\q1 And in whose inheritance shall I lodge?
\q1
\p Sirach 24.8: \v 8 Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment;
\q1 And he that created me made my tabernacle to rest,
\q1 And said, Let your tabernacle be in Jacob,
\q1 And your inheritance in Israel.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.9: \v 9 He created me from the beginning before the world;
\q1 And to the end I will not fail.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.10: \v 10 In the holy tabernacle I ministered before him;
\q1 And so was I established in Sion.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.11: \v 11 In the beloved city likewise he gave me rest;
\q1 And in Jerusalem was my authority.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.12: \v 12 And I took root in a people that was glorified,
\q1 Even in the portion of the Lord’s own inheritance.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.13: \v 13 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus,
\q1 And as a cypress tree on the mountains of Hermon.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.14: \v 14 I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore,
\q1 And as rose plants in Jericho,
\q1 And as a fair olive tree in the plain;
\q1 And I was exalted as a plane tree.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.15: \v 15 As cinnamon and aspalathus, I have given a scent of perfumes;
\q1 And as choice myrrh, I spread abroad a pleasant odour;
\q1 As \f + \fr 24:15 \ft See Exodus 30:34. \f* galbanum, and onyx, and stacte,
\q1 And as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.16: \v 16 As the terebinth I stretched out my branches;
\q1 And my branches are branches of glory and grace.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.17: \v 17 As the vine I put forth grace;
\q1 And my flowers are the fruit of glory and riches.
\p Sirach 24.18: \v 18 \f + \fr 24:18 \ft Verse 18 is omitted by the best authorities.\f*
\q1
\p Sirach 24.19: \v 19 Come to me, you° that are desirous of me,
\q1 And be you° filled with my produce.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.20: \v 20 For my memorial is sweeter than honey,
\q1 And my inheritance than the honeycomb.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.21: \v 21 They that eat me will yet be hungry;
\q1 And those who drink me will yet be thirsty.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.22: \v 22 He that obeys me will not be ashamed;
\q1 And those who work in me will not do amiss.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 24.23: \v 23 All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God,
\q1 \add Even \add* the law which Moses commanded us for a heritage to the assemblies of Jacob.
\p Sirach 24.24: \v 24 \f + \fr 24:24 \ft Verse 24 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 24.25: \v 25 It is he that makes wisdom abundant, as Pishon,
\q1 And as Tigris in the days of new \add fruits; \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 24.26: \v 26 That makes understanding full as Euphrates,
\q1 And as Jordan in the days of harvest;
\q1
\p Sirach 24.27: \v 27 That makes instruction to shine forth as the light,
\q1 As Gihon in the days of vintage.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.28: \v 28 The first man knew her not perfectly;
\q1 And in like manner the last has not traced her out.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.29: \v 29 For her thoughts are filled from the sea,
\q1 And her counsels from the great deep.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 24.30: \v 30 And I came out as a \f + \fr 24:30 \ft Gr. \fqa canal. \f* stream from a river,
\q1 And as a conduit into a garden.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.31: \v 31 I said, I will water my garden,
\q1 And will water abundantly my garden bed;
\q1 And, behold, my stream became a river,
\q1 And my river became a sea.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.32: \v 32 I will yet bring instruction to light as the morning,
\q1 And will make \f + \fr 24:32 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* these things to shine forth afar off.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.33: \v 33 I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy,
\q1 And leave it to generations of ages.
\q1
\p Sirach 24.34: \v 34 Behold that I have not labored for myself only,
\q1 But for all those who diligently seek her.
\b
\p Sirach 25.0: \c 25
\q1
\p Sirach 25.1: \v 1 In three things I was beautified,
\q1 And stood up beautiful before the Lord and men:
\q1 The concord of kindred, and friendship of neighbors,
\q1 And a woman and her husband that walk together in agreement.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.2: \v 2 But three sorts \add of men \add* my soul hates,
\q1 And I am greatly offended at their life:
\q1 A poor man that is arrogant, and a rich man that is a liar,
\q1 \add And \add* an old man that is an adulterer lacking understanding.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 25.3: \v 3 In \add your \add* youth you have not gathered,
\q1 And how should you find in your old age?
\q1
\p Sirach 25.4: \v 4 How beautiful a thing is judgement for gray hairs,
\q1 And for elders to know counsel!
\q1
\p Sirach 25.5: \v 5 How beautiful is the wisdom of old men,
\q1 And thought and counsel to men that are in honor!
\q1
\p Sirach 25.6: \v 6 Much experience is the crown of old men;
\q1 And their glorying is the fear of the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 25.7: \v 7 There be nine things that I have thought of, and in my heart counted happy;
\q1 And the tenth I will utter with my tongue:
\q1 A man that has joy of his children;
\q1 A man that lives and looks upon the fall of his enemies:
\q1
\p Sirach 25.8: \v 8 Happy is he that dwells with a wife of understanding;
\q1 And he that has not slipped with his tongue;
\q1 And he that has not served a man that is unworthy of him:
\q1
\p Sirach 25.9: \v 9 Happy is he that has found prudence;
\q1 And he that speaks in the ears of those who listen.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.10: \v 10 How great is he that has found wisdom!
\q1 Yet is there none above him that fears the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.11: \v 11 The fear of the Lord passes all things:
\q1 He that holds it, to whom shall he be likened?
\p Sirach 25.12: \v 12 \f + \fr 25:12 \ft Verse 12 is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 25.13: \v 13 \add Give me \add* any plague but the plague of the heart;
\q1 And any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman;
\q1
\p Sirach 25.14: \v 14 Any calamity, but a calamity from those who hate me;
\q1 And any vengeance, but the vengeance of enemies.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.15: \v 15 There is no head above the head of a serpent;
\q1 And there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 25.16: \v 16 I will rather dwell with a lion and a dragon,
\q1 Than keep house with a wicked woman.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.17: \v 17 The wickedness of a woman changes her look,
\q1 And darkens her countenance as a bear does.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.18: \v 18 Her husband will sit at meat among his neighbors,
\q1 And when he hears it he sighs bitterly.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.19: \v 19 All malice is but little to the malice of a woman:
\q1 Let the portion of a sinner fall on her.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.20: \v 20 \add As \add* the going up a sandy way \add is \add* to the feet of the aged,
\q1 So is a wife full of words to a quiet man.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.21: \v 21 Throw not yourself upon the beauty of a woman;
\q1 And desire not a woman for her beauty.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.22: \v 22 There is anger, and impudence, and great reproach,
\q1 If a woman maintain her husband.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.23: \v 23 A wicked woman is abasement of heart,
\q1 And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart:
\q1 A woman that will not make her husband happy
\q1 Is \add as \add* hands that hang down, and palsied knees.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.24: \v 24 From a woman \add was \add* the beginning of sin;
\q1 And because of her we all die.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.25: \v 25 Give not water an outlet;
\q1 Neither to a wicked woman freedom of speech.
\q1
\p Sirach 25.26: \v 26 If she go not \f + \fr 25:26 \ft Gr. \fqa according to your hand. \f* as you would have her,
\q1 Cut her off from your flesh. \f + \fr 25:26 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\p Sirach 26.0: \c 26
\q1
\p Sirach 26.1: \v 1 Happy is the husband of a good wife;
\q1 And the number of his days will be doubled.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.2: \v 2 A brave woman rejoices her husband;
\q1 And he will fulfill his years in peace.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.3: \v 3 A good wife is a good portion:
\q1 She will be given in the portion of such as fear the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.4: \v 4 Whether a man be rich or poor,
\q1 A good heart \add makes \add* at all times a cheerful countenance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.5: \v 5 Of three things my heart was afraid;
\q1 And concerning the fourth \f + \fr 26:5 \ft Gr. \fqa countenance. \f* kind I made supplication:
\q1 The slander of a city, and the assembly of a multitude, and a false accusation:
\q1 All these are more grievous than death.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.6: \v 6 A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous of \add another \add* woman,
\q1 And the scourge of a tongue communicating to all.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.7: \v 7 A wicked woman is \add as \add* a yoke of oxen shaken to and fro:
\q1 He that takes hold of her is as one that grasps a scorpion.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.8: \v 8 A drunken woman \add causes \add* great wrath;
\q1 And she will not cover her own shame.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.9: \v 9 The whoredom of a woman is in the lifting up of her eyes;
\q1 And it will be known by her eyelids.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.10: \v 10 Keep strict watch on a headstrong daughter,
\q1 Lest she find liberty for herself, and use it.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.11: \v 11 Look well after an impudent eye;
\q1 And marvel not if it trespass against you.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.12: \v 12 She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller,
\q1 And drink of every water that is near:
\q1 She will sit down at every post,
\q1 And open her quiver against \add any \add* arrow.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.13: \v 13 The grace of a wife will delight her husband;
\q1 And her knowledge will fatten his bones.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.14: \v 14 A silent woman is a gift of the Lord;
\q1 And there is nothing so much worth as a well-instructed soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.15: \v 15 A shamefast woman is grace upon grace;
\q1 And there is no \f + \fr 26:15 \ft Gr. \fqa weight. \f* price worthy of a continent soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.16: \v 16 As the sun when it arises in the highest places of the Lord,
\q1 So is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of \f + \fr 26:16 \ft Gr. \fqa his. \f* a man’s house.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.17: \v 17 As the lamp that shines upon the holy candlestick,
\q1 So is the beauty of the face in ripe age.
\q1
\p Sirach 26.18: \v 18 As the golden pillars are upon a base of silver,
\q1 So are beautiful feet with the breasts of one that is steadfast.
\p Sirach 26.19: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.20: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.21: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.22: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.23: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.24: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.25: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.26: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.27: \v 19-27 \f + \fr 26:19-27 \ft Verses 19-27 are omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.28: \v 28 For two things my heart is grieved;
\q1 And for the third anger comes upon me:
\q1 A man of war that suffers for poverty;
\q1 And men of understanding that are counted as refuse:
\q1 One that turns back from righteousness to sin;
\q1 The Lord will prepare him for the sword.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 26.29: \v 29 A merchant shall hardly keep himself from wrong doing;
\q1 And a huckster will not be acquitted of sin.
\p Sirach 27.0: \c 27
\q1
\p Sirach 27.1: \v 1 Many have sinned for a thing indifferent;
\q1 And he that seeks to multiply \add gain \add* will turn his eye away.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.2: \v 2 A nail will stick fast between the joinings of stones;
\q1 And sin will \f + \fr 27:2 \ft Gr. \fqa rub. \f* thrust itself in between buying and selling.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.3: \v 3 Unless \add a man \add* hold on diligently in the fear of the Lord,
\q1 His house will soon be overthrown.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.4: \v 4 In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains;
\q1 So the filth of man in his reasoning.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.5: \v 5 The furnace will prove the potter’s vessels;
\q1 And the trial of a man is in his reasoning.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.6: \v 6 The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof;
\q1 So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.7: \v 7 Praise no man before \add you hear him \add* reason;
\q1 For this is the trial of men.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.8: \v 8 If you follow righteousness, you will obtain her,
\q1 And put her on, as a long robe of glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.9: \v 9 Birds will return to their like;
\q1 And truth will return to those who practice her.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.10: \v 10 The lion lies in wait for prey;
\q1 So does sin for those who work iniquity.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.11: \v 11 The discourse of a godly man is always wisdom:
\q1 But the foolish man changes as the moon.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.12: \v 12 Among men void of understanding observe the opportunity;
\q1 But stay continually among the thoughtful.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.13: \v 13 The discourse of fools is an offence;
\q1 And their laughter is in the wantonness of sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.14: \v 14 The talk of a man of many oaths will make the hair stand upright;
\q1 And their strife makes one stop his ears.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.15: \v 15 The strife of the proud is a shedding of blood;
\q1 And their reviling of each other is a grievous thing to hear.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.16: \v 16 He that reveals secrets destroys credit,
\q1 And will not find a friend to his mind.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.17: \v 17 Love a friend, and keep faith with him:
\q1 But if you reveal his secrets,
\q1 You shall not pursue after him;
\q1
\p Sirach 27.18: \v 18 For as a man has destroyed his enemy,
\q1 So have you destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.19: \v 19 And as a bird which you have released out of your hand,
\q1 So have you let your neighbor go, and you will not catch him again:
\q1
\p Sirach 27.20: \v 20 Pursue him not, for he is gone far away,
\q1 And has escaped as a gazelle out of the snare.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.21: \v 21 For a wound may be bound up, and after reviling there may be a reconcilement;
\q1 But he that reveals secrets has lost hope.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.22: \v 22 One that winks with the eye contrives evil things;
\q1 And no man will remove him from it.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.23: \v 23 When you are present, he will speak sweetly,
\q1 And will admire your words;
\q1 But afterward he will writhe his mouth,
\q1 And set a trap \add for you \add* in your words.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.24: \v 24 I have hated many things, but nothing like him;
\q1 And the Lord will hate him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.25: \v 25 One that casts a stone on high casts it on his own head;
\q1 And a deceitful stroke will open wounds.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.26: \v 26 He that digs a pit will fall into it;
\q1 And he that sets a snare will be taken therein.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.27: \v 27 He that does evil things, they will roll upon him,
\q1 And he will not know whence they have come to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.28: \v 28 Mockery and reproach are from the arrogant;
\q1 And vengeance, as a lion, will lie in wait for him.
\q1
\p Sirach 27.29: \v 29 They that rejoice at the fall of the godly will be taken in a snare;
\q1 And anguish will consume them before they die.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 27.30: \v 30 Wrath and anger, these also are abominations;
\q1 And a sinful man will possess them.
\p Sirach 28.0: \c 28
\q1
\p Sirach 28.1: \v 1 He that takes vengeance will find vengeance from the Lord;
\q1 And he will surely make firm his sins.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.2: \v 2 Forgive your neighbor the hurt that he has done \add you; \add*
\q1 And then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.3: \v 3 Man cherishes anger against man;
\q1 And does he seek healing from the Lord?
\q1
\p Sirach 28.4: \v 4 Upon a man like himself he has no mercy;
\q1 And does he make supplication for his own sins?
\q1
\p Sirach 28.5: \v 5 He being himself flesh nourishes wrath:
\q1 Who will make atonement for his sins?
\q1
\p Sirach 28.6: \v 6 Remember your last end, and cease from enmity:
\q1 \add Remember \add* corruption and death, and remain in the commandments.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.7: \v 7 Remember the commandments, and be not angry with your neighbor;
\q1 And \add remember \add* the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 28.8: \v 8 Abstain from strife, and you will diminish your sins:
\q1 For a passionate man will kindle strife;
\q1
\p Sirach 28.9: \v 9 And a man that is a sinner will trouble friends,
\q1 And will make debate among those who are at peace.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.10: \v 10 \f + \fr 28:10 \ft The order of the lines in this verse is uncertain. \f* As is the fuel of the fire, so will it burn;
\q1 And as the stoutness of the strife is, \add so \add* will it burn:
\q1 As is the strength of the man, \add so \add* will be his wrath;
\q1 And as is his wealth, \add so \add* he will exalt his anger.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.11: \v 11 A contention begun in haste kindles a fire;
\q1 And a hasty fighting sheds blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.12: \v 12 If you blow a spark, it will burn;
\q1 And if you spit upon it, it will be quenched:
\q1 And both these shall come out of your mouth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 28.13: \v 13 Curse the whisperer and double-tongued:
\q1 For he has destroyed many that were at peace.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.14: \v 14 A third person’s tongue has shaken many,
\q1 And dispersed them from nation to nation;
\q1 And it has pulled down strong cities,
\q1 And overthrown the houses of great men.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.15: \v 15 A third person’s tongue has cast out brave women,
\q1 And deprived them of their labors.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.16: \v 16 He that listens to it will not find rest,
\q1 Nor shall he dwell quietly.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.17: \v 17 The stroke of a whip makes a mark in the flesh;
\q1 But the stroke of a tongue will break bones.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.18: \v 18 Many have fallen by the edge of the sword:
\q1 Yet not so many as those who have fallen because of the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.19: \v 19 Happy is he that is sheltered from it,
\q1 That has not passed through the wrath thereof;
\q1 That has not drawn its yoke,
\q1 And has not been bound with its bands.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.20: \v 20 For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron,
\q1 And the bands thereof are bands of brass.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.21: \v 21 The death thereof is an evil death;
\q1 And Hades were better than it.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.22: \v 22 It shall not have rule over godly men;
\q1 And they shall not be burned in its flame.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.23: \v 23 They that forsake the Lord shall fall into it;
\q1 And it shall burn among them, and shall not be quenched:
\q1 It shall be sent forth upon them as a lion;
\q1 And as a leopard it shall destroy them.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.24: \v 24 Look that you hedge your possession about with thorns;
\q1 Bind up your silver and your gold;
\q1
\p Sirach 28.25: \v 25 And make a balance and a weight for your words;
\q1 And make a door and a bar for your mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 28.26: \v 26 Take heed lest you slip therein;
\q1 Lest you fall before one that lies in wait.
\b
\p Sirach 29.0: \c 29
\q1
\p Sirach 29.1: \v 1 He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbor;
\q1 And he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.2: \v 2 Lend to your neighbor in time of his need;
\q1 And pay you your neighbor again in due season.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.3: \v 3 Confirm your word, and keep faith with him;
\q1 And at all seasons you shall find what you need.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.4: \v 4 Many have reckoned a loan as a windfall,
\q1 And have given trouble to those that helped them.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.5: \v 5 Till he has received, he will kiss a man’s hands;
\q1 And for his neighbor’s money he will speak submissly:
\q1 And when payment is due, he will prolong the time,
\q1 And return words of heaviness, and complain of \f + \fr 29:5 \ft Gr. \fqa the season. \f* the times.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.6: \v 6 If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half;
\q1 And he will count it as a windfall:
\q1 If not, he has deprived him of his money,
\q1 And he has gotten him for an enemy without cause:
\q1 He will pay him with cursing and railing;
\q1 And for honor he will pay him disgrace.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.7: \v 7 \f + \fr 29:7 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa Many therefore. \f* Many on account of \add men’s \add* ill-dealing have turned away;
\q1 They have feared to be defrauded for nothing.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.8: \v 8 However with a man in poor estate be patient;
\q1 And let him not wait for \add your \add* alms.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.9: \v 9 Help a poor man for the commandment’s sake;
\q1 And according to his need send him not empty away.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.10: \v 10 Lose \add your \add* money for a brother and a friend;
\q1 And let it not rust under the stone to be lost.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.11: \v 11 Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High;
\q1 And it shall profit you more than gold.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.12: \v 12 Shut up alms in your store-chambers;
\q1 And it shall deliver you out of all affliction:
\q1
\p Sirach 29.13: \v 13 It shall fight for you against your enemy
\q1 Better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 29.14: \v 14 A good man will be surety for his neighbor;
\q1 And he that has lost shame will fail him.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.15: \v 15 Forget not the good offices of your surety;
\q1 For he has given his life for you.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.16: \v 16 A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety;
\q1
\p Sirach 29.17: \v 17 And he that is of an unthankful mind will fail him that delivered him.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.18: \v 18 Suretiship has undone many that were prospering,
\q1 And shaken them as a wave of the sea:
\q1 Mighty men has it driven from their homes;
\q1 And they wandered among strange nations.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.19: \v 19 A sinner that falls into suretiship,
\q1 And undertakes contracts for work, shall fall into lawsuits.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.20: \v 20 Help your neighbor according to your power,
\q1 And take heed to yourself that you fall not \add the same way. \add*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 29.21: \v 21 The chief thing for life is water, and bread,
\q1 And a garment, and a house to cover shame.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.22: \v 22 Better is the life of a poor man under a shelter of logs,
\q1 Than sumptuous fare in another man’s house.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.23: \v 23 With little or with much, be well satisfied. \f + \fr 29:23 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 29.24: \v 24 It is a miserable life to go from house to house:
\q1 And where you are a sojourner, you shall not \add dare to \add* open your mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.25: \v 25 You shall entertain, and give to drink, and have no thanks:
\q1 And in addition to this you shall hear bitter words.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.26: \v 26 Come here, you sojourner, furnish a table,
\q1 And if you have anything in your hand, feed me with it.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.27: \v 27 Go forth, you sojourner, from the face of honor;
\q1 My brother is come to be my guest; I have need of my house.
\q1
\p Sirach 29.28: \v 28 These things are grievous to a man of understanding;
\q1 The upbraiding of house-room, and the reproaching of the money-lender.
\b
\p Sirach 30.0: \c 30
\q1
\p Sirach 30.1: \v 1 He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him,
\q1 That he may have joy of him in the end.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.2: \v 2 He that chastises his son shall have profit of him,
\q1 And shall glory of him among his acquaintance.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.3: \v 3 He that teaches his son shall provoke his enemy to jealousy;
\q1 And before friends he shall rejoice of him.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.4: \v 4 His father dies, and is as though he had not died;
\q1 For he has left one behind him like himself.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.5: \v 5 In his life, he saw and rejoiced \add in him; \add*
\q1 And when he died, he sorrowed not:
\q1
\p Sirach 30.6: \v 6 He left behind him an avenger against his enemies,
\q1 And one to requite kindness to his friends.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.7: \v 7 He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds;
\q1 And his heart will be troubled at every cry.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.8: \v 8 An unbroken horse becomes stubborn;
\q1 And a son left at large becomes headstrong.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.9: \v 9 Cocker your child, and he shall make you afraid:
\q1 Play with him, and he will grieve you.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.10: \v 10 Laugh not with him, lest you have sorrow with him;
\q1 And you shall gnash your teeth in the end.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.11: \v 11 Give him no liberty in his youth,
\q1 \f + \fr 30:11 \ft These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS. \f* And wink not at his follies.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.12: \v 12 \f + \fr 30:12 \ft These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS. \f* Bow down his neck in his youth,
\q1 And beat him on the sides while he is a child,
\q1 Lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient to you;
\q1 \f + \fr 30:12 \ft These three lines are absent from the oldest MSS. \f* And there shall be sorrow to your soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.13: \v 13 Chastise your son, and take pains with him,
\q1 Lest his shameless behavior be an offence to you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 30.14: \v 14 Better is a poor man, being sound and strong of constitution,
\q1 Than a rich man that is plagued in his body.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.15: \v 15 Health and a good constitution are better than all gold;
\q1 And a strong body than wealth without measure.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.16: \v 16 There is no riches better than health of body;
\q1 And there is no gladness above the joy of the heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.17: \v 17 Death is better than a bitter life,
\q1 \f + \fr 30:17 \ft The oldest MSS. omit \fqa And eternal rest. \f* And \f + \fr 30:17 \ft Gr. \fqa age-long rest. \f* eternal rest than a continual sickness.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.18: \v 18 Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed
\q1 Are \add as \add* messes of meat laid upon a grave.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.19: \v 19 What does an offering profit an idol?
\q1 For neither shall it eat nor smell:
\q1 So is he that is afflicted of the Lord,
\q1
\p Sirach 30.20: \v 20 Seeing with his eyes and groaning,
\q1 As an eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 30.21: \v 21 Give not over your soul to sorrow;
\q1 And afflict not yourself in your own counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.22: \v 22 Gladness of heart is the life of a man;
\q1 And the joyfulness of a man is length of days.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.23: \v 23 Love your own soul, and comfort your heart:
\q1 And remove sorrow far from you;
\q1 For sorrow has destroyed many,
\q1 And there is no profit therein.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.24: \v 24 Envy and wrath shorten \add a man’s \add* days;
\q1 And care brings old age before the time.
\q1
\p Sirach 30.25: \v 25 A cheerful and good heart
\q1 Will have a care of his meat and diet.
\p Sirach 31.0: \c 31
\q1
\p Sirach 31.1: \v 1 Wakefulness that comes of riches consumes the flesh,
\q1 And the anxiety thereof puts away sleep.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.2: \v 2 Wakeful anxiety will crave slumber;
\q1 And \f + \fr 31:2 \ft This appears to be the meaning; but the Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* in a sore disease sleep will be broken.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 31.3: \v 3 A rich man toils in gathering money together;
\q1 And when he rests, he is filled with his good things.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.4: \v 4 A poor man toils in lack of substance;
\q1 And when he rests, he becomes needy.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.5: \v 5 He that loves gold shall not be justified;
\q1 And he that follows destruction shall himself have his fill \add of it. \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 31.6: \v 6 Many have been given over to ruin for the sake of gold;
\q1 And their perdition \f + \fr 31:6 \ft Or, \fqa comes to pass in their faces \f* meets them face to face.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.7: \v 7 It is a stumbling block to those who sacrifice to it;
\q1 And every fool shall be taken therewith.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.8: \v 8 Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish,
\q1 And that goes not after gold.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.9: \v 9 Who is he? and we will call him blessed:
\q1 For wonderful things has he done among his people.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.10: \v 10 Who has been tried by it, and found perfect?
\q1 Then let him glory.
\q1 Who has had the power to transgress, and has not transgressed?
\q1 And to do evil, and has not done it?
\q1
\p Sirach 31.11: \v 11 His goods shall be made sure,
\q1 And the congregation shall declare his alms.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.12: \v 12 Sittest you at a great table? \f + \fr 31:12 \ft Gr. \fqa open not your throat upon it.\f* be not greedy upon it,
\q1 And say not, Many are the things upon it.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.13: \v 13 Remember that an evil eye is a wicked thing:
\q1 What has been created more evil than an eye?
\q1 Therefore it sheds tears from every face.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.14: \v 14 Stretch not your hand wherever it looks,
\q1 And thrust not yourself with it into the dish.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.15: \v 15 Consider your neighbor’s \add liking \add* by your own;
\q1 And be discreet in every point.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.16: \v 16 Eat, as \add becomes \add* a man, those things which are set before you;
\q1 And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.17: \v 17 Be first to leave off for manners’ sake;
\q1 And be not insatiable, lest you offend.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.18: \v 18 And if you sit among many,
\q1 Reach not out your hand before them.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 31.19: \v 19 How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little,
\q1 And he does not breathe hard upon his bed.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.20: \v 20 Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating;
\q1 He rises early, and his wits are with him:
\q1 The pain of wakefulness, and colic,
\q1 And griping, are with an insatiable man.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.21: \v 21 And if you have been forced to eat,
\q1 Rise up in the midst thereof, and you shall have rest.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.22: \v 22 Hear me, my son, and despise me not,
\q1 And at the last you shall find my words \add true: \add*
\q1 In all your works be quick,
\q1 And no disease shall come to you.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 31.23: \v 23 Him that is liberal of his meat the lips shall bless;
\q1 And the testimony of his excellence shall be believed.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.24: \v 24 The city will murmer at he who is a stingy with his meat;
\q1 And the testimony of his stinginess will be sure.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 31.25: \v 25 Show not yourself valiant in wine;
\q1 For wine has destroyed many.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.26: \v 26 The furnace proves the temper \add of steel \add* by dipping;
\q1 So does wine \add prove \add* hearts in the quarreling of the proud.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.27: \v 27 Wine is as good as life to men,
\q1 If you drink it in its measure:
\q1 What life is there to a man that is without wine?
\q1 And it has been created to make men glad.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.28: \v 28 Wine drunk in season \add and \add* to satisfy
\q1 Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:
\q1
\p Sirach 31.29: \v 29 Wine drunk largely is bitterness of soul,
\q1 With provocation and conflict.
\q1
\p Sirach 31.30: \v 30 Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt;
\q1 It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 31.31: \v 31 Rebuke not your neighbor at a banquet of wine,
\q1 Neither set him at nothing in his mirth:
\q1 Speak not to him a word of reproach,
\q1 And press not upon him by asking back \add a debt. \add*
\p Sirach 32.0: \c 32
\q1
\p Sirach 32.1: \v 1 Have they made you ruler \add of a feast? \add*
\q1 Be not lifted up,
\q1 Be you among them as one of them;
\q1 Take thought for them, and so sit down.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.2: \v 2 And when you have done all your office, take your place,
\q1 That you may be gladdened on their account,
\q1 And receive a crown for your well ordering.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 32.3: \v 3 Speak, you that are the elder, for it becomes you, \add but \add* with sound knowledge;
\q1 And hinder not music.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.4: \v 4 Pour not out talk where there is a performance of music,
\q1 And display not your wisdom out of season.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.5: \v 5 \add As \add* a signet of carbuncle in a setting of gold,
\q1 \add So \add* is a concert of music in a banquet of wine.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.6: \v 6 \add As \add* a signet of emerald in a work of gold,
\q1 \add So \add* is a strain of music with pleasant wine.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 32.7: \v 7 Speak, young man, if there be need of you;
\q1 \add Yet \add* scarcely if you be twice asked.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.8: \v 8 Sum up your speech, many things in few words;
\q1 Be as one that knows and yet holds his tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.9: \v 9 \add If you be \add* among great men, behave not as their equal;
\q1 And when another is speaking, make not much babbling.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.10: \v 10 Lightning speeds before thunder;
\q1 And before a shamefast man favor shall go forth.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.11: \v 11 Rise up betimes, and be not the last;
\q1 Get you home quickly and loiter not:
\q1
\p Sirach 32.12: \v 12 There take your pastime, and do what is in your heart;
\q1 And sin not by proud speech:
\q1
\p Sirach 32.13: \v 13 And for these things bless him that made you,
\q1 And gives you to drink freely of his good things.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 32.14: \v 14 He that fears the Lord will receive \add his \add* discipline;
\q1 And those who seek \add him \add* early shall find favor.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.15: \v 15 He that seeks the law shall be filled therewith:
\q1 But the hypocrite shall stumble thereat.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.16: \v 16 They that fear the Lord shall find judgement,
\q1 And shall kindle righteous acts as a light.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.17: \v 17 A sinful man shuns reproof,
\q1 And will find a judgement according to his will.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 32.18: \v 18 A man of counsel will not neglect a thought;
\q1 A strange and proud man will not crouch in fear,
\q1 Even after he has done a thing by himself without counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.19: \v 19 Do nothing without counsel;
\q1 And when you have once done, repent not.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.20: \v 20 Go not in a way of conflict;
\q1 And stumble not in stony places.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.21: \v 21 Be not confident in a \f + \fr 32:21 \ft Gr. \fqa without stumbling blocks.\f* smooth way.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.22: \v 22 And beware of your own children.
\q1
\p Sirach 32.23: \v 23 In every work trust your own soul;
\q1 For this is the keeping of the commandments.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 32.24: \v 24 He that believes the law gives heed to the commandment;
\q1 And he that trusts in the Lord shall suffer no loss.
\p Sirach 33.0: \c 33
\q1
\p Sirach 33.1: \v 1 There shall no evil happen to him that fears the Lord;
\q1 But in temptation once and again he will deliver him.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.2: \v 2 A wise man will not hate the law;
\q1 But he that is a hypocrite therein is as a ship in a storm.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.3: \v 3 A man of understanding will put his trust in the law;
\q1 And the law is faithful to him, as when one asks at the oracle.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.4: \v 4 Prepare \add your \add* speech, and so shall you be heard;
\q1 Bind up instruction, and make your answer.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.5: \v 5 The heart of a fool is \add as \add* a cartwheel;
\q1 And his thoughts like a rolling axle tree.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.6: \v 6 A stallion horse is as a mocking friend;
\q1 He neighs under every one that sits upon him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.7: \v 7 Why does one day excel another,
\q1 When all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?
\q1
\p Sirach 33.8: \v 8 By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished;
\q1 And he varied seasons and feasts:
\q1
\p Sirach 33.9: \v 9 Some of them he exalted and hallowed,
\q1 And some of them has he made ordinary days.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.10: \v 10 And all men are from the ground,
\q1 And Adam was created of earth.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.11: \v 11 In the abundance of his knowledge the Lord distinguished them,
\q1 And made their ways various:
\q1
\p Sirach 33.12: \v 12 Some of them he blessed and exalted,
\q1 And some of them he hallowed and brought near to himself:
\q1 Some of them he cursed and brought low,
\q1 And overthrew them from their place.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.13: \v 13 As the clay of the potter in his hand,
\q1 All his ways are according to his good pleasure;
\q1 So men are in the hand of him that made them,
\q1 To render to them according to his judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.14: \v 14 Good is the opposite of evil,
\q1 And life is the opposite of death:
\q1 So is \f + \fr 33:14 \ft A line of this verse is here omitted by the best authorities. \f* the sinner is the opposite of the godly.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.15: \v 15 And thus look upon all the works of the Most High;
\q1 Two and two, one against another.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.16: \v 16 And I waked up last,
\q1 As one that gleans after the grape gatherers:
\q1 By the blessing of the Lord I got before them,
\q1 And filled my winepress as one that gathers grapes.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.17: \v 17 Consider that I labored not for myself alone,
\q1 But for all those who seek instruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.18: \v 18 Hear me, you° great men of the people,
\q1 And listen with your ears, you° rulers of the congregation.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.19: \v 19 To son and wife, to brother and friend,
\q1 Give not power over you while you live;
\q1 And give not your goods to another,
\q1 Lest you repent and make supplication for them \add again. \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 33.20: \v 20 Whilst you yet live, and breath is in you,
\q1 Give not yourself over to anybody.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.21: \v 21 For better it is that your children should supplicate you,
\q1 Than that you should look to the hand of your sons.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.22: \v 22 In all your works keep the upper hand;
\q1 Bring not a stain on your honor.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.23: \v 23 In the day that you endest the days of your life,
\q1 And in the time of death, distribute your inheritance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.24: \v 24 Fodder, a stick, and burdens, for an ass;
\q1 Bread, and discipline, and work, for a servant.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.25: \v 25 Set your servant to work, and you shall find rest:
\q1 Leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.26: \v 26 Yoke and thong will bow the neck:
\q1 And for an evil servant there are racks and tortures.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.27: \v 27 Send him to labor, that he be not idle;
\q1 For idleness teaches much mischief.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.28: \v 28 Set him to work, as is fit for him;
\q1 And if he obey not, make his fetters heavy.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.29: \v 29 And be not excessive toward any;
\q1 And without judgement do nothing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 33.30: \v 30 If you have a servant, let him be as yourself,
\q1 Because you have bought him with blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 33.31: \v 31 If you have a servant, treat him as yourself;
\q1 \f + \fr 33:31 \ft The Greek text of this line is probably corrupt. \f* For as your own soul will you have need of him:
\q1 If you treat him ill, and he depart and run away,
\q1 Which way will you go to seek him?
\b
\p Sirach 34.0: \c 34
\q1
\p Sirach 34.1: \v 1 Vain and false hopes are for a man void of understanding;
\q1 And dreams give wings to fools.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.2: \v 2 As one that catches at a shadow, and follows after the wind,
\q1 So is he that sets his mind on dreams.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.3: \v 3 The vision of dreams is \add as \add* this thing against that,
\q1 The likeness of a face near a face.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.4: \v 4 Of an unclean thing what shall be cleansed?
\q1 And of that which is false what shall be true?
\q1
\p Sirach 34.5: \v 5 Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain:
\q1 And the heart fancies, as a woman’s in travail.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.6: \v 6 If they be not sent from the Most High in \add your \add* visitation,
\q1 Give not your heart to them.
\p Sirach 34.7: \v 7 For dreams have led many astray:
\q1 And they have failed by putting their hope in them.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.8: \v 8 Without lying shall the law be accomplished;
\q1 And wisdom is perfection to a faithful mouth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 34.9: \v 9 A well-instructed man knows many things;
\q1 And he that has much experience will declare understanding.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.10: \v 10 He that has no experience knows few things:
\q1 But he that has wandered shall increase \add his \add* skill.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.11: \v 11 In my wandering I have seen many things;
\q1 And more than my words is my understanding.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.12: \v 12 Ofttimes was I in danger even to death;
\q1 And I was preserved because of these things.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.13: \v 13 The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live;
\q1 For their hope is upon him that saves them.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.14: \v 14 Whoso fears the Lord shall not be afraid, and shall not play the coward;
\q1 For he is his hope.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.15: \v 15 Blessed is the soul of him that fears the Lord:
\q1 To whom does he give heed? and who is his stay?
\q1
\p Sirach 34.16: \v 16 The eyes of the Lord are upon those who love him,
\q1 A mighty protection and strong stay,
\q1 A cover from the hot blast, and a cover from the noonday,
\q1 A guard from stumbling, and a help from falling.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.17: \v 17 He raises up the soul, and enlightens the eyes:
\q1 He gives healing, life, and blessing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 34.18: \v 18 He that sacrifices of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is made in mockery;
\q1 And the mockeries of wicked men are not well-pleasing.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.19: \v 19 The Most High has no pleasure in the offerings of the ungodly;
\q1 Neither is he pacified for sins by the multitude of sacrifices.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.20: \v 20 \add As \add* one that kills the son before his father’s eyes
\q1 Is he that brings a sacrifice from the goods of the poor.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.21: \v 21 The bread of the needy is the life of the poor:
\q1 He that deprives him thereof is a man of blood.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.22: \v 22 \add As \add* one that slays his neighbor is he that takes away his living;
\q1 And \add as \add* a shedder of blood is he that deprives a hireling of his hire.
\q1
\p Sirach 34.23: \v 23 One building, and another pulling down,
\q1 What profit have they had but toil?
\q1
\p Sirach 34.24: \v 24 One praying, and another cursing,
\q1 Whose voice will the Lord listen to?
\q1
\p Sirach 34.25: \v 25 He that washes himself after \add touching \add* a dead body, and touches it again,
\q1 What profit has he in his washing?
\q1
\p Sirach 34.26: \v 26 Even so a man fasting for his sins,
\q1 And going again, and doing the same;
\q1 Who will listen to his prayer?
