overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the

east, and toward the west. And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and
they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for
thou [art] the son of a strange woman. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my
exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. And the unclean spirits went
out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea,
(they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And, behold, there came an old man
from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in
Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out
of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear. And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts. And they brought forth the he
goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands
upon them: And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the
altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and
the sin offering [should be made] for all Israel. And the prophets are dead: whom makest thou
thyself? And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well
with the flocks; and bring me word again. And they did [it] the third time. Now that being
broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in
his power. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they
cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the
mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds. And that day was
the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to
whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the
stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit [it] for ever. He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is]
a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. But now I [will] not [be] unto the residue of
this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. Saith the LORD: shall I cause to
bring forth, and shut [the womb]? Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
our ears. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? For we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh. Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to
the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. And the LORD said
unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the
altar. For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the
great rain of his strength. And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? And the
word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the
LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and
have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. I am troubled; I am
bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 1And he spake three thousand proverbs: and
his songs were a thousand and five. And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with
all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. For even that which was made glorious
had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. And he looked, and behold a
well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well
they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well’s mouth. And the people chode
with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the
LORD! And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and
our cattle should die there? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved
of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women
cause to sin. And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of
Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants
of that country. Or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy? Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and speak
not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall. Hast thou
marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? For the work of a man shall he render unto
him, and cause every man to find according to [his] ways. And these [shall be] the measures
thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and
five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred. Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? Shew thy marvellous
lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from
those that rise up [against them]. See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore
he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no
man go out of his place on the seventh day. And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for
frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine
ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. And there are three
that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in
one. Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the
treasuries. So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man
shall do unto me. Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they
lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. And I will cause them
to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of
Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem. The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God: [but]
the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God. They
have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their
iniquity, he will visit their sins. And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host
of the mighty men. And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and
fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah? Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of
the land. And they spoiled the Egyptians. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
passover kept. Selah. And the south side southward, from Tamar [even] to the waters of strife
[in] Kadesh, the river to the great sea. The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the
expectation of the wicked shall perish. And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of
the one side of the tabernacle, And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward. [And] as they
went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto
them, Is the seer here? For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land
of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy
foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and
valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the LORD thy God careth for:
the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the
end of the year. And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; So shall the king of Assyria
lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and
barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also
glorified together. So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor. For she doted upon their
paramours, whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue [is like] the issue of
horses. I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the
thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the
midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. For
whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD, even the soul that eateth [it] shall be cut off from his people. And the third captain of
fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto
him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be
precious in thy sight. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be
with you? And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was
ordained of God [to be] the Judge of quick and dead. And she sent them away, and they departed:
and she bound the scarlet line in the window. But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I
stand, I will receive none. Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made
all his enemies to rejoice. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. And I
will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. But I would have
you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the
head of Christ [is] God. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to
Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman
there to sustain thee. And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of
Ebed, his anger was kindled. And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and
saith unto them, I find in him no fault [at all]. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when
he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the
governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD
his God. And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to
keep them: And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them;
suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your
hand. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son
of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of
Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the
son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of
the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and
of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. 1And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went
to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. And
the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Lover and friend hast thou
put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall
ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked of
what province he was. And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria;
and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness. And he said unto them, When I
sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? No; but he would put
[strength] in me. They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the LORD, but he
answered them not. I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument
of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. And his mother’s name [was] Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into
the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. And David said unto Saul, Thy
servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the
flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he
arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. And Pilate asked
him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to
half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, Remember the word which Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this
land. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the
colt? Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth. The
children of Bani, six hundred forty and two. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine
enemies. [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.
