Psalms 103 Cross References - ACV

¹ Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ² Bless LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, ³ who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases, ⁴ who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies, ⁵ who satisfies thy desire with good things, and thy youth is renewed like the eagle. ⁶ LORD executes righteous acts, and judgments for all who are oppressed. ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses, his doings to the sons of Israel. ⁸ LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. ⁹ He will not always chide, nor will he keep it forever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him. ¹⁴ For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. ¹⁷ But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons, ¹⁸ to such as keep his covenant, and to those who remember his precepts to do them. ¹⁹ LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. ²⁰ Bless LORD, ye his agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word. ²¹ Bless LORD, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his, who do his pleasure. ²² Bless LORD, all ye his works in all places of his dominion. Bless LORD, O my soul.

⁷ For God is the King of all the earth. Sing ye praises with understanding.

⁷ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. ⁸ Awake up, my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awake right early. ⁹ I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to thee among the nations. ¹⁰ For thy loving kindness is great to the heavens, and thy truth to the skies. ¹¹ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, thy glory above all the earth.

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for evermore. ¹³ For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

³ Let them praise thy great and awesome name. Holy is he.

²² Bless LORD, all ye his works in all places of his dominion. Bless LORD, O my soul.

¹ Praise ye LORD. I will give thanks to LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

¹ I will give thee thanks with my whole heart. I will sing praises to thee before the gods.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Praise LORD, O my soul. ² While I live I will praise LORD. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

³ And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

³⁰ and thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹ And this second is similar, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² And the scholar said to him, Well, teacher. Thou spoke in truth that he is one, and there is no other but he. ³³ And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

⁴⁶ And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, ⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

¹⁵ What is it therefore? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the intellect also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the intellect also.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

⁸ And the four living creatures, one by one, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and inside. And they have no cessation day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord, the Almighty God, he was, and who is, and who is coming.

¹² then beware lest thou forget LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

² And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not. ³ And he humbled thee, and allowed thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knew not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of LORD. ⁴ Thy raiment did not grow old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

¹⁰ And thou shall eat and be full, and thou shall bless LORD thy God for the good land which he has given thee. ¹¹ Beware lest thou forget LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day. ¹² Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it, ¹³ and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

⁶ Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

¹⁸ Thou are unmindful of the Rock that begot thee, and have forgotten God who gave thee birth.

²⁵ But Hezekiah did not render again according to the benefit done to him. For his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁷ Our fathers did not understand thy wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of thy loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

¹² What shall I render to LORD for all his benefits toward me?

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

⁷ I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of LORD, and the praises of LORD, according to all that LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee? ³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

¹⁵ And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back with a great voice glorifying God. ¹⁶ And he fell upon his face beside his feet giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said, Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? ¹⁸ Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?

¹¹ Remember therefore that once ye, the Gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision (in flesh, made by hands), ¹² that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus ye, being formerly far off, became near in the blood of the Christ.

²⁶ and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians, for I am LORD who heals thee.

⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the sons's sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹³ And Moses cried to LORD, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.

⁷ And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against LORD, and against thee. Pray to LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. ⁸ And LORD said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard. And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. ⁹ And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard. And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die.

² O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou have healed me.

¹ Blessed are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ² Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

³ LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness. ⁴ I said, O LORD, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

⁸ An evil disease, they say, clings firm to him. And now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

¹ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. ² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ³ For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

¹⁷ Fools are afflicted because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities. ¹⁸ Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death. ¹⁹ Then they cry to LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses. ²⁰ He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their destructions. ²¹ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! ²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

⁸ And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

²⁴ And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick. The people who dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.

¹⁴ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved, for thou are my praise.

² And behold, they brought to him a paralyzed man who was placed on a bed. And having seen their faith Jesus said to the paralyzed man, Cheer up, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee. ³ And behold, some of the scholars said within themselves, This man blasphemes. ⁴ And having known their thoughts Jesus said, Why think ye evil in your hearts? ⁵ For which is easier, to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and walk? ⁶ But that ye may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (then he says to the paralyzed man), After rising, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.

⁵ And having seen their faith, Jesus says to the paralyzed man, Child, thy sins are forgiven thee.

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (he says to the paralyzed man), ¹¹ I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go to thy house.

⁴⁷ For this reason I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, loves little. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, Thy sins are forgiven.

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will rescue him who is depressed, and the Lord will rouse him. And if he should be a man who has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

¹⁶ the agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

¹⁹ He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones, ²⁰ so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out. ²² Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. ²³ If there be with him an agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, ²⁴ then God is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. ²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth. ²⁶ He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness. ²⁷ He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me. ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light. ²⁹ Lo, all these things God works twice, yea thrice, with a man, ³⁰ to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

¹² For thou will bless the righteous man, O LORD. Thou will encompass him with favor as with a shield. Selah.

⁵ For thou have made him but little lower than agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

³ For thou meet him with the blessings of goodness. Thou set a crown of fine gold on his head.

²² LORD redeems the soul of his servants, and none of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

¹³ For thou have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

¹¹ Thou crown the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness.

²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to thee, and my soul, which thou have redeemed.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹² Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

⁴ And when the chief Shepherd is made known, ye will receive the unfading crown of glory.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

⁵ Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Thou have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over.

⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choose and cause to approach, that he may dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple.

²⁸ Thou give to them, they gather. Thou open thy hand, they are satisfied with good.