\q1 And what profit has he in his humiliation?
\b
\p Sirach 35.0: \c 35
\q1
\p Sirach 35.1: \v 1 He that keeps the law multiplies offerings;
\q1 He that takes heed to the commandments sacrifices a peace offering.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.2: \v 2 He that requites a good turn offers fine flour;
\q1 And he that gives alms sacrifices a thank offering.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.3: \v 3 To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord;
\q1 And to depart from unrighteousness is an atoning sacrifice.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.4: \v 4 See that you appear not in the presence of the Lord empty.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.5: \v 5 For all these things \add are to be done \add* because of the commandment.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.6: \v 6 The offering of the righteous makes the altar fat;
\q1 And the sweet savor thereof \add is \add* before the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.7: \v 7 The sacrifice of a righteous man is acceptable;
\q1 And the memorial thereof shall not be forgotten.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.8: \v 8 Glorify the Lord with a good eye,
\q1 And stint not the first fruits of your hands.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.9: \v 9 In every gift show a cheerful countenance,
\q1 And dedicate your tithe with gladness.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.10: \v 10 Give to the Most High according as he has given;
\q1 And as your hand has found, \add give \add* with a good eye.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.11: \v 11 For the Lord recompenses,
\q1 And he will recompense you sevenfold.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 35.12: \v 12 Think not to corrupt with gifts; for he will not receive them:
\q1 And set not your mind on an unrighteous sacrifice;
\q1 For the Lord is judge,
\q1 And with him is no respect of persons.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.13: \v 13 He will not accept any person against a poor man;
\q1 And he will listen to the prayer of him that is wronged.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.14: \v 14 He will in no wise despise the supplication of the fatherless;
\q1 Nor the widow, \f + \fr 35:14 \ft Gr. \fqa if \f* when she pours out her tale.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.15: \v 15 Do not the tears of the widow run down her cheek?
\q1 And is not her cry against him that has caused them to fall?
\q1
\p Sirach 35.16: \v 16 He that serves \add God \add* according to his good pleasure shall be accepted,
\q1 And his supplication shall reach to the clouds.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.17: \v 17 The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds;
\q1 And till it come near, he will not be comforted;
\q1 And he will not depart, till the Most High shall visit;
\q1 And he shall judge \f + \fr 35:17 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa for the righteous. \f* righteously, and execute judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.18: \v 18 And the Lord will not be slack, neither will he be patient toward them,
\q1 Till he have crushed the loins of the unmerciful;
\q1 And he shall repay vengeance to the heathen;
\q1 Till he have taken away the multitude of the arrogant,
\q1 And broken in pieces the sceptres of the unrighteous;
\q1
\p Sirach 35.19: \v 19 Till he have rendered to \add every \add* man according to his doings,
\q1 And \add to \add* the works of men according to their plans;
\q1 Till he have judged the cause of his people;
\q1 And he shall make them to rejoice in his mercy.
\q1
\p Sirach 35.20: \v 20 Mercy is seasonable in the time of his afflicting \add them, \add*
\q1 As clouds of rain in the time of drought.
\b
\p Sirach 36.0: \c 36
\q1
\p Sirach 36.1: \v 1 Have mercy upon us, O Lord the God of all, and behold;
\q1
\p Sirach 36.2: \v 2 And send your fear upon all the nations: \f + \fr 36:2 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 36.3: \v 3 Lift up your hand against the strange nations;
\q1 And let them see your mighty power.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.4: \v 4 As you were sanctified in us before them,
\q1 So be you magnified in them before us.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.5: \v 5 And let them know you, as we also have known you,
\q1 That there is no God but only you, O God.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.6: \v 6 Show new signs, and work various wonders;
\q1 Glorify your hand and your right arm. \f + \fr 36:6 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 36.7: \v 7 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath;
\q1 Take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.8: \v 8 Hasten the time, and remember the oath;
\q1 And let them declare your mighty works.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.9: \v 9 Let him that escapes be devoured by the rage of fire;
\q1 And may those who harm your people find destruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.10: \v 10 Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemies,
\q1 That say, There is none but we.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.11: \v 11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob together,
\q1 And \f + \fr 36:11 \ft The ancient authorities read \fqa I took them for my inheritance: \ft but the Greek text is here very confused. \f* take them for your inheritance, as from the beginning.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.12: \v 12 O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name,
\q1 And upon Israel, whom you did liken to a firstborn.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.13: \v 13 Have compassion upon the city of your sanctuary,
\q1 Jerusalem, the place of your rest.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.14: \v 14 Fill Sion; exalt your oracles,
\q1 And \add fill \add* your people with your glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.15: \v 15 Give testimony to those that were your creatures in the beginning,
\q1 And raise up the prophecies that have been in your name.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.16: \v 16 Give reward to those who wait for you:
\q1 And men shall put their trust in your prophets.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.17: \v 17 Listen, O Lord, to the prayer of your suppliants,
\q1 According to the blessing of Aaron concerning your people;
\q1 And all those who are on the earth shall know
\q1 That you are the Lord, the \f + \fr 36:17 \ft Gr. \fqa God of the ages. \f* eternal God.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 36.18: \v 18 The belly will eat any meat;
\q1 Yet is one meat better than another.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.19: \v 19 The \f + \fr 36:19 \ft Gr. \fqa throat. \f* mouth tastes meats taken in hunting:
\q1 So does an understanding heart false speeches.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.20: \v 20 A contrary heart will cause heaviness:
\q1 And a man of experience will recompense him.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.21: \v 21 A woman will receive any man;
\q1 But one daughter is better than another.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.22: \v 22 The beauty of a woman cheers the countenance;
\q1 And a man desires nothing so much.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.23: \v 23 If there is on her tongue mercy and meekness,
\q1 Her husband is not like the sons of men.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.24: \v 24 He that gets a wife enters upon a possession:
\q1 A help meet for him, and a pillar of rest.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.25: \v 25 Where no hedge is, the possession will be laid waste:
\q1 And he that has no wife will mourn as he wanders up and down.
\q1
\p Sirach 36.26: \v 26 For who will trust a nimble robber, that skips from city to city?
\q1 Even so \add who shall trust \add* a man that has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?
\b
\p Sirach 37.0: \c 37
\q1
\p Sirach 37.1: \v 1 Every friend will say, I also am his friend:
\q1 But there is a friend, which is only a friend in name.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.2: \v 2 Is there not a grief in it even to death,
\q1 When a companion and friend is turned to enmity?
\q1
\p Sirach 37.3: \v 3 O wicked imagination, whence came you rolling in
\q1 To cover the dry land with deceitfulness?
\q1
\p Sirach 37.4: \v 4 There is a companion, which rejoices in the gladness of a friend,
\q1 But in time of affliction will be against him.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.5: \v 5 There is a companion, which for the belly’s sake labors with his friend,
\q1 In the face of battle will take up the buckler.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.6: \v 6 Forget not a friend in your soul;
\q1 And be not unmindful of him in your riches.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.7: \v 7 Every counselor extols counsel;
\q1 But there is that counsels for himself.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.8: \v 8 Let your soul beware of a counselor,
\q1 And know you before what is his interest
\q1 (For he will take counsel for himself);
\q1 Lest he cast the lot upon you,
\q1
\p Sirach 37.9: \v 9 And say to you, Your way is good:
\q1 And he will stand near you, to see what will happen to you.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.10: \v 10 Take not counsel with one that looks askance at you;
\q1 And hide your counsel from such as are jealous of you.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.11: \v 11 \add Take not counsel \add* with a woman about her rival;
\q1 Neither with a coward about war;
\q1 Nor with a merchant about exchange;
\q1 Nor with a buyer about selling;
\q1 Nor with an envious man about thankfulness;
\q1 Nor with an unmerciful man about kindliness;
\q1 Nor with a sluggard about any kind of work;
\q1 Nor with a hireling in your house about finishing \add his work; \add*
\q1 Nor with an idle servant about much business:
\q1 Give not heed to these in any matter of counsel.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.12: \v 12 But rather be continually with a godly man,
\q1 Whom you shall have known to be a keeper of the commandments,
\q1 Who in his soul is as your own soul,
\q1 And who will grieve with you, if you shall miscarry.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.13: \v 13 And make the counsel of your heart to stand;
\q1 For there is none more faithful to you than it.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.14: \v 14 For a man’s soul is sometimes wont to bring him tidings,
\q1 More than seven watchmen that sit on high on a watch-tower.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.15: \v 15 And above all this entreat the Most High,
\q1 That he may direct your way in truth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.16: \v 16 Let reason be the beginning of every work,
\q1 And let counsel go before every action.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.17: \v 17 As a token of the changing of the heart,
\q1
\p Sirach 37.18: \v 18 four manner of things do rise up,
\q1 Good and evil, life and death;
\q1 And that which rules over them continually is the tongue.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.19: \v 19 There is one that is shrewd \add and \add* the instructor of many,
\q1 And yet is unprofitable to his own soul.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.20: \v 20 There is \add one \add* that is subtle in words, and is hated;
\q1 He shall be destitute of all food:
\q1
\p Sirach 37.21: \v 21 For grace was not given him from the Lord;
\q1 Because he is deprived of all wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.22: \v 22 There is one that is wise to his own soul;
\q1 And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy in the mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.23: \v 23 A wise man will instruct his own people;
\q1 And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.24: \v 24 A wise man shall be filled with blessing;
\q1 And all those who see him shall call him happy.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.25: \v 25 The life of man is counted by days;
\q1 And the days of Israel are innumerable.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.26: \v 26 The wise man shall inherit confidence among his people,
\q1 And his name shall live forever.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 37.27: \v 27 My son, prove your soul in your life,
\q1 And see what is evil for it, and give not that to it.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.28: \v 28 For all things are not profitable for all men,
\q1 Neither has every soul pleasure in every thing.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.29: \v 29 Be not insatiable in any luxury,
\q1 And be not greedy on the things that you eatest.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.30: \v 30 For in multitude of meats there shall be disease,
\q1 And surfeiting shall come near to colic.
\q1
\p Sirach 37.31: \v 31 Because of surfeiting have many perished;
\q1 But he that takes heed shall prolong his life.
\b
\p Sirach 38.0: \c 38
\q1
\p Sirach 38.1: \v 1 Honor a physician according to your need \add of him \add* with the honors due to him:
\q1 For truly the Lord has created him.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.2: \v 2 For from the Most High comes healing;
\q1 And from the king he shall receive a gift.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.3: \v 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head;
\q1 And in the sight of great men he shall be admired.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.4: \v 4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth;
\q1 And a prudent man will have no disgust at them.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.5: \v 5 Was not water made sweet with wood,
\q1 That the virtue thereof might be known?
\q1
\p Sirach 38.6: \v 6 And he gave men skill,
\q1 That \f + \fr 38:6 \ft Or, \fqa he \f* they might be glorified in his marvelous works.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.7: \v 7 With them does he heal \add a man, \add*
\q1 And takes away his pain.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.8: \v 8 With these will the apothecary make a confection;
\q1 And his works shall not be brought to an end;
\q1 And from him is peace upon the face of the earth.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.9: \v 9 My son, in your sickness be not negligent;
\q1 But pray to the Lord, and he shall heal you.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.10: \v 10 Put away wrong doing, and order your hands aright,
\q1 And cleanse your heart from all manner of sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.11: \v 11 Give a sweet savor, and a memorial of fine flour;
\q1 And make fat your offering, as one that is not.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.12: \v 12 Then give place to the physician, for truly the Lord has created him;
\q1 And let him not go from you, for you have need of him.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.13: \v 13 There is a time when in their very hands is the issue for good.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.14: \v 14 For they also shall beseech the Lord,
\q1 That he may prosper them in \add giving \add* relief and in healing for the maintenance of life.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.15: \v 15 He that sins before his Maker,
\q1 Let him fall into the hands of the physician.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.16: \v 16 My son, let your tears fall over the dead,
\q1 And as one that suffers grievously begin lamentation;
\q1 And wind up his body according to his due,
\q1 And neglect not his burial.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.17: \v 17 Make bitter weeping, and make passionate wailing,
\q1 And let your mourning be according to his desert,
\q1 For one day or two, lest you be evil spoken of:
\q1 And so be comforted for your sorrow.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.18: \v 18 For of sorrow comes death,
\q1 And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.19: \v 19 In calamity sorrow also remains:
\q1 And the poor man’s life is \f + \fr 38:19 \ft Gr. \fqa against the heart. \f* grievous to the heart.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.20: \v 20 Don’t give your heart to sorrow.
\q1 Put it away, remembering the last end.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.21: \v 21 Don’t forget it, for there is no returning again:
\q1 Him you shall not profit, and you will hurt yourself.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.22: \v 22 Remember the sentence upon him; for so also shall your be;
\q1 Yesterday for me, and today for you.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.23: \v 23 When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest;
\q1 And be comforted for him, when his spirit departs from him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.24: \v 24 The wisdom of the scribe comes by opportunity of leisure;
\q1 And \f + \fr 38:24 \ft Gr. \fqa he that is lessened in his business. \f* he that has little business shall become wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.25: \v 25 How shall he become wise that holds the plow,
\q1 That glories in the shaft of the goad,
\q1 That drives oxen, and is occupied in their labors,
\q1 And whose discourse is of the stock of bulls?
\q1
\p Sirach 38.26: \v 26 He will set his heart upon turning his furrows;
\q1 And his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.27: \v 27 So is every craftsman and workmaster,
\q1 That passes his time by night as by day;
\q1 They that cut gravings of signets,
\q1 And his diligence is to make great variety;
\q1 He will set his heart to preserve likeness in his portraiture,
\q1 And will be wakeful to finish his work.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.28: \v 28 So is the smith sitting by the anvil,
\q1 And considering the unwrought iron:
\q1 The vapor of the fire will waste his flesh;
\q1 And in the heat of the furnace he will wrestle \add with his work: \add*
\q1 The noise of the hammer will \f + \fr 38:28 \ft Gr. \fqa renew. \f* be ever in his ear,
\q1 And his eyes are upon the pattern of the vessel;
\q1 He will set his heart upon perfecting his works,
\q1 And And he will be wakeful to adorn them perfectly.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.29: \v 29 So is the potter sitting at his work,
\q1 And turning the wheel about with his feet,
\q1 Who is always anxiously set at his work,
\q1 And all his handiwork is by number;
\q1
\p Sirach 38.30: \v 30 He will fashion the clay with his arm,
\q1 And will bend its strength in front of his feet;
\q1 He will apply his heart to finish the glazing;
\q1 And he will be wakeful to make clean the furnace.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 38.31: \v 31 All these put their trust in their hands;
\q1 And each becomes wise in his own work.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.32: \v 32 Without these shall not a city be inhabited,
\q1 And men shall not sojourn nor walk up and down \add therein. \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 38.33: \v 33 \f + \fr 38:33 \ft This line is absent from the oldest MSS. \f* They shall not be sought for in the council of the people,
\q1 And in the assembly they shall not mount on high;
\q1 They shall not sit on the seat of the judge,
\q1 And they shall not understand the covenant of judgement:
\q1 Neither shall they declare instruction and judgement;
\q1 And where parables are they shall not be found.
\q1
\p Sirach 38.34: \v 34 But they will maintain the fabric of the \f + \fr 38:34 \ft Gr. \fqa age. \f* world;
\q1 And in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.
\b
\p Sirach 39.0: \c 39
\q1
\p Sirach 39.1: \v 1 \f + \fr 39:1 \ft Gr. \fqa Except him that. \f* Not so he that has applied his soul,
\q1 And meditates in the law of the Most High;
\q1 He will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients,
\q1 And will be occupied in prophecies.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.2: \v 2 He will keep the discourse of the men of renown,
\q1 And will enter in amidst the subtleties of parables.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.3: \v 3 He will seek out the hidden meaning of proverbs,
\q1 And be conversant in the dark sayings of parables.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.4: \v 4 He will serve among great men,
\q1 And appear before him that rules:
\q1 He will travel through the land of strange nations;
\q1 For he has tried good things and evil among men.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.5: \v 5 He will apply his heart to return early to the Lord that made him,
\q1 And will make supplication before the Most High,
\q1 And will open his mouth in prayer,
\q1 And will make supplication for his sins.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.6: \v 6 If the great Lord will,
\q1 He shall be filled with the spirit of understanding:
\q1 He shall pour forth the words of his wisdom,
\q1 And in prayer give thanks to the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.7: \v 7 He shall direct his counsel and knowledge,
\q1 And in his secrets shall he meditate.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.8: \v 8 He shall show forth the instruction which he has been taught,
\q1 And shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.9: \v 9 Many shall commend his understanding;
\q1 And so long as the world endures, it shall not be blotted out:
\q1 His memorial shall not depart,
\q1 And his name shall live from generation to generation.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.10: \v 10 Nations shall declare his wisdom,
\q1 And the congregation shall tell out his praise.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.11: \v 11 If he continue, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand:
\q1 And if he \f + \fr 39:11 \ft Gr. \fqa cease. \f* die, he adds thereto.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.12: \v 12 Yet more I will utter, which I have thought upon;
\q1 And I am filled as the moon at the full.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.13: \v 13 Listen to me, you° holy children,
\q1 And bud forth as a rose growing by a brook of water:
\q1
\p Sirach 39.14: \v 14 And give you° a sweet savor as frankincense,
\q1 And put forth flowers as a lily,
\q1 Spread abroad a sweet smell, and sing a song of praise;
\q1 Bless you° the Lord for all his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.15: \v 15 Magnify his name,
\q1 And give utterance to his praise
\q1 With the songs of your lips, and with harps;
\q1 And thus shall you° say when you° utter \add his praise: \add*
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.16: \v 16 All the works of the Lord are exceedingly good,
\q1 And every command shall be \add accomplished \add* in his season.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.17: \v 17 None can say, What is this? wherefore is that?
\q1 For in his season they shall all be sought out.
\q1 At his word the waters stood as a heap,
\q1 And the receptacles of waters at the word of his mouth.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.18: \v 18 At his command is all his good pleasure \add done; \add*
\q1 And there is none that shall hinder his salvation.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.19: \v 19 The works of all flesh are before him;
\q1 And it is not possible to be hid from his eyes.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.20: \v 20 He sees from everlasting to everlasting;
\q1 And there is nothing wonderful before him.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.21: \v 21 None can say, What is this? wherefore is that?
\q1 For all things are created for their uses.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.22: \v 22 His blessing covered the dry land as a river,
\q1 And saturated it as a flood.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.23: \v 23 As he has made the waters salty;
\q1 So shall the heathen inherit his wrath.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.24: \v 24 His ways are plain to the holy;
\q1 So are they stumbling blocks to the wicked.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.25: \v 25 Good things are created from the beginning for the good;
\q1 So are evil things for sinners.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.26: \v 26 The chief of all things necessary for the life of man
\q1 Are water, and fire, and iron, and salt,
\q1 And flour of wheat, and honey, and milk,
\q1 The blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.27: \v 27 All these things are for good to the godly;
\q1 So to the sinners they shall be turned into evil.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.28: \v 28 There be winds that are created for vengeance,
\q1 And in their fury lay on their scourges heavily;
\q1 In the time of consummation they pour out their strength,
\q1 And shall appease the wrath of him that made them.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.29: \v 29 Fire, and hail, and famine, and death,
\q1 All these are created for vengeance;
\q1
\p Sirach 39.30: \v 30 Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions and adders,
\q1 And a sword punishing the ungodly to destruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.31: \v 31 They shall rejoice in his commandment,
\q1 And shall be made ready upon earth, when need is;
\q1 And in their seasons they shall not transgress \add his \add* word.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 39.32: \v 32 Therefore from the beginning I was resolved,
\q1 And I thought \add this, \add* and left it in writing;
\q1
\p Sirach 39.33: \v 33 All the works of the Lord are good:
\q1 And he will supply every need in its season.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.34: \v 34 And none can say, This is worse than that:
\q1 For they shall all be well approved in their season.
\q1
\p Sirach 39.35: \v 35 And now with all your heart and mouth sing you° praises,
\q1 And bless the name of the Lord.
\b
\p Sirach 40.0: \c 40
\q1
\p Sirach 40.1: \v 1 Great travail is created for every man,
\q1 And a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam,
\q1 From the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb,
\q1 Until the day for their burial in the mother of all things.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.2: \v 2 The expectation of things to come, and the day of death,
\q1 \f + \fr 40:2 \ft The Greek text of this line is probably corrupt. \f* \add Trouble \add* their thoughts, and \add cause \add* fear of heart;
\q1
\p Sirach 40.3: \v 3 From him that sits on a throne of glory,
\q1 Even to him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
\q1
\p Sirach 40.4: \v 4 From him that wears purple and a crown,
\q1 Even to him that is clothed with a hempen frock.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.5: \v 5 \add There is \add* wrath, and jealousy, and trouble, and disquiet,
\q1 And fear of death, and anger, and strife;
\q1 And in the time of rest upon his bed
\q1 His night sleep does change his knowledge.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.6: \v 6 A little or nothing is his resting,
\q1 And afterward in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch,
\q1 He is troubled in the vision of his heart,
\q1 As one that has escaped from the front of battle.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.7: \v 7 In the very time of his deliverance he awakens,
\q1 And marvels that the fear is nothing.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 40.8: \v 8 \add It is thus \add* with all flesh, from man to beast,
\q1 And upon sinners sevenfold more.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.9: \v 9 Death, and bloodshed, and strife, and sword,
\q1 Calamities, famine, suffering, and the scourge;
\q1
\p Sirach 40.10: \v 10 All these things were created for the wicked,
\q1 And because of them came the flood.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.11: \v 11 All things that are of the earth turn to the earth again:
\q1 And \add all things that are \add* of the waters return into the sea.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 40.12: \v 12 All bribery and injustice shall be blotted out;
\q1 And good faith shall stand forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.13: \v 13 The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river,
\q1 And like a great thunder in rain shall go off in noise.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.14: \v 14 In opening his hands \add a man \add* shall be made glad:
\q1 So shall transgressors utterly fail.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.15: \v 15 The children of the ungodly shall not put forth many branches;
\q1 And \add are as \add* unclean roots upon a sheer rock.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.16: \v 16 The sedge \add that grows \add* upon every water and bank of a river
\q1 Shall be plucked up before all grass.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.17: \v 17 Bounty is as a garden \f + \fr 40:17 \ft Gr. \fqa in. \f* of blessings,
\q1 And almsgiving endures forever.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 40.18: \v 18 The life of one that labors, and is content, shall be made sweet;
\q1 And he that finds a treasure is above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.19: \v 19 Children and the building of a city establish a \add man’s \add* name;
\q1 And a blameless wife is counted above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.20: \v 20 Wine and music rejoice the heart;
\q1 And the love of wisdom is above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.21: \v 21 The pipe and the lute make pleasant melody;
\q1 And a pleasant tongue is above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.22: \v 22 Your eye shall desire grace and beauty;
\q1 And above both the green blade of corn.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.23: \v 23 A friend and a companion never meet amiss;
\q1 And a wife with her husband is above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.24: \v 24 Brethren and help are for a time of affliction;
\q1 And almsgiving is a deliverer above both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.25: \v 25 Gold and silver will make the foot stand sure;
\q1 And counsel is esteemed above them both.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.26: \v 26 Riches and strength will lift up the heart;
\q1 And the fear of the Lord is above both:
\q1 There is nothing lacking in the fear of the Lord,
\q1 And there is no need to seek help therein.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.27: \v 27 The fear of the Lord is as a garden of blessing,
\q1 And covers \f + \fr 40:27 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* a man above all glory.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 40.28: \v 28 My son, lead not a beggar’s life;
\q1 Better it is to die than to beg.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.29: \v 29 A man that looks to the table of another,
\q1 His life is not to be counted for a life;
\q1 He will pollute his soul with another man’s meats:
\q1 But a man wise and well-instructed will beware thereof.
\q1
\p Sirach 40.30: \v 30 In the mouth of the shameless begging will be sweet;
\q1 And in his belly a fire shall be kindled.
\b
\p Sirach 41.0: \c 41
\q1
\p Sirach 41.1: \v 1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions,
\q1 To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things,
\q1 And that still has strength to receive meat!
\q1
\p Sirach 41.2: \v 2 O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength,
\q1 That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things,
\q1 And is perverse, and has lost patience!
\q1
\p Sirach 41.3: \v 3 Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death;
\q1 Remember those who have been before you, and that come after:
\q1 This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.4: \v 4 And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High?
\q1 Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years,
\q1 There is no inquisition of life in \f + \fr 41:4 \ft Gr. \fqa hades \f* the grave.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 41.5: \v 5 The children of sinners are abominable children,
\q1 And they frequent the dwellings of the ungodly.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.6: \v 6 The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish,
\q1 And with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.7: \v 7 Children will complain of an ungodly father,
\q1 Because they shall be reproached for his sake.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.8: \v 8 Woe to you, ungodly men,
\q1 Which have forsaken the law of the Most High God! \f + \fr 41:8 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 41.9: \v 9 If you° be born, you° shall be born to a curse;
\q1 If you° die, a curse shall be your portion.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.10: \v 10 All things that are of the earth shall go back to the earth:
\q1 So the ungodly shall go from a curse to perdition.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.11: \v 11 The mourning of men is about their bodies:
\q1 But the name of sinners being evil shall be blotted out.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.12: \v 12 Have regard to your name;
\q1 For it continues with you longer than a thousand great treasures of gold.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.13: \v 13 A good life has its number of days;
\q1 And a good name continues forever.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 41.14: \v 14 My children, keep instruction in peace:
\q1 But wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen,
\q1 What profit is in them both?
\q1
\p Sirach 41.15: \v 15 Better is a man that hides his foolishness
\q1 Than a man that hides his wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.16: \v 16 Wherefore show reverence to my word:
\q1 For it is not good to retain every kind of shame;
\q1 And not all things are approved by all in good faith.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 41.17: \v 17 Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother:
\q1 And of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.18: \v 18 Of an offence before a judge and ruler;
\q1 Of iniquity before the congregation and the people;
\q1 Of unjust dealing before a partner and friend;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.19: \v 19 And of theft in regard of the place where you sojourn,
\q1 And in regard of the truth of God and his covenant;
\q1 And of leaning with your elbow at meat;
\q1 And of scurrility in the matter of giving and taking;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.20: \v 20 And of silence before those who salute you;
\q1 And of looking upon a woman that is a prostitute;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.21: \v 21 And of turning away \f + \fr 41:21 \ft Or, \fqa the face of a kinsman \f* your face from a kinsman;
\q1 Of taking away a portion or a gift;
\q1 And of gazing upon a woman that has a husband;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.22: \v 22 Of being over busy with his maid; and come not near her bed;
\q1 Of upbraiding speeches before friends;
\q1 And after you have given, upbraid not;
\q1
\p Sirach 41.23: \v 23 Of repeating and speaking what you have heard;
\q1 And of revealing of secrets.
\q1
\p Sirach 41.24: \v 24 So shall you be truly shamefast,
\q1 And find favor in the sight of every man.
\b
\p Sirach 42.0: \c 42
\q1
\p Sirach 42.1: \v 1 Of these things be not ashamed,
\q1 And accept no man’s person to sin \add by it: \add*
\q1
\p Sirach 42.2: \v 2 Of the law of the Most High, and his covenant;
\q1 And of judgement to do justice to the ungodly;
\q1
\p Sirach 42.3: \v 3 Of reckoning with a partner and with travellers;
\q1 And of a gift from the heritage of friends;
\q1
\p Sirach 42.4: \v 4 Of exactness of balance and weights;
\q1 And of getting much or little;
\q1
\p Sirach 42.5: \v 5 Of indifferent selling of merchants;
\q1 And of much correction of children;
\q1 And of making the side of an evil servant to bleed.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.6: \v 6 \f + \fr 42:6 \ft Or, \fqa A seal \f* Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is;
\q1 And where many hands are, shut you close.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.7: \v 7 Whatsoever you handest over, let it be by number and weight;
\q1 And in giving and receiving let all be in writing.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.8: \v 8 \add Be not ashamed \add* to instruct the unwise and foolish,
\q1 And one of extreme old age that contends with those that are young;
\q1 And so shall you be well instructed indeed,
\q1 And approved in the sight of every man living.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 42.9: \v 9 A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father;
\q1 And the care for her puts away sleep;
\q1 In her youth, lest she pass the flower of her age;
\q1 And when she is married, lest she should be hated:
\q1
\p Sirach 42.10: \v 10 In her virginity, lest she should be defiled
\q1 And be with child in her father’s house;
\q1 And when she has a husband, lest she should transgress;
\q1 And when she is married, lest she should be barren.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.11: \v 11 Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter,
\q1 Lest she make you \f + \fr 42:11 \ft Or, \fqa a rejoicing \f* a laughing stock to your enemies,
\q1 A byword in the city and \f + \fr 42:11 \ft Gr. \fqa called forth. \f* notorious among the people,
\q1 And shame you before the multitude.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 42.12: \v 12 Look not upon every body in regard of beauty,
\q1 And sit not in the midst of women;
\q1
\p Sirach 42.13: \v 13 For from garments comes a moth,
\q1 And from a woman a woman’s wickedness.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.14: \v 14 Better is the wickedness of a man than a pleasant-dealing woman,
\q1 And a woman which puts you to shameful reproach.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 42.15: \v 15 I will make mention now of the works of the Lord,
\q1 And will declare the things that I have seen:
\q1 In the words of the Lord are his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.16: \v 16 The sun that gives light looks upon all things;
\q1 And the work of the Lord is full of his glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.17: \v 17 The Lord has not given power to the saints to declare all his marvelous works;
\q1 Which the Almighty Lord firmly settled,
\q1 That whatever is might be established in his glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.18: \v 18 He searches out the deep, and the heart,
\q1 And he has understanding of their cunning plans:
\q1 For the Most High knows all knowledge,
\q1 And he looks into the \f + \fr 42:18 \ft Gr. \fqa sign. \f* signs of the world,
\q1
\p Sirach 42.19: \v 19 Declaring the things that are past, and the things that shall be,
\q1 And revealing the traces of hidden things.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.20: \v 20 No thought escapes him;
\q1 There is not a word hid from him.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.21: \v 21 The mighty works of his wisdom he has ordered,
\q1 Who is from everlasting to everlasting:
\q1 Nothing has been added to them, nor diminished from them;
\q1 And he had no need of any counselor.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.22: \v 22 How desirable are all his works!
\q1 One may behold \add this \add* even to a spark.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.23: \v 23 All these things live and remain forever in all manner of uses,
\q1 And they are all obedient.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.24: \v 24 All things are double one against another:
\q1 And he has made nothing imperfect.
\q1
\p Sirach 42.25: \v 25 One thing establishes the good things of another:
\q1 And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?
\b
\p Sirach 43.0: \c 43
\q1
\p Sirach 43.1: \v 1 The pride of the height is the firmament \f + \fr 43:1 \ft Gr. \fqa of clearness. \f* in its clearness,
\q1 The appearance of heaven, in the spectacle of its glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.2: \v 2 The sun when he appears, bringing tidings as he goes forth,
\q1 Is a marvelous instrument, the work of the Most High:
\q1
\p Sirach 43.3: \v 3 At his noon he dries up the country,
\q1 And who shall stand against his burning heat?
\q1
\p Sirach 43.4: \v 4 A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat,
\q1 \add But \add* the sun three times more, burning up the mountains:
\q1 Breathing out fiery vapours,
\q1 And sending forth bright beams, he dims the eyes.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.5: \v 5 Great is the Lord that made him;
\q1 And at his word he hastens his course.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 43.6: \v 6 The moon also is in all things for her season,
\q1 For a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.7: \v 7 From the moon is the sign of the feast day;
\q1 A light that wanes when she is come to the full.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.8: \v 8 The month is called after her name,
\q1 Increasing wonderfully in her changing;
\q1 An instrument of the army on high,
\q1 Shining forth in the firmament of heaven;
\q1
\p Sirach 43.9: \v 9 The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars,
\q1 An ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.10: \v 10 At the word of the Holy One they will stand in \f + \fr 43:10 \ft Gr. \fqa judgement. \f* due order,
\q1 And they will not faint in their watches.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.11: \v 11 Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it;
\q1 Exceeding beautiful in the brightness thereof.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.12: \v 12 It encircles the heaven round about with a circle of glory;
\q1 The hands of the Most High have stretched it.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 43.13: \v 13 By his commandment he makes the snow to fall apace,
\q1 And sends swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.14: \v 14 By reason thereof the treasure-houses are opened;
\q1 And clouds fly forth as fowls.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.15: \v 15 By his mighty power he makes strong the clouds,
\q1 And the hailstones are broken small:
\q1
\p Sirach 43.16: \v 16 And at his appearing the mountains will be shaken,
\q1 And at his will the south wind will blow.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.17: \v 17 The voice of his thunder makes the earth to travail;
\q1 So does the northern storm and the whirlwind:
\q1 As birds flying down he sprinkles the snow;
\q1 And as the lighting of the locust is the falling down thereof:
\q1
\p Sirach 43.18: \v 18 The eye will marvel at the beauty of its whiteness,
\q1 And the heart will be astonished at the raining of it.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.19: \v 19 The hoar frost also he pours on the earth as salt;
\q1 And when it is congealed, it is \add as \add* points of thorns.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 43.20: \v 20 The cold north wind shall blow,
\q1 And the ice shall be congealed on the water:
\q1 It shall lodge upon every gathering together of water,
\q1 And the water shall put on as it were a breastplate.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.21: \v 21 It shall devour the mountains, and burn up the wilderness,
\q1 And consume the green herb as fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.22: \v 22 A mist coming speedily is the healing of all things;
\q1 A dew coming after heat shall bring cheerfulness.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.23: \v 23 By his counsel he has stilled the deep,
\q1 And \f + \fr 43:23 \ft The most ancient authorities read \fqa Jesus planted it. \f* planted islands therein.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.24: \v 24 They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof;
\q1 And when we hear it with our ears, we marvel.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.25: \v 25 Therein be also those strange and wondrous works,
\q1 Variety of all that has life, the \f + \fr 43:25 \ft Gr. \fqa creation. \ft Several ancient authorities read \fqa possession of cattle. \f* race of sea-monsters.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.26: \v 26 By reason of him his end has success,
\q1 And by his word all things consist.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 43.27: \v 27 We may say many things, yet shall we not attain;
\q1 And the sum of our words is, He is all.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.28: \v 28 How shall we have strength to glorify him?
\q1 For he is himself the great one above all his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.29: \v 29 The Lord is terrible and exceedingly great;
\q1 And marvelous is his power.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.30: \v 30 When you° glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you° can;
\q1 For even yet he will exceed:
\q1 And when you° exalt him, put forth your full strength:
\q1 Be not weary; for you° will never attain.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.31: \v 31 Who has seen him, that he may declare him?
\q1 And who shall magnify him as he is?
\q1
\p Sirach 43.32: \v 32 Many things are hidden greater than these;
\q1 For we have seen but a few of his works.
\q1
\p Sirach 43.33: \v 33 For the Lord made all things;
\q1 And to the godly gave he wisdom.
\b
\p Sirach 44.0: \c 44
\q1
\p Sirach 44.1: \v 1 Let us now praise famous men,
\q1 And our fathers that became the father of us.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.2: \v 2 The Lord \f + \fr 44:2 \ft Gr. \fqa created. \f* manifested \add in them \add* great glory,
\q1 \add Even \add* his mighty power from the beginning.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.3: \v 3 Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms,
\q1 And were men renowned for their power,
\q1 \f + \fr 44:3 \ft Most authorities read \fqa They shall take counsel. \f* Giving counsel by their understanding,
\q1 Such as have brought tidings in prophecies:
\q1
\p Sirach 44.4: \v 4 Leaders of the people by their counsels,
\q1 And by their understanding \f + \fr 44:4 \ft The Greek text is here corrupt. \f* \add men of \add* learning for the people;
\q1 Wise \add were \add* their words in their instruction:
\q1
\p Sirach 44.5: \v 5 Such as sought out musical tunes,
\q1 And set forth verses in writing:
\q1
\p Sirach 44.6: \v 6 Rich men furnished with ability,
\q1 Living peaceably in their habitations:
\q1
\p Sirach 44.7: \v 7 All these were honored in their generations,
\q1 And were a glory in their days.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.8: \v 8 There be of them, that have left a name behind them,
\q1 To declare their praises.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.9: \v 9 And some there be, which have no memorial;
\q1 Who are perished as though they had not been,
\q1 And are become as though they had not been born;
\q1 And their children after them.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.10: \v 10 But these were men of mercy,
\q1 Whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.11: \v 11 With their seed shall remain continually a good inheritance;
\q1 Their children \add are \add* \f + \fr 44:11 \ft Or, \fqa In their testaments \f* within the covenants.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.12: \v 12 Their seed stands fast,
\q1 And their children for their sakes.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.13: \v 13 Their seed shall remain forever,
\q1 And their glory shall not be blotted out.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.14: \v 14 Their bodies were buried in peace,
\q1 And their name lives to all generations.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.15: \v 15 Peoples will declare their wisdom,
\q1 And the congregation tells out their praise.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 44.16: \v 16 Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated,
\q1 \add Being \add* an example of repentance to all generations.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.17: \v 17 Noah was found perfect \add and \add* righteous;
\q1 In the season of wrath he was taken in exchange \add for the world; \add*
\q1 Therefore was there left a remnant to the earth,
\q1 When the flood came.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.18: \v 18 Everlasting covenants were made with him,
\q1 That all flesh should no more be blotted out by a flood.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 44.19: \v 19 Abraham was a great father of a multitude of nations;
\q1 And there was none found like him in glory;
\q1
\p Sirach 44.20: \v 20 Who kept the law of the Most High,
\q1 And was taken into covenant with him:
\q1 In his flesh he established the covenant;
\q1 And when he was proved, he was found faithful.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 44.21: \v 21 Therefore he assured him by an oath,
\q1 That the nations should be blessed in his seed;
\q1 That he would multiply him as the dust of the earth,
\q1 And exalt his seed as the stars,
\q1 And cause them to inherit from sea to sea,
\q1 And from the River to the utmost part of the earth.