Yea, [and] he shall be blessed. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
LORD’S name [is] to be praised. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on
every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon
the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two
nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they
defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have
sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. I speak to
your shame. Tell me, I pray thee: is there room [in] thy father’s house for us to lodge in? And
Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To
day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king
hath fulfilled the request of his servant. Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and
said, We ought to obey God rather than men. And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and
offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the
people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD
commanded. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the
air. And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God. And all that sat
in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. Man
goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. Now thou art commanded, this do
ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
your father, and come. And there were also with him other little ships. He shall therefore burn
that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the
plague is: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire. Wheresoever I have
walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed
my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? I am afflicted very much:
quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the
camp, bearing his reproach. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years,
even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of
Egypt. And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became
dumb. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. They make the king glad with their
wickedness, and the princes with their lies. The second woe is past; [and], behold, the third
woe cometh quickly. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put [it] on his head, and
they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their
hands. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that
appear from Gilead. So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What [are]
these, my lord? And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled
over them. The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have
also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof. I was also upright
before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a
fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved
him, and shot [at him], and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the
stone of Israel:) [Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who
shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the
head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as
Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and
a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people
shall possess them. Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send
chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas surnamed
Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: And they wrote [letters] by them after this
manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the
Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went
out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be
circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment: It seemed good unto us,
being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And whosoever shall
not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the
dust of your feet. These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: Beside the sabbaths of the
LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings,
which ye give unto the LORD. And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month
old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred
and threescore and thirteen. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? Ye have been
rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. And they said unto him, Behold now,
there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master:
lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or
into some valley. The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And thou
shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, And the
table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, And
the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. Selah. Verily I
say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. And many of the people of the
land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? Then
said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy
ground. His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot
that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the
sepulchres of his fathers. Go not from house to house. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
congregation of the LORD for ever: Because they met you not with bread and with water in the
way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor
of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. Amen. It is reported commonly [that there is]
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that
one should have his father’s wife. Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth
shall be filled with gravel. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan. He removeth away
the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. And they cast out many
devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them]. How long wilt thou hide
thy face from me? And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that
have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their
mouth. And they said, We know [him]. Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the
uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she
required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed.
Selah. And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but
the truth to me in the name of the LORD? And David called one of the young men, and said, Go
near, [and] fall upon him. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and
restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all
our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: But thy servants will pass over, every man
armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith. And it shall come to pass, [that]
him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of
Jehu shall Elisha slay. And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of
Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand
of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. Let them be as the
grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: Wherewith the mower filleth not
his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. How was it then reckoned? And [this] shall be a
statute for ever unto you: [that] in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye
shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you: For on that day shall [the priest] make an atonement for
you, to cleanse you, [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. And it shall
come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Of the sons of Nebo;
Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah. And the gospel must first be
published among all nations. These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to those
that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred. And Barzillai
the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over
Jordan. And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and his seed
after him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God,
and made an atonement for the children of Israel. And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the
kingdom of God? And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe
leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: And she spake out with a loud
voice, and said, Blessed [art] thou among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb. And
thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation,
and shalt not sin. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the
apostles. One shall say, I [am] the LORD’S; and another shall call [himself] by the name of
Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the
name of Israel. When Elihu saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth of [these] three men,
then his wrath was kindled. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let
it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. But the LORD said unto Samuel,
Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
[the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD
looketh on the heart. He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. For I
said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they
magnify [themselves] against me. And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made; And they spake unto Moses, saying, The
people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to
make. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, [and] spake, and
said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come
[hither]. And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the
priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he
shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and
lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death;
their blood [shall be] upon them. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine
horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I
will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall
[men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. They shall lay hold on bow
and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride
upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. And it came to pass,
that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him,
Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. For if thou refuse to let [them] go,
and wilt hold them still, Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which [is] in the
field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep:
[there shall be] a very grievous murrain. Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O
LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. And to what are they like? So it
ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. By the way that he came, by
the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. Therefore shall
evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon
thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly,
[which] thou shalt not know. And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars [of] shittim
[wood], and overlay them with gold, [and] their hooks [shall be of] gold: and thou shalt cast
five sockets of brass for them. And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath
commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business
whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to
such and such a place. When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, [and] answered
no more;) [I said], I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. Thou wilt surely
wear away, both thou, and this people that [is] with thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for
thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no
hope. Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged
you on her. Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. They
gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them
of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according
to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. But he himself went a day’s journey into the
wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he
might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my
fathers. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and
give them for a prey in the land of captivity: And cover not their iniquity, and let not their
sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols
which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy
years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. And what
profit should we have, if we pray unto him? To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me
in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. And Saul
spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. Serve the LORD
with gladness: come before his presence with singing. For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff
neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD;
and how much more after my death? But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and
a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, And from Jerusalem, and from
Idumaea, and [from] beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they
had heard what great things he did, came unto him. Prophesy therefore concerning the land of
Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne
the shame of the heathen: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear their shame. All the heave offerings of the
holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons
and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it [is] a covenant of salt for ever before
the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou
[art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have
spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. Yea, and what have ye to
do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? And they that fed the swine
fled, and told [it] in the city, and in the country. Happy [shall he be], that taketh and
dasheth thy little ones against the stones. And they could not eat [thereof]. Then Michaiah
declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people. The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children
of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, [in] all an
hundred thirty and nine. And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall
say, What [is] your occupation? Or shall they be sold unto us? But Haman hasted to his house
mourning, and having his head covered. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. God shall enlarge