\q1
\p Sirach 44.22: \v 22 In Isaac also did he establish likewise, for Abraham his father’s sake,
\q1 The blessing of all men, and the covenant:
\q1
\p Sirach 44.23: \v 23 And he made it rest upon the head of Jacob;
\q1 He acknowledged him in his blessings,
\q1 And gave to him by inheritance,
\q1 And divided his portions;
\q1 Among twelve tribes did he part them.
\b
\p Sirach 45.0: \c 45
\q1
\p Sirach 45.1: \v 1 And he brought out of him a man of mercy,
\q1 Which found favor in the sight of all flesh;
\q1 A man beloved of God and men, even Moses,
\q1 Whose memorial is blessed.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.2: \v 2 He made him like to the glory of the saints,
\q1 And magnified him in the fears of his enemies.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.3: \v 3 By his words he caused the wonders to cease;
\q1 He glorified him in the sight of kings;
\q1 He gave him commandment for his people,
\q1 And showed him part of his glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.4: \v 4 He sanctified him in his faithfulness and meekness;
\q1 He chose him out of all flesh.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.5: \v 5 He made him to hear his voice,
\q1 And led him into the thick darkness,
\q1 And gave him commandments face to face,
\q1 Even the law of life and knowledge,
\q1 That he might teach Jacob the covenant,
\q1 And Israel his judgments.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 45.6: \v 6 He exalted Aaron, a holy man like to him,
\q1 Even his brother, of the tribe of Levi.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.7: \v 7 He established for him an everlasting covenant,
\q1 And gave him the priesthood of the people;
\q1 He \f + \fr 45:7 \ft Gr. \fqa blessed. \f* beautified him with comely ornaments,
\q1 And girded him about with a robe of glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.8: \v 8 He clothed him with the perfection of exultation;
\q1 And strengthened him with apparel of \f + \fr 45:8 \ft Gr. \fqa strength. \f* honor,
\q1 The linen trousers, the long robe, and the ephod.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.9: \v 9 And he compassed him with pomegranates of gold,
\q1 \add And \add* with many bells round about,
\q1 To send forth a sound as he went,
\q1 To make a sound that might be heard in the temple,
\q1 For a memorial to the children of his people;
\q1
\p Sirach 45.10: \v 10 With a holy garment, with gold and blue and purple, the work of the embroiderer,
\q1 With an oracle of judgement, \add even \add* with the Urim and Thummim;
\q1
\p Sirach 45.11: \v 11 With twisted scarlet, the work of the craftsman;
\q1 With precious stones graven like a signet, in a setting of gold, the work of the jeweller,
\q1 For a memorial engraved in writing, after the number of the tribes of Israel;
\q1
\p Sirach 45.12: \v 12 With a crown of gold upon the mitre, \f + \fr 45:12 \ft Gr. \fqa an engraving of a signet of holiness. \f* having graven on it, as on a signet, HOLINESS,
\q1 An ornament of honor, a work of might,
\q1 The desires of the eyes, goodly and beautiful.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.13: \v 13 Before him there never have been any such;
\q1 No stranger put them on, but his sons only, and his offspring perpertually.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.14: \v 14 His sacrifices shall be wholly consumed
\q1 Every day twice continually.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.15: \v 15 Moses \f + \fr 45:15 \ft Gr. \fqa filled his hands. \f* consecrated him,
\q1 And anointed him with holy oil:
\q1 It was to him for an everlasting covenant,
\q1 And to his seed, all the days of heaven,
\q1 To minister to him, and to execute also the priest’s office,
\q1 And bless his people in his name.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.16: \v 16 He chose him out of all living
\q1 To offer sacrifice to the Lord,
\q1 Incense, and a sweet savor, for a memorial,
\q1 To make reconciliation for your people.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.17: \v 17 He gave to him in his commandments,
\q1 \add Yes, \add* authority in the covenants of judgments,
\q1 To teach Jacob the testimonies,
\q1 And to enlighten Israel in his law.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.18: \v 18 Strangers gathered themselves together against him,
\q1 And envied him in the wilderness,
\q1 \add Even \add* Dathan and Abiram with their company,
\q1 And the congregation of Korah, with wrath and anger.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.19: \v 19 The Lord saw it, and it displeased him;
\q1 And in the wrath of his anger they were destroyed:
\q1 He did wonders upon them,
\q1 To consume them with flaming fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.20: \v 20 And he added glory to Aaron,
\q1 And gave him a heritage:
\q1 He divided to him the first fruits of the increase;
\q1 \add And \add* first did he prepare bread in abundance:
\q1
\p Sirach 45.21: \v 21 For they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord,
\q1 Which he gave to him and to his seed.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.22: \v 22 However in the land of the people he shall have no inheritance,
\q1 And he has no portion among the people:
\q1 For he himself is your portion \add and \add* inheritance.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 45.23: \v 23 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar is the third in glory,
\q1 In that he was zealous in the fear of the Lord,
\q1 And stood fast in the good forwardness of his soul when the people turned away,
\q1 And he made reconciliation for Israel.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.24: \v 24 Therefore was there a covenant of peace established for him,
\q1 \add That he should be \add* leader of the \f + \fr 45:24 \ft Or, \fqa sanctuary \f* saints and of his people;
\q1 That he and his seed
\q1 Should have the dignity of the priesthood forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.25: \v 25 Also \add he made \add* a covenant with David the son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah;
\q1 The inheritance of the king is his alone from son to son;
\q1 So the inheritance of Aaron is also to his seed.
\q1
\p Sirach 45.26: \v 26 \add God \add* give you wisdom in your heart
\q1 To judge his people in righteousness,
\q1 That their good things be not abolished,
\q1 And \add that \add* their glory \add endure \add* for all their generations.
\b
\p Sirach 46.0: \c 46
\q1
\p Sirach 46.1: \v 1 Joshua the son of \f + \fr 46:1 \ft Gr. \fqa Nave. \f* Nun was valiant in war,
\q1 And was the successor of Moses in prophecies:
\q1 Who according to his name was made great
\q1 For the saving of \f + \fr 46:1 \ft Gr. \fqa his. \f* God’s elect,
\q1 To take vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them,
\q1 That he might give Israel their inheritance.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.2: \v 2 How was he glorified in the lifting up his hands,
\q1 And in stretching out his sword against the cities!
\q1
\p Sirach 46.3: \v 3 Who before him so stood fast?
\q1 For the Lord himself brought his enemies to him.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.4: \v 4 Did not the sun go back by his hand?
\q1 And didn’t one day become as two?
\q1
\p Sirach 46.5: \v 5 He called upon the Most High \add and \add* Mighty One,
\q1 When his foes pressed him round about;
\q1 And the great Lord heard him.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.6: \v 6 With hailstones of mighty power
\q1 He caused war to break violently upon the nation,
\q1 And \f + \fr 46:6 \ft See Joshua 10:11 \f* in the going down he destroyed those who resisted;
\q1 That the nations might know his \f + \fr 46:6 \ft Gr. \fqa panoply. \f* armor,
\q1 How that he fought in the sight of the Lord;
\q1 For he followed after the Mighty One.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.7: \v 7 Also in the time of Moses he did a work of mercy,
\q1 He and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
\q1 In that they withstood the adversary,
\q1 Hindered the people from sin,
\q1 And stilled the murmuring of wickedness.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.8: \v 8 And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved
\q1 To bring them into the heritage,
\q1 Even into a land flowing with milk and honey.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.9: \v 9 Also the Lord gave strength to Caleb,
\q1 And it remained with him to his old age;
\q1 So that he entered upon the height of the land,
\q1 And his seed obtained it for a heritage:
\q1
\p Sirach 46.10: \v 10 That all the children of Israel might see
\q1 That it is good to walk after the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 46.11: \v 11 Also the judges, every one by his name,
\q1 All whose hearts went not a whoring,
\q1 And who turned not away from the Lord,
\q1 May their memorial be blessed.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.12: \v 12 May their bones flourish again out of their place,
\q1 And may the name of those who have been honored be renewed upon their children.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 46.13: \v 13 Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord,
\q1 Established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.14: \v 14 By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation,
\q1 And the Lord visited Jacob.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.15: \v 15 By his faithfulness he was proved to be a prophet,
\q1 And by his words he was known to be faithful in vision.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.16: \v 16 Also when his enemies pressed him round about
\q1 He called upon the Lord, the Mighty One,
\q1 With the offering of the sucking lamb.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.17: \v 17 And the Lord thundered from heaven,
\q1 And with a mighty sound made his voice to be heard.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.18: \v 18 And he utterly destroyed the rulers of the Tyrians,
\q1 And all the princes of the Philistines.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.19: \v 19 Also before the time of his \f + \fr 46:19 \ft Gr. \fqa age-long sleep. \f* long sleep
\q1 He made protestations in the sight of the lord and \add his \add* anointed,
\q1 I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a sandal:
\q1 And no man did accuse him.
\q1
\p Sirach 46.20: \v 20 And after he fell asleep he prophesied,
\q1 And showed the king his end,
\q1 And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy,
\q1 To blot out the wickedness of the people.
\b
\p Sirach 47.0: \c 47
\q1
\p Sirach 47.1: \v 1 And after him rose up Nathan
\q1 To prophesy in the days of David.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.2: \v 2 As is the fat when it is separated from the peace offering,
\q1 So was David \add separated \add* from the children of Israel.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.3: \v 3 He played with lions as with kids,
\q1 And with bears as with lambs of the flock.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.4: \v 4 In his youth did he not kill a giant,
\q1 And take away reproach from the people,
\q1 When he lifted up his hand with a sling stone,
\q1 And beat down the boasting of Goliath?
\q1
\p Sirach 47.5: \v 5 For he called upon the Most High Lord;
\q1 And he gave him strength in his right hand,
\q1 To kill a man mighty in war,
\q1 To exalt the horn of his people.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.6: \v 6 So they glorified him for \add his \add* ten thousands,
\q1 And praised him for the blessings of the Lord,
\q1 In that there was given him a diadem of glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.7: \v 7 For he destroyed the enemies on every side,
\q1 And brought to nothing the Philistines his adversaries,
\q1 Brake their horn in pieces to this day.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.8: \v 8 In every work of his he gave thanks to the Holy One Most High with words of glory;
\q1 With his whole heart he sang praise,
\q1 And loved him that made him.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.9: \v 9 Also he set singers before the altar,
\q1 And to make sweet melody by their music. \f + \fr 47:9 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1
\p Sirach 47.10: \v 10 He gave beauty to the feasts,
\q1 And set in order the seasons to perfection,
\q1 While they praised his holy name,
\q1 And the sanctuary sounded from early morning.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.11: \v 11 The Lord took away his sins,
\q1 And exalted his horn forever;
\q1 And gave him a covenant of kings,
\q1 And a throne of glory in Israel.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.12: \v 12 After him rose up a son, a man of understanding;
\q1 And for his sake he lived at large.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.13: \v 13 Solomon reigned in days of peace;
\q1 And to him God gave rest round about,
\q1 That he might set up a house for his name,
\q1 And prepare a sanctuary forever.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.14: \v 14 How wise was you made in your youth,
\q1 And filled as a river with understanding!
\q1
\p Sirach 47.15: \v 15 Your soul covered the earth,
\q1 And you filled it with \f + \fr 47:15 \ft Gr. \fqa parables of riddles. \f* dark parables.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.16: \v 16 Your name reached to the aisles afar off;
\q1 And for your peace you were beloved.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.17: \v 17 For your songs and proverbs and parables,
\q1 And for your interpretations, the countries marveled at you.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.18: \v 18 By the name of the Lord God,
\q1 Which is called the God of Israel,
\q1 You did gather gold as tin,
\q1 And did multiply silver as lead.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.19: \v 19 You did bow your loins to women,
\q1 And in your body you were brought into subjection.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.20: \v 20 You did blemish your honor,
\q1 And profane your seed,
\q1 To bring wrath upon your children;
\q1 And I was grieved for your folly:
\q1
\p Sirach 47.21: \v 21 So that the sovereignty was divided,
\q1 And out of Ephraim ruled a disobedient kingdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.22: \v 22 But the Lord will never forsake his mercy;
\q1 And he will not destroy any of his works,
\q1 Nor blot out the posterity of his elect;
\q1 And the seed of him that loved him he will not take away;
\q1 And he gave a remnant to Jacob,
\q1 And to David a root out of him.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 47.23: \v 23 And \add so \add* rested Solomon with his fathers;
\q1 And of his seed he left behind him Rehoboam,
\q1 \add Even \add* the foolishness of the people, and one that lacked understanding,
\q1 Who made the people to revolt by his counsel.
\q1 Also Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
\q1 Who made Israel to sin,
\q1 And gave to Ephraim a way of sin.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.24: \v 24 And their sins were multiplied exceedingly,
\q1 To remove them from their land.
\q1
\p Sirach 47.25: \v 25 For they sought out all manner of wickedness,
\q1 Till vengeance should come upon them.
\b
\p Sirach 48.0: \c 48
\q1
\p Sirach 48.1: \v 1 Also there arose Elijah the prophet as fire,
\q1 And his word burned like a torch:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.2: \v 2 Who brought a famine upon them,
\q1 And by his zeal made them few in number.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.3: \v 3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven:
\q1 Thrice did he thus bring down fire.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.4: \v 4 How was you glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
\q1 And who shall glory like to you?
\q1
\p Sirach 48.5: \v 5 Who did raise up a dead man from death,
\q1 And from \f + \fr 48:5 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.6: \v 6 Who brought down kings to destruction,
\q1 And honorable men from their bed:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.7: \v 7 Who heard rebuke in Sinai,
\q1 And judgments of vengeance in Horeb:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.8: \v 8 Who anointed kings for retribution,
\q1 And prophets to succeed after him:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.9: \v 9 Who was taken up in a tempest of fire,
\q1 In a chariot of fiery horses:
\q1
\p Sirach 48.10: \v 10 Who was recorded for reproofs in their seasons,
\q1 To pacify anger, before it brake forth into wrath;
\q1 To turn the heart of the father to the son,
\q1 And to restore the tribes of Jacob.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.11: \v 11 Blessed are those who saw you,
\q1 And those who have been beautified with love;
\q1 For we also shall surely live.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 48.12: \v 12 Elijah \add it was, \add* who was wrapped in a tempest:
\q1 And Elisha was filled with his spirit;
\q1 And in \add all \add* his days he was not moved by \add the fear of \add* any ruler,
\q1 And no one brought him into subjection.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.13: \v 13 \f + \fr 48:13 \ft Or, \fqa No man’s word overcame him \f* Nothing was too high for him;
\q1 And when he was laid on sleep his body prophesied.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.14: \v 14 As in his life he did wonders,
\q1 So in death were his works marvelous.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.15: \v 15 For all this the people repented not,
\q1 And they departed not from their sins,
\q1 Till they were carried away as a plunder from their land,
\q1 And were scattered through all the earth;
\q1 And the people was left very few in number,
\q1 And a ruler \add was left \add* in the house of David.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.16: \v 16 Some of them did that which was pleasing \add to God, \add*
\q1 And some multiplied sins.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 48.17: \v 17 Hezekiah fortified his city,
\q1 And brought in \f + \fr 48:17 \ft Some ancient authorities, apparently by a confusion, read \fqa Gog. \f* water into the midst of them:
\q1 He digged the sheer rock with iron,
\q1 And built up wells for waters.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.18: \v 18 In his days Sennacherib came up,
\q1 And sent Rabshakeh, and departed;
\q1 And he lifted up his hand against Sion,
\q1 And boasted great things in his arrogance.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.19: \v 19 Then were their hearts and their hands shaken,
\q1 And they were in pain, as women in travail;
\q1
\p Sirach 48.20: \v 20 And they called upon the Lord which is merciful,
\q1 Spreading forth their hands to him:
\q1 And the Holy One heard them speedily out of Heaven,
\q1 And delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.21: \v 21 He struck the camp of the Assyrians,
\q1 And his angel utterly destroyed them.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.22: \v 22 For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord,
\q1 And was strong in the ways of David his father,
\q1 Which Isaiah the prophet commanded,
\q1 Who was great and faithful in his vision.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.23: \v 23 In his days the sun went backward;
\q1 And he added life to the king.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.24: \v 24 He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last;
\q1 And he comforted those who mourned in Sion.
\q1
\p Sirach 48.25: \v 25 He showed the things that should be to the end of time,
\q1 And the hidden things or ever they came.
\b
\p Sirach 49.0: \c 49
\q1
\p Sirach 49.1: \v 1 The memorial of Josiah is like the composition of incense
\q1 Prepared by the work of the apothecary:
\q1 It shall be sweet as honey in every mouth,
\q1 And as music at a banquet of wine.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.2: \v 2 He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people,
\q1 And took away the abominations of iniquity.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.3: \v 3 He set his heart right toward the Lord;
\q1 In the days of wicked men he made godliness to prevail.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 49.4: \v 4 Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah,
\q1 All committed trespass:
\q1 For they forsook the law of the Most High;
\q1 The kings of Judah failed.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.5: \v 5 For they gave their \f + \fr 49:5 \ft Gr. \fqa horn. \f* power to others,
\q1 And their glory to a strange nation.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.6: \v 6 They set on fire the chosen city of the sanctuary,
\q1 And made her streets desolate, \add as it was written \add* by the hand of Jeremiah.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.7: \v 7 For they entreated him evil;
\q1 And yet he was sanctified in the womb to be a prophet,
\q1 To root out, and to afflict, and to destroy;
\q1 \add And \add* in like manner to build and to plant.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.8: \v 8 \add It was \add* Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory,
\q1 Which \add God \add* showed him upon the chariot of the cherubim.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.9: \v 9 For truly he remembered the enemies in \f + \fr 49:9 \ft Gr. \fqa rain. \f* storm,
\q1 And to do good to those who directed their ways aright.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.10: \v 10 Also of the twelve prophets \f + \fr 49:10 \ft The remainder of this line is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\q1 May the bones flourish again out of their place.
\q1 And he comforted Jacob,
\q1 And delivered them by confidence of hope.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 49.11: \v 11 How shall we magnify Zerubbabel?
\q1 And he was as a signet on the right hand:
\q1
\p Sirach 49.12: \v 12 So was Jesus the son of Josedek:
\q1 Who in their days built the house,
\q1 And exalted a \f + \fr 49:12 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa temple. \f* people holy to the Lord,
\q1 Prepared for everlasting glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.13: \v 13 Also of Nehemiah the memorial is great;
\q1 Who raised up for us the walls that were fallen,
\q1 And set up the gates and bars,
\q1 And raised up our homes again.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 49.14: \v 14 No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch;
\q1 For he was taken up from the earth.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.15: \v 15 Neither was there a man born like to Joseph,
\q1 A governor of his kindred, a stay of the people:
\q1 Yes, his bones were visited.
\q1
\p Sirach 49.16: \v 16 Shem and Seth were glorified among men;
\q1 And above every living thing in the creation is Adam.
\b
\p Sirach 50.0: \c 50
\q1
\p Sirach 50.1: \v 1 \add It was \add* Simon, the son of Onias, the \f + \fr 50:1 \ft Or, \fqa high \f* great priest,
\q1 Who in his life repaired the house,
\q1 And in his days strengthened the temple:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.2: \v 2 And by him was built from the foundation the height of the double \add wall, \add*
\q1 The lofty underworks of the inclosure of the temple:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.3: \v 3 In his days the cistern of waters was \f + \fr 50:3 \ft The text here seems to be corrupt. \f* diminished,
\q1 The brazen vessel in compass as the sea.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.4: \v 4 \add It was \add* he that took thought for his people that they should not fall,
\q1 And fortified the city \f + \fr 50:4 \ft Gr. \fqa to beseige: \ft that is, \fqa as to besieging it. \f* against besieging:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.5: \v 5 How glorious was he when the people gathered round him
\q1 At his coming forth out of the \f + \fr 50:5 \ft Gr. \fqa house of the veil. \f* sanctuary!
\q1
\p Sirach 50.6: \v 6 As the morning star in the midst of a cloud,
\q1 As the moon at the full:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.7: \v 7 As the sun shining forth upon the temple of the Most High,
\q1 And as the rainbow giving light in clouds of glory:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.8: \v 8 As the flower of roses in the days of new \add fruits, \add*
\q1 As lilies at the water spring,
\q1 As the shoot of the frankincense tree in the time of summer:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.9: \v 9 As fire and incense in the censer,
\q1 As a vessel all of beaten gold
\q1 Adorned with all manner of precious stones:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.10: \v 10 As an olive tree budding forth fruits,
\q1 And as a cypress growing high among the clouds.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.11: \v 11 When he took up the robe of glory,
\q1 And put on the perfection of exultation,
\q1 In the ascent of the holy altar,
\q1 He made glorious the precinct of the sanctuary.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.12: \v 12 And when he received the portions out of the priests’ hands,
\q1 Himself also standing by the hearth of the altar,
\q1 His kindred as a garland round about him,
\q1 He was as a young cedar in Libanus;
\q1 And as stems of palm trees compassed they him round about,
\q1
\p Sirach 50.13: \v 13 And all the sons of Aaron in their glory,
\q1 And the Lord’s offering in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.14: \v 14 And finishing the service at the altars,
\q1 That he might adorn the offering of the Most High, the Almighty,
\q1
\p Sirach 50.15: \v 15 He stretched out his hand to the \f + \fr 50:15 \ft Gr. \fqa cup of libation. \f* cup,
\q1 And poured out the cup of the grape;
\q1 He poured out at the foot of the altar
\q1 A sweet smelling savor to the Most High, the King of all.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.16: \v 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron,
\q1 They sounded the trumpets of beaten work,
\q1 They made a great noise to be heard,
\q1 For a remembrance before the Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.17: \v 17 Then all the people together hurried,
\q1 And fell down upon the earth on their faces
\q1 To worship their Lord, the Almighty, God Most High.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.18: \v 18 The singers also praised him with their voices;
\q1 In the whole house was there made sweet melody.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.19: \v 19 And the people implored the Lord Most High,
\q1 In prayer before him that is merciful.
\q1 Till the \f + \fr 50:19 \ft Gr. \fqa adornment. \f* worship of the Lord should be ended;
\q1 And so they accomplished his service.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.20: \v 20 Then he went down, and lifted up his hands
\q1 Over the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
\q1 To give blessing to the Lord with his lips,
\q1 And to glory in his name.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.21: \v 21 And he bowed himself down in worship the second time,
\q1 To declare the blessing from the Most High.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 50.22: \v 22 And now bless you° the God of all,
\q1 Which everywhere does great things,
\q1 Which exalts our days from the womb,
\q1 And deals with us according to his mercy.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.23: \v 23 May he grant us joyfulness of heart,
\q1 And that peace may be in our days in Israel for the days of eternity:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.24: \v 24 To entrust his mercy with us;
\q1 And let him deliver us in his time!
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 50.25: \v 25 With two nations is my soul vexed,
\q1 And the third is no nation:
\q1
\p Sirach 50.26: \v 26 They that sit upon the mountain of \f + \fr 50:26 \ft According to some ancient versions, \fqa Seir. \f* Samaria, \add and \add* the Philistines,
\q1 And that foolish people that dwells in Sichem.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 50.27: \v 27 I have \f + \fr 50:27 \ft Gr. \fqa graven. \f* written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge,
\q1 I Jesus, the son of Sirach Eleazar, of Jerusalem,
\q1 Who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.28: \v 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things;
\q1 And he that lays them up in his heart shall become wise.
\q1
\p Sirach 50.29: \v 29 For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things:
\q1 For the light of the Lord is his \f + \fr 50:29 \ft Gr. \fqa footstep. \f* guide. \f + \fr 50:29 \ft The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities. \f*
\p Sirach 51.0: \c 51
\p A Prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.1: \v 1 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, O King,
\q1 And will praise you, O God my Savior:
\q1 I do give thanks to your name:
\q1
\p Sirach 51.2: \v 2 For you were my protector and helper,
\q1 And did deliver my body out of destruction,
\q1 And out of the snare of a slanderous tongue,
\q1 From lips that forge lies,
\q1 And was my helper before those who stood by;
\q1
\p Sirach 51.3: \v 3 And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, and \add greatness \add* of your name,
\q1 From the gnashings \add of teeth \add* ready to devour,
\q1 Out of the hand of such as sought my life,
\q1 Out of the manifold afflictions which I had;
\q1
\p Sirach 51.4: \v 4 From the choking of a fire on every side,
\q1 And out of the midst of fire which I kindled not;
\q1
\p Sirach 51.5: \v 5 Out of the depth of the belly of \f + \fr 51:5 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades. \f* the grave,
\q1 And from an unclean tongue,
\q1 And from lying words,
\q1
\p Sirach 51.6: \v 6 The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king.
\q1 My soul drew near even to death,
\q1 And my life was near to \f + \fr 51:6 \ft Gr. \fqa Hades \f* the grave beneath.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.7: \v 7 They compassed me on every side,
\q1 And there was none to help \add me. \add*
\q1 \add I was \add* looking for the help of men,
\q1 And it was not.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.8: \v 8 And I remembered your mercy, O Lord,
\q1 And your working which has been from everlasting,
\q1 How you deliver those who wait for you,
\q1 And save them out of the hand of the enemies.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.9: \v 9 And I lifted up my supplication from the earth,
\q1 And prayed for deliverance from death.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.10: \v 10 I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord,
\q1 That he would not forsake me in the days of affliction,
\q1 In the time when there was no help against the proud.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.11: \v 11 I will praise your name continually,
\q1 And will sing praise with thanksgiving;
\q1 And my supplication was heard:
\q1
\p Sirach 51.12: \v 12 For you saved me from destruction,
\q1 And delivered me from the evil time:
\q1 Therefore I will give thanks and praise to you,
\q1 And bless the name of the Lord.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 51.13: \v 13 When I was yet young,
\q1 Or ever I went abroad,
\q1 I sought wisdom openly in my prayer.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.14: \v 14 Before the temple I asked for her,
\q1 And I will seek her out even to the end.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.15: \v 15 From \add her \add* flower as from the ripening grape my heart delighted in her:
\q1 My foot trod in uprightness,
\q1 From my youth I tracked her out.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.16: \v 16 I bowed down my ear a little, and received her,
\q1 And found for myself much instruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.17: \v 17 I profited in her:
\q1 To him that gives me wisdom I will give glory.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.18: \v 18 For I purposed to practice her,
\q1 And I was zealous for that which is good;
\q1 And I shall never be put to shame.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.19: \v 19 My soul has wrestled in her,
\q1 And in my doing I was exact:
\q1 I spread forth my hands to the heaven above,
\q1 And bewailed my ignorances of her.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.20: \v 20 I set my soul aright to her,
\q1 And in pureness I found her.
\q1 I got me a heart \add joined \add* with her from the beginning:
\q1 Therefore shall I not be forsaken.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.21: \v 21 My inward part also was troubled to seek her:
\q1 Therefore I have gotten a good possession.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.22: \v 22 The Lord gave me a tongue for my reward;
\q1 And I will praise him therewith.
\b
\q1
\p Sirach 51.23: \v 23 Draw near to me, you° unlearned,
\q1 And lodge in the house of instruction.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.24: \v 24 Say, wherefore are you° lacking in these things,
\q1 And your souls are very thirsty?
\q1
\p Sirach 51.25: \v 25 I opened my mouth, and spoke,
\q1 Get her for yourselves without money.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.26: \v 26 Put your neck under the yoke,
\q1 And let your soul receive instruction:
\q1 She is hard at hand to find.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.27: \v 27 Behold with your eyes,
\q1 How that I labored but a little,
\q1 And found for myself much rest.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.28: \v 28 Get you instruction with a great sum of silver,
\q1 And gain much gold by her.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.29: \v 29 May your soul rejoice in his mercy,
\q1 And may you° not be put to shame in praising him.
\q1
\p Sirach 51.30: \v 30 Work your work before the time comes,
\q1 And in his time he will give you your reward.
\p 2 Maccabees 0.0: \id 2MA
\h 2 Maccabees
\toc1 The Second Book of the Maccabees
\toc2 2 Maccabees
\toc3 2Ma
\mt2 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE
\mt1 MACCABEES
\ip \bk The Second Book of the Maccabees\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 1.1: \v 1 The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, \add and wish them \add* good peace:
\p 2 Maccabees 1.2: \v 2 and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;
\p 2 Maccabees 1.3: \v 3 and give you all a heart to worship him and do his \f + \fr 1:3 \ft Gr. \fqa wills. \f* pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;
\p 2 Maccabees 1.4: \v 4 and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,
\p 2 Maccabees 1.5: \v 5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.6: \v 6 And now we here are praying for you.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.7: \v 7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have \add already \add* written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,
\p 2 Maccabees 1.8: \v 8 and set the \f + \fr 1:8 \ft Or, \fqa porch \f* gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal \add offering, \add* and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the \f + \fr 1:8 \ft Gr. \fqa loaves \f* show bread.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.9: \v 9 And now \add see \add* that you° keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.10: \v 10 \add Written \add* in the hundred fourscore and eighth year.
\b
\p THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.11: \v 11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.12: \v 12 For himself cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves \add against us \add* in the holy city.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.13: \v 13 For when the prince was come \add there, \add* and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.14: \v 14 For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his \f + \fr 1:14 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9 \f* Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.15: \v 15 And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set \f + \fr 1:15 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in:
\p 2 Maccabees 1.16: \v 16 and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and \f + \fr 1:16 \ft Gr. \fqa struck down as with a thunderbolt. \f* struck down the prince, and they hewed \f + \fr 1:16 \ft Or, his company \f* \add him and his company \add* in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.17: \v 17 Blessed \add be \add* our God in all things, who gave \add for a prey \add* those who had committed impiety.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 1.18: \v 18 Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the \add month \add* Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that \f + \fr 1:18 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* you° also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and \add a memorial \add* of the fire \add which was given \add* when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.19: \v 19 For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made \add it \add* sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.20: \v 20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water,
\p 2 Maccabees 1.21: \v 21 he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring \add to him: \add* and when \f + \fr 1:21 \ft Gr. \fqa the things of the sacrifices. \ft Similarily in verses 31, 33, and 2 Maccabees 2:10. \f* the sacrifices had been offered \add on the altar, \add* Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.22: \v 22 And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marveled.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.23: \v 23 And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all \add others, \add* Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.24: \v 24 And the prayer was after this manner:
\p O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious,
\p 2 Maccabees 1.25: \v 25 who alone supply \add every need, \add* who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers \add your \add* chosen, and did sanctify them:
\p 2 Maccabees 1.26: \v 26 accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.27: \v 27 Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.28: \v 28 Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.29: \v 29 Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 1.30: \v 30 And thereupon the priests sang the hymns.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.31: \v 31 And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded \f + \fr 1:31 \ft Some authorities read \fqa that great stones should inclose the water that was left. \ft Both the Greek text and the meaning of this verse and the next are uncertain. \f* to pour \add on \add* great stones the water that was left.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.32: \v 32 And when this was done, a flame was kindled; \f + \fr 1:32 \ft Or, \fqa but it spent itself, whereas the...shone still. \f* but when the light from the altar \f + \fr 1:32 \ft Or, \fqa shone back \f* shone near it, \add all \add* was consumed.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.33: \v 33 And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice,
\p 2 Maccabees 1.34: \v 34 then the king, inclosing \add the place, \add* made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.
\p 2 Maccabees 1.35: \v 35 And when the king would show favor to any, he would take \add from them \add* many presents and give them some of \add this water. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 1.36: \v 36 And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 2.1: \v 1 It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take of the fire, as has been signified \add above: \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 2.2: \v 2 and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord, neither be led astray in their minds, when they saw images of gold and silver, and the adornment thereof.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.3: \v 3 And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.4: \v 4 And it was \add contained \add* in the writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, \f + \fr 2:4 \ft Gr. \fqa and when. \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* when he went forth into the mountain where Moses went up and saw the heritage of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.5: \v 5 And Jeremiah came and found \f + \fr 2:5 \ft Gr. \fqa a cavernous chamber. \f* a chamber in the rock, and there he brought in the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense; and he made fast the door.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.6: \v 6 And some of those that followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.7: \v 7 But when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying, Yes and the place shall be unknown until God \f + \fr 2:7 \ft Gr. \fqa gather together a gathering of the people. \f* gather the people again together, and mercy come:
\p 2 Maccabees 2.8: \v 8 and then shall the Lord disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and the \f + \fr 2:8 \ft Or, \fqa cloud, as...temple. As Moses \f* cloud.
\p As also it was showed with Moses; as also Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.9: \v 9 and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple; \add so we would have it now. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 2.10: \v 10 As Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings;
\p 2 Maccabees 2.11: \v 11 \f + \fr 2:11 \ft See Leviticus 10:16 and 9:24. \f*(and Moses said, Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner \add with the rest\add*;)
\p 2 Maccabees 2.12: \v 12 and Solomon kept the eight days.
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\p 2 Maccabees 2.13: \v 13 And the same things were related \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Or, \fqa also \f* both in the public archives and in \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Or, \fqa Nehemiah’s records \f* the records that concern Nehemiah; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the \add books \add* of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.14: \v 14 And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those \add writings \add* that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are \add still \add* with us.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.15: \v 15 If therefore you° have need thereof, send some to fetch them to you.
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\p 2 Maccabees 2.16: \v 16 Seeing then that we are about to keep the purification, we write to you; you° will therefore do well if you° keep the days.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.17: \v 17 Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.18: \v 18 even as he promised through the law,— in God have we hope, that he will quickly have mercy upon us, and gather \add us \add* together out of \f + \fr 2:18 \ft Gr. \fqa the \ft earth \fqa under heaven. \f* all the earth to the holy place: for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place.
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\p 2 Maccabees 2.19: \v 19 Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his kindred, and the purification of the \f + \fr 2:19 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great temple, and the dedication of the altar,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.20: \v 20 and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.21: \v 21 and the manifestations that came from heaven to those that vied with one another in manful deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they \f + \fr 2:21 \ft Gr. \fqa took for a prey. \f* rescued the whole country, and chased the barbarous multitudes,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.22: \v 22 and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and restored the laws which were like to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became \f + \fr 2:22 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to them with all forbearance:
\p 2 Maccabees 2.23: \v 23 \add these things, I say, \add* which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one work.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.24: \v 24 For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the \f + \fr 2:24 \ft Or, weariness \f* difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.25: \v 25 we were careful that they who choose to read may be attracted, and that they who wish well \add to our cause \add* may find it easy to recall \f + \fr 2:25 \ft Or, the past \f* \add what we have written, \add* and that all readers may have profit.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.26: \v 26 And although to us, who have taken upon us the painful labor of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but \add a matter \add* of sweat and watching
\p 2 Maccabees 2.27: \v 27 (even as it is no light thing to him that prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others); yet for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labor,
\p 2 Maccabees 2.28: \v 28 leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again \f + \fr 2:28 \ft Or, \fqa making no effort \f* having no strength to \f + \fr 2:28 \ft Or, \fqa enlarge on \f* fill in the outlines of our abridgement.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.29: \v 29 For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Gr. \fqa foundation. \f* structure, and again he that undertakes to \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Gr. \fqa decorate in encaustic. \f* decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for the adorning thereof; even so I think it is also with us.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.30: \v 30 To occupy the ground, and to \f + \fr 2:30 \ft Or, \fqa provide a place for discussions \f* indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, becomes the first author of the history:
\p 2 Maccabees 2.31: \v 31 but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form.
\p 2 Maccabees 2.32: \v 32 Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding thus much to that which has been already \f + \fr 2:32 \ft Or, \fqa spoken of \f* said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history \add itself. \add*
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.0: \c 3
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.1: \v 1 WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.2: \v 2 it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.3: \v 3 insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.4: \v 4 But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the \f + \fr 3:4 \ft Or, \fqa charge of the buildings \ft Gr. \fqa office of aedile. \f* ruling of the market in the city.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.5: \v 5 And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius \add the son \add* of \f + \fr 3:5 \ft Or, \fqa Thraseas \ft The Greek text is probably corrupt. Perhaps the true reading is \fqa Apollonius of Tarsus. \f* Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia:
\p 2 Maccabees 3.6: \v 6 and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.7: \v 7 And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the \add king \add* appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.8: \v 8 So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a color of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.9: \v 9 And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and of the city. \f* of the city, he laid before \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Or, \fqa him \f* \add them \add* an account of the information which had been given \add him, \add* and declared wherefore he was come; and he inquired if in truth these things were so.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.10: \v 10 And the high priest explained to him that there were \add in the treasury \add* deposits of widows and orphans,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.11: \v 11 and moreover some \add money \add* belonging to Hyrcanus the \add son \add* of Tobias, a man in very high place, \f + \fr 3:11 \ft Or, and \fqa not \ft such a man \fqa as that impious Simon slanderously alleged \f* \add and that the case was \add* not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.12: \v 12 and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.13: \v 13 But \f + \fr 3:13 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the other. \f* Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this \add money \add* must be confiscated for the king’s treasury.
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.14: \v 14 So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.15: \v 15 And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and \add looking \add* toward heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these \add treasures \add* safe for those that had deposited them.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.16: \v 16 And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.17: \v 17 For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.18: \v 18 And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.19: \v 19 And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the \f + \fr 3:19 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.20: \v 20 And all, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, made their solemn supplication.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.21: \v 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress.
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.22: \v 22 While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted \add to them \add* \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Gr. \fqa safe with all security. \f* safe and sure for those that had entrusted them,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.23: \v 23 Heliodorus went on to execute that which had been decreed.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.24: \v 24 But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great \f + \fr 3:24 \ft Gr. \fqa manifestation. \f* apparition, so that all that had presumed to come \add in \add* with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.25: \v 25 For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armor of gold.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.26: \v 26 Two other also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.27: \v 27 And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, \add his guards \add* caught him up and put him into a litter,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.28: \v 28 and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.29: \v 29 And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.30: \v 30 they blessed the Lord, that made marvelous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared.
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.31: \v 31 But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.32: \v 32 And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.33: \v 33 But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life;
\p 2 Maccabees 3.34: \v 34 and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.35: \v 35 So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed \f + \fr 3:35 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.36: \v 36 And he testified to all men the works of the \f + \fr 3:36 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great God which he had seen with his eyes.
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.37: \v 37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,
\p 2 Maccabees 3.38: \v 38 If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 3.39: \v 39 For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys.
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\p 2 Maccabees 3.40: \v 40 And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.0: \c 4
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.1: \v 1 But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and \add had betrayed \add* his country, slandered Onias, \add saying \add* that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.2: \v 2 And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.3: \v 3 But when the growing enmity \add between them \add* waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of \f + \fr 4:3 \ft Gr. \fqa those that had been approved by Simon. \f* Simon’s trusted followers,
\p 2 Maccabees 4.4: \v 4 Onias, seeing the \f + \fr 4:4 \ft Or, \fqa severity \f* danger of the contention, and that \f + \fr 4:4 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 4:21. See also 2 Maccabees 3:5. The Greek as commonly read means \fqa Apollonius, as \ft being \fqa the governor...Phoenicia, did rage, and increase etc. \f* Apollonius \add the son \add* of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,
\p 2 Maccabees 4.5: \v 5 betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the \f + \fr 4:5 \ft Gr. \fqa multitude. \f* people, both public and private;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.6: \v 6 for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.7: \v 7 But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted \add his brother \add* in the high priesthood,
\p 2 Maccabees 4.8: \v 8 having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and \add out \add* of another fund eighty talents;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.9: \v 9 and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him \f + \fr 4:9 \ft Gr. \fqa through his. \f* through the king’s authority to set him up a \add Greek \add* place of exercise and \add form \add* a body of youths \add to be trained therein, \add* and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as \add citizens \add* of Antioch.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.10: \v 10 And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.11: \v 11 And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law:
\p 2 Maccabees 4.12: \v 12 for he eagerly established a \add Greek \add* place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the \add Greek \add* cap.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.13: \v 13 And thus there was an extreme of Greek fashions, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.14: \v 14 so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to \f + \fr 4:14 \ft Or, \fqa take part in the unlawful provision for the palaestra \f* enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons \f + \fr 4:14 \ft Or, \fqa to \ft the game of \fqa the discus \f* of the discus;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.15: \v 15 making of no account the honors of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.16: \v 16 By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these they had to be their enemies and to punish them.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.17: \v 17 For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but \f + \fr 4:17 \ft Or, \fqa this the due season \ft of requital \fqa will make plain \f* these things the time following shall declare.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.18: \v 18 Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,
\p 2 Maccabees 4.19: \v 19 the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, \f + \fr 4:19 \ft See ver. 9. \f* as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for \add any \add* sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to \f + \fr 4:19 \ft Or, \fqa reserve for \f* expend on another charge.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.20: \v 20 And though in the purpose of the sender this \add money was \add* for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of \f + \fr 4:20 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the bearers. \f* present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.21: \v 21 Now when Apollonius the \add son \add* of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the \f + \fr 4:21 \ft The exact meaning of the Greek word is uncertain. \f* enthronement of \add Ptolemy \add* Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that \add Ptolemy \add* had shown himself ill affected toward the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going \add by sea \add* to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.22: \v 22 And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.23: \v 23 Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to \f + \fr 4:23 \ft Or, \fqa convey \ft to him \fqa reports \f* make reports concerning some necessary matters.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.24: \v 24 But he being commended to the king, and \f + \fr 4:24 \ft The Greek text of this verse is uncertain. \f* having glorified \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Or, \fqa him \f* himself \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Or, \fqa by \ft flattering \fqa the dignity of his authority \f* by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.25: \v 25 And having received the royal mandates he came \add to Jerusalem, \add* bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.26: \v 26 And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites,
\p 2 Maccabees 4.27: \v 27 Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing \f + \fr 4:27 \ft Gr. \fqa was in due order. \f* was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it
\p 2 Maccabees 4.28: \v 28 (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.29: \v 29 And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his \f + \fr 4:29 \ft Gr. \fqa successor. \f* deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus \add left \add* Crates, who was over the Cyprians.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.30: \v 30 Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.31: \v 31 The king therefore came \add to Cilicia \add* in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his \f + \fr 4:31 \ft Gr. \fqa successor. \f* deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.32: \v 32 And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favorable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other \add vessels \add* also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.33: \v 33 And when Onias had sure knowledge \add of this, \add* he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.34: \v 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him \f + \fr 4:34 \ft Or, \fqa to get Onias into his hands \f* to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and \f + \fr 4:34 \ft The Greek text of this sentence is probably corrupt. \f* being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, \add Andronicus \add* gave him his right hand with oaths \add of fidelity, \add* and, though he was suspected \add by him, so \add* persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he \f + \fr 4:34 \ft Or, \fqa imprisoned him \ft Gr. \fqa shut him off. \f* despatched him without regard of justice.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.35: \v 35 For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.36: \v 36 And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were \f + \fr 4:36 \ft Or, \fqa in the several cities \f* in the city pleaded before \add him against Andronicus \add* (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.37: \v 37 Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.38: \v 38 and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and \f + \fr 4:38 \ft Or, \fqa tore his \f* tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.39: \v 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the bruit thereof was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.40: \v 40 And when the multitudes were rising against \add him, \add* and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began \add the conflict, \add* one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading \add the attack. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 4.41: \v 41 But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him;
\p 2 Maccabees 4.42: \v 42 by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all \add of them \add* they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.
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\p 2 Maccabees 4.43: \v 43 But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.44: \v 44 And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.45: \v 45 But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the \add son \add* of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.46: \v 46 Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
\p 2 Maccabees 4.47: \v 47 and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.48: \v 48 Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families \add of Israel \add* and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.49: \v 49 For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.
\p 2 Maccabees 4.50: \v 50 But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, \f + \fr 4:50 \ft Gr. \fqa established as a. \f* as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.0: \c 5
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\p 2 Maccabees 5.1: \v 1 Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.2: \v 2 And it \add so \add* befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared in the midst of the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and \add carrying \add* spears, equipped in troops for battle;
\p 2 Maccabees 5.3: \v 3 and drawing of swords; and \add on the other side \add* squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and \f + \fr 5:3 \ft Or, \fqa charges \f* pursuits of both \add armies; \add* and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, and girding on of all sorts of armor.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.4: \v 4 Wherefore all men implored that the \f + \fr 5:4 \ft Gr. \fqa manifestation. \f* vision might have been given for good.
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\p 2 Maccabees 5.5: \v 5 But when a false rumor had arisen that Antiochus was deceased, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly \f + \fr 5:5 \ft Gr. \fqa perpetrated. \f* made an assault upon the city; and those who were upon the wall being routed, and the city being now at length well near taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.6: \v 6 But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.7: \v 7 The office \add however \add* he didn’t get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.8: \v 8 At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been \f + \fr 5:8 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt;
\p 2 Maccabees 5.9: \v 9 and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished \add himself \add* in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter \add there \add* because they were \f + \fr 5:9 \ft See 1 Maccabees 12:7. \f* near of kin;
\p 2 Maccabees 5.10: \v 10 and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers.
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\p 2 Maccabees 5.11: \v 11 Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
\p 2 Maccabees 5.12: \v 12 and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses;
\p 2 Maccabees 5.13: \v 13 and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.14: \v 14 And in all the three days \add of the slaughter \add* there were destroyed fourscore thousand, \add whereof \add* forty thousand \add were slain \add* in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.15: \v 15 But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country),
\p 2 Maccabees 5.16: \v 16 even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.17: \v 17 And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was \add then \add* turned away from the place.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.18: \v 18 But had it not so been that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view the treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.19: \v 19 However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.20: \v 20 Wherefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that befell the nation, did afterward share in \add its \add* benefits; and the \add place \add* which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.21: \v 21 As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot, because his heart was lifted up.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.22: \v 22 And moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him that set him there;
\p 2 Maccabees 5.23: \v 23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Some authorities read \fqa toward the Jews, he sent. \ft The Greek text of this sentence is uncertain. \f* toward the Jews \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 4:9, 19; 9:19. \f* \add whom he had made \add* his citizens,
\p 2 Maccabees 5.24: \v 24 he sent that \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Gr. \fqa Μυσάρχην, \ft which also may mean \fqa ruler of the Mysians. \f* lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.25: \v 25 And he coming to Jerusalem, and playing the man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.26: \v 26 And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes.
\p 2 Maccabees 5.27: \v 27 But Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on \f + \fr 5:27 \ft Gr. \fqa the grassy food. \f* such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the \add threatened \add* pollution.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.0: \c 6
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\p 2 Maccabees 6.1: \v 1 And not long after this the king sent forth \f + \fr 6:1 \ft Or, \fqa Geron an Athenian \f* an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God;
\p 2 Maccabees 6.2: \v 2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Zeus. \f* Jupiter Olympius, and \add to call \add* the \add sanctuary \add* in Gerizim by the name of \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Zeus. \f* Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Or, \fqa did \f* were that lived in the place.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.3: \v 3 But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.4: \v 4 For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who \f + \fr 6:4 \ft Or, \fqa idled with their fellows \f* dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting;
\p 2 Maccabees 6.5: \v 5 and \f + \fr 6:5 \ft Or, \fqa the altar \f* the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.6: \v 6 And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.7: \v 7 And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Gr. \fqa feast of Dionysia. \f* feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Gr. \fqa Dionysus. \f* Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.8: \v 8 A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices;
\p 2 Maccabees 6.9: \v 9 and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see:
\p 2 Maccabees 6.10: \v 10 for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.11: \v 11 And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burned together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honor of that most solemn day.
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\p 2 Maccabees 6.12: \v 12 I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.13: \v 13 For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.14: \v 14 For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of \add their \add* sins; but not so judged he as touching us,
\p 2 Maccabees 6.15: \v 15 that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, \f + \fr 6:15 \ft Or, \fqa when our sins be come to their height \f* when we be come to the \f + \fr 6:15 \ft Gr. \fqa end. \f* height of our sins.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.16: \v 16 Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.17: \v 17 However let this that we have spoken suffice to put \add you \add* in remembrance; but after \add these \add* few words we must come to the narrative.
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\p 2 Maccabees 6.18: \v 18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.19: \v 19 But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth \add the flesh,\add*
\p 2 Maccabees 6.20: \v 20 \add coming forward \add* as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not \add even \add* for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.21: \v 21 But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king;
\p 2 Maccabees 6.22: \v 22 that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.23: \v 23 But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs \f + \fr 6:23 \ft The Greek text appears to be corrupt. \f* which he had reached with honor, and his excellent \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Some authorities read \fqa manner of life. \f* education from a child, \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Or, \fqa but yet more \f* or rather \add that became \add* the holy \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Gr. \fqa legislation. \f* laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.24: \v 24 For it becomes not our years to dissemble, \add said he, \add* that \add through this \add* many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion;
\p 2 Maccabees 6.25: \v 25 and \add so \add* they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, \f + \fr 6:25 \ft Or, \fqa while I shall get\f* and \add thus \add* I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.26: \v 26 For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.27: \v 27 Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,
\p 2 Maccabees 6.28: \v 28 and \f + \fr 6:28 \ft Gr. \fqa one that has left behind. \f* leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.29: \v 29 \f + \fr 6:29 \ft The Greek text of this verse is uncertain. \f* And when they changed the good they will bare him a little before into ill will, because \f + \fr 6:29 \ft Gr. \fqa the aforesaid words were. \f* these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,
\p 2 Maccabees 6.30: \v 30 and when he was at the point to die with the \f + \fr 6:30 \ft Or, \fqa blows \f* stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.
\p 2 Maccabees 6.31: \v 31 So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.0: \c 7
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.1: \v 1 And it came to pass that seven kindred also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.2: \v 2 But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.3: \v 3 And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons:
\p 2 Maccabees 7.4: \v 4 and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his kindred and his mother looking on.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.5: \v 5 And when he was utterly \f + \fr 7:5 \ft Gr. \fqa useless. \f* maimed, \add the king \add* commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapor of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus:
\p 2 Maccabees 7.6: \v 6 The Lord God sees, and in truth is \f + \fr 7:6 \ft Or, \fqa comforted in \f* entreated for us, as Moses declared in \f + \fr 7:6 \ft See Deuteronomy 31:21 and 32:36. \f* his song, which witnesses against \add the people \add* to their faces, saying, And he shall be \f + \fr 7:6 \ft Or, \fqa comforted in \f* entreated for his servants.
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.7: \v 7 And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt you eat, before your body be punished in every limb?
\p 2 Maccabees 7.8: \v 8 But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, No. Wherefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.9: \v 9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said, You, miscreant, do release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life.
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.10: \v 10 And after him was the third made a mocking-stock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously,
\p 2 Maccabees 7.11: \v 11 and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt; and from him I hope to receive these back again:
\p 2 Maccabees 7.12: \v 12 insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains.
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.13: \v 13 And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.14: \v 14 And being come near to death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are \add given \add* by God, that we shall be raised up again by him; for as for you, you shall have no resurrection to life.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 7.15: \v 15 And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.16: \v 16 But he looked toward \f + \fr 7:16 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* the king and said, Because you have authority among men, though you are \add yourself \add* corruptible, you do what you will; yet think not that our race has been forsaken of God;
\p 2 Maccabees 7.17: \v 17 but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 7.18: \v 18 And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvelous things are come to pass;
\p 2 Maccabees 7.19: \v 19 but think not you that you shall be unpunished, having assayed to fight against God.
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.20: \v 20 But above all was the mother marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she looked on seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bare \add the sight \add* with a good courage for the hopes \add that she had set \add* on the Lord.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.21: \v 21 And she exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble temper and stirring up her womanish thought with manly passion, saying to them,
\p 2 Maccabees 7.22: \v 22 I know not how you° came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your \f + \fr 7:22 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.23: \v 23 Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa first origin \f* generation of man and devised the \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa first origin \f* generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit and your life, as you° now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.24: \v 24 But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal \add to him \add* by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and \f + \fr 7:24 \ft Gr. \fqa make him one that is counted happy. \f* raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the \add customs \add* of his fathers, and that he would take him for his \f + \fr 7:24 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9. \f* Friend and entrust him with affairs.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.25: \v 25 But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called to him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.26: \v 26 And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.27: \v 27 But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.28: \v 28 I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and \add that \add* the race of men in this wise comes into being.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.29: \v 29 Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your kindred, accept your death, that in the mercy \add of God \add* I may receive you again with your kindred.
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\p 2 Maccabees 7.30: \v 30 But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait you° for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.31: \v 31 But you, that have devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shall in no wise escape the hands of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.32: \v 32 For we are suffering because of our own sins;
\p 2 Maccabees 7.33: \v 33 and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.34: \v 34 But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, be not vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children;
\p 2 Maccabees 7.35: \v 35 For not yet have you escaped the judgement of the Almighty God that sees \add all things. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 7.36: \v 36 For these our kindred, having endured a \f + \fr 7:36 \ft Gr. \fqa short pain of ever-flowing life. \f* short pain that brings everlasting life, have now \f + \fr 7:36 \ft Gr. \fqa fallen. \ft By the omission of one Greek letter the words would signify \fqa having endured a short pain, have now drunk of ever-flowing life under God’s covenant. \f* died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.37: \v 37 But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become \f + \fr 7:37 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God;
\p 2 Maccabees 7.38: \v 38 and that in me and my kindred \f + \fr 7:38 \ft Some authorities read \fqa may be stayed. \f* you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.39: \v 39 But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.
\p 2 Maccabees 7.40: \v 40 So he also died pure \add from pollution, \add* putting his whole trust in the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 7.41: \v 41 And last of all after her sons the mother died.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 7.42: \v 42 Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the \add enforcement of \add* sacrificial feasts and the \add king’s \add* exceeding barbarities.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.0: \c 8
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\p 2 Maccabees 8.1: \v 1 But Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.2: \v 2 And they called upon the Lord, \add beseeching him \add* to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.3: \v 3 and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made even even with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.4: \v 4 and to remember also the lawless \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa destruction.\f* slaughter of the innocent infants, and \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa concerning the blasphemies. \f* the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.5: \v 5 And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.6: \v 6 \f + \fr 8:6 \ft The Greek text of verses 6 and 7 is uncertain. \f* And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.7: \v 7 he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.8: \v 8 But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.9: \v 9 And \add Ptolemy \add* quickly appointed Nicanor the \add son \add* of Patroclus, one of the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 8:9 \ft See 1 Maccabees 10:65. Compare 2 Maccabees 1:14; 7:24; 10:13; 14:11; 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.10: \v 10 And Nicanor \f + \fr 8:10 \ft Or, \fqa resolved \f* undertook by \add the sale of \add* the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.11: \v 11 And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.12: \v 12 But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.13: \v 13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God \f + \fr 8:13 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* ran away and left the country.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.14: \v 14 And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold \add as slaves \add* by the impious Nicanor or ever he met them;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.15: \v 15 and \add this, \add* if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.16: \v 16 And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.17: \v 17 setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.18: \v 18 For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.19: \v 19 And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the \add help given \add* in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.20: \v 20 and the \add help given \add* in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Gr. \fqa Galatians. \f* Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, \add and how that, \add* the Macedonians being hard pressed, the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Some authorities read \fqa eight. \f* six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.21: \v 21 And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.22: \v 22 \f + \fr 8:22 \ft Gr. \fqa appointing his kindred also leaders. \f* appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, \add to wit, \add* Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men,
\p 2 Maccabees 8.23: \v 23 and moreover Eleazer also: \add then, \add* having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.24: \v 24 And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and \f + \fr 8:24 \ft Gr. \fqa disabled in their limbs. \f* disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee:
\p 2 Maccabees 8.25: \v 25 and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some \f + \fr 8:25 \ft Or, \fqa while \f* distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;
\p 2 Maccabees 8.26: \v 26 for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.27: \v 27 \f + \fr 8:27 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered \f + \fr 8:27 \ft Gr. \fqa their arms...the spoils of the enemy. \f* the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.28: \v 28 And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the \f + \fr 8:28 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed among themselves and their children.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.29: \v 29 And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.30: \v 30 And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the \f + \fr 8:30 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.31: \v 31 \f + \fr 8:31 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered the arms \f + \fr 8:31 \ft Gr. \fqa of them. \f* of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.32: \v 32 And they killed the \f + \fr 8:32 \ft That is, probably, the captain of an irregular auxiliary force. Some write \fqa Phylarches, \ft as a proper name. \f* phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.33: \v 33 \f + \fr 8:33 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* And as they kept the feast of victory in the \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa country \f* city of their fathers, they burned those that had set the sacred \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates on fire, \add and among them \add* Callisthenes, who had fled into \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa a solitary hut \f* an outhouse; and \add so \add* they received the meet reward of their impiety.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 8.34: \v 34 And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews \add for slaves, \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 8.35: \v 35 being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and \add passing \add* through the midland, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Gr. \fqa having made himself solitary. \f* shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Or, \fqa having won the greatest possible favor by reason of the destruction of his army \f* having, \add as he thought, \add* had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed.
\p 2 Maccabees 8.36: \v 36 And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that \f + \fr 8:36 \ft Or, \fqa because of this \ft their \fqa way of life \ft Gr. \fqa because of this manner. \f* because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 9.1: \v 1 Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned \f + \fr 9:1 \ft Or, \fqa with dishonor \f* in disorder from the region of Persia.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.2: \v 2 For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob \f + \fr 9:2 \ft Or, \fqa temples \f* a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and \f + \fr 9:2 \ft Or, the people of the country \fqa turned \f* \add Antiochus and his men \add* turned to make defense with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.3: \v 3 And while he was at Ecbatana, news was brought him what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.4: \v 4 And being lifted up \f + \fr 9:4 \ft Or, \fqa in his spirit \f* by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.5: \v 5 But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a \f + \fr 9:5 \ft Gr. \fqa remediless. \f* fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.6: \v 6 and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.7: \v 7 But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; no, still more was he filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.8: \v 8 And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, \f + \fr 9:8 \ft Or, \fqa showing manifestly to all the power of God \f* showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.9: \v 9 so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.10: \v 10 And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.11: \v 11 Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken \add in spirit, \add* and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.12: \v 12 And when he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not \f + \fr 9:12 \ft Some authorities read \fqa be minded as \ft if \fqa equal to God. \f* be minded arrogantly.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.13: \v 13 And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise:
\p 2 Maccabees 9.14: \v 14 that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to \f + \fr 9:14 \ft Gr. \fqa build. \f* make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.15: \v 15 and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.16: \v 16 and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.17: \v 17 and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.18: \v 18 But when his sufferings did in no wise cease, for the judgement of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope of himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect:
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 9.19: \v 19 To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.20: \v 20 \f + \fr 9:20 \ft Or, \fqa You° fare well, and your children; and your affairs are to your mind. \ft The Greek text in verses 20 and 21 is uncertain. \f* May you° and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven,
\p 2 Maccabees 9.21: \v 21 I remembered with affection your honor and good will \add toward me. \add* Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all,
\p 2 Maccabees 9.22: \v 22 not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.23: \v 23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,
\p 2 Maccabees 9.24: \v 24 to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they \add that remained \add* in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled;
\p 2 Maccabees 9.25: \v 25 and, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbors to my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus \add to be \add* king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.26: \v 26 I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will toward me and my son.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.27: \v 27 For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 9.28: \v 28 So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life among the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land.
\p 2 Maccabees 9.29: \v 29 And Philip his foster brother conveyed the body \add home; \add* and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 10.1: \v 1 And Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city;
\p 2 Maccabees 10.2: \v 2 and they pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the aliens, and also \add the walls of \add* sacred inclosures.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.3: \v 3 And having cleansed the sanctuary they made another altar of sacrifice; and \f + \fr 10:3 \ft Gr. \fqa firing. \f* striking stones and taking fire out of them, they offered sacrifices, after \add they had ceased for \add* two years, and \add burned \add* incense, and \add lighted \add* lamps, and set forth the show bread.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.4: \v 4 And when they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if ever they should sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.5: \v 5 Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by aliens, upon that very day did it come to pass that the cleansing of the sanctuary was made, even on the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Chislev.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.6: \v 6 And they kept eight days with gladness in the manner \add of the feast \add* of tabernacles, remembering how that \f + \fr 10:6 \ft Or, \fqa not long before they kept the feast of tabernacles by wandering \f* not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves after the manner of wild beasts.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.7: \v 7 Wherefore bearing wands wreathed with leaves, and fair boughs, and palms also, they offered up hymns of thanksgiving to him that had prosperously brought to pass the cleansing of his own place.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.8: \v 8 They ordained also with a common statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should keep these days every year.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.9: \v 9 And \f + \fr 10:9 \ft Gr. \fqa such were the \ft events \fqa of the end \f* such was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.10: \v 10 But now will we declare what came to pass under Antiochus \add named \add* \f + \fr 10:10 \ft That is, \fqa son of a good father. \f* Eupator, who proved himself a \add true \add* son of that ungodly man, and will gather up briefly the \f + \fr 10:10 \ft Or, \fqa chief \f* successive evils of the wars.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.11: \v 11 For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias \add to be \add* chancellor, and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.12: \v 12 For Ptolemy that was called Macron, setting an example of observing justice toward the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, endeavored to \f + \fr 10:12 \ft Or, \fqa settle his relations with \f* conduct his dealings with them on peaceful terms.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.13: \v 13 Whereupon being accused by the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 10:13 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9 \f* Friends before Eupator, and hearing himself called traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had withdrawn himself to Antiochus \add called \add* Epiphanes, and \f + \fr 10:13 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* failing to uphold the honor of his office, he took poison and made away with himself.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 10.14: \v 14 But Gorgias, when he was made governor of the district, maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept up war with the Jews.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.15: \v 15 And together with him the Idumaeans also, being masters of important strongholds, harassed the Jews; and receiving to them those that had taken refuge \add there \add* from Jerusalem, they assayed to keep up war.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.16: \v 16 But Maccabaeus and his men, having made solemn supplication and implored God to fight on their side, rushed upon the strongholds of the Idumaeans;
\p 2 Maccabees 10.17: \v 17 and assaulting them vigorously they made themselves masters of the positions, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and killed those that fell in their way, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.18: \v 18 And because no less than nine thousand were fled into two towers exceedingly strong and having all things \add needed \add* for a seige,
\p 2 Maccabees 10.19: \v 19 Maccabaeus, having left Simon and Joseph, and Zacchaeus besides and those who were with him, a force sufficient to besiege them, departed himself to places where he was most needed.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.20: \v 20 But Simon and those who were with him, yielding to covetousness, were bribed by certain of those that were in the towers, and receiving seventy thousand drachmas let some of them slip away.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.21: \v 21 But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the leaders of the people together, and accused \add those men \add* of having sold their kindred for money, by setting their enemies free \add to fight \add* against them.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.22: \v 22 So he killed these men for having turned traitors, and forthwith took possession of the two towers.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.23: \v 23 And prospering with his arms in all things he took in hand, he destroyed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 10.24: \v 24 Now Timotheus, who had been before defeated by the Jews, having gathered together foreign forces in great multitudes, and having collected the \f + \fr 10:24 \ft Or, \fqa horses \f* horsemen which belonged to Asia, not a few, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.25: \v 25 But as he drew near, Maccabaeus and his men sprinkled earth upon their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God,
\p 2 Maccabees 10.26: \v 26 and falling down upon the step in front of the altar, implored him to become \f + \fr 10:26 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to them, and \f + \fr 10:26 \ft See Exodus 23:22. \f* be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.27: \v 27 And rising from their prayer they took up their arms, and advanced some distance from the city; and when they had come near to their enemies they \f + \fr 10:27 \ft Gr. \fqa were by themselves.\f* halted.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.28: \v 28 And when the dawn was now spreading, the two \add armies \add* joined battle; the one part having this, beside \add their \add* virtue, for a pledge of success and victory, that they had fled to the Lord for refuge, the others making their passion their leader in the strife.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.29: \v 29 But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared out of heaven to their adversaries five men on horses with bridles of gold, \add in \add* splendid \add array; \add* \f + \fr 10:29 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and leading on the Jews; who also, taking. \f* and two of them, leading on the Jews,
\p 2 Maccabees 10.30: \v 30 and taking Maccabaeus in the midst of them, and covering him with their own armor, guarded him from wounds, while on the adversaries they shot forth arrows and thunderbolts; by reason whereof they were blinded and thrown into confusion, and were cut to pieces, filled with bewilderment.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.31: \v 31 And there were slain twenty thousand and five hundred, beside six hundred horsemen.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 10.32: \v 32 But Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of exceedingly strength, \f + \fr 10:32 \ft See ver. 37. \f* Chaereas being in command there.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.33: \v 33 But Maccabaeus and his men were glad and laid siege to the fortress four and twenty days.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.34: \v 34 And those who were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and hurled forth impious words.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.35: \v 35 But at dawn of the five and twentieth day certain young men of the company of Maccabaeus, inflamed with passion because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall with masculine force and with \f + \fr 10:35 \ft Gr. \fqa passion as of wild beasts. \f* furious passion, and cut down whoever came in their way.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.36: \v 36 And others climbing up in like manner, while \add the besieged \add* were distracted with them \add that had made their way \add* within, set fire to the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; while others broke open the gates, and, having given entrance to the rest of the band, occupied the city.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.37: \v 37 And they killed Timotheus, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes.
\p 2 Maccabees 10.38: \v 38 And when they had accomplished these things, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, him who does great benefits to Israel, and gives them the victory.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 11.1: \v 1 Now after a very little time Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman and chancellor, being sore displeased for the things that had come to pass,
\p 2 Maccabees 11.2: \v 2 collected about fourscore thousand \add footmen \add* and all his horsemen and came against the Jews, thinking to make the city a place for Greeks to dwell in,
\p 2 Maccabees 11.3: \v 3 and to levy tribute on the temple, as \f + \fr 11:3 \ft Or, \fqa on all the sacred places of the heathen \f* on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood to sale every year;
\p 2 Maccabees 11.4: \v 4 holding in no account the might of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.5: \v 5 And coming into Judea and drawing near to Bethsuron, which was a strong place and distant from Jerusalem about \f + \fr 11:5 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* five leagues, he pressed it hard.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.6: \v 6 But when Maccabaeus and his men learned that he was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people with lamentations and tears made supplication to the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.7: \v 7 And Maccabaeus himself took up arms first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.8: \v 8 And as they were there, close to Jerusalem, there appeared at their head one on horseback in white apparel, brandishing \f + \fr 11:8 \ft Gr. \fqa a panoply. \f* weapons of gold.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.9: \v 9 And they all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart: being ready to \f + \fr 11:9 \ft Gr. \fqa wound. \f* assail not men only but the wildest beasts, and walls of iron,
\p 2 Maccabees 11.10: \v 10 they advanced in array, having him that is in heaven to fight on their side, for the Lord had mercy on them.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.11: \v 11 And hurling \add themselves \add* like lions upon the enemy, they killed of them eleven thousand \add footmen \add* and sixteen hundred horsemen, and forced all \add the rest \add* to flee.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.12: \v 12 But the more part of them escaped wounded \add and \add* naked; and Lysias also himself escaped by shameful flight.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.13: \v 13 But as he was a man not void of understanding, weighing with himself the defeat which had befallen him, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God fought on their side, he sent again \add to them, \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 11.14: \v 14 and persuaded them to come to terms on condition that all their rights were acknowledged, and \f + \fr 11:14 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* \add promised \add* that he would also persuade the king to become their friend.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.15: \v 15 And Maccabaeus gave consent upon all the conditions which Lysias proposed to him, being careful of the \add common \add* good; for whatever \add requests \add* Maccabaeus delivered in writing to Lysias concerning the Jews the king allowed.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.16: \v 16 For the letters written to the Jews from Lysias were to this effect:
\p Lysias to the \f + \fr 11:16 \ft Gr. \fqa multitude. \f* people of the Jews, greeting.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.17: \v 17 John and Absalom, who were sent from you, having delivered the \f + \fr 11:17 \ft Or, \fqa document \f* petition written below, made request concerning the things signified therein.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.18: \v 18 Whatever things therefore had need to be brought before the king I declared \add to him, \add* and what things were possible he allowed.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.19: \v 19 If then you° will preserve your good will toward the state, henceforward I will also endeavor to contribute to \add your \add* good.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.20: \v 20 \f + \fr 11:20 \ft Or, \fqa but as to this. \f* And on this behalf I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those \add that are sent \add* from me, to confer with you.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.21: \v 21 Fare you° well. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the four and twentieth day of \add the month \add* \f + \fr 11:21 \ft This name is not found elsewhere, and is perhaps corrupt. \f* Dioscorinthius.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 11.22: \v 22 And the king’s letter was in these words:
\p King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greeting.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.23: \v 23 Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom \f + \fr 11:23 \ft Or, \fqa should not be disquieted but \f* should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs,
\p 2 Maccabees 11.24: \v 24 we, having heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s purpose to turn them to the \add customs \add* of the Greeks, but choose rather their own manner of living, and make request that the \add customs \add* of their law be allowed to them,—
\p 2 Maccabees 11.25: \v 25 choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from \f + \fr 11:25 \ft Or, \fqa disquiet \f* disturbance, we determine that their temple be restored to them, and that they live according to the customs that were in the days of their ancestors.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.26: \v 26 You will therefore do well to send \add messengers \add* to them and give them the right hand \add of friendship, \add* that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 11.27: \v 27 And to the nation the king’s letter was after this manner:
\p King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greeting.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.28: \v 28 If you° fare well, we have our desire: we ourselves also are in good health.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.29: \v 29 Menelaus informed us that your desire was to return home and follow your own business.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.30: \v 30 They therefore that depart home up to the thirties day of Xanthicus shall have \add our \add* \f + \fr 11:30 \ft Gr. \fqa right hand. \f* friendship, with full permission
\p 2 Maccabees 11.31: \v 31 that the Jews use their own \add proper \add* meats and \add observe their own \add* laws, even as formerly; and none of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been ignorantly done.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.32: \v 32 Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.33: \v 33 Fare you° well. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.34: \v 34 And the Romans also sent to them a letter in these words:
\p Quintus Memmius \add and \add* Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.35: \v 35 In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.36: \v 36 But as for the things which he judged should be referred to the king, send one forthwith, after you° have advised thereof, that we may publish such \add decrees \add* as befit your case; for we are on our way to Antioch.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.37: \v 37 Wherefore send some with speed, that we also may learn what is your mind.
\p 2 Maccabees 11.38: \v 38 \f + \fr 11:38 \ft Gr. \fqa Be in good health. \f* Farewell. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.1: \v 1 So when these covenants had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their husbandry.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.2: \v 2 But \add certain \add* of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the \add son \add* of Gennaeus, and Hieronymus also and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.3: \v 3 And men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews that lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them;
\p 2 Maccabees 12.4: \v 4 and when \f + \fr 12:4 \ft Gr. \fqa they also. \f* the Jews, \f + \fr 12:4 \ft Gr. \fqa after. \f* relying on the common decree of the city, accepted \add the invitation, \add* as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned them, \add in number \add* not less than two hundred.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.5: \v 5 But when Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow-countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him
\p 2 Maccabees 12.6: \v 6 and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the haven on fire by night, and burned the boats, and put to the sword those that had fled there.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.7: \v 7 But when the town was closed \add against him, \add* he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.8: \v 8 But learning that the men of Jamnia were minded to do in like manner to the Jews that sojourned among them,
\p 2 Maccabees 12.9: \v 9 he fell upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire to the haven together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred and forty furlongs distant.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.10: \v 10 Now when they had drawn off nine furlongs from thence, as they marched against Timotheus, \add an army of \add* Arabians attacked him, no fewer than five thousand \add footmen \add* and five hundred horsemen.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.11: \v 11 And when a sore battle had been fought, and Judas and his company by the help of God had good success, the nomads being overcome implored Judas to grant them friendship, promising to give \add him \add* cattle, and to help \f + \fr 12:11 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* his people in all other ways.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.12: \v 12 So Judas, thinking that they would indeed be profitable in many things, agreed to live in peace with them; and receiving pledges of friendship they departed to their tents.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.13: \v 13 And he also fell upon a certain city \f + \fr 12:13 \ft The relation between the names \fqa Gephyrun \ft and \fqa Caspin \ft is unknown, and perhaps the Greek text is corrupt. Compare \fqa Gephrun, \ft the name of a city of Gilead mentioned by Polybius, 5.70.12.; and \fqa Casphor, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 36. \f* Gephyrun, strong and fenced about with walls, and inhabited by a mixed multitude of various nations; and it was named Caspin.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.14: \v 14 But those who were within, trusting to the strength of the walls and to their store of provisions, behaved themselves rudely toward Judas and those who were with him, railing, and furthermore blaspheming and speaking impious words.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.15: \v 15 But Judas and his company, calling upon the great sovereign of the world, who without rams and cunning engines of war hurled down Jericho in the times of Joshua, rushed wildly against the wall;
\p 2 Maccabees 12.16: \v 16 and having taken the city by the will of God, they made unspeakable slaughter, insomuch that the adjoining lake, which was two furlongs broad, appeared to be filled with the deluge of blood.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.17: \v 17 And when they had drawn off seven hundred and fifty furlongs from thence, they made their way to Charax, to the Jews that are called \f + \fr 12:17 \ft That is, \fqa men of Tob: \ft see Judges 11:3, 2 Samuel 10:6, and compare 1 Maccabees 5:13. \f* Tubieni.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.18: \v 18 And Timotheus they found not in occupation of that district, for he had then departed from the district without accomplishing anything, but had left behind a garrison, and that a very strong one, in a certain post.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.19: \v 19 But Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabaeus’s captains, went out and destroyed those that had been left by Timotheus in the stronghold, above ten thousand men.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.20: \v 20 And Maccabaeus, ranging his own army by bands, set \f + \fr 12:20 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* these two over the bands, and marched in haste against Timotheus, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand footmen and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.21: \v 21 But when Timotheus heard of the inroad of Judas, he at once sent away the women and the children and also the baggage into the \add fortress \add* called \f + \fr 12:21 \ft Compare \fqa Carnain, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44. \f* Carnion; for the place was hard to besiege and difficult of access by reason of the narrowness of the approaches on all sides.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.22: \v 22 But when the band of Judas, who led the van, appeared in sight, and when terror came upon the enemy and fear, because the manifestation of him who sees all things came upon them, they fled amain, carried this way and that, so that they were often hurt of their own men, and pierced with the points of their swords.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.23: \v 23 And Judas continued the pursuit the more hotly, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as thirty thousand men.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.24: \v 24 But Timotheus himself, falling in with the company of Dositheus and Sosipater, implored them with much crafty guile to let him go with his life, because he had \add in his power \add* the parents of many \add of them \add* and the kindred of some: \f + \fr 12:24 \ft Gr. \fqa and the result will be that these be disregarded. \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* otherwise, \add said he, \add* little regard will \f + \fr 12:24 \ft Or, \fqa have been shown \f* be shown to these.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.25: \v 25 So when he had with many words confirmed the agreement to restore them without hurt, they let him go that they might save their kindred.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.26: \v 26 And \add Judas, \add* marching against \f + \fr 12:26 \ft Compare \fqa Carnain, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44. \f* Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed five and twenty thousand persons.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.27: \v 27 And after he had put these to flight and destroyed them, he marched against Ephron also, a strong city, \f + \fr 12:27 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* wherein were multitudes of people of all nations; and stalwart young men placed \f + \fr 12:27 \ft Gr. \fqa in front of. \f* on the walls made a vigorous defense; and there were great stores of engines and darts there.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.28: \v 28 But calling upon the Sovereign who with might breaks in pieces the \f + \fr 12:28 \ft Some authorities read \fqa weight. \f* strength of \f + \fr 12:28 \ft Or, \fqa his enemies \f* the enemy, they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty and five thousand of those who were within.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.29: \v 29 And setting out from thence they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.30: \v 30 But when the Jews that were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kindly bearing \add toward them \add* in the times of their misfortune,
\p 2 Maccabees 12.31: \v 31 they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well affected toward the race for the future; and they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close to hand.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.32: \v 32 But after the \add feast \add* called Pentecost they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea:
\p 2 Maccabees 12.33: \v 33 and he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.34: \v 34 And when they had set themselves in array, it came to pass that a few of the Jews fell.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.35: \v 35 And a certain Dositheus, one \f + \fr 12:35 \ft The Greek text is uncertain. \f* of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback and a strong man, pressed hard on Gorgias, and taking hold of his cloke drew him along by main force; and while he was minded to take the accursed man alive, one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and disabled his shoulder, and so Gorgias escaped to \f + \fr 12:35 \ft Compare 1 Maccabees 5:65. \f* Marisa.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.36: \v 36 And when those who were with Esdris had been fighting long and were wearied out, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself, fighting on their side and leading the van of the battle;
\p 2 Maccabees 12.37: \v 37 and \add then \add* in the language of his fathers he raised the battle-cry joined with hymns, and rushing unawares upon the troops of Gorgias put them to flight.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 12.38: \v 38 And Judas gathering his army came to the city of \f + \fr 12:38 \ft Gr. \fqa Odollam. \f* Adullam; and as the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.39: \v 39 And on the day following, \f + \fr 12:39 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* at which time it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, \f + \fr 12:39 \ft Or, \fqa and to bring them back to be with their kinsmen in the sepulchres \f* and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their fathers.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.40: \v 40 But under the garments of each one of the dead they found \f + \fr 12:40 \ft Perhaps these were consecrated images of the idols. \f* consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with; and it became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.41: \v 41 All therefore, blessing the \add works \add* of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hid,
\p 2 Maccabees 12.42: \v 42 betook themselves to supplication, beseeching that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they had seen before their eyes what things had come to pass because of the sin of those who had fallen.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.43: \v 43 And when he had made a collection man by man to the sum of two thousand drachmas of silver, he sent to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice for sin, doing therein right well and honorably, in that he took thought for a resurrection.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.44: \v 44 For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it were superfluous and idle to pray for the dead.
\p 2 Maccabees 12.45: \v 45 (And if \add he did it \add* looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who \f + \fr 12:45 \ft Gr. \fqa fall asleep. \f* die \f + \fr 12:45 \ft Or, \fqa on the side of godliness \f* in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.0: \c 13
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 13.1: \v 1 In the hundred forty and ninth year tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Antiochus Eupator was coming with \add great \add* multitudes against Judea,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.2: \v 2 and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, \f + \fr 13:2 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* each having a Greek force, a hundred and ten thousand footmen, and five thousand and three hundred horsemen, and two and twenty elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 13.3: \v 3 And Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the saving of his country, but because he thought that he would be set over the government.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.4: \v 4 But the King of kings stirred up the \f + \fr 13:4 \ft Or, \fqa spirit \f* passion of Antiochus against the wicked wretch; and when Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, \add the king \add* commanded to bring him to Beroea, and \f + \fr 13:4 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* to put him to death after the manner of that place.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.5: \v 5 Now there is in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all round it a \f + \fr 13:5 \ft Gr. \fqa contrivance or machine. \f* gallery \f + \fr 13:5 \ft Or, \fqa sloping steeply \f* descending sheer on every side into the ashes.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.6: \v 6 Here him that is guilty of sacrilege, or has attained a preeminence in any other evil deeds, they \f + \fr 13:6 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* all push forward into destruction.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.7: \v 7 By such a fate it befell the breaker of the law, Menelaus, to die, without obtaining so much as \add a grave in \add* the earth, and that right justly;
\p 2 Maccabees 13.8: \v 8 for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins \f + \fr 13:8 \ft Gr. \fqa about. \f* against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, in ashes did he receive his death.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 13.9: \v 9 Now the king, \f + \fr 13:9 \ft Some authorities read \fqa indignant. \f* infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had befallen \add them \add* in his father’s time.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.10: \v 10 But when Judas heard of these things, he gave charge to the multitude to call upon the Lord day and night, \add beseeching him, \add* if ever at any other time, so now to help those who were at the point to be deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.11: \v 11 and not to suffer the people that had been but now a little while revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.12: \v 12 So when they had all done the same thing together, \f + \fr 13:12 \ft Gr. \fqa and implored. \f* beseeching the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and commanded they should join him \add for service. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 13.13: \v 13 And having gone apart with the elders he resolved that, before the king’s army should enter into Judea and make themselves masters of the city, they should go forth and try the matter \add in fight \add* by the help of \f + \fr 13:13 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the Lord. \f* God.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.14: \v 14 And committing the decision to the \f + \fr 13:14 \ft Some authorities read \fqa Creator. \f* Lord of the world, and exhorting those who were with him to contend nobly even to death for laws, temple, city, country, \f + \fr 13:14 \ft Or, \fqa mode of life \f* commonwealth, he pitched his camp by Modin.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.15: \v 15 And given out to his men the watchword, VICTORY IS GOD’S, with a chosen body of the bravest young men he fell upon \add the camp \add* by night \add and penetrated \add* to the king’s \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa court. \f* tent, and killed \f + \fr 13:15 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* \add of \add* the \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army as many as two thousand men, and \f + \fr 13:15 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* brought down the chiefest elephant with him that was in the \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa house. \f* tower upon him.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.16: \v 16 And at last they filled the \f + \fr 13:16 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army with terror and alarm, and departed with good success.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.17: \v 17 And this had been accomplished when the day was but now dawning, because of the Lord’s protection that gave \f + \fr 13:17 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* Judas help.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 13.18: \v 18 But the king, having had a taste of the exceeding boldness of the Jews, made attempts by stratagem upon their positions,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.19: \v 19 and \add upon \add* a strong fortress of the Jews at Bethsura; he advanced, was turned back, failed, was defeated,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.20: \v 20 And Judas conveyed such things as were necessary to those who were within.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.21: \v 21 But Rhodocus, from the Jewish ranks, made known to the enemy the secrets \add of his countrymen. \add* He was sought out, and taken, and shut up in prison.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.22: \v 22 The king treated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took theirs, departed, attacked the forces of Judas, was put to the worse,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.23: \v 23 heard that Philip who had been left as chancellor in Antioch had become reckless, was confounded, made to the Jews an overture \add of peace, \add* submitted himself and sware to acknowledge all their rights, came to terms with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and the place,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.24: \v 24 showed kindness and graciously received Maccabaeus, left Hegemonides governor from Ptolemais even to the \f + \fr 13:24 \ft The form of this word is uncertain. Compare \fqa Girzites \ft (or \fqa Gizrites), \ft 1 Samuel 27:8. One manuscript reads \fqa Gerarenes. \f* Gerrenians,
\p 2 Maccabees 13.25: \v 25 came to Ptolemais. The men of Ptolemais were displeased at the treaty, for they had exceedingly great indignation \add against the Jews: \add* they desired to annul the articles of the agreement.
\p 2 Maccabees 13.26: \v 26 Lysias \f + \fr 13:26 \ft Gr. \fqa came forward to the tribune \ft or \fqa judgement seat. \f* came forward to speak, made the best defense that was possible, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, departed to Antioch. This was the issue of the inroad and departure of the king.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.1: \v 1 Now after a space of three years tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Demetrius the \add son \add* of Seleucus, having sailed into the haven of Tripolis with a mighty army and a fleet,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.2: \v 2 had gotten possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and Lysias his guardian.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.3: \v 3 But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling \add with the Gentiles, \add* considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.4: \v 4 came to king Demetrius in about the hundred and one and fifties year, presenting to him a chaplet of gold and a palm, and beside these \add some \add* of the festal olive boughs of the temple. And for that day he held his peace;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.5: \v 5 but having gotten opportunity to further his own madness, being called by Demetrius into a meeting of his council, and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they purposed, he answered thereto.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.6: \v 6 Those of the Jews that he called \f + \fr 14:6 \ft That is, \fqa Chasidim. \f* Hasidaeans, whose leader is Judas Maccabaeus, keep up war, and are seditious, not suffering the kingdom to find tranquillity.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.7: \v 7 Wherefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory, I mean the high priesthood, I am now come \f + \fr 14:7 \ft Some authorities read \fqa a second time. \f* here;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.8: \v 8 first for the unfeigned care I have for the things that concern the king, and secondly because I have regard also to my own fellow-citizens: for, through the unadvised dealing of those of whom I spoke before, our whole race is in no small misfortune.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.9: \v 9 But do you, O king, having informed yourself of these things severally, take thought both for our country and for our race, which \f + \fr 14:9 \ft Or, \fqa is hardly bestead \f* is surrounded \add by foes, \add* according to the gracious kindness with which you receive all.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.10: \v 10 For as long as Judas remains alive, it is impossible that the state should find peace.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.11: \v 11 And when he had spoken such words as these, at once \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Or, \fqa the \ft king’s \fqa Friends likewise \f* the rest of the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 14:11 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9. \f* Friends, having ill will against Judas, inflamed Demetrius yet more.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.12: \v 12 And forthwith appointing Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor of Judea, he sent him forth,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.13: \v 13 giving him written instructions to make away with Judas himself and to scatter those who were with him, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the \f + \fr 14:13 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great temple.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.14: \v 14 And \f + \fr 14:14 \ft Or, \fqa those who had fled before Judas all over Judea thronged \f* those in Judea that \f + \fr 14:14 \ft See 2 Maccabees 5:27. \f* had \add before \add* driven Judas into exile thronged to Nicanor in flocks, supposing that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would be successes to themselves.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.15: \v 15 But when \add the Jews \add* heard of Nicanor’s inroad and the assault of the heathen, they sprinkled earth \add upon their heads \add* and made solemn supplication to him who had established his own people for evermore, and who always, making manifest his presence, upholds \add those who are \add* his own portion.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.16: \v 16 \f + \fr 14:16 \ft The Greek text of this verse and the next is corrupt. \f* And when the leader had given \add his \add* commands, he immediately sets out from thence, and joins battle with them at a village \add called \add* Lessau.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.17: \v 17 But Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, \f + \fr 14:17 \ft Or, \fqa and had received a check, yet not till late by reason of the sudden consternation of his adversaries \f* yet not till late, having received a check by reason of the sudden consternation caused by his adversaries.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.18: \v 18 Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of those who were with Judas, and their courage in fighting for their country, shrank from bringing the matter to the decision of the sword.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.19: \v 19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius and Theodotus and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.20: \v 20 So when these proposals had been long considered, and the leader had made the \f + \fr 14:20 \ft Or, \fqa people \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of like mind, they consented to the covenants.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.21: \v 21 And they appointed a day on which to meet together by themselves. And a litter was borne forward from each \add army; \add* they set chairs of state;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.22: \v 22 Judas stationed armed men ready in convenient places, lest perhaps there should suddenly be treachery on the part of the enemy; they held such conference as was meet.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.23: \v 23 Nicanor waited in Jerusalem, and did nothing to cause disturbance, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered together.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.24: \v 24 And he kept Judas always in his presence; he had gained a hearty affection for the man;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.25: \v 25 he urged him to marry and beget children; he married, settled quietly, took part in common life.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.26: \v 26 But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, \f + \fr 14:26 \ft Or, \fqa and the covenants that had been made, took occasion and came \f* and having got possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was ill affected toward the state, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.27: \v 27 And the king, falling into a rage, and being exasperated by the false accusations of that most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was displeased at the covenants, and commanding him to send Maccabaeus prisoner to Antioch in all haste.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.28: \v 28 And when this message came to Nicanor, he was confounded, and was sore troubled at the thought of annulling the articles that had been agreed upon, the man having done no wrong;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.29: \v 29 but because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to execute this purpose by stratagem.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.30: \v 30 But Maccabaeus, when he perceived that Nicanor was behaving more harshly in his dealings with him, and that he had become ruler in his customary bearing, understanding that this harshness came not of good, gathered together not a few of his men, and concealed himself from Nicanor.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.31: \v 31 But the other, \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Or, \fqa though he was conscious that he had been nobly defeated by \f* when he became aware that he had been bravely defeated by the stratagem of \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Gr. \fqa the man. \f* Judas, came to the \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great and holy temple, while the priests were offering the usual sacrifices, and commanded them to deliver up the man.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.32: \v 32 And when they declared with oaths that they had no knowledge where the man was whom he sought,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.33: \v 33 he stretched forth his right hand toward the sanctuary, and sware this oath: If you° will not deliver up to me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this \f + \fr 14:33 \ft Or, \fqa chapel \ft Gr. \fqa inclosure. \f* temple of God even with the ground, and will break down the altar, and I will erect here a temple to \f + \fr 14:33 \ft Gr. \fqa Dionysus. \f* Bacchus for all to see.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.34: \v 34 And having said this, he departed. But the priests, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, called upon him that ever fights for our nation, in these words:
\p 2 Maccabees 14.35: \v 35 You, \f + \fr 14:35 \ft Or, \fqa O Lord, who in yourself have no need of the universe \f* O Lord of the universe, who in yourself have need of nothing, was well pleased that a sanctuary of your \f + \fr 14:35 \ft Gr. \fqa tabernacling. \f* habitation should be set among us;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.36: \v 36 so now, O holy Lord of all hallowing, keep undefiled forever this house that has been lately cleansed.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 14.37: \v 37 Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, \f + \fr 14:37 \ft Or, \fqa who was a lover \f* as being a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will \add toward them. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 14.38: \v 38 For in the former times when there was no mingling \add with the Gentiles \add* he had been accused of \add cleaving to \add* the Jews’ religion, and had jeoparded body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.39: \v 39 And Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bare to the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to take him;
\p 2 Maccabees 14.40: \v 40 for he thought by taking him to inflict a calamity upon them.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.41: \v 41 But when the \f + \fr 14:41 \ft Or, \fqa people \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops were on the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and bade bring fire and burn the doors, he being surrounded on every side fell upon his sword,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.42: \v 42 choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness:
\p 2 Maccabees 14.43: \v 43 but since he missed his stroke through the excitement of the struggle, and the crowds were now rushing within the door, he ran bravely up to the wall and cast himself down manfully among the crowds.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.44: \v 44 But as they quickly gave back, a space was made, and he fell on the middle of \f + \fr 14:44 \ft Or, \fqa the void place \f* his side.
\p 2 Maccabees 14.45: \v 45 And having yet breath within him, and being inflamed with passion, he rose up, and though his blood gushed out in streams and his wounds were grievous, he ran through the crowds, and standing upon a steep rock,
\p 2 Maccabees 14.46: \v 46 when as his blood was now well near spent, he drew forth his bowels \add through the wound, \add* and taking them in both his hands he shook them at the crowds; and calling upon him who is Lord of \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Or. \fqa life and spirit \f* the life and the \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit to restore him \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the same. \f* these again, he thus died.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.0: \c 15
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.1: \v 1 But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the region of Samaria, resolved to set upon them with all security on the day of rest.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.2: \v 2 And when the Jews that were compelled to follow him said, O destroy not so savagely and barbarously, but give due glory to the day which he that sees all things has \f + \fr 15:2 \ft Or, honored above \ft other days \fqa as a hallowed day \f* honored and hallowed above \add other days; \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 15.3: \v 3 then the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a Sovereign in heaven that had commanded to keep the Sabbath day.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.4: \v 4 And when they declared, There is the Lord, living himself a Sovereign in heaven, who bade \add us \add* observe the seventh day;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.5: \v 5 then says the other, I also am a sovereign upon the earth, \f + \fr 15:5 \ft Or, \fqa that commands \f* who \add now \add* command to take up arms and execute the king’s business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to execute his \f + \fr 15:5 \ft Or, \fqa miserable \f* cruel purpose.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.6: \v 6 And Nicanor, \f + \fr 15:6 \ft Gr. \fqa carrying his neck high. \f* bearing himself haughtily in all vaingloriousness, had determined to set up a monument of complete victory over Judas and all those who were with him:
\p 2 Maccabees 15.7: \v 7 but Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.8: \v 8 And he exhorted his company not to be fearful at the \f + \fr 15:8 \ft Or, \fqa assault \f* inroad of the heathen, but, keeping in mind the help which of old they had oftentimes received from heaven, so now also to look for the victory which would come to them from the Almighty;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.9: \v 9 and comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the conflicts that they had maintained, he made them more eager \add for the battle. \add*
\p 2 Maccabees 15.10: \v 10 And when he had roused their \f + \fr 15:10 \ft Or, \fqa passion \f* spirit, he gave them \add his \add* commands, at the same time pointing out the perfidiousness of the heathen and their breach of their oaths.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.11: \v 11 And arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defense of shields and spears as with the encouragement \add that lies \add* in good words, and moreover relating to them a dream \f + \fr 15:11 \ft Or, \fqa most worthy...all glad \f* worthy to be believed, he made them all exceedingly glad.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.12: \v 12 And the vision of that \add dream \add* was this: \add He saw \add* Onias, him that was high priest, a noble and good man, reverend in bearing, yet gentle in manner and well-spoken, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, with outstretched hands invoking \add blessings \add* on the whole body of the Jews:
\p 2 Maccabees 15.13: \v 13 thereupon \add he saw \add* a man appear, of venerable age and exceedingly glory, and wonderful and most majestic was the dignity around him:
\p 2 Maccabees 15.14: \v 14 and Onias answered and said, This is the lover of the kindred, he who prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah the prophet of God:
\p 2 Maccabees 15.15: \v 15 and Jeremiah stretching forth his right hand delivered to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it addressed \add him \add* thus,
\p 2 Maccabees 15.16: \v 16 Take the holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith you shall strike down the adversaries.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.17: \v 17 And being encouraged by the words of Judas, which were of a lofty strain, and able to incite to virtue and to stir the souls of the young to manly courage, they determined \f + \fr 15:17 \ft Or, \fqa not to go out to battle, but nobly to engage within \ft their lines, \fqa etc. \ft The Greek text of this passage is uncertain. \f* not to carry on a campaign, but nobly to bear down upon \add the enemy, \add* and fighting hand to hand with all courage bring the matter to an issue, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.18: \v 18 For their fear for wives and children, and furthermore for kindred and kinsfolk, was in less account with them; but greatest and first was their fear for the consecrated sanctuary.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.19: \v 19 And they also that were shut up in the city were in no light distress, being troubled because of the encounter in the open ground.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.20: \v 20 And when all were now waiting for the decision of the issue, and the enemy had already joined battle, and the army had been set in array, and the \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Gr. \fqa beasts. \f* elephants \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Or, \fqa stationed for convenient action \f* brought back to a convenient post, and the horsemen drawn up \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Or, \fqa in line \f* on the flank,
\p 2 Maccabees 15.21: \v 21 Maccabaeus, perceiving the presence of the \f + \fr 15:21 \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops, and the various arms with which they were equipped, and the savageness of the \f + \fr 15:21 \ft Gr. \fqa beasts. \f* elephants, holding up his hands to heaven called upon the Lord that works wonders, recognising that \add success \add* comes not by arms, but that, according as \add the Lord \add* shall judge, he gains the victory for those who are worthy.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.22: \v 22 And calling upon \add God \add* he said after this manner: You, O Sovereign Lord, did send your angel in the time of Hezekiah king of Judea, and he killed of the \f + \fr 15:22 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army of Sennacherib as many as a hundred fourscore and five thousand;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.23: \v 23 so now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling:
\p 2 Maccabees 15.24: \v 24 through the greatness of your arm let them be stricken with dismay that with blasphemy are come here against your holy people. And as he ended with these words,
\p 2 Maccabees 15.25: \v 25 Nicanor and his company advanced with trumpets and victory songs;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.26: \v 26 but Judas and his company joined battle with the enemy with invocation and prayers.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.27: \v 27 And contending with their hands, and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty five thousand men, being made exceedingly glad by the manifestation of God.
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.28: \v 28 And when the engagement was over, and they were returning again with joy, they recognized Nicanor lying dead in full armor;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.29: \v 29 and there arose a shout and \f + \fr 15:29 \ft Or, \fqa bewilderment \f* tumult, and \add then \add* they blessed the Sovereign \add Lord \add* in the language of their fathers.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.30: \v 30 And he that in all things was in body and soul the foremost champion of his fellow-citizens, he that kept through life the good will of his youth toward his countrymen, commanded to cut off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with the shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.31: \v 31 And when he had arrived there, and had called his countrymen together and set the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel;
\p 2 Maccabees 15.32: \v 32 and showing the head of the vile Nicanor, and the hand of that profane man, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty,
\p 2 Maccabees 15.33: \v 33 and cutting out the tongue of the impious Nicanor, he said that he would give \f + \fr 15:33 \ft Or, \fqa them \f* it by pieces to the birds, and hang up the \f + \fr 15:33 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* rewards of his madness near the sanctuary.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.34: \v 34 And they all \add looking up \add* to heaven blessed \f + \fr 15:34 \ft Or, \fqa the glorious Lord \f* the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, Blessed be he that has preserved his own place undefiled.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.35: \v 35 And he hanged Nicanor’s head and shoulder from the citadel, a sign, evident to all and manifest, of the help of the Lord.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.36: \v 36 And they all ordained with a common decree in no wise to let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian tongue), the day before the day of Mordecai.
\b
\p
\p 2 Maccabees 15.37: \v 37 THIS then having been the issue of the attempt of Nicanor, and the city having from those times been held by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my book.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.38: \v 38 And if \add I have written \add* well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to.
\p 2 Maccabees 15.39: \v 39 For as it is \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Or, \fqa hurtful \f* distasteful to drink wine alone and in like manner again \add to drink \add* water \add alone, \add* \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Gr. \fqa but even as. \f* while the mingling of wine with water at once \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Or, \fqa adds delight to the benefit \f* gives full pleasantness to the flavor; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story.
\p And here shall be the end.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 0.0: \id 2ES - 2 Esdras
\h 2 Esdras
\toc1 The Second Book of Esdras
\toc2 2 Esdras
\toc3 2Es
\mt1 THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS
\ip \bk The Second Book of Esdras\bk* is included in the Slavonic Bible as \bk 3 Esdras\bk*, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible as \bk 4 Esdras\bk*. It is considered to be Apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.1: \v 1 The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of Ahitob,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.2: \v 2 the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias, the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.3: \v 3 the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.4: \v 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.5: \v 5 Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.6: \v 6 because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have done sacrifice to strange gods.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.7: \v 7 Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.8: \v 8 Shake you then the hair of your head, and cast all evils upon them, for they have not been obedient to my law, but it is a rebellious people.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.9: \v 9 How long shall I forbear them, to whom I have done so much good?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.10: \v 10 I have overthrown many kings for their sakes; I have struck down Pharoah with his servants and all his army.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.11: \v 11 I have destroyed all the nations before them, and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.12: \v 12 Speak therefore to them, saying,
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.13: \v 13 The Lord says, of a truth I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made for you highways; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.14: \v 14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you° forgotten me, says the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.15: \v 15 The Lord Almighty says, The quails were for a token to you; I gave you a camp for your protection, nevertheless you° murmured there:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.16: \v 16 and you° triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but ever to this day do you° yet murmur.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.17: \v 17 Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when you° were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you° not cry to me,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.18: \v 18 saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.19: \v 19 I had pity upon your mourning, and gave you manna for food; you° did eat angels’ bread.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.20: \v 20 When you° were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.21: \v 21 I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.22: \v 22 The Lord Almighty says, When you° were in the wilderness, at the bitter river, being thirsty, and blaspheming my name,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.23: \v 23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.24: \v 24 What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and I will give my name to them, that they may keep my statutes.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.25: \v 25 Seeing you° have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you° ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.26: \v 26 Whenever you° shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you° have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.27: \v 27 You° have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.28: \v 28 The Lord Almighty says, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.29: \v 29 that you° would be my people, and I should be your God; that you° would be my children, and I should be your father?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.30: \v 30 I gathered you together, as a hen \add gathers \add* her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.31: \v 31 When you° offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.32: \v 32 I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you° have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require \add of your hands, \add* says the Lord.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.33: \v 33 The Lord Almighty says, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.34: \v 34 And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment \f + \fr 1:34 \ft Or, \fqa together with you \f* to you, and done that which is evil before me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.35: \v 35 I will give your houses to a people that will come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.36: \v 36 They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.37: \v 37 I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.38: \v 38 And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.39: \v 39 to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 1.40: \v 40 Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also the angel of the Lord.
\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.
\p
\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.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.0: \c 3
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: \v 1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: \v 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: \v 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: \v 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the \f + \fr 3:4 \ft So the Syriac and Aethiopic. \f* dust.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: \v 5 and it \f + \fr 3:5 \ft So the Syriac. \f* gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: \v 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: \v 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: \v 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised \add your commandments, \add* and you didn’t forbid them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: \v 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: \v 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: \v 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, \add even \add* all the righteous men \add that came \add* of him.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: \v 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: \v 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: \v 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: \v 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: \v 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: \v 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: \v 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did \f + \fr 3:18 \ft So some versions. Lat. \fqa set fast. \f* shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the \add course of that \add* age.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: \v 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: \v 20 And yet took you not away from them \add their \add* \f + \fr 3:20 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: \v 21 For the first Adam bearing a \f + \fr 3:21 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; \add and not he only, \add* but all they also that are born of him.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: \v 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Or, \fqa corruption \f* wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked abode still.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: \v 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: \v 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: \v 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: \v 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a \f + \fr 3:26 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: \v 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: \v 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: \v 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: \v 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: \v 31 to any \f + \fr 3:31 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa how this way may be left. \f* how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: \v 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these \add tribes of \add* Jacob?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: \v 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound \add in wealth, \add* and think not upon your commandments.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: \v 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: \v 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: \v 36 You shall find that men \add who may be reckoned \add* by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.0: \c 4
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.1: \v 1 And the angel that was sent to me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.2: \v 2 and said to me, your heart has utterly failed you in \add regarding \add* this world, and think you to comprehend the way of the Most High?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.3: \v 3 Then said I, Yes my Lord.
\p And he answered me, and said, I am sent to show you three ways, and to set forth three similitudes before you:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.4: \v 4 whereof if you can declare me one, I also will show you the way that you desire to see, and I will teach you wherefore the heart is \f + \fr 4:4 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.5: \v 5 And I said, say on, my Lord.
\p Then said he to me, Go to, weigh me a weight of fire, or measure me a \f + \fr 4:5 \ft After the Oriental versions. \f* measure of wind, or call me again the day that is past.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.6: \v 6 Then answered I and said, who of the sons \add of men \add* is able to do this, that you should ask me of such things?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.7: \v 7 And he said to me, If I had asked you, saying, How many dwellings are there in the heart of the sea? or how many springs are there at the fountain head of the deep? or how many \f + \fr 4:7 \ft After the Oriental versions. \f* ways are above the firmament? or which are the exits \f + \fr 4:7 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin omits \fqa of hell? or which are the paths. \f* of hell? or which are the paths of paradise?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.8: \v 8 perhaps you would say to me, I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.9: \v 9 Nevertheless now have I asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the day, things wherethrough you have passed, and \f + \fr 4:9 \ft Another reading is, \fqa from which you can not be separated \f* without which you can not be, and yet have you given me no answer of them.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.10: \v 10 He said moreover to me, Your own things, that are grown up with you, can you not know;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.11: \v 11 how then can your vessel comprehend the way of the Most High? and how can he that is already worn out with the corrupted world understand \f + \fr 4:11 \ft Syriac and Aethiopic, \fqa the way of the incorruptible. \f* incorruption?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.12: \v 12 \f + \fr 4:12 \ft So the Syriac and Aethiopic. The Latin is corrupt. \f* And when I heard these things I fell upon my face, and said to him, It were better that we were not here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know wherefore.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.13: \v 13 He answered me, and said, \f + \fr 4:13 \ft So the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. See Judges 9:8. \f* The woods of the trees of the field went forth, and took counsel together,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.14: \v 14 and said, Come! Let’s go and make war against the sea, that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.15: \v 15 The waves of the sea also in like manner took counsel together, and said, Come! Let’s go up and subdue the wood of the plain, that there also we may make us another country.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.16: \v 16 The counsel of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.17: \v 17 likewise also the counsel of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood up and stopped them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.18: \v 18 If you were judge now between these two, whom would you justify, or whom condemn?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.19: \v 19 I answered and said, it is a foolish counsel that they both have taken, for the ground is given to the wood, and the place of the sea \add is given \add* to bear his waves.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.20: \v 20 Then answered he me, and said, You have given a right judgement, and why judge you not in your own case?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.21: \v 21 For like as the ground is given to the wood, and the sea to his waves, even so those who dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he \add only that dwells \add* above the heavens \add may understand \add* the things that are above the height of the heavens.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.22: \v 22 Then answered I and said, I beseech you, O Lord, \f + \fr 4:22 \ft After the Oriental versions. \f* wherefore is the power of understanding given to me?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.23: \v 23 For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, \add and \add* the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere \add regarded, \add*
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.24: \v 24 and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a \f + \fr 4:24 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. \f* vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.25: \v 25 What will he then do for his name whereby we are called? Of these things have I asked.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.26: \v 26 Then he answered me, and said, if you be \add alive \add* you shall see, and if you live \f + \fr 4:26 \ft So the Syriac. \f* long, you shall marvel; for the world hastens fast to pass away.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.27: \v 27 For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times \add to come: \add* for this world is full of sadness and infirmities.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.28: \v 28 For the evil \f + \fr 4:28 \ft so the Syriac and Aethiopic. \f* whereof you asked me is sown, but the gathering thereof is not yet come.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.29: \v 29 If therefore that which is sown be not reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, there can’t come the field where the good is sown.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.30: \v 30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness has it brought forth to this time! and how much shall it yet bring forth until the \f + \fr 4:30 \ft Or, \fqa threshing floor \f* time of threshing come!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.31: \v 31 Ponder now by yourself, how great fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has brought forth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.32: \v 32 When the ears which are without number shall be sown, how great a floor shall they fill!
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.33: \v 33 Then I answered and said, \f + \fr 4:33 \ft So the chief oriental versions. \f* How long? and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.34: \v 34 And he answered me, and said, You do not hasten more than the Most High: for your haste is \f + \fr 4:34 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt. \f* for your own self, but he that is above \add hastens \add* on behalf of many.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.35: \v 35 Did not the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long \f + \fr 4:35 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa shall I hope on this fashion? \f* are we here? when comes the fruit of the \f + \fr 4:35 \ft Or, \fqa threshing floor \f* threshing time of our reward?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.36: \v 36 And to them Jeremiel the archangel gave answer, and said, Even when the number is fulfilled of those who are like to you. For he has weighed the world in the balance;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.37: \v 37 and by measure has he measured the times, and by number has he counted the seasons; and he shall not \f + \fr 4:37 \ft Syr. \fqa rest. \f* move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.38: \v 38 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, yet even we all are full of impiety:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.39: \v 39 and for our sakes perhaps it is that the \f + \fr 4:39 \ft Or, \fqa threshing floor \f* threshing time of the righteous is kept back, because of the sins of those who dwell upon the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.40: \v 40 So he answered me, and said, Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.41: \v 41 Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not.
\p And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.42: \v 42 for like as a woman that travails makes haste to escape the anguish of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.43: \v 43 Then shall it be showed you concerning those things which you desire to see.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.44: \v 44 Then answered I and said, if I have found favor in your sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.45: \v 45 show me this also, whether there be more to come than is past, or whether the more part is gone over us.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.46: \v 46 For what is gone I know, but what is for to come I know not.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.47: \v 47 And he said to me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude to you.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.48: \v 48 so I stood, and saw, and, behold, a hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened, that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.49: \v 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.50: \v 50 Then said he to me, Consider with yourself; as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity which is past did more exceed; but the drops and the smoke remained still.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.51: \v 51 Then I prayed, and said, May I live, think you, until that time? or who shall be in those days?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 4.52: \v 52 He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof you asked me, I may tell you of them in part: but as touching your life, I am not sent to show you; for I do not know it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.0: \c 5
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.1: \v 1 Nevertheless as concerning the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken \f + \fr 5:1 \ft So the syriac. \f* with great amazement, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.2: \v 2 But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or that you have heard long ago.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.3: \v 3 And the land, that you see now to have rule, shall be waste and \f + \fr 5:3 \ft So the Syriac. \f* untrodden, and men shall see it desolate.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.4: \v 4 But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see that which is after the third \add kingdom \add* to be troubled; and the sun shall suddenly shine forth in the night, and the moon in the day:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.5: \v 5 and blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the peoples shall be troubled; and \f + \fr 5:5 \ft According to some Oriental versions, \fqa the air. \f* \add their\add* goings shall be changed:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.6: \v 6 and he shall rule, whom those who dwell upon the earth look not for, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.7: \v 7 and the Sodomite sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but all shall hear the voice thereof.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.8: \v 8 There shall be chaos also in many places, and the fire shall be often sent out, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and women shall bring forth monsters:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.9: \v 9 and salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.10: \v 10 and it shall be sought of many, and shall not be found: and unrighteousness and incontinency shall be multiplied upon earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.11: \v 11 One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness, is a man that does righteousness, gone through you? And it shall say, No.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.12: \v 12 And it shall come to pass at that time that men shall hope, but shall not obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.13: \v 13 To show you such tokens I have leave; and if you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.14: \v 14 Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.15: \v 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.16: \v 16 And in the second night it came to pass, that \f + \fr 5:16 \ft The Syriac has \fqa Psaltiel. \f* Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, Where have you been? and why is your countenance sad?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.17: \v 17 or know you not that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.18: \v 18 Up then, and eat some bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd \add that leaves \add* in the hands of cruel wolves.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.19: \v 19 Then said I to him, Go your ways from me, and come not near me for seven days, and then shall you come to me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.20: \v 20 And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.21: \v 21 And after seven days, so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.22: \v 22 and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.23: \v 23 and said, O Lord that bear rule, of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen you one vine:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.24: \v 24 and of all the lands of the world you have chosen you one \f + \fr 5:24 \ft After the Oriental versions. The Latin has \fqa pit. \f* country: and of all the flowers of the world you have chosen you one lily:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.25: \v 25 and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.26: \v 26 and of all the fowls that are created you have named you one dove: and of all the cattle that are made you have provided you one sheep:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.27: \v 27 and among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten you one people: and to this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved of all.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.28: \v 28 And now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and \f + \fr 5:28 \ft After the Oriental versions. The Latin reads \fqa have prepared.\f* have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.29: \v 29 And they which did gainsay your promises have trodden them down that believed your covenants.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.30: \v 30 If you do so much hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.31: \v 31 Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.32: \v 32 and said to me, Hear me, and I will instruct you; listen to me, and I shall tell you more.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.33: \v 33 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he to me, You are sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: love you that people better than he that made them?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.34: \v 34 And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins torment me every hour, while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgement.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.35: \v 35 And he said to me, You can not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord, or whereunto was I born? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.36: \v 36 And he said to me, Number me those who are not yet come, gather me together the drops that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.37: \v 37 open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.38: \v 38 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that has not his dwelling with men?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.39: \v 39 As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.40: \v 40 Then said he to me, Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.41: \v 41 And I said, But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who be in the end: and what shall they do that have been before us, or we \add that be now, \add* or those who shall come after us?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.42: \v 42 And he said to me, I will liken my judgement to a ring: like as there is no slackness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.43: \v 43 So I answered and said, Couldest you not make them \add to be \add* at once that have been made, and that be now, and that are for to come; that you might show your judgment the sooner?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.44: \v 44 Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the creator; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.45: \v 45 And I said, How have you said to your servant, that \f + \fr 5:45 \ft So the Syriac. \f* you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? \f + \fr 5:45 \ft The Latin omits \fqa If...alive at once. \f* If therefore they shall be alive at once, and the creature shall sustain them: even so it might now also support them to be present at once.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.46: \v 46 And he said to me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, If you bring forth ten children, why \add do you it \add* at several times? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.47: \v 47 And I said, she can’t: but must do it by distance of time.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.48: \v 48 Then said he to me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown therein in their several times.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.49: \v 49 For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old \add bring forth \add* any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.50: \v 50 And I asked, and said, Seeing you have now showed me the way, I will speak before you: Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? or does she now draw near to age?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.51: \v 51 He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that bears children, and she shall tell you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.52: \v 52 Say to her, wherefore are not they whom you have now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.53: \v 53 And she also shall answer you, They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and those who are born in the time of age, when the womb fails, are otherwise.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.54: \v 54 Consider therefore you also, how that you° are less of stature than those that were before you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.55: \v 55 And so are those who come after you less than you°, as \add born \add* of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 5.56: \v 56 Then said I, Lord, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creature.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.0: \c 6
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.1: \v 1 And he said to me, In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the portals of the world were fixed, or ever the gatherings of the winds blew,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.2: \v 2 before the voices of the thunder sounded and before the flashes of the lightning shone, or ever the foundations of paradise were laid,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.3: \v 3 before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the powers of the earthquake were established, before the innumerable army of angels were gathered together,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.4: \v 4 or ever the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, or ever the footstool of Sion \f + \fr 6:4 \ft So the Syriac. \f* was established,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.5: \v 5 and before the present years were sought out, and or ever the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.6: \v 6 then did I consider these things, and they all were made through me alone, and through none other: as by me also they shall be ended, and by none other.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.7: \v 7 Then answered I and said, what shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that follows?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.8: \v 8 And he said to me, From \f + \fr 6:8 \ft Perhaps for \fqa Abram. \f* Abraham to \f + \fr 6:8 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Isaac. \f* Abraham, inasmuch as Jacob and Esau were born of him, for Jacob’s hand held the heel of Esau from the beginning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.9: \v 9 For Esau is the end of this world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that follows.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.10: \v 10 \f + \fr 6:10 \ft So the Syriac, etc. The Latin is defective. \f* The beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek you nothing else, Esdras.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.11: \v 11 I answered then and said, O Lord that bear rule, If I have found favor in your sight,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.12: \v 12 I beseech you, show your servant the end of your tokens, whereof you showed me part the last night.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.13: \v 13 So he answered and said to me, Stand up upon your feet, and you shall hear a mighty sounding voice;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.14: \v 14 and if the place you stand on is greatly moved,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.15: \v 15 when it speaks be you not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundations of the earth shall understand,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.16: \v 16 that the speech is of them: they shall tremble and be moved: for they know that their end must be changed.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.17: \v 17 And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet, and listened, and, behold, there was a voice that spoke, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.18: \v 18 And it said, Behold, the days come, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit those who dwell upon the earth,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.19: \v 19 and when I shall make inquisition of those who have done hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.20: \v 20 and when the seal shall be set upon the world that is to pass away, then I will show these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and all shall see together:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.21: \v 21 and the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children at three or four months, and they shall live, and dance.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.22: \v 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.23: \v 23 and the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man hears, they shall be suddenly afraid.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.24: \v 24 At that time shall friends make war one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the springs shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not run.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.25: \v 25 And it shall be that whoever remains after all these things that I have told you of, he shall be saved, and shall see my salvation, and the end of my world.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.26: \v 26 And they shall see the men that have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.27: \v 27 For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.28: \v 28 and faith shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.29: \v 29 And when he talked with me, behold, by little and little the place I stood on\f + \fr 6:29 \ft After the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. \f* rocked to and fro.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.30: \v 30 And he said to me, These things came I to show you \f + \fr 6:30 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt. \f* this night.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.31: \v 31 If therefore you will pray yet again, and fast seven days more, I shall yet \f + \fr 6:31 \ft The Latin has \fqa tell you by day. \f* tell you greater things than these.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.32: \v 32 For your voice has surely been heard before the Most High: for the Mighty has seen your righteous dealing, he has seen aforetime also your chastity, which you have had ever since your youth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.33: \v 33 And therefore has he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you, Be of good comfort, and fear not.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.34: \v 34 And be not hasty in \add regard of \add* the former times, to think vain things, that you may not hasten in the latter times.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.35: \v 35 And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfill the three weeks which he told me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.36: \v 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.37: \v 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.38: \v 38 And I said, O Lord, of a truth you spoke at the beginning of the creation, upon the first day, and said thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and your word perfected the work.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.39: \v 39 And then was the spirit hovering, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet.\f + \fr 6:39 \ft The Latin adds \fqa from you.\f*
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.40: \v 40 Then command you a ray of light to be brought forth of your treasures, that then your works might appear.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.41: \v 41 Upon the second day again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to part asunder, and to make a division between the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.42: \v 42 Upon the third day you did command that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth: six parts did you dry up, and keep them, to the intent that of these some being both planted and tilled might serve before you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.43: \v 43 For as soom as your word went forth the work was done.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.44: \v 44 For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.45: \v 45 Upon the fourth day you commanded that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in their order:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.46: \v 46 and gave them a charge to do service to man, that was to be made.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.47: \v 47 Upon the fifth day you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.48: \v 48 that the mute water and without life brought forth living things as it was told, that the peoples might therefore praise your wondrous works.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.49: \v 49 Then did you preserve two living creatures, the one you calledst Behemoth, and the other you calledst Leviathan:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.50: \v 50 and you did separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.51: \v 51 To Behemoth you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, wherein are a thousand hills:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.52: \v 52 but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the moist; and you have kept them to be devoured of whom you will, and when.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.53: \v 53 But upon the sixth day you gave commandment to the earth, that it should bring forth before you cattle, beasts, and creeping things:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.54: \v 54 and over these Adam, whom you ordain lord over all the works that you have made: of him come we all, the people whom you have chosen.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.55: \v 55 All this have I spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that for our sakes you made \f + \fr 6:55 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa the firstborn world. \f* this world.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.56: \v 56 As for the other nations, which also come of Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and are like to spittle: and you have likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a vessel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.57: \v 57 And now, O Lord, behold these nations, which are reputed as nothing, be lords over us, and devour us.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.58: \v 58 But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 6.59: \v 59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess for an inheritance our world? How long shall this endure?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.0: \c 7
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.1: \v 1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.2: \v 2 and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.3: \v 3 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be \f + \fr 7:3 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin MSS. have \fqa deep. \f* broad and vast.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.4: \v 4 But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.5: \v 5 whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.6: \v 6 Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.7: \v 7 but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.8: \v 8 and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, \add so small \add* that there could but one man go there at once.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.9: \v 9 If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.10: \v 10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.11: \v 11 Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.12: \v 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.13: \v 13 For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.14: \v 14 If then those who live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.15: \v 15 Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.16: \v 16 and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.17: \v 17 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.18: \v 18 The righteous therefore shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: but those who have done wickedly \f + \fr 7:18 \ft According to some authorities, \fqa have not suffered...and shall not see. \f* have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.19: \v 19 And he said to me, \f + \fr 7:19 \ft Another reading is, \fqa There is no judge...and none that has understanding. \f* You are not a judge above God, neither have you understanding above the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.20: \v 20 Yes, rather let many that now be perish, than that the law of God which is set before them be despised.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.21: \v 21 For God straitly commanded such as came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.22: \v 22 Nevertheless they were not obedient to him; but spoke against him, and imagined for themselves vain things;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.23: \v 23 and framed cunning plans of wickedness; and said moreover of the Most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.24: \v 24 but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.25: \v 25 Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.26: \v 26 For behold, the time shall come, and it shall be, when these tokens, of which I told you before, shall come to pass, that the bride shall appear, even the city coming forth, and she shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.27: \v 27 And whoever is delivered from the aforesaid evils shall see my wonders.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.28: \v 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.29: \v 29 After these years shall my son Christ die of those who, and all that have the breath of \f + \fr 7:29 \ft Lat. \fqa man \f* life.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.30: \v 30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the first beginning: so that no man shall remain.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.31: \v 31 And after seven days the world, that yet awakens not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corruptible.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.32: \v 32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence, and the \f + \fr 7:32 \ft Or, \fqa chambers \ft See 2 Esdras 4:35. \f* secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed to them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.33: \v 33 And the Most High shall be revealed upon the seat of judgement, \f + \fr 7:33 \ft The Syriac adds \fqa and the end shall come. \f* and compassion shall pass away, and patience shall be withdrawn:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.34: \v 34 but judgement only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith shall wax strong:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.35: \v 35 and the work shall follow, and the reward shall be showed, and good deeds shall awake, and wicked deeds shall not sleep. \f + \fr 7:35 \ft The passage from verse [36] to verse [105], formerly missing, has been restored to the text. See Preface, page ix. \f*
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.36: \v 36 And the \f + \fr 7:36 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin MSS. have \fqa place. \f* pit of torment shall appear, and near it shall be the place of rest: and the furnace of \f + \fr 7:36 \ft Lat. \fqa Gehenna. \f* shall be showed, and near it the paradise of delight.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.37: \v 37 And then shall the Most High say to the nations that are raised from the dead, See you° and understand whom you° have denied, or whom you° have not served, or whose commandments you° have despised.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.38: \v 38 Look on this side and on that: here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments. Thus \f + \fr 7:38 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has \fqa shall you speak. \f* shall he speak to them in the day of judgement:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.39: \v 39 This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.40: \v 40 neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor morning,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.41: \v 41 neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor \f + \fr 7:41 \ft Or, \fqa storm \f* winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.42: \v 42 neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, save only the splendor of the glory of the Most High, whereby all shall see the things that are set before them:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.43: \v 43 for it shall endure as it were a week of years.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.44: \v 44 This is my judgement and the ordinance thereof; but to you only have I showed these things.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.45: \v 45 And I answered, I said even then, O Lord, and I say now: blessed are those who are now alive and keep the \add statutes \add* ordained of you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.46: \v 46 But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, \add what shall I say? \add* for who is there of those who are alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons \add of men \add* that has not transgressed your covenant?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.47: \v 47 And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments to many.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.48: \v 48 For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these \add statutes, \add* and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.49: \v 49 And he answered me, and said, Listen to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.50: \v 50 for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.51: \v 51 For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear \add the answer \add* thereto.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.52: \v 52 If you have exceedingly few choice stones, \f + \fr 7:52 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* will you set for you near them according to their number \add things of \add* lead and clay?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.53: \v 53 And I said, Lord, how shall this be?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.54: \v 54 And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.55: \v 55 For you shall say to her, You bring forth gold and silver and brass, and iron also and lead and clay:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.56: \v 56 but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead than iron, and clay than lead.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.57: \v 57 Judge you therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.58: \v 58 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.59: \v 59 And he answered me, and said, \f + \fr 7:59 \ft The Latin here is corrupt. \f* Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he that has what is hard to get rejoices over him that has what is plentiful.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.60: \v 60 So also is the \f + \fr 7:60 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are those who have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.61: \v 61 And I will not grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like to vapor, and are become as flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are quenched.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.62: \v 62 And I answered and said, O you earth, wherefore have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of dust, like as all other created things?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.63: \v 63 For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.64: \v 64 But now the mind grows with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.65: \v 65 Let the race of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that are born lament, but let the four-footed beasts and the cattle rejoice.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.66: \v 66 For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.67: \v 67 For what does it profit us, that we shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.68: \v 68 For all that are born are \f + \fr 7:68 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.69: \v 69 and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.70: \v 70 And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all those who came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.71: \v 71 And now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.72: \v 72 They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have done iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.73: \v 73 What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.74: \v 74 For how great a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.75: \v 75 And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.76: \v 76 And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with those who are scorners, nor count yourself with those who are tormented.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.77: \v 77 For you have a treasure of \add good \add* works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.78: \v 78 For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.79: \v 79 And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate those who fear \f + \fr 7:79 \ft Another reading is, \fqa him. \f* God,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.80: \v 80 these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.81: \v 81 The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.82: \v 82 The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.83: \v 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.84: \v 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.85: \v 85 The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.86: \v 86 The sixth way, they shall see \f + \fr 7:86 \ft The passage is corrupt. \f* how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.87: \v 87 The seventh way, which is \f + \fr 7:87 \ft Lat. \fqa greater \f* more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with \f + \fr 7:87 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.88: \v 88 Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.89: \v 89 In the time \f + \fr 7:89 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.90: \v 90 Wherefore this is the teaching concerning them:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.91: \v 91 First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.92: \v 92 The first order, because they have labored with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.93: \v 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.94: \v 94 The third order, they see the witness which he that fashioned them bears concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law which was given them in trust.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.95: \v 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with great quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaits them in the last days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.96: \v 96 The fifth order, they rejoice, \add seeing \add* how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the \f + \fr 7:96 \ft The Latin is here corrupt. \f* painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.97: \v 97 The sixth order, when it is showed to them how their face shall shine as the sun, and how they shall be made like to the light of the stars, being henceforth incorruptible.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.98: \v 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive \add their \add* reward in glory.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.99: \v 99 This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth \f + \fr 7:99 \ft The latin is here corrupt. \f* is announcer to them, \add and \add* aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.100: \v 100 And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.101: \v 101 And he said, Their freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things whereof you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered together in their habitations.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.102: \v 102 And I answered and said, if I have found favor in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgment the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.103: \v 103 whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or \f + \fr 7:103 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* friends for those who are most dear.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.104: \v 104 And he answered me, and said, Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also: The day of judgement is \f + \fr 7:104 \ft The Latin has \fqa a bold day \f* a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth; even as now a father sends not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a \f + \fr 7:104 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may \f + \fr 7:104 \ft the Latin has \fqa understand. \f* be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.105: \v 105 so never shall anyone pray for another \f + \fr 7:105 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin omits \fqa in that day...another. \f* in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, for then shall everyone will each bear his own righteousness or unrighteousness.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.106: \v 106 And I answered and said, How do we now find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.107: \v 107 and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of \f + \fr 7:107 \ft That is, \fqa Achan. \ft See Joshua 7:1. \f* Achar:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.108: \v 108 and Samuel \f + \fr 7:108 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin omits \fqa in the days of Saul. \f* in the days of Saul; and David for the plague: and Solomon for those who \add should worship \add* in the sanctuary:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.109: \v 109 and Elijah for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.110: \v 110 and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib: and many for many?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.111: \v 111 If therefore now, when corruption is grown up, and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, wherefore shall it not be so then also?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.112: \v 112 He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains \f + \fr 7:112 \ft Omitted in the Latin. \f* not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.113: \v 113 But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, \f + \fr 7:113 \ft Omitted in the Latin. \f* and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.114: \v 114 intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.115: \v 115 Then shall no man be able to have mercy on him that is cast in judgement, nor to thrust down him that has gotten the victory.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.116: \v 116 I answered then and said, this is my first and last saying, that it had been better that the earth had not given \add you \add* Adam: or else, when it had given \add him, \add* to have restrained him from sinning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.117: \v 117 For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.118: \v 118 O you Adam, what have you done? For though it was you that sinned, the evil is not fallen on you alone, but upon all of us that come of you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.119: \v 119 For what profit is it to us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.120: \v 120 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves most miserably are become vain?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.121: \v 121 And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.122: \v 122 And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.123: \v 123 And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.124: \v 124 for we have walked in unpleasant places?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.125: \v 125 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.126: \v 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.127: \v 127 Then he answered and said, This is the \f + \fr 7:127 \ft Or, \fqa intent \f* condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.128: \v 128 that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.129: \v 129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.130: \v 130 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.131: \v 131 so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.132: \v 132 I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.133: \v 133 and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.134: \v 134 and patient, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.135: \v 135 and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.136: \v 136 and of great mercy, for that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.137: \v 137 (for if he multiplied not \add his mercies, \add* the world would not continue with those who dwell therein;)
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.138: \v 138 and one that forgives, for if he didn’t forgive of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men would not remain living;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.139: \v 139 and a judge, \add for \add* if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of \f + \fr 7:139 \ft Lat. \fqa contempts. \f* offences,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 7.140: \v 140 there would perhaps be very few left in an innumerable multitude.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.1: \v 1 And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.2: \v 2 I will tell you now a similitude, Esdras; As when you asks the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives very much mold whereof earthen vessels are made, and little dust that gold comes of: even so is the course of the present world.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.3: \v 3 There be many created, but few shall be saved.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.4: \v 4 And I answered and said, Swallow down understanding then, O my soul, and let \add my heart \add* devour wisdom.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.5: \v 5 For you \f + \fr 8:5 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is incorrect. \f* are come here without your will, and depart when you would not: for there is given you no longer space than only to live a short time.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.6: \v 6 O Lord, that are over us, suffer your servant, that we may pray before you, and give us seed to our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one shall live that is corrupt, who bears the \f + \fr 8:6 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa place. \f* likeness of a man.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.7: \v 7 For you are alone, and we all one workmanship of your hands, like as you have said.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.8: \v 8 Forasmuch as you quicken the body that is fashioned now in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months does your workmanship endure your creature which is created in her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.9: \v 9 But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept \f + \fr 8:9 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is imperfect. \f* by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.10: \v 10 you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.11: \v 11 that the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you shall order it in your mercy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.12: \v 12 Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, and nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.13: \v 13 And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.14: \v 14 If therefore you shall \f + \fr 8:14 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is incorrect. \f* lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.15: \v 15 Now therefore I will speak; touching man in general, you know best; but touching your people \add I will speak, \add* for whose sake I am sorry;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.16: \v 16 and for your inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for the seed of Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.17: \v 17 therefore I will begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.18: \v 18 but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.19: \v 19 Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you.
\p The beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up. And he said,
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.20: \v 20 O Lord, you who \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Or, \fqa inhabitest eternity \f* remain forever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.21: \v 21 whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the army of angels stand with trembling,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.22: \v 22 \f + \fr 8:22 \ft According to the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has, even they \fqa whose service takes the form of wind etc. \f* at whose bidding they are changed to wind and fire; whose word is sure, and sayings constant; whose ordinance is strong, and commandment fearful;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.23: \v 23 whose look dries up the depths, and whose indignation makes the mountains to melt away, and whose truth bears witness:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.24: \v 24 hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servant, and give ear to the petition of your handiwork;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.25: \v 25 attend to my words, for so long as I live I will speak, and so long as I have understanding I will answer.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.26: \v 26 O look not upon the sins of your people; but on those who have served you in truth,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.27: \v 27 Regard not the doings of those who deal wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.28: \v 28 Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before you; but remember them which have willingly known your fear.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.29: \v 29 Let it not be your will to destroy them which have lived like cattle; but look upon those who have \f + \fr 8:29 \ft The Syriac has \fqa received the brightness of your law. \f* clearly taught your law.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.30: \v 30 Take you no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love those who have always put their trust in your glory.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.31: \v 31 For we and our fathers have \f + \fr 8:31 \ft So the Syriac and Aethiopic versions.\f* passed our lives in \f + \fr 8:31 \ft Lat. \fqa manners. \f* ways that bring death: but you because of us sinners \f + \fr 8:31 \ft Another reading is, \fqa shall be. \f* are called merciful.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.32: \v 32 For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us, then shall you be called merciful, to us, namely, that have no works of righteousness.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.33: \v 33 For the just, which have many \add good \add* works laid up with you, shall for their own deeds receive reward.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.34: \v 34 For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.35: \v 35 For in truth there is no man among those who are born, but he has dealt wickedly; and among them \f + \fr 8:35 \ft So the Syriac. There appears to be an error in the Latin text. \f* that have lived there is none which have not done amiss.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.36: \v 36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and your goodness shall be declared, if you be merciful to them which have no store of good works.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.37: \v 37 Then answered he me, and said, Some things have you spoken aright, and according to your words so shall it come to pass.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.38: \v 38 For indeed I will not think on the fashioning of them which have sinned, or their death, their judgement, or their destruction;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.39: \v 39 but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.40: \v 40 Like therefore as I have spoken, so shall it be.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.41: \v 41 For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown shall \f + \fr 8:41 \ft Lat. \fqa be saved. \f* come up in due season, neither shall all that is planted take root: even so those who are sown in the world shall not all be saved.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.42: \v 42 I answered then and said, if I have found favor, let me speak before you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.43: \v 43 Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, \f + \fr 8:43 \ft So the printed Latin text. The earlier MSS. are corrupt.\f* so perishes;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.44: \v 44 likewise man, which is formed with your hands, and is called your own image, because he is made like \add to you, \add* for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like to the husbandman’s seed.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.45: \v 45 Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.46: \v 46 Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for those who now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.47: \v 47 For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. \add Let this \add* never \add be. \add*
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.48: \v 48 Yet in this shall you be admirable to the Most High;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.49: \v 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself \add worthy to be \add* among the righteous, so as to be much glorified.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.50: \v 50 For many grievous miseries shall fall on those who in the last times dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.51: \v 51 But understand you for yourself, and of such as be like you seek out the glory.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.52: \v 52 For to you is paradise opened, the tree of life planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is \f + \fr 8:52 \ft The Syriac has \fqa established. \f* allowed, goodness is perfected, wisdom being perfect beforehand.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.53: \v 53 The root \add of evil \add* is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and \f + \fr 8:53 \ft After the chief Oriental versions. \f* [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.54: \v 54 sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.55: \v 55 Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.56: \v 56 For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.57: \v 57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.58: \v 58 and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.59: \v 59 For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared \add shall receive \add* them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.60: \v 60 but they which be created have themselves defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful to him which prepared life for them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.61: \v 61 And therefore is my judgement now at hand,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.62: \v 62 which I have not showed to all men, but to you, and a few like you.
\p Then answered I and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 8.63: \v 63 Behold, O Lord, now have you showed me the multitude of the wonders, which you will do in the last times: but at what time, you have not showed me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.1: \v 1 And he answered me, and said, Measure you diligently within yourself: and when you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.2: \v 2 then shall you understand, that it is the very time, wherein the Most High will visit the world which was made by him.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.3: \v 3 And when there shall be seen in the world earthquakes, disquietude of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.4: \v 4 then shall you understand, that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.5: \v 5 For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning \f + \fr 9:5 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt. \f* is evident, and the end manifest;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.6: \v 6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.7: \v 7 And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, or by faith, whereby he has believed,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.8: \v 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.9: \v 9 Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and those who have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.10: \v 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.11: \v 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised \f + \fr 9:11 \ft Or, me \f* \add it, \add*
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.12: \v 12 must know \f + \fr 9:12 \ft Or, me \f* \add it \add* after death by torment.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.13: \v 13 And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, \f + \fr 9:13 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has \fqa and whose... \ft created, \fqa and when. \f* they whose the world \add is, \add* and for whom the world \add was created. \add*
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.14: \v 14 And I answered and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.15: \v 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.16: \v 16 like as a wave is greater than a drop.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.17: \v 17 And he answered me, saying, Just as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the \f + \fr 9:17 \ft So the Aethiopic and Arabic. The Latin has \fqa creation. \f* judgement \add on it; \add* and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.18: \v 18 even then when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.19: \v 19 for \f + \fr 9:19 \ft So the Syriac. \f* there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both \f + \fr 9:19 \ft So the Syriac. \f* with a table that fails not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their manners.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.20: \v 20 So I considered my world, and, behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and, behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.21: \v 21 And I saw, and spared them, but not greatly, and saved me a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of \f + \fr 9:21 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has \fqa great tribes. \f* a great forest.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.22: \v 22 Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be saved, and my plant; for with great labor have I made them perfect.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.23: \v 23 Nevertheless if you will cease yet seven days more, (however you shall not fast in them,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.24: \v 24 but shall go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field; and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but \add shall eat \add* flowers only;)
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.25: \v 25 and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.26: \v 26 So I went my way, like as he commanded me, into the field which is called \f + \fr 9:26 \ft The Syriac and Aethiopic have \fqa Arphad. \f* Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and its meat satisfied me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.27: \v 27 And it came to pass after seven days that I lay upon the grass, and my heart was vexed again, like as before:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.28: \v 28 and my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Lord Most High, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.29: \v 29 O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.30: \v 30 and you did say, Hear me, you Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.31: \v 31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you° shall be glorified in it forever.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.32: \v 32 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law didn’t perish, neither could it, for it was your;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.33: \v 33 yet those who received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.34: \v 34 And, behold, it is a custom, that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.35: \v 35 or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it has not happened so.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.36: \v 36 For we that have received the law shall perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.37: \v 37 Notwithstanding the law perishes not, but remains in its honor.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.38: \v 38 And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked about me with my eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were tore, and she had ashes upon her head.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.39: \v 39 Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me to her,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.40: \v 40 and said to her, Why do you weep? and why are you grieved in your mind?
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.41: \v 41 And she said to me, Let me alone, my Lord, that I may bewail myself, and add to my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.42: \v 42 And I said to her, What ails you? Tell me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.43: \v 43 She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.44: \v 44 And every hour and every day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.45: \v 45 And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my \f + \fr 9:45 \ft Lat. \fqa townsmen. \f* neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.46: \v 46 And I nourished him with great travail.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 9.47: \v 47 So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.1: \v 1 And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.2: \v 2 Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my \f + \fr 10:2 \ft Lat. \fqa townsmen. \f* neighbors rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet to the second day at night.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.3: \v 3 And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.4: \v 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.5: \v 5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.6: \v 6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.7: \v 7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.8: \v 8 \f + \fr 10:8 \ft See the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. \f* It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.9: \v 9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.10: \v 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.11: \v 11 Who then should make more mourning, \f + \fr 10:11 \ft So the Syriac. \f* she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.12: \v 12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.13: \v 13 but \add it is with \add* the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.14: \v 14 then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.15: \v 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.16: \v 16 For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.17: \v 17 Go your way then into the city to your husband.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.18: \v 18 And she said to me, “I won’t do that. I will not go into the city, but I will die here.”
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.19: \v 19 So I proceeded to speak further to her, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.20: \v 20 Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.21: \v 21 For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.22: \v 22 our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.23: \v 23 and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.24: \v 24 You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.25: \v 25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid \f + \fr 10:25 \ft The Syriac has \fqa to draw near to her, and my heart was greatly astonied, and when I mused etc. \f* of her, and mused what this might be;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.26: \v 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.27: \v 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place showed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.28: \v 28 Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? for he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.29: \v 29 And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at the first came to me, and he looked upon me:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.30: \v 30 and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.31: \v 31 What ails you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.32: \v 32 And I said, Because you have forsaken me: yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.33: \v 33 And he said to me, Stand up like a man, and I will advise you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.34: \v 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.35: \v 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.36: \v 36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.37: \v 37 Now therefore I beseech you to show your servant concerning this trance.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.38: \v 38 And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.39: \v 39 He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.40: \v 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.41: \v 41 The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.42: \v 42 but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.43: \v 43 and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.44: \v 44 This woman, whom you saw, is \f + \fr 10:44 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* Sion, \f + \fr 10:44 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* whom you now see as a city built;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.45: \v 45 and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, \add it is, \add* because there were three \f + \fr 10:45 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.46: \v 46 And it came to pass after three \f + \fr 10:46 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* thousand years that Solomon built the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.47: \v 47 And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.48: \v 48 And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.49: \v 49 And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; \f + \fr 10:49 \ft Omitted in the Oriental versions. \f* these were the things to be opened to you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.50: \v 50 For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the attractiveness of her beauty:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.51: \v 51 and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was built:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.52: \v 52 for I knew that the Most High would show this to you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.53: \v 53 Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.54: \v 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.55: \v 55 Therefore fear you not, nor let your heart be affrighted, but go your way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes be able to see:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.56: \v 56 and then shall you hear as much as your ears may comprehend.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.57: \v 57 For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.58: \v 58 But tomorrow at night you shall remain here;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 10.59: \v 59 and so shall the Most High show you those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do to those who dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.1: \v 1 And it came to pass the second night that I saw a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.2: \v 2 And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of heaven blew on her, \f + \fr 11:2 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has only \fqa and were gathered together. \f* and the clouds were gathered together against her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.3: \v 3 And I saw, and out of her wings there grew \add other \add* wings near them; and they became little wings and small.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.4: \v 4 But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other heads, yet rested it with them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.5: \v 5 Moreover I saw, and, behold, the eagle flew with her wings, to reign over the earth, and over those who dwell therein.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.6: \v 6 And I saw how all things under heaven were subject to her, and no man spoke against her, no, not one creature upon earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.7: \v 7 And I saw, and, behold, the eagle rose upon her talons, and uttered her voice to her wings, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.8: \v 8 Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.9: \v 9 but let the heads be preserved for the last.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.10: \v 10 And I saw, and, behold, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.11: \v 11 And I counted \f + \fr 11:11 \ft The Syriac has \fqa her little wings, and, etc. \f* her wings that were near the other, and, behold, there were eight of them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.12: \v 12 And I saw, and, behold, on the right side there arose one wing, and reigned over all the earth;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.13: \v 13 and so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and it appeared not, so that the place thereof appeared no more: and the next following rose up, and reigned, and it ruled a great time;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.14: \v 14 and it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, so that it appeared no more, like as the first.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.15: \v 15 And, behold, there came a voice to it, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.16: \v 16 Hear you that have borne rule over the earth all this time: this I proclaim to you, before you shall appear no more,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.17: \v 17 There shall none after you attain to your time, neither to the half thereof.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.18: \v 18 Then arose the third, and had the rule as the others before, and it also appeared no more.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.19: \v 19 So went it with all the wings one after another, as that every one bare rule, and then appeared no more.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.20: \v 20 And I saw, and, behold, in process of time the \f + \fr 11:20 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* wings that followed were set up upon the \f + \fr 11:20 \ft The Aethiopic has \fqa left. \f* right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.21: \v 21 some also of them were set up, but ruled not.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.22: \v 22 After this I saw, and, behold, the twelve wings appeared no more, nor two of the little wings:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.23: \v 23 and there was no more left upon the eagle’s body, but the three heads that rested, and six little wings.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.24: \v 24 And I saw, and, behold, two little wings divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: but four remained in their place.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.25: \v 25 And I saw, and, behold, these \f + \fr 11:25 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* under wings thought to set up themselves, and to have the rule.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.26: \v 26 And I saw, and, behold, there was one set up, but within a while it appeared no more.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.27: \v 27 A second also, and it was sooner away than the first.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.28: \v 28 And I saw, and, behold, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.29: \v 29 and while they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, \add namely, it \add* that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two \add other \add* heads.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.30: \v 30 And I saw how it joined the two \add other \add* heads with it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.31: \v 31 And, behold, the head was turned with those who were with it, and did eat up the two \f + \fr 11:31 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* under wings that thought to have reigned.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.32: \v 32 But this head held the whole earth in possession, and bare rule over those that dwell therein with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.33: \v 33 And after this I saw, and, behold, the head also that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.34: \v 34 But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort reigned over the earth, and over those that dwell therein.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.35: \v 35 And I saw, and, behold, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.36: \v 36 Then I heard a voice, which said to me, Look before you, and consider the thing that you see.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.37: \v 37 And I saw, and, behold, as it were a lion roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.38: \v 38 Hear you, I will talk with you, and the Most High shall say to you,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.39: \v 39 Are not you it that remain of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.40: \v 40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and held the world in governance with great trembling, and the whole compass of the earth with grievous oppression; and so long time lived he upon the earth with deceit.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.41: \v 41 And you have judged the earth, but not with truth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.42: \v 42 For you have afflicted the meek, you have hurt the peaceful, you have hated those who speak truth, you have loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of those who brought forth fruit, and cast down the walls of such as did you no harm.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.43: \v 43 Therefore is your insolent dealing come up to the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.44: \v 44 The Most High also has looked upon his times, and, behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.45: \v 45 And therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your vain body:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 11.46: \v 46 that all the earth may be refreshed, and be eased, being delivered from your violence, and that she may hope for the judgement and mercy of him that made her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.1: \v 1 And it came to pass, whiles the lion spoke these words to the eagle, I saw,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.2: \v 2 and, behold, the head that remained appeared no more, and \f + \fr 12:2 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. \f* the two wings which went over to it arose and set themselves up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and full of uproar.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.3: \v 3 And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burned, so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I by reason of great ecstasy of mind, and from great fear, and said to my spirit,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.4: \v 4 Behold, this have you done to me, in that you search out the ways of the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.5: \v 5 Behold, I am yet weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; nor is there the least strength in me, for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.6: \v 6 Therefore I will now beseech the Most High, that he will strengthen me to the end.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.7: \v 7 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I am justified with you above many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before your face;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.8: \v 8 strengthen me then, and show me your servant the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that you may perfectly comfort my soul.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.9: \v 9 For you have judged me worthy to show me the end of time and the last times.
\p
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.10: \v 10 And he said to me, This is the interpretation of this vision which you saw:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.11: \v 11 The eagle, whom you saw come up from the sea, is the fourth kingdom which appeared in vision to your brother Daniel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.12: \v 12 But it was not expounded to him, as I now expound it to you or have expounded it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.13: \v 13 Behold, the days come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.14: \v 14 Twelve kings will reign in it, one after another:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.15: \v 15 whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have a longer time than \add any of \add* the twelve.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.16: \v 16 This is the interpretation of the twelve wings, which you saw.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.17: \v 17 And whereas you heard a voice which spoke, not going out from the heads, but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.18: \v 18 That \f + \fr 12:18 \ft The Oriental versions have\fqa in the midst of. \f* after the time of that kingdom there shall arise no small contentions, and it shall stand in peril of falling: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to its first estate.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.19: \v 19 And whereas you saw the eight under wings sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.20: \v 20 That in it there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.21: \v 21 And two of them shall perish, when the middle time approaches: four shall be kept for a while until the time of the ending thereof shall approach: but two shall be kept to the end.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.22: \v 22 And whereas you saw three heads resting, this is the interpretation:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.23: \v 23 In the last days thereof shall the Most High raise up three \f + \fr 12:23 \ft The Oriental versions have \fqa kings \f* kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall bear rule over the earth,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.24: \v 24 and over those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.25: \v 25 For these are those who shall accomplish her wickedness, and that shall finish her last end.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.26: \v 26 And whereas you saw that the great head appeared no more, \add it signifies \add* that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.27: \v 27 But for the two that remained, the sword shall devour them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.28: \v 28 For the sword of the one shall devour him that was with him: but he also shall fall by the sword in the last days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.29: \v 29 And whereas you saw two under wings passing \f + \fr 12:29 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa over the head. \f* over to the head that is on the right side,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.30: \v 30 this is the interpretation: These are they, whom the Most High has kept to his end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as you saw.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.31: \v 31 And the lion, whom you saw rising up out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness, and all her words which you have heard;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.32: \v 32 this is the anointed one, whom the Most High has kept to the end \f + \fr 12:32 \ft The words in brackets are added from the Syriac. \f* [of days, who shall spring up out of the seed of David, and he shall come and speak] to them and reprove them for their wickedness and unrighteousness, and shall \f + \fr 12:32 \ft The Syriac has \fqa set in order. \ft See Psalm 1:21. \f* heap up before them their contemptuous dealings.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.33: \v 33 For at the first he shall set them alive in his judgement, and when he has reproved them, he shall destroy them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.34: \v 34 For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been preserved throughout my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken to you from the beginning.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.35: \v 35 This is the dream that you saw, and this is the interpretation thereof:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.36: \v 36 and you only have been meet to know the secret of the Most High.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.37: \v 37 Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put them in a secret place:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.38: \v 38 and you shall teach them to the wise of your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.39: \v 39 But wait you here yourself yet seven days more, that there may be showed to you whatever it pleases the Most High to show you. And he departed from me.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.40: \v 40 And it came to pass, when all the people \f + \fr 12:40 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa heard. \f* saw that the seven days were past, and I had not come again into the city, they gathered them all together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me, and spoke to me, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.41: \v 41 What have we offended you? and what evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.42: \v 42 For of all the prophets you only are left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a lamp in a dark place, and as a haven for a ship saved from the tempest.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.43: \v 43 Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.44: \v 44 If you shall forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been consumed in the burning of Sion!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.45: \v 45 For we are not better than those who died there. And they wept with a loud voice. And I answered them, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.46: \v 46 Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.47: \v 47 for the Most High has you in remembrance, and the Mighty has not forgotten you \f + \fr 12:47 \ft So the Syriac. \f* forever.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.48: \v 48 As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.49: \v 49 And now go your way every man to his own house, and after these days I will come to you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.50: \v 50 So the people went their way into the city, like as I said to them:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 12.51: \v 51 but I sat in the field seven days, as \add the angel \add* commanded me; and in those days I did eat only of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.0: \c 13
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.1: \v 1 And it came to pass after seven days, I dreamed a dream by night:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.2: \v 2 and, behold, there arose a wind from the sea, that it moved all the waves thereof.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.3: \v 3 And I saw, and, behold, \f + \fr 13:3 \ft The words in brackets are added from the Syriac. \f* [this wind caused to come up from the midst of the sea as it were the likeness of a man, and I saw, and, behold,] that man \f + \fr 13:3 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa grew strong \f* flew with the clouds of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all things trembled that were seen under him.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.4: \v 4 And whenever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burned that heard his voice, like as the \f + \fr 13:4 \ft So the Syriac and other Oriental versions.\f* wax melts when it feels the fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.5: \v 5 And after this I saw, and, behold, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of heaven, to make war against the man that came out of the sea.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.6: \v 6 And I saw, and, behold, he carved himself a great mountain, and flew upon it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.7: \v 7 But I sought to see the region or place whereout the mountain was graven, and I could not.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.8: \v 8 And after this I saw, and, behold, all they which were gathered together to fight against him were sore afraid, and yet dared fight.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.9: \v 9 And, behold, as he saw the assault of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held spear, nor any instrument of war:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.10: \v 10 but only I saw how that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a flood of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he cast forth sparks \f + \fr 13:10 \ft So the Syriac and Arabic. \f* of the storm.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.11: \v 11 And these were all mixed together; the flood of fire, the flaming breath, and the great storm; and fell upon the assault of the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust of ashes and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was amazed.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.12: \v 12 Afterward I saw the same man come down from the mountain, and call to him another multitude which was peaceful.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.13: \v 13 And there came \f + \fr 13:13 \ft Lat. \fqa the faces of many people. \f* much people to him, whereof some were glad, some were sorry, some of them were bound, and other some brought of those who were offered: then through great fear I awaked, and prayed to the Most High, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.14: \v 14 You have showed your servant these wonders from the beginning, and have counted me worthy that you should receive my prayer:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.15: \v 15 and now show me moreover the interpretation of this dream.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.16: \v 16 For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who shall be left in those days! and much more woe to those who are not left!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.17: \v 17 for those who were not left shall be in heaviness,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.18: \v 18 understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days, but not attaining to them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.19: \v 19 But woe to them also that are left, for this cause; for they shall see great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.20: \v 20 Yet is it \f + \fr 13:20 \ft Lat. \fqa easier. \f* better for one to be in peril and to come into \f + \fr 13:20 \ft So the Syriac. \f* these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that \f + \fr 13:20 \ft So the Syriac. \f* shall happen in the last days.
\p And he answered to me, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.21: \v 21 The interpretation of the vision shall I tell you, and I will also open to you the things whereof you have made mention.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.22: \v 22 Whereas you have spoken of those who are left behind, this is the interpretation:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.23: \v 23 He that shall \f + \fr 13:23 \ft So the Syriac. \f* endure the peril in that time shall keep those who are fallen into danger, even such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.24: \v 24 Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than those who are dead.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.25: \v 25 These are the interpretations of the vision: Whereas you saw a man coming up from the midst of the sea,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.26: \v 26 this is he whom the Most High has kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order those who are left behind.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.27: \v 27 And whereas you saw, that out of his mouth there came wind, and fire, and storm;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.28: \v 28 and whereas he held neither spear, nor any instrument of war, but destroyed the assault of that multitude which came to fight against him; this is the interpretation:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.29: \v 29 Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver those who are upon the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.30: \v 30 And there shall come astonishment of mind upon those who dwell on the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.31: \v 31 And one shall think to war against another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.32: \v 32 And it shall be, when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, then shall my Son be revealed, whom you saw \add as \add* a man ascending.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.33: \v 33 And it shall be, when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the battle they have one against another.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.34: \v 34 And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come, and to fight against him.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.35: \v 35 But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.36: \v 36 And Sion shall come, and shall be showed to all men, being prepared and built, like as you saw the mountain graven without hands.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.37: \v 37 And this my Son shall rebuke the nations which are come for their wickedness, \add with plagues \add* that are like to a tempest;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.38: \v 38 and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.39: \v 39 And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.40: \v 40 these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.41: \v 41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.42: \v 42 that they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.43: \v 43 And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.44: \v 44 For the Most High then did signs for them, and stayed the springs of the River, till they were passed over.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.45: \v 45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called \f + \fr 13:45 \ft That is, \fqa another land. \ft See Deuteronomy 29:28. \f* Arzareth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.46: \v 46 Then lived they there until the latter time; and now when they begin to come again,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.47: \v 47 the Most High stays the springs of the River again, that they may go through: therefore saw you the multitude gathered together with peace.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.48: \v 48 But those that be left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.49: \v 49 It shall be therefore when he shall destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend the people that remain.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.50: \v 50 And then shall he show them very many wonders.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.51: \v 51 Then said I, O Lord that bear rule, show me this: wherefore I have seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.52: \v 52 And he said to me, like as one can neither seek out nor know what is in the deep of the sea, even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the time of \f + \fr 13:52 \ft So the Oriental versions. The Latin omits \fqa his. \f* his day.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.53: \v 53 This is the interpretation of the dream which you saw, and for this you only are enlightened herein.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.54: \v 54 For you have forsaken your own \add ways, \add* and applied your diligence to mine, and have sought out my law.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.55: \v 55 Your life have you ordered in wisdom, and have called understanding your mother.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.56: \v 56 And therefore have I showed you this; for there is a reward laid up with the Most High: and it shall be, after other three days I will speak other things to you, and declare to you mighty and wondrous things.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.57: \v 57 Then went I forth and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 13.58: \v 58 and because he governs the time, and such things as fall in their seasons. And there I sat three days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.0: \c 14
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.1: \v 1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush near me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.2: \v 2 And I said, Here am I, Lord. And I stood up upon my feet.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.3: \v 3 Then said he to me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself, and talked with Moses, when my people were in bondage in Egypt:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.4: \v 4 and I sent him, and \f + \fr 14:4 \ft Another reading is. \fqa I. \f* he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.5: \v 5 and told him many wondrous things, and showed him the secrets of the times, and the end of the seasons; and commanded him, saying,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.6: \v 6 These words shall you publish openly, and these shall you hide.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.7: \v 7 And now I say to you,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.8: \v 8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have showed, and the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.9: \v 9 for you shall be taken away from men, and from henceforth you shall remain with my Son, and with such as be like you, until the times be ended.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.10: \v 10 For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.11: \v 11 \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Verses 11, 12 are omitted in the Syriac. The Aethiopic has \fqa For the world is divided into ten parts, and is come to the tenth: and half of the tenth remains. Now etc. \f* For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already, \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Lat. \fqa and. \f* even the half of the tenth part:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.12: \v 12 and there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.13: \v 13 Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, \f + \fr 14:13 \ft The Latin alone omits \fqa and...wise. \f* and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.14: \v 14 and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.15: \v 15 and lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and haste you to remove from these times.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.16: \v 16 For yet worse evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.17: \v 17 For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.18: \v 18 For the truth will withdraw itself further off, and falsehood will be hard at hand: for now hastens \f + \fr 14:18 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* the eagle to come, which you saw in vision.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.19: \v 19 Then answered I and said, \f + \fr 14:19 \ft The Latin omits \fqa I will speak. \f* I will speak before you, O Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.20: \v 20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people that now be: but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? for the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.21: \v 21 For your law is burned, therefore no man knows the things that are done of you, or the works that shall be done.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.22: \v 22 But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that they which would live in the latter days may live.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.23: \v 23 And he answered me and said, Go your way, gather the people together, and say to them, that they seek you not for forty days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.24: \v 24 But look you prepare you many tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, which are ready to write swiftly;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.25: \v 25 and come here, and I shall light a lamp of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be ended which you shall write.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.26: \v 26 And when you have done, some things shall you publish openly, and some things shall you deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow this hour shall you begin to write.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.27: \v 27 Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.28: \v 28 Hear these words, O Israel.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.29: \v 29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.30: \v 30 and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you° also have transgressed after them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.31: \v 31 Then was \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Another reading is, \fqa a land in the land of Sion. \f* the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you° yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.32: \v 32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.33: \v 33 And now you° are here, and your kindred are among you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.34: \v 34 Therefore if so be that you° will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you° shall be kept alive, and after death you° shall obtain mercy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.35: \v 35 For after death shall the judgement come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.36: \v 36 Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.37: \v 37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went forth into the field, and remained there.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.38: \v 38 And it came to pass on the next day that, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.39: \v 39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, there was reached to me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the color of it was like fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.40: \v 40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.41: \v 41 and my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.42: \v 42 The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in \f + \fr 14:42 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* characters which they knew not, and they sat forty days: now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.43: \v 43 As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I held not my tongue.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.44: \v 44 So in forty days were written \f + \fr 14:44 \ft So the Oriental versions. The copies of the Latin vary and are corrupt. \f* fourscore and fourteen books.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.45: \v 45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, The first that you have written publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read it:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.46: \v 46 but keep the seventy last, that you may deliver them to such as be wise among your people:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.47: \v 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 14.48: \v 48 And I did so.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.0: \c 15
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.1: \v 1 Behold, speak you in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in your mouth, says the Lord:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.2: \v 2 and cause you them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.3: \v 3 Don’t be afraid of their imaginations against you, don’t let the unbelief of them that speak against you trouble you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.4: \v 4 For all the unbelievers shall die in their unbelief.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.5: \v 5 Behold, says the Lord, I bring evils upon the whole earth; sword and famine, and death and destruction.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.6: \v 6 For wickedness has prevailed over every land, and their hurtful works are come to the full.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.7: \v 7 Therefore says the Lord,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.8: \v 8 I will hold my peace no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in these things, which they wickedly practice: behold, the innocent and righteous blood cries to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.9: \v 9 I will surely avenge them, says the Lord, and will receive to me all the innocent blood from among them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.10: \v 10 Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.11: \v 11 but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as aforetime, and will destroy all the land thereof.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.12: \v 12 Let Egypt mourn, and the foundations thereof, for the plague of the chastisement and the punishment that God shall bring upon it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.13: \v 13 Let the farmers that till the ground mourn: for their seeds shall fail and their trees shall be laid waste through the blasting and hail, and a terrible star.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.14: \v 14 Woe to the world and those who dwell therein!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.15: \v 15 for the sword and their destruction draws near, and nation shall rise up against nation to battle with weapons in their hands.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.16: \v 16 For there shall be sedition among men; and waxing strong one against another, they shall not regard their king nor the chief of their great ones, in their might.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.17: \v 17 For a man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.18: \v 18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, \add and \add* men shall be afraid.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.19: \v 19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbor, but shall make an assault on their houses with the sword, and plunder their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great suffering.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.20: \v 20 Behold, says God, I call together all the kings of the earth, to stir up those who are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.21: \v 21 Just as they do yet this day to my chosen, so I will do also, and recompense in their bosom. The Lord God says:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.22: \v 22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over those who shed innocent blood upon the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.23: \v 23 And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.24: \v 24 Woe to those who sin, and keep not my commandments! says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.25: \v 25 I will not spare them: go your way, you° rebellious children, defile not my sanctuary.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.26: \v 26 For the Lord knows all those who trespass against him, therefore has he delivered them to death and destruction.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.27: \v 27 For now are the evils come upon the whole earth, and you° shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because you° have sinned against him.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.28: \v 28 Behold, a vision horrible, and the appearance thereof from the east!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.29: \v 29 And the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set forth the hissing of them is carried over the earth, so that all they which shall hear them may fear also and tremble.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.30: \v 30 Also the Carmonians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians with their teeth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.31: \v 31 And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their \f + \fr 15:31 \ft Or, \fqa birth \f* nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.32: \v 32 then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.33: \v 33 And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their army shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.34: \v 34 Behold, clouds from the east and from the north to the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.35: \v 35 They shall dash one against another, and they shall pour out a plentiful \f + \fr 15:35 \ft Lat. \fqa star. \f* storm upon the earth, even their own star; and there shall be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.36: \v 36 and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hough.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.37: \v 37 And there shall be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth: and they that see that wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall take hold upon them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.38: \v 38 And after this shall there be stirred up great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.39: \v 39 And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the star that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be violently driven toward the south and west.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.40: \v 40 And great clouds and mighty and full of wrath shall be lifted up, and the star, that they may destroy all the earth, and those who dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent one a terrible star,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.41: \v 41 fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.42: \v 42 And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.43: \v 43 And they shall go on steadfastly to Babylon, and destroy her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.44: \v 44 They shall come to her, and compass her about; the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heaven, and all those who are about her shall bewail her.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.45: \v 45 And those who remain shall do service to those who have put her in fear.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.46: \v 46 And you, Asia, that are partaker in the beauty of Babylon, and in the glory of her person:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.47: \v 47 woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like to her; you have decked your daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always desired you to commit whoredom withal!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.48: \v 48 You have followed her that is hateful in all her works and inventions: therefore says God,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.49: \v 49 I will send evils upon you; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste your houses to destruction and death.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.50: \v 50 And the glory of your power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over you.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.51: \v 51 You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and \add your \add* lovers you shall not be able to receive.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.52: \v 52 Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against you, says the Lord,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.53: \v 53 if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of your hands, and saying over their \f + \fr 15:53 \ft Lat. \fqa death.\f* dead, when you were drunken,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.54: \v 54 Set forth the beauty of your countenance?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.55: \v 55 The reward of a prostitute shall be in your bosom, therefore shall you receive recompense.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.56: \v 56 Just as you shall do to my chosen, says the Lord, even so shall God do to you, and shall deliver you into mischief.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.57: \v 57 And your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword: and your cities shall be broken down, and all your shall perish by the sword in the field.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.58: \v 58 And those who are in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink \add their own \add* blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.59: \v 59 You unhappy above all shall come and shall again receive evils.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.60: \v 60 And in the passage they shall rush on the \f + \fr 15:60 \ft Another reading is, hateful. \f* idle city, and shall destroy some portion of your land, and mar part of your glory, and shall return again to Babylon that was destroyed.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.61: \v 61 And you shall be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be to you as fire;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.62: \v 62 and shall devour you, and your cities, your land, and your mountains; all your woods and your fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 15.63: \v 63 They shall carry your children away captive, and shall plunder your wealth, and mar the glory of your face.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.0: \c 16
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.1: \v 1 Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! woe to you, Egypt, and Syria!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.2: \v 2 Gird up yourselves with sackcloth and garments of hair, and bewail your children, and lament; for your destruction is at hand.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.3: \v 3 A sword is sent upon you, and who is he that may turn it back?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.4: \v 4 A fire is sent upon you, and who is he that may quench it?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.5: \v 5 Evils are sent upon you, and who is he that may drive them away?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.6: \v 6 May one drive away a hungry lion in the wood? or may one quench the fire in stubble, when it has once begun to burn?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.7: \v 7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.8: \v 8 The Lord God sends the evils, and who shall drive them away?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.9: \v 9 A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.10: \v 10 He shall cast lightning, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not tremble?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.11: \v 11 The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly broken in pieces at his presence?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.12: \v 12 The earth quakes, and the foundations thereof; the sea arises up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it shall be troubled, and the fishes thereof also, at the presence of the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.13: \v 13 for strong is his right hand that bends the bow, his arrows that he shoots are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.14: \v 14 Behold, the evils are sent forth, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.15: \v 15 The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundations of the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.16: \v 16 Just as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returns not backward, even so the evils that are sent forth upon earth shall not return again.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.17: \v 17 Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.18: \v 18 The beginning of sorrows, and \add there shall be \add* great mourning; the beginning of famine, and many shall perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils, and all shall tremble! what shall they do in \add all \add* this when the evils shall come?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.19: \v 19 Behold, famine and plague, suffering and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.20: \v 20 But for all these things they shall not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.21: \v 21 Behold, food shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.22: \v 22 For many of those who dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the famine, shall the sword destroy.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.23: \v 23 And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be left desolate, and the cities thereof shall be cast down.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.24: \v 24 There shall be no husbandman left to till the earth, and to sow it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.25: \v 25 The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.26: \v 26 The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for in \add all \add* places there shall be a great forsaking:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.27: \v 27 for one man shall desire to see another, or to hear his voice.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.28: \v 28 For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.29: \v 29 As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there be left three or four olives,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.30: \v 30 or as when a vineyard is gathered there be some clusters left by those who diligently seek through the vineyard;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.31: \v 31 even so in those days there shall be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.32: \v 32 And the earth shall be left desolate, and the fields thereof shall be for briers, and her ways and all her paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep shall pass therethrough.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.33: \v 33 The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.34: \v 34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.35: \v 35 Hear now these things, and understand them, you° servants of the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.36: \v 36 Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaks.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.37: \v 37 Behold, the evils draw near, and are not slack.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.38: \v 38 Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours doleful pains surround her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no waiting for a moment:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.39: \v 39 even so shall not the evils be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall groan, and sorrows shall take hold of it on every side.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.40: \v 40 O my people, hear my word: make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.41: \v 41 He that sells, let him be as he that flees away: and he that buys, as one that will lose:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.42: \v 42 he that occupies merchandise, as he that has no profit by it: and he that builds, as he that shall not dwell therein:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.43: \v 43 he that sows, as if he should not reap: so also he that prunes \add the vines, \add* as he that shall not gather the grapes:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.44: \v 44 those who marry, as those who shall get no children; and those who marry not, as the widowed.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.45: \v 45 Inasmuch as those who labor labor in vain;
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.46: \v 46 for strangers shall reap their fruits, and plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine shall they beget their children:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.47: \v 47 and those who traffick traffick to become a plunder: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.48: \v 48 the more I will hate them for their sins, says the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.49: \v 49 Just as a right honest and virtuous woman hates a prostitute,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.50: \v 50 so shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decks herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he comes that shall defend him that diligently searches out every sin upon earth.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.51: \v 51 Therefore be you° not like thereto, nor to the works thereof.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.52: \v 52 For yet a little while, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign over us.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.53: \v 53 Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.54: \v 54 Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.55: \v 55 Who said, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was made.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.56: \v 56 And at his word were the stars established, and he knows the number of the stars.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.57: \v 57 Who searches the deep, and the treasures thereof; he has measured the sea, and what it contains.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.58: \v 58 Who has shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word has he hanged the earth upon the waters.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.59: \v 59 Who spreads out the heaven like a vault; upon the waters has he founded it.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.60: \v 60 Who has made in the desert springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, to send forth rivers from the height to water the earth.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.61: \v 61 Who framed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.62: \v 62 yes, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things, and searches out hidden things in hidden places,
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.63: \v 63 surely he knows your imagination, and what you° think in your hearts. Woe to those who sin, and would fain hide their sin!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.64: \v 64 Forasmuch as the Lord will exactly search out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.65: \v 65 And when your sins are brought forth before men, you° shall be ashamed, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers in that day.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.66: \v 66 What will you° do? or how will you° hide your sins before God and his angels?
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.67: \v 67 Behold, God is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them forever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all suffering.
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\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.68: \v 68 For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed you with that which is slain to idols.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.69: \v 69 And those who consent to them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and be trodden under foot of them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.70: \v 70 For there shall be \f + \fr 16:70 \ft The Latin is uncertain. \f* in various places, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.71: \v 71 They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but spoiling and destroying those who still fear the Lord.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.72: \v 72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.73: \v 73 Then shall be manifest the trial of my elect; even as the gold that is tried in the fire.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.74: \v 74 Hear, O you° my elect, says the Lord: behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.75: \v 75 Be you° not afraid, neither doubt; for God is your guide:
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.76: \v 76 and you° who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift up themselves.
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.77: \v 77 Woe to those who are fast bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities, like as a field is fast bound with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!
\p 2 Esdras (Latin) 16.78: \v 78 \f + \fr 16:78 \ft Or, \fqa They are \ft every one \fqa shut out, etc. \f* It is even shut off, and given up to be consumed of fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 0.0: \id 4MA
\h 4 Maccabees
\toc1 The Fourth Book of the Maccabees
\toc2 4 Maccabees
\toc3 4Ma
\mt1 THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE MACCABEES
\ip \bk The Fourth Book of the Maccabees\bk* appears in an appendix to the Greek Septuagint. It is considered to be apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.0: \c 1
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\p 4 Maccabees 1.1: \v 1 As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.2: \v 2 For reason is necessary to every one as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.3: \v 3 If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust,
\p 4 Maccabees 1.4: \v 4 it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.5: \v 5 How, then, is it, perhaps some may say, that reasoning, if it rule the affections, is not also master of forgetfulness and ignorance? They attempt a ridiculous argument.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.6: \v 6 For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.7: \v 7 I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;
\p 4 Maccabees 1.8: \v 8 but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven kindred, and their mother, who suffered death in defense of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.9: \v 9 For all these, treating pains with contempt even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.10: \v 10 For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honors, I may count them happy.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.11: \v 11 For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.12: \v 12 But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our wont, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these persons, giving glory to the all wise God.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.13: \v 13 The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.14: \v 14 Let’s determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?
\p 4 Maccabees 1.15: \v 15 Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.16: \v 16 And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.17: \v 17 And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.18: \v 18 And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.19: \v 19 The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.20: \v 20 Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.21: \v 21 And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.22: \v 22 Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.23: \v 23 And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.24: \v 24 Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.25: \v 25 And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.26: \v 26 In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.27: \v 27 In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.28: \v 28 As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.29: \v 29 And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.30: \v 30 For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.31: \v 31 Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.32: \v 32 But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.33: \v 33 For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.34: \v 34 Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water-animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 1.35: \v 35 For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p 4 Maccabees 2.1: \v 1 And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,
\p 4 Maccabees 2.2: \v 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.3: \v 3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.4: \v 4 And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.5: \v 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.6: \v 6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.7: \v 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?
\p 4 Maccabees 2.8: \v 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.9: \v 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.10: \v 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.11: \v 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.12: \v 12 And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.13: \v 13 And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.14: \v 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.15: \v 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.16: \v 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.17: \v 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.18: \v 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.19: \v 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.20: \v 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.21: \v 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.22: \v 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.23: \v 23 And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.
\p 4 Maccabees 2.24: \v 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?
\p 4 Maccabees 3.0: \c 3
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\p 4 Maccabees 3.1: \v 1 The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,
\p 4 Maccabees 3.2: \v 2 in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.3: \v 3 One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.4: \v 4 Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.5: \v 5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.6: \v 6 And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.7: \v 7 For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them;
\p 4 Maccabees 3.8: \v 8 then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire army of our ancestors was encamped.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.9: \v 9 Now all the rest of them were at supper;
\p 4 Maccabees 3.10: \v 10 but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;
\p 4 Maccabees 3.11: \v 11 but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.12: \v 12 Wherefore his bodyguards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies:
\p 4 Maccabees 3.13: \v 13 and unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.14: \v 14 And having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the draught for the king.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.15: \v 15 But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.16: \v 16 Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.17: \v 17 For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement,
\p 4 Maccabees 3.18: \v 18 and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessive; and, through the excellency of reasoning, to abominate all the assaults of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.19: \v 19 But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history.
\p 4 Maccabees 3.20: \v 20 For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government,
\p 4 Maccabees 3.21: \v 21 then certain persons, bringing in new things contrary to the general unanimity, in various ways fell into calamities.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.0: \c 4
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\p 4 Maccabees 4.1: \v 1 For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.2: \v 2 Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said,
\p 4 Maccabees 4.3: \v 3 Having good will to the king’s affairs, I am come to inform you that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to king Seleucus.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.4: \v 4 Apollonius, acquainting himself with the particulars of this, praised Simon for his care of the king’s interests, and going up to Seleucus informed him of the treasure;
\p 4 Maccabees 4.5: \v 5 and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force,
\p 4 Maccabees 4.6: \v 6 he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.7: \v 7 And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.8: \v 8 But Appolonius went away with threats into the temple.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.9: \v 9 And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,
\p 4 Maccabees 4.10: \v 10 and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure, —there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armor, filling them with much fear and trembling.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.11: \v 11 And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly army.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.12: \v 12 For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.13: \v 13 Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;
\p 4 Maccabees 4.14: \v 14 and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.15: \v 15 But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of arrogant pride and terrible.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.16: \v 16 Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest:
\p 4 Maccabees 4.17: \v 17 who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.18: \v 18 And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.19: \v 19 And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.20: \v 20 So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, \add but neglected\add* the guardianship of the temple.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.21: \v 21 At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.22: \v 22 For being at war with Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that on a report of his death being spread abroad, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had exceedingly rejoiced, and he quickly marched against them.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.23: \v 23 And having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the laws of his country he should die.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.24: \v 24 And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect,
\p 4 Maccabees 4.25: \v 25 for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment.
\p 4 Maccabees 4.26: \v 26 When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to renounce the Jewish religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.0: \c 5
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\p 4 Maccabees 5.1: \v 1 The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him,
\p 4 Maccabees 5.2: \v 2 commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh, and things offered to idols.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.3: \v 3 And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.4: \v 4 And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.5: \v 5 And Antiochus seeing him, said,
\p 4 Maccabees 5.6: \v 6 I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.7: \v 7 For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?
\p 4 Maccabees 5.8: \v 8 It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.9: \v 9 And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.10: \v 10 And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.11: \v 11 Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
\p 4 Maccabees 5.12: \v 12 and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years?
\p 4 Maccabees 5.13: \v 13 For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.14: \v 14 While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.15: \v 15 And having received power to speak, he began deliver himself like this:
\p 4 Maccabees 5.16: \v 16 We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;
\p 4 Maccabees 5.17: \v 17 wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.18: \v 18 And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.19: \v 19 think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.20: \v 20 For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;
\p 4 Maccabees 5.21: \v 21 for in either case the law is equally slighted.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.22: \v 22 But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.23: \v 23 Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.24: \v 24 And it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we render what is due; and it teaches us piety, so that we worship the one only God becomingly.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.25: \v 25 Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathizes with our nature.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.26: \v 26 Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.27: \v 27 But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat:
\p 4 Maccabees 5.28: \v 28 but you shall not have this cause of laughter against me;
\p 4 Maccabees 5.29: \v 29 nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.30: \v 30 No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.31: \v 31 I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defense of my religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.32: \v 32 Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.33: \v 33 I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.34: \v 34 I will not belie you, O law, my instructor! or forsake you, O beloved self-control!
\p 4 Maccabees 5.35: \v 35 I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny you, O honored priesthood, and science of the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.36: \v 36 Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.37: \v 37 My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death.
\p 4 Maccabees 5.38: \v 38 For over the ungodly you shall tyrannize; but you shall not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by your arguments, or through deeds.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.0: \c 6
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\p 4 Maccabees 6.1: \v 1 When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.2: \v 2 And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.3: \v 3 Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;
\p 4 Maccabees 6.4: \v 4 a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.5: \v 5 But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.6: \v 6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.7: \v 7 And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.8: \v 8 then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.9: \v 9 But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;
\p 4 Maccabees 6.10: \v 10 and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.11: \v 11 His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.12: \v 12 Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.13: \v 13 partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.14: \v 14 Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?
\p 4 Maccabees 6.15: \v 15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.16: \v 16 And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.17: \v 17 Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;
\p 4 Maccabees 6.18: \v 18 for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.19: \v 19 and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.20: \v 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.21: \v 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.22: \v 22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.23: \v 23 You° spearbearers of the tyrant, why do you° linger?
\p 4 Maccabees 6.24: \v 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:
\p 4 Maccabees 6.25: \v 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.26: \v 26 And he being at length burned down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,
\p 4 Maccabees 6.27: \v 27 You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.28: \v 28 Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.29: \v 29 Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.30: \v 30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.31: \v 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.32: \v 32 For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.33: \v 33 But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.34: \v 34 And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.
\p 4 Maccabees 6.35: \v 35 Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.0: \c 7
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\p 4 Maccabees 7.1: \v 1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
\p 4 Maccabees 7.2: \v 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,
\p 4 Maccabees 7.3: \v 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.4: \v 4 Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.5: \v 5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.6: \v 6 O priest worthy of the priesthood! you didn’t pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.7: \v 7 O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!
\p 4 Maccabees 7.8: \v 8 Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.9: \v 9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.10: \v 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!
\p 4 Maccabees 7.11: \v 11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,
\p 4 Maccabees 7.12: \v 12 so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.13: \v 13 And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, and his muscles were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.14: \v 14 By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.15: \v 15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.16: \v 16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.17: \v 17 But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.18: \v 18 But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;
\p 4 Maccabees 7.19: \v 19 they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.20: \v 20 This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:
\p 4 Maccabees 7.21: \v 21 since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
\p 4 Maccabees 7.22: \v 22 and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?
\p 4 Maccabees 7.23: \v 23 For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 7.24: \v 24 Whence it is, that even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:
\p 4 Maccabees 7.25: \v 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,—
\p 4 Maccabees 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p 4 Maccabees 8.1: \v 1 Then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.2: \v 2 The tyrant having given this charge, seven kindred were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and well-born, and altogether comely.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.3: \v 3 When the tyrant saw them encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and innocent manner, smiled upon them, and calling them near, said:
\p 4 Maccabees 8.4: \v 4 O youths, with favorable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of kindred, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,
\p 4 Maccabees 8.5: \v 5 but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.6: \v 6 Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance,
\p 4 Maccabees 8.7: \v 7 and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth’s delights.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.8: \v 8 For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.9: \v 9 Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and attractive appearance.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.10: \v 10 Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.11: \v 11 Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.12: \v 12 And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:
\p 4 Maccabees 8.13: \v 13 Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you° worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.14: \v 14 Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.15: \v 15 Now let’s consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasoning would they have employed but these?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.16: \v 16 O wretched that we are, and exceedingly senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.17: \v 17 Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.18: \v 18 Shall we not fear, O kindred, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.19: \v 19 Let’s have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.20: \v 20 And let’s bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.21: \v 21 And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.22: \v 22 Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.23: \v 23 Let’s not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.24: \v 24 The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.25: \v 25 Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?
\p 4 Maccabees 8.26: \v 26 But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.27: \v 27 For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains.
\p 4 Maccabees 8.28: \v 28-29 So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:
\p 4 Maccabees 8.29: \v 28-29 So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:
\p 4 Maccabees 9.0: \c 9
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\p 4 Maccabees 9.1: \v 1 Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are more ready to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.2: \v 2 And we should be disgracing our fathers if we didn’t obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.3: \v 3 O tyrant, counselor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.4: \v 4 For we account escape to be worse than death.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.5: \v 5 And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.6: \v 6 But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.7: \v 7 Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.8: \v 8 For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.9: \v 9 But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.10: \v 10 When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.11: \v 11 So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.12: \v 12 And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.13: \v 13 And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.14: \v 14 And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.15: \v 15 O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.16: \v 16 And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,—
\p 4 Maccabees 9.17: \v 17 he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.18: \v 18 For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.19: \v 19 While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.20: \v 20 And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.21: \v 21 And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.22: \v 22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying
\p 4 Maccabees 9.23: \v 23 Imitate me, O kindred, nor ever desert your station, nor renounce my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;
\p 4 Maccabees 9.24: \v 24 by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.25: \v 25 And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.26: \v 26 And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.27: \v 27 And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.28: \v 28 after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.29: \v 29 How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,
\p 4 Maccabees 9.30: \v 30 Thinkest you not, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in behalf of our religion?
\p 4 Maccabees 9.31: \v 31 For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 9.32: \v 32 But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.
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\p 4 Maccabees 10.1: \v 1 Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.2: \v 2 But he cried out and said, Know you° not, that the father of those who are dead, became the father of me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?
\p 4 Maccabees 10.3: \v 3 I renounce not the noble relationship of my kindred.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.4: \v 4 Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you° have, apply it to my body, for you° are not able to touch, even if you° wish it, my soul.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.5: \v 5 But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.6: \v 6 And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.7: \v 7 And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers and then dragged him to the wheel;
\p 4 Maccabees 10.8: \v 8 around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.9: \v 9 And when about to die, he said,
\p 4 Maccabees 10.10: \v 10 We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.11: \v 11 But you, for your impiety and blood shedding, shall endure indissoluble torments.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.12: \v 12 And thus having died worthily of his kindred, they dragged forward the fourth, saying,
\p 4 Maccabees 10.13: \v 13 Do not you share the madness of your kindred: but give regard to the king, and save yourself.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.14: \v 14 But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.15: \v 15 By the blessed death of my kindred, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.16: \v 16 Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.17: \v 17 When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.18: \v 18 But he said, Even if you take away the organ of speech, yet God hears the silent.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.19: \v 19 Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt you extirpate our reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.20: \v 20 Gladly do we lose our limbs in behalf of God.
\p 4 Maccabees 10.21: \v 21 But God shall speedily find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody.
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\p 4 Maccabees 11.1: \v 1 And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,
\p 4 Maccabees 11.2: \v 2 I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.3: \v 3 But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.4: \v 4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
\p 4 Maccabees 11.5: \v 5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
\p 4 Maccabees 11.6: \v 6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments;
\p 4 Maccabees 11.7: \v 7 had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.8: \v 8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.9: \v 9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:
\p 4 Maccabees 11.10: \v 10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.11: \v 11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
\p 4 Maccabees 11.12: \v 12 A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.13: \v 13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
\p 4 Maccabees 11.14: \v 14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
\p 4 Maccabees 11.15: \v 15 for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.16: \v 16 So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!
\p 4 Maccabees 11.17: \v 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.18: \v 18 Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.19: \v 19 And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.20: \v 20 And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.21: \v 21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.22: \v 22 Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my kindred.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.23: \v 23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.24: \v 24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.25: \v 25 For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?
\p 4 Maccabees 11.26: \v 26 Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless.
\p 4 Maccabees 11.27: \v 27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.
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\p 4 Maccabees 12.1: \v 1 When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the cauldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:
\p 4 Maccabees 12.2: \v 2 whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.3: \v 3 seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.4: \v 4 You see the end of the madness of your kindred: for they have died in torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.5: \v 5 But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.6: \v 6 And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.7: \v 7 And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.8: \v 8 Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.9: \v 9 And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.10: \v 10 And he, running up to the pans, said,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.11: \v 11 Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?
\p 4 Maccabees 12.12: \v 12 Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.13: \v 13 Were you not ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?
\p 4 Maccabees 12.14: \v 14 But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.15: \v 15 But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.16: \v 16 Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,
\p 4 Maccabees 12.17: \v 17 will not forsake my kindred.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.18: \v 18 And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.19: \v 19 But you, both living and dead, he will punish.
\p 4 Maccabees 12.20: \v 20 Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired.
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\p 4 Maccabees 13.1: \v 1 If then, the seven kindred despised troubles even to death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.2: \v 2 For just as if, had they as slaves to the passions, eaten of the unholy, we should have said that they had been conquered by the;
\p 4 Maccabees 13.3: \v 3 now it is not so: but by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.4: \v 4 And it is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection: for it gained the victory over both passions and troubles.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.5: \v 5 How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of passion through right reasoning, since they drew not back from the pains of fire?
\p 4 Maccabees 13.6: \v 6 For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbors men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port,
\p 4 Maccabees 13.7: \v 7 so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intermperance of passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.8: \v 8 For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,
\p 4 Maccabees 13.9: \v 9 Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.10: \v 10 Let’s not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.11: \v 11 And one said, Courage, brother; and another, Nobly endure.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.12: \v 12 And another, Remember of what stock you° are; and by the hand of our father Isaac endured to be slain for the sake of piety.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.13: \v 13 And one and all, looking on each other serene and confident, said, Let us sacrifice with all our heart our souls to God who gave them, and employ our bodies for the keeping of the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.14: \v 14 Let’s not fear him who thinks he kills;
\p 4 Maccabees 13.15: \v 15 for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.16: \v 16 Let’s arm ourselves, therefore, in the self-control, which is divine reasoning.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.17: \v 17 If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.18: \v 18 And as each one of the kindred was haled away, the rest exclaimed, Disgrace us not, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.19: \v 19 Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.20: \v 20 In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,
\p 4 Maccabees 13.21: \v 21 and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same springs, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;
\p 4 Maccabees 13.22: \v 22 and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.23: \v 23 Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven kindred had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.24: \v 24 For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.25: \v 25 For a like ardor for what is right and honorable increased their fellow-feeling toward each other.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.26: \v 26 For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.
\p 4 Maccabees 13.27: \v 27 And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to behold their kindred, who were ill-used for their religion, tortured even to death.
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\p 4 Maccabees 14.1: \v 1 And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.2: \v 2 O reasoning more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!
\p 4 Maccabees 14.3: \v 3 Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven kindred as concerning piety!
\p 4 Maccabees 14.4: \v 4 None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.5: \v 5 But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.6: \v 6 For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed to death for religion’s sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.7: \v 7 O holy seven of harmonious kindred! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,
\p 4 Maccabees 14.8: \v 8 so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.9: \v 9 We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.10: \v 10 And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.11: \v 11 And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.12: \v 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.13: \v 13 And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,
\p 4 Maccabees 14.14: \v 14 where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.15: \v 15 The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.16: \v 16 Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.17: \v 17 And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.18: \v 18 But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals?
\p 4 Maccabees 14.19: \v 19 The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death.
\p 4 Maccabees 14.20: \v 20 But sympathy with her children didn’t turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.
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\p 4 Maccabees 15.1: \v 1 O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.2: \v 2 The mother, when two things were set before here, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,
\p 4 Maccabees 15.3: \v 3 rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.4: \v 4 O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.5: \v 5 for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.6: \v 6 And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them;
\p 4 Maccabees 15.7: \v 7 and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;
\p 4 Maccabees 15.8: \v 8 yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.9: \v 9 Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.10: \v 10 For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their kindred, and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.11: \v 11 And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.12: \v 12 But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.13: \v 13 O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.14: \v 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.15: \v 15 She saw her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.16: \v 16 O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.17: \v 17 O you only woman who have brought forth perfect holiness!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.18: \v 18 Your firstborn, expiring, turned you not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.19: \v 19 Nor when you did behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, did you weep!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.20: \v 20 When you did see children’s flesh heaped upon children’s flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, you lamented not.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.21: \v 21 Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.22: \v 22 With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.23: \v 23 But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.24: \v 24 Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off \add her feelings\add* through faith in God.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.25: \v 25 For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,
\p 4 Maccabees 15.26: \v 26 she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,
\p 4 Maccabees 15.27: \v 27 didn’t lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.28: \v 28 But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.
\p 4 Maccabees 15.29: \v 29 O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.30: \v 30 O you nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in perseverance!
\p 4 Maccabees 15.31: \v 31 For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,
\p 4 Maccabees 15.32: \v 32 so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of they children, did bear up nobly against the storms against religion.
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\p 4 Maccabees 16.1: \v 1 If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.2: \v 2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.3: \v 3 And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she saw her seven sons tortured.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.4: \v 4 But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.5: \v 5 For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their other, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus:
\p 4 Maccabees 16.6: \v 6 Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.7: \v 7 O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.8: \v 8 Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.9: \v 9 Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.10: \v 10 Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!
\p 4 Maccabees 16.11: \v 11 Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.12: \v 12 Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.13: \v 13 But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.14: \v 14 O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.15: \v 15 For when you were seized along with your children, you stood looking upon Eleazar in torments, and said to your sons in the Hebrew tongue,
\p 4 Maccabees 16.16: \v 16 O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.17: \v 17 For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.18: \v 18 Remember that through God you° obtained existence, and have enjoyed it.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.19: \v 19 And on this second account you° ought to bear every affliction because of God.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.20: \v 20 For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.21: \v 21 And the righteous Daniel was cast to the lions; and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.22: \v 22 You, then, having the same faith toward God, be not troubled.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.23: \v 23 For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.24: \v 24 With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.
\p 4 Maccabees 16.25: \v 25 And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.0: \c 17
\p
\p 4 Maccabees 17.1: \v 1 And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.2: \v 2 O you mother, who together with seven children did destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!
\p 4 Maccabees 17.3: \v 3 For you, as a house bravely built upon the pillar of your children, did bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.4: \v 4 Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm \add substance of the\add* hope of your steadfastness with God.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.5: \v 5 Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.6: \v 6 For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.7: \v 7 And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.8: \v 8 And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
\p 4 Maccabees 17.9: \v 9 Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.10: \v 10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.11: \v 11 For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.12: \v 12 For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.13: \v 13 Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the kindred contended.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.14: \v 14 The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and living men were the spectators.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.15: \v 15 And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.16: \v 16 Who didn’t admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?
\p 4 Maccabees 17.17: \v 17 The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;
\p 4 Maccabees 17.18: \v 18 through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.19: \v 19 For Moses says, And all the saints are under your hands.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.20: \v 20 These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy didn’t overcome our nation;
\p 4 Maccabees 17.21: \v 21 and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.22: \v 22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.23: \v 23 For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
\p 4 Maccabees 17.24: \v 24 And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.0: \c 18
\p
\p 4 Maccabees 18.1: \v 1 O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.2: \v 2 Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.3: \v 3 When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.4: \v 4 And the nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.5: \v 5 And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
\p 4 Maccabees 18.6: \v 6 then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.7: \v 7 And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father’s house; but I took care of the built-up rib.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.8: \v 8 No destroyer of the desert, \add or\add* ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make plunder of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.9: \v 9 And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.10: \v 10 And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.11: \v 11 He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.12: \v 12 And he used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas; and informed you of Ananias and Azarias, and Misael in the fire.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.13: \v 13 And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.14: \v 14 And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which says, Even if you pass through the fire, it shall not burn you.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.15: \v 15 He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who says, Many are the afflictions of the just.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.16: \v 16 He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.17: \v 17 He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live?
\p 4 Maccabees 18.18: \v 18 For he didn’t forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.19: \v 19 This is our life, and the length of our days.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.20: \v 20 O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!
\p 4 Maccabees 18.21: \v 21 He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.22: \v 22 Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.23: \v 23 But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father; having received pure and immortal souls from God.
\p 4 Maccabees 18.24: \v 24 To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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\toc1 The Book of Daniel with Greek Portions
\toc2 Daniel (Greek)
\toc3 DanielG
\mt2 The Book of
\mt1 Daniel
\mt2 with Greek Portions
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.1: \v 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.2: \v 2 The Lord\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; \f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.3: \v 3 The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring\f + \fr 1:3 \ft or, seed\f* and of the nobles;
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.4: \v 4 youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.5: \v 5 The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.6: \v 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.7: \v 7 The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.8: \v 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.9: \v 9 Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.10: \v 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.11: \v 11 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.12: \v 12 “Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.13: \v 13 Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.14: \v 14 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.15: \v 15 At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.16: \v 16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.17: \v 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.18: \v 18 At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.19: \v 19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.20: \v 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 1.21: \v 21 Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.1: \v 1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.2: \v 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.3: \v 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.4: \v 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.5: \v 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.6: \v 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.7: \v 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.8: \v 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.9: \v 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.10: \v 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.11: \v 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.12: \v 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.13: \v 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.14: \v 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.15: \v 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.16: \v 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.17: \v 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.18: \v 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.19: \v 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.20: \v 20 Daniel answered,
\q1 “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
\q2 for wisdom and might are his.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.21: \v 21 He changes the times and the seasons.
\q2 He removes kings, and sets up kings.
\q1 He gives wisdom to the wise,
\q2 and knowledge to those who have understanding.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.22: \v 22 He reveals the deep and secret things.
\q2 He knows what is in the darkness,
\q2 and the light dwells with him.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.23: \v 23 I thank you, and praise you,
\q2 you God of my fathers,
\q1 who have given me wisdom and might,
\q2 and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
\q2 for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.24: \v 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.25: \v 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.26: \v 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.27: \v 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.28: \v 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.29: \v 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.30: \v 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.31: \v 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.32: \v 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.33: \v 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.34: \v 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.35: \v 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.36: \v 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.37: \v 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.38: \v 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.39: \v 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.40: \v 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.41: \v 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.42: \v 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.43: \v 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.44: \v 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.45: \v 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.46: \v 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.47: \v 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.48: \v 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 2.49: \v 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.0: \c 3
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.1: \v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,\f + \fr 3:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.2: \v 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.3: \v 3 Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.4: \v 4 Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.5: \v 5 that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.6: \v 6 Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.7: \v 7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.8: \v 8 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.9: \v 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.10: \v 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.11: \v 11 and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.12: \v 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.13: \v 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.14: \v 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.15: \v 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.16: \v 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.17: \v 17 If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.18: \v 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.19: \v 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.20: \v 20 He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.21: \v 21 Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.22: \v 22 Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.23: \v 23 These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
\s1 THE SONG OF THE THREE HOLY CHILDREN \f + \fr 3:23 \ft \+bk The Song of the Three Holy Children\+bk* is an addition to \+bk Daniel\+bk* found in the Greek Septuagint but not found in the traditional Hebrew text of \+bk Daniel\+bk*. This portion is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is found inserted between Daniel 3:23 and Daniel 3:24 of the traditional Hebrew Bible. Here, the verses after 23 from the Hebrew Bible are numbered starting at 91 to make room for these verses.\f*
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.24: \v 24 They walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.25: \v 25 Then Azarias stood, and prayed like this. Opening his mouth in the midst of the fire he said:
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.26: \v 26 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers! Your name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore;
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.27: \v 27 for you are righteous in all the things that you have done. Yes, all your works are true. Your ways are right, and all your judgments are truth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.28: \v 28 In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgments. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.29: \v 29 For we have sinned and committed iniquity, in departing from you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.30: \v 30 In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments, or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.31: \v 31 Therefore all that you have brought upon us, and everything that you have done to us, you have done in true judgement.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.32: \v 32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.33: \v 33 And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.34: \v 34 Don’t utterly deliver us up, for your name’s sake. Don’t annul your covenant.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.35: \v 35 Don’t cause not your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham who is loved by you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.36: \v 36 to whom you promised that you would multiply their offspring as the stars of the sky, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.37: \v 37 For we, O Lord, have become less than any nation, and are kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.38: \v 38 There isn’t at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burned offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to offer before you, and to find mercy.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.39: \v 39 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.40: \v 40 like the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like ten thousands of fat lambs. So let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, that we may wholly go after you, for they shall not be ashamed who put their trust in you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.41: \v 41 And now we follow you with all our heart. We fear you, and seek your face.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.42: \v 42 Put us not to shame; but deal with us after your kindness, and according to the multitude of your mercy.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.43: \v 43 Deliver us also according to your marvelous works, and give glory to your name, O Lord. Let all those who harm your servants be confounded.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.44: \v 44 Let them be ashamed of all their power and might, and let their strength be broken.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.45: \v 45 Let them know that you are the Lord, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.46: \v 46 The king’s servants who put them in didn’t stop making the furnace hot with naphtha, pitch, tinder, and small wood,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.47: \v 47 so that the flame streamed out forty nine cubits above the furnace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.48: \v 48 It spread and burned those Chaldeans whom it found around the furnace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.49: \v 49 But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace together with Azarias and his fellows, and he struck the flame of the fire out of the furnace,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.50: \v 50 and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire didn’t touch them at all. It neither hurt nor troubled them.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.51: \v 51 Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying,
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.52: \v 52 “Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers, to be praised and exalted above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.53: \v 53 Blessed is your glorious and holy name, to be praised and exalted above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.54: \v 54 Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, to be praised and glorified above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.55: \v 55 Blessed are you that behold the depths, and sit upon the cherubim, to be praised and exalted above all forever.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.56: \v 56 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, to be praised and extolled above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.57: \v 57 Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, to be praised and glorified forever!
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.58: \v 58 O all you works of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.59: \v 59 O you heavens, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all for ever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.60: \v 60 O you angels of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.61: \v 61 O all you waters that are above the sky, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.62: \v 62 O all you powers of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.63: \v 63 O you sun and moon, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.64: \v 64 O you stars of heaven, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.65: \v 65 O every shower and dew, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.66: \v 66 O all you winds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.67: \v 67 O you fire and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.68: \v 68 O you dews and storms of snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.69: \v 69 O you nights and days, bless you the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.70: \v 70 O you light and darkness, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.71: \v 71 O you cold and heat, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.72: \v 72 O you frost and snow, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.73: \v 73 O you lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.74: \v 74 O let the earth bless the Lord! Let it praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.75: \v 75 O you mountains and hills, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.76: \v 76 O all you things that grow on the earth, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.77: \v 77 \f + \fr 3:77 \ft Some authorities transpose this verse and the next one.\f*O sea and rivers, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.78: \v 78 O you springs, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.79: \v 79 O you whales and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.80: \v 80 O all you fowls of the air, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.81: \v 81 O all you beasts and cattle, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.82: \v 82 O you children of men, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.83: \v 83 O let Israel bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.84: \v 84 O you priests of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.85: \v 85 O you servants of the Lord, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.86: \v 86 O you spirits and souls of the righteous, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.87: \v 87 O you who are holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.88: \v 88 O Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, bless the Lord! Praise and exalt him above all forever; for he has rescued us from Hades, and saved us from the hand of death! He has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame. He has delivered us out of the midst of the fire.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.89: \v 89 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is forever.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.90: \v 90 O all you who worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise him, and give him thanks; for his mercy is forever!”
\s1 Deliverance from the Furnace
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.91: \v 91 \f + \fr 3:91 \ft Verses 91-97 were numbered 24-30 in the traditional Hebrew text of Daniel.\f* Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?”
\p They answered the king, “True, O king.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.92: \v 92 He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.93: \v 93 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”
\p Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.94: \v 94 The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.95: \v 95 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.96: \v 96 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 3.97: \v 97 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.0: \c 4
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.1: \v 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king,
\pi1 to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.2: \v 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.3: \v 3 How great are his signs!
\q2 How mighty are his wonders!
\q1 His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
\q2 His dominion is from generation to generation.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.4: \v 4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.5: \v 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.6: \v 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.7: \v 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.8: \v 8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before him, saying,
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.9: \v 9 “Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.10: \v 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.11: \v 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.12: \v 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.13: \v 13 “I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.14: \v 14 He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.15: \v 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.16: \v 16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart be given to him. Then let seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.17: \v 17 “‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.18: \v 18 “This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.19: \v 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.”
\pi1 Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.20: \v 20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.21: \v 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.22: \v 22 it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.23: \v 23 “Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.24: \v 24 “This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.25: \v 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.26: \v 26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.27: \v 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.28: \v 28 All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.29: \v 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.30: \v 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.31: \v 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.32: \v 32 You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’”
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.33: \v 33 This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.34: \v 34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever;
\q1 for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
\q2 and his kingdom from generation to generation.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.35: \v 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
\q2 and he does according to his will in the army of heaven,
\q2 and among the inhabitants of the earth;
\q1 and no one can stop his hand,
\q2 or ask him, “What are you doing?”
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.36: \v 36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
\p Daniel (Greek) 4.37: \v 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.0: \c 5
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.1: \v 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.2: \v 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.3: \v 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.4: \v 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.5: \v 5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.6: \v 6 Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.7: \v 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.8: \v 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.9: \v 9 Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.10: \v 10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.11: \v 11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.12: \v 12 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.13: \v 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.14: \v 14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.15: \v 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.16: \v 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.17: \v 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.18: \v 18 “You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.19: \v 19 Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.20: \v 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.21: \v 21 He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.22: \v 22 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.23: \v 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.24: \v 24 Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.25: \v 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.26: \v 26 “This is the interpretation of the thing:
\m MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
\m
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.27: \v 27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
\m
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.28: \v 28 PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.29: \v 29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.30: \v 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
\p Daniel (Greek) 5.31: \v 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.1: \v 1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.2: \v 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.3: \v 3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.4: \v 4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.5: \v 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.6: \v 6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.7: \v 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.8: \v 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.9: \v 9 Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.10: \v 10 When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.11: \v 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.12: \v 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”
\p The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.13: \v 13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.14: \v 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.15: \v 15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.16: \v 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.17: \v 17 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.18: \v 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.19: \v 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.20: \v 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.21: \v 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.22: \v 22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.23: \v 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.24: \v 24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.25: \v 25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth:
\pi1 “Peace be multiplied to you.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.26: \v 26 “I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel;
\q1 “for he is the living God,
\q2 and steadfast forever.
\q1 His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed.
\q2 His dominion will be even to the end.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.27: \v 27 He delivers and rescues.
\q2 He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth,
\q2 who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 6.28: \v 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.0: \c 7
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.1: \v 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.2: \v 2 Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.3: \v 3 Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.4: \v 4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.5: \v 5 “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.6: \v 6 “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.7: \v 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.8: \v 8 “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.9: \v 9 “I watched until thrones were placed,
\q2 and one who was ancient of days sat.
\q1 His clothing was white as snow,
\q2 and the hair of his head like pure wool.
\q1 His throne was fiery flames,
\q2 and its wheels burning fire.
\q1
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.10: \v 10 A fiery stream issued and came out from before him.
\q2 Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
\q2 Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
\q1 The judgment was set.
\q2 The books were opened.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.11: \v 11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.12: \v 12 As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.13: \v 13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.14: \v 14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.15: \v 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.16: \v 16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
\p “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.17: \v 17 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.18: \v 18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.19: \v 19 “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.20: \v 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.21: \v 21 I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.22: \v 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.23: \v 23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.24: \v 24 As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.25: \v 25 He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.26: \v 26 “‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.27: \v 27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 7.28: \v 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.1: \v 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.2: \v 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.3: \v 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.4: \v 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.5: \v 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.6: \v 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.7: \v 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.8: \v 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.9: \v 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.10: \v 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.11: \v 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.12: \v 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.13: \v 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.14: \v 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.15: \v 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.16: \v 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.17: \v 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.18: \v 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.19: \v 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.20: \v 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.21: \v 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.22: \v 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.23: \v 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.24: \v 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.25: \v 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.26: \v 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 8.27: \v 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.1: \v 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.2: \v 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word\f + \fr 9:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. \f* came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.3: \v 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.4: \v 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said,
\pi1 “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.5: \v 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.6: \v 6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.7: \v 7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.8: \v 8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.9: \v 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.10: \v 10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.11: \v 11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice.
\pi1 “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.12: \v 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.13: \v 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.14: \v 14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.15: \v 15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.16: \v 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
\pi1
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.17: \v 17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.18: \v 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.19: \v 19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
\b
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.20: \v 20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.21: \v 21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.22: \v 22 He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.23: \v 23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.24: \v 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.25: \v 25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,\f + \fr 9:25 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.26: \v 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One\f + \fr 9:26 \ft “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).\f* will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
\p Daniel (Greek) 9.27: \v 27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.0: \c 10
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.1: \v 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.2: \v 2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.3: \v 3 I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.4: \v 4 In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.5: \v 5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.6: \v 6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.7: \v 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.8: \v 8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.9: \v 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.10: \v 10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.11: \v 11 He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.12: \v 12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.13: \v 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I remained there with the kings of Persia.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.14: \v 14 Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.15: \v 15 When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.16: \v 16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.17: \v 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me. There was no breath left in me.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.18: \v 18 Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.19: \v 19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.”
\p When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.20: \v 20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
\p Daniel (Greek) 10.21: \v 21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.0: \c 11
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.1: \v 1 “As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.2: \v 2 “Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.3: \v 3 A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.4: \v 4 When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.5: \v 5 “The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.6: \v 6 At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.7: \v 7 “But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.8: \v 8 He will also carry their gods, with their molten images, and with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king of the north.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.9: \v 9 He will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.10: \v 10 His sons will wage war, and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through. They will return and wage war, even to his fortress.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.11: \v 11 “The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.12: \v 12 The multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.13: \v 13 The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.14: \v 14 “In those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the children of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will fall.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.15: \v 15 So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.16: \v 16 But he who comes against him will do according to his own will, and no one will stand before him. He will stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be in his hand.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.17: \v 17 He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand, and won’t be for him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.18: \v 18 After this he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many; but a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn on him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.19: \v 19 Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.20: \v 20 “Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.21: \v 21 “In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.22: \v 22 The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.23: \v 23 After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.24: \v 24 In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and substance. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, even for a time.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.25: \v 25 “He will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will wage war in battle with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he won’t stand; for they will devise plans against him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.26: \v 26 Yes, those who eat of his dainties will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.27: \v 27 As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.28: \v 28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.29: \v 29 “He will return at the appointed time, and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.30: \v 30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.31: \v 31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.32: \v 32 He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.33: \v 33 “Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.34: \v 34 Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.35: \v 35 Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.36: \v 36 “The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.37: \v 37 He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.38: \v 38 But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.39: \v 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for a price.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.40: \v 40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.41: \v 41 He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown; but these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.42: \v 42 He will also stretch out his hand on the countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.43: \v 43 But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.44: \v 44 But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him; and he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
\p Daniel (Greek) 11.45: \v 45 He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.0: \c 12
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.1: \v 1 “At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.2: \v 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.3: \v 3 Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.4: \v 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.5: \v 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.6: \v 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.7: \v 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.8: \v 8 I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.9: \v 9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.10: \v 10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.11: \v 11 “From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.12: \v 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 12.13: \v 13 “But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.0: \c 13
\s1 THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.1: \v 1 \f + \fr 13:1 \ft \+bk The History of Susanna\+bk* is translated from chapter 13 of \+bk Daniel\+bk* in the Greek Septuagint. It is not found in the traditional Hebrew text of \+bk Daniel\+bk*. \+bk The History of Susanna\+bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.\f*A man lived in Babylon, and his name was Joakim.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.2: \v 2 He took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, a very fair woman, and one who feared the Lord.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.3: \v 3 Her parents were also righteous, and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.4: \v 4 Now Joakim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining to his house. The Jews used to come to him, because he was more honorable than all others.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.5: \v 5 The same year two of the elders of the people were appointed to be judges, such as the Lord spoke of, that wickedness came from Babylon from elders who were judges, who were supposed to govern the people.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.6: \v 6 These were often at Joakim’s house. All that had any suits in law came to them.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.7: \v 7 When the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into her husband’s garden to walk.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.8: \v 8 The two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; and they were inflamed with lust for her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.9: \v 9 They perverted their own mind and turned away their eyes, that they might not look to heaven, nor remember just judgments.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.10: \v 10 And although they both were wounded with lust for her, yet dared not show the other his grief.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.11: \v 11 For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they desired to have to do with her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.12: \v 12 Yet they watched jealously from day to day to see her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.13: \v 13 The one said to the other, “Let’s go home, now; for it is dinner time.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.14: \v 14 So when they had gone out, they parted company, and turning back again, they came to the same place. After they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust. Then they appointed a time both together, when they might find her alone.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.15: \v 15 It happened, as they watched on an opportune day, she went in as before with only two maids, and she desired to wash herself in the garden; for it was hot.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.16: \v 16 There was nobody there except the two elders who had hid themselves and watched her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.17: \v 17 Then she said to her maids, “Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash myself.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.18: \v 18 They did as she asked them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at the side doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them. They didn’t see the elders, because they were hidden.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.19: \v 19 Now when the maids had gone out, the two elders rose up, and ran to her, saying,
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.20: \v 20 “Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with you. Therefore consent to us, and lie with us.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.21: \v 21 If you will not, we will testify against you, that a young man was with you; therefore you sent your maids away from you.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.22: \v 22 Then Susanna sighed, and said, “I am trapped; for if I do this thing, it is death to me. If I don’t do it, I can’t escape your hands.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.23: \v 23 It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.24: \v 24 With that Susanna cried with a loud voice; and the two elders cried out against her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.25: \v 25 Then one of them ran and opened the garden doors.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.26: \v 26 So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the side door, to see what had happened to her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.27: \v 27 But when the elders had told their tale, the servants were greatly ashamed; for there was never such a report made of Susanna.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.28: \v 28 It came to pass on the next day, when the people assembled to her husband Joakim, the two elders came full of their wicked intent against Susanna to put her to death,
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.29: \v 29 and said before the people, “Send for Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, Joakim’s wife.” So they sent;
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.30: \v 30 and she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.31: \v 31 Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beautiful to behold.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.32: \v 32 These wicked men commanded her to be unveiled, for she was veiled, that they might be filled with her beauty.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.33: \v 33 Therefore her friends and all who saw her wept.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.34: \v 34 Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.35: \v 35 She, weeping, looked up toward heaven; for her heart trusted in the Lord.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.36: \v 36 The elders said, “As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.37: \v 37 Then a young man, who was hidden there, came to her and lay with her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.38: \v 38 And we, being in a corner of the garden, saw this wickedness, and ran to them.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.39: \v 39 And when we saw them together, we couldn’t hold the man; for he was stronger than we, and opened the doors, and leaped out.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.40: \v 40 But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us. We testify these things.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.41: \v 41 Then the assembly believed them, as those whe were elders of the people and judges; so they condemned her to death.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.42: \v 42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, “O everlasting God, you know the secrets, and know all things before they happen,
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.43: \v 43 you know that they have testified falsly against me. Behold, I must die, even though I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.44: \v 44 The Lord heard her voice.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.45: \v 45 Therefore when she was led away to be put to death, God raised up the holy spirit of a young youth, whose name was Daniel.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.46: \v 46 He cried with a loud voice, “I am clear from the blood of this woman!”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.47: \v 47 Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, “What do these words that you have spoken mean?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.48: \v 48 So he, standing in the midst of them, said, “Are you all such fools, you sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.49: \v 49 Return again to the place of judgement; for these have testified falsly against her.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.50: \v 50 Therefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said to him, “Come, sit down among us, and show it to us, seeing God has given you the honor of an elder.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.51: \v 51 Then Daniel said to them, “Put them far apart from each another, and I will examine them.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.52: \v 52 So when they were put apart one from another, he called one of them, and said to him, “O you who have become old in wickedness, now your sins have returned which you have committed before,
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.53: \v 53 in pronouncing unjust judgement, condemning the innocent, and letting the guilty go free; although the Lord says, ‘You shall not kill the innocent and righteous.’
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.54: \v 54 Now then, if you saw her, tell me, under which tree did you see them companying together?”
\p He answered, “Under a mastick tree.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.55: \v 55 And Daniel said, “You have certainly lied against your own head; for even now the angel of God has received the sentence of God and will cut you in two.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.56: \v 56 So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said to him, “O you seed of Canaan, and not of Judah, beauty has deceived you, and lust has perverted your heart.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.57: \v 57 Thus you have dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for fear were intimate with you; but the daughter of Judah would not tolerate your wickedness.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.58: \v 58 Now therefore tell me, under which tree did you take them being intimate together?”
\p Heanswered, “Under an evergreen oak tree.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.59: \v 59 Then Daniel said to him, You have also certainly lied against your own head; for the angel of God waits with the sword to cut you in two, that he may destroy you.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.60: \v 60 With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and blessed God, who saves those who hope in him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.61: \v 61 Then they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had convicted them of false testimony out of their own mouth.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.62: \v 62 According to the law of Moses they did to them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbor. They put them to death, and the innocent blood was saved the same day.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.63: \v 63 Therefore Helkias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joakim her husband, and all the kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.
\p Daniel (Greek) 13.64: \v 64 And from that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.0: \c 14
\s1 Bel and the Dragon
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.1: \v 1 \f + \fr 14:1 \ft \+bk Bel and the Dragon\+bk* is translated from chapter 14 of \+bk Daniel\+bk* in the Greek Septuagint. It is not found in the traditional Hebrew text of \+bk Daniel\+bk*. \+bk Bel and the Dragon\+bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.\f*King Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus the Persian received his kingdom.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.2: \v 2 Daniel lived with the king, and was honored above all his friends.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.3: \v 3 Now the Babylonians had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six firkins\f + \fr 14:3 \ft a firkin is about 41 liters or 11 gallons.\f* of wine.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.4: \v 4 And the king honored it, and went daily to worship it; but Daniel worshiped his own God. The king said to him, “Why don’t you worship Bel?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.5: \v 5 He said, “Because I may not honor idols made with hands, but only the living God, who has created the sky and the earth, and has sovereignty over all flesh.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.6: \v 6 Then the king said to him, “Don’t you that Bel is a living god? Don’t you see how much he eats and drinks every day?”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.7: \v 7 Then Daniel laughed, and said, “O king, don’t be deceived; for this is just clay inside, and brass outside, and never ate or drank anything.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.8: \v 8 So the king was angry, and called for his priests, and said to them, “If you don’t tell me who this is who devours these expenses, you shall die.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.9: \v 9 But if you can show me that Bel devours them, then Daniel shall die; for he has spoken blasphemy against Bel.”
\p Daniel said to the king, “Let it be according to your word.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.10: \v 10 Now there were seventy priests of Bel, besides their wives and children. The king went with Daniel into Bel’s temple.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.11: \v 11 So Bel’s priests said, “Behold, we will leave; but you, O king, set out the meat, and mix the wine and set it out, shut the door securely, and seal it with your own signet.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.12: \v 12 When you come in the morning, if you find not that Bel has eaten up everything, we will suffer death, or else Daniel, who speaks falsely against us.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.13: \v 13 They weren’t concerned, for under the table they had made a secret entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and consumed those things.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.14: \v 14 It happened, when they had gone out, the king set the meat before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and they scattered them all over the temple in the presence of the king alone. Then they went out, shut the door, sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.15: \v 15 Now in the night, the priests came with their wives and children, as they usually did, and ate and drank it all.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.16: \v 16 In the morning, the king arose, and Daniel with him.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.17: \v 17 The king said, “Daniel, are the seals whole?”
\p He said, “Yes, O king, they are whole.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.18: \v 18 And as soon as he had opened the door, the king looked at the table, and cried with a loud voice, “You are great, O Bel, and with you is no deceit at all!”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.19: \v 19 Then Daniel laughed, and held the king that he should not go in, and said, “Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps these are.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.20: \v 20 The king said, “I see the footsteps of men, women, and children.” Then the king was angry,
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.21: \v 21 and took the priests with their wives and children, who showed him the secret doors, where they came in, and consumed the things that were on the table.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.22: \v 22 Therefore the king killed them, and delivered Bel into Daniel’s power, who overthrew him and his temple.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.23: \v 23 In that same place there was a great dragon, which the people of Babylon worshiped.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.24: \v 24 The king said to Daniel, “Will you also say that this is of brass? Behold, he lives, and eats and drinks. You can’t say that he is no living god. Therefore worship him.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.25: \v 25 Then Daniel said, “I will worship the Lord my God; for he is a living God.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.26: \v 26 But allow me, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword or staff.”
\p The king said, “I allow you.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.27: \v 27 Then Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, and melted them together, and made lumps of them. He put these in the dragon’s mouth, so the dragon ate and burst apart. Daniel said, “Behold, these are the gods you all worship.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.28: \v 28 When the people of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, “The king has become a Jew. He has pulled down Bel, slain the dragon, and put the priests to the sword.”
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.29: \v 29 So they came to the king, and said, “Deliver Daniel to us, or else we will destroy you and your house.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.30: \v 30 Now when the king saw that they trapped him, being constrained, the king delivered Daniel to them.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.31: \v 31 They cast him into the lion’s den, where he was six days.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.32: \v 32 There were seven lions in the den, and they had been giving them two carcasses and two sheep every day, which then were not given to them, intending that they would devour Daniel.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.33: \v 33 Now there was in Jewry the prophet \f + \fr 14:33 \ft Gr. \fqa Ambakoum. \f*Habakkuk, who had made stew, and had broken bread into a bowl. He was going into the field to bring it to the reapers.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.34: \v 34 But the angel of the Lord said to Habakkuk, “Go carry the dinner that you have into Babylon to Daniel, in the lions’ den.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.35: \v 35 Habakkuk said, “Lord, I never saw Babylon. I don’t know where the den is.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.36: \v 36 Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and lifted him up by the hair of his head, and with the blast of his breath set him in Babylon over the den.
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.37: \v 37 Habakkuk cried, saying, “O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God has sent you.”
\p
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.38: \v 38 Daniel said, “You have remembered me, O God! You haven’t forsaken those who love you!”
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.39: \v 39 So Daniel arose and ate; and the angel of God set Habakkuk in his own place again immediately.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.40: \v 40 On the seventh day, the king came to mourn for Daniel. When he came to the den, he looked in, and, behold, Daniel was sitting.
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.41: \v 41 Then the king cried with a loud voice, saying, “Great are you, O Lord, you God of Daniel, and there is none other beside you!”
\p Daniel (Greek) 14.42: \v 42 So he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den; and they were devoured in a moment before his face.
\p Glossary / Wordlist 0.0: \id GLO
\h Glossary
\toc1 World English Bible Glossary
\toc2 Glossary
\toc3 Glo
\mt1 World English Bible Glossary
\ip The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money, or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.
\ili \k Abaddon\k*
\ili2 Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
\ili \k Abba\k*
\ili2 Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to our Father in Heaven.
\ili \k adultery\k*
\ili2 Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is between a man and a woman who are married to each other.
\ili \k alpha\k*
\ili2 Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the beginning or the first.
\ili \k amen\k*
\ili2 Amen means “So be it” or “I believe it is certainly so.”
\ili \k angel\k*
\ili2 “Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,” and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.
\ili \k Apollyon\k*
\ili2 Apollyon is Greek for destroyer.
\ili \k apostle\k*
\ili2 “Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as well as in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12 people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).
\ili \k Armageddon\k*
\ili2 See Har-magedon.
\ili \k assarion\k*
\ili2 An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k aureus\k*
\ili2 An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).
\ili \k baptize\k*
\ili2 Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ, as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.
\ili \k bath\k*
\ili2 A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.
\ili \k batos\k*
\ili2 A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.
\ili \k Beelzebul\k*
\ili2 literally, lord of the flies. A name used for the devil.
\ili \k Beersheba\k*
\ili2 Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or “well of the seven.” A city in Israel.
\ili \k behold\k*
\ili2 Look! See! Wow! Notice this! Lo!
\ili \k cherub\k*
\ili2 A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with the throne room of God and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.
\ili \k cherubim\k*
\ili2 Cherubim means more than one cherub or a mighty cherub.
\ili \k choenix\k*
\ili2 A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain for a soldier in some armies.
\ili \k concubine\k*
\ili2 a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and concubines, but God commanded the Kings of Israel not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Jesus encouraged people to either remain single or marry as God originally intended: one man married to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).
\ili \k cor\k*
\ili2 A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.
\ili \k corban\k*
\ili2 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.
\ili \k crucify\k*
\ili2 Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross. The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.
\ili \k cubit\k*
\ili2 A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or 18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the measurement. There is also a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)
\ili \k cummin\k*
\ili2 Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
\ili \k darnel\k*
\ili2 Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t good for much except as chicken feed or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.
\ili \k denarii\k*
\ili2 denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.
\ili \k denarius\k*
\ili2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.
\ili \k devil\k*
\ili2 The word “devil” comes from the Greek “diabolos,” which means “one prone to slander; a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.
\ili \k didrachma\k*
\ili2 A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax.
\ili \k disciple\k*
\ili2 a student who follows a teacher to learn both by precept and example.
\ili \k distaff\k*
\ili2 part of a spinning wheel used for twisting threads.
\ili \k drachma\k*
\ili2 A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k El-Elohe-Israel\k*
\ili2 El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”
\ili \k ephah\k*
\ili2 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
\ili \k Gehenna\k*
\ili2 Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.
\ili \k gittith\k*
\ili2 Gittith is a musical term possibly meaning “an instrument of Gath.”
\ili \k goad\k*
\ili2 a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.
\ili \k gospel\k*
\ili2 Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,” specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and provision; and the hope of eternal life that Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.
\ili \k Hades\k*
\ili2 Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.
\ili \k Har-magedon\k*
\ili2 Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has a large valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.
\ili \k hin\k*
\ili2 A hin is a measure of volume of about about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
\ili \k homer\k*
\ili2 One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.
\ili \k hypocrite\k*
\ili2 a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they really are; a pretender; a dissembler
\ili \k Ishmael\k*
\ili2 Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, “God hears.”
\ili \k Jehovah\k*
\ili2 See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Jesus\k*
\ili2 “Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,” which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will save.”
\ili \k kodrantes\k*
\ili2 A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k lepta\k*
\ili2 Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.
\ili \k leviathan\k*
\ili2 Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.
\ili \k mahalath\k*
\ili2 Mahalath is the name of a tune or a musical term.
\ili \k manna\k*
\ili2 Name for the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites while they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus 16:14-35.
\ili \k marriage\k*
\ili2 the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many cases of a man marrying more than one woman in the Old Testament, being married to one wife is a requirement to serve in certain church leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).
\ili \k maschil\k*
\ili2 Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation” or “meditative psalm.”
\ili \k michtam\k*
\ili2 A michtam is a poem.
\ili \k mina\k*
\ili2 A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k myrrh\k*
\ili2 Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial ointments.
\ili \k Nicolaitans\k*
\ili2 Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual realms were entirely separate and that immorality in the physical realm wouldn’t harm your spiritual health.
\ili \k omega\k*
\ili2 Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.
\ili \k Peniel\k*
\ili2 Peniel is Hebrew for “face of God.”
\ili \k phylactery\k*
\ili2 a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.
\ili \k Praetorium\k*
\ili2 Praetorium: the Roman governor’s residence and office building, and those who work there.
\ili \k quadrans\k*
\ili2 A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
\ili \k rabbi\k*
\ili2 Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for Jewish teachers.
\ili \k Rahab\k*
\ili2 Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Jesus (Matthew 1:5) and an example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25); or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” — possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13; 26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10; Isaiah 30:7).
\ili \k repent\k*
\ili2 to change one’s mind; turn away from sin and turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and determine to follow God.
\ili \k Rhabboni\k*
\ili2 Rhabboni: a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
\ili \k Sabbath\k*
\ili2 The seventh day of the week, set aside by God for man to rest.
\ili \k saints\k*
\ili2 The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.
\ili \k Samaritan\k*
\ili2 A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans and the Jews generally detested each other during the time that Jesus walked among us.
\ili \k sanctify\k*
\ili2 To declare or set apart something as holy. To purify and separate a person from sin.
\ili \k sata\k*
\ili2 A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.
\ili \k Satan\k*
\ili2 Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.
\ili \k scribe\k*
\ili2 A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were often respected as teachers and authorities on God’s law.
\ili \k selah\k*
\ili2 Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for reflection.
\ili \k seraphim\k*
\ili2 Seraphim are 6-winged angels. See Isaiah 6:2-6.
\ili \k sexual immorality\k*
\ili2 The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament comes from the Greek “porneia,” which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are included in this term.
\ili \k shekel\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).
\ili \k Sheol\k*
\ili2 Sheol is the place of the dead. See also “Hades”.
\ili \k Shibah\k*
\ili2 Shibah is Hebrew for “oath” or “seven.” See Beersheba.
\ili \k shigionoth\k*
\ili2 Victorious music.
\ili \k soul\k*
\ili2 “Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as that person’s very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person’s spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)
\ili \k span\k*
\ili2 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
\ili \k spirit\k*
\ili2 Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is the very essence of that person’s life, which comes from God, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible distinguishes between a person’s spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John 4:1-3).
\ili \k stadia\k*
\ili2 Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).
\ili \k stater\k*
\ili2 A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.
\ili \k tabernacle\k*
\ili2 a dwelling place or place of worship, usually a tent.
\ili \k talent\k*
\ili2 A measure of weight or mass of 3000 shekels.
\ili \k Tartarus\k*
\ili2 Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or Hell.
\ili \k teraphim\k*
\ili2 Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
\ili \k Yah\k*
\ili2 “Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See “Yahweh.”
\ili \k Yahweh\k*
\ili2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew word for “Lord” (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai” were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,” which if you pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.” When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for God’s proper name continued in the translation of God’s name to “Lord” (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate God’s proper name to “LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital letters), based on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other words (“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord” and “God,” and they are sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The most probable pronunciation of God’s proper name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name “Yahweh” is related to the active declaration “I AM.” See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.” Compare Revelation 1:8.
\ili \k Zion\k*
\ili2 Zion is a name which originally referred one of the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term “Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future dwelling place of God’s people.
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