⁹ For he satisfies the longing soul, and he fills the hungry soul with good,

¹⁵ Blessed are ye of LORD who made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of LORD, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

¹⁵ And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

¹⁴ Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates. ¹⁵ Thou shall give him his hire in his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against thee to LORD, and it be sin to thee.

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes. ¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place. ²² For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁹ LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble.

¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found. ¹⁶ LORD is King forever and ever. The nations have perished out of his land. ¹⁷ LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear, ¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the sons of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

¹² For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

³¹ For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,

⁴ that thou shall take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased! ⁵ LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, ⁶ who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. ⁷ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break forth into singing. ⁸ Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou are laid low, no hewer has come up against us. ⁹ Sheol from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming. It stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ They shall all answer and say to thee, Have thou also become weak as we? Have thou become like us? ¹¹ Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. ¹² How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! ¹³ And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. ¹⁵ Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit. ¹⁶ Those who see thee shall gaze at thee. They shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, ¹⁷ who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home? ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house. ¹⁹ But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot. ²⁰ Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because thou have destroyed thy land. Thou have slain thy people. The seed of evildoers shall not be named forever. ²¹ Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. ²² And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD. ²³ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says LORD of hosts. ²⁴ LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. ²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? ²⁸ In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. ²⁹ Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken. For out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰ And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain. ³¹ Howl, O gate, cry, O city. Thou are melted away, O Philistia, all of thee. For there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. ³² What then shall a man answer the messengers of the nation? That LORD has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

⁶ if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt, ⁷ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for evermore. ⁸ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. ⁹ Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, that ye may do all these abominations? ¹¹ Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says LORD. ¹² But go ye now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³ And now, because ye have done all these works, says LORD. And I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not, ¹⁴ therefore I will do to the house, which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. ¹⁵ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD. ¹³ Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee. ¹⁴ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, LORD, have spoken it, and will do it.

¹ Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

² Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones, ³ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. ⁴ Then they shall cry to LORD, but he will not answer them. Yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

⁸ And all the people answered together, and said, All that LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people to LORD.

²⁰ And LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount. And LORD called Moses to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.

²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

² And Moses alone shall come near to LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him. ³ And Moses came and told the people all the words of LORD, and all the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which LORD has spoken will we do. ⁴ And Moses wrote all the words of LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹³ Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy sight. And consider that this nation is thy people.

⁷ My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

¹⁰ And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom LORD knew face to face,

¹⁴ and made known to them thy holy sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thy servant.

²⁰ Thou led thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons,

¹¹ And they forgot his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shown them.

⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen. ²⁷ They set among them his signs and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. ³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs in the chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders. ³² He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. ³³ He also smote their vines and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their borders. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number, ³⁵ and ate up every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ He also smote all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. ³⁷ And he brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was not a feeble soul among his tribes. ³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them. ³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night. ⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran in the dry places like a river. ⁴² For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant. ⁴³ And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with singing. ⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labor of the peoples in possession, ⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise ye LORD.

²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things by the Red Sea.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them, ¹² who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,

⁴⁵ Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped. ⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for that man wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if ye believe not the writings of that man, how will ye believe my sayings?

³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, having said, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge? This man God sent, a ruler and a liberator by the hand of the agent who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ This man brought them forth after performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you, from your brothers, like me. ³⁸ This is he who became in the congregation in the wilderness with the agent who spoke to him on the mount Sinai, and of our fathers who received living oracles to give to us. ³⁹ To whom our fathers did not want to become obedient, but they thrust away, and turned back in their heart to Egypt, ⁴⁰ after saying to Aaron, Make gods for us who will lead us. For this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him. ⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered up sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. ⁴² But God turned, and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ⁴³ And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the images that ye made to worship them. And I will deport you beyond Babylon. ⁴⁴ The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as he arranged (he who spoke to Moses), to make it according to the pattern that he had seen. ⁴⁵ Which also our fathers, having received in succession, brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations whom God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David ⁴⁶ who found favor in the sight of God. And he asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon built him a house. ⁴⁸ However the Most High does not dwell in man-made temples, just as the prophet says, ⁴⁹ The heaven is to me a throne, and the earth a footstool of my feet. What house will ye build for me? says the Lord. Or what is the place of my rest? ⁵⁰ Did not my hand make all these things? ⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers, ⁵³ who received the law at directions of agents, and did not keep it. ⁵⁴ Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him. ⁵⁵ But being full of the Holy Spirit, having gazed into heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ And he said, Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁷ But they, having cried out in a great voice, held their ears shut, and rushed upon him with one accord. ⁵⁸ And having expelled him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments beside the feet of a young man called Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, who was calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰ And having knelt down, he cried out in a great voice, Lord, place not this sin to them. And after saying this, he slept.

⁶ And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the sons's sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁸ LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁰ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

¹⁷ and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou did among them, but stiffened their neck. And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and did not forsake them.

⁵ For thou, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

⁷ O Israel, hope in LORD, for with LORD there is loving kindness, and with him is plentiful redemption.

⁸ LORD is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁸ who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the great, the mighty God. LORD of hosts is his name,

¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

² And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relent thee of the evil.

³ LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

²⁰ And the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant, ²¹ so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace, ⁸ which he abounded for us in all wisdom and intelligence.

¹¹ Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of the Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

⁵ For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy is in the morning.

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

⁵ Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou have spoken, and have done evil things, and have had thy way.

¹² Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, says LORD, I will not look in anger upon you, for I am merciful, says LORD. I will not keep anger forever.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. ¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

¹³ And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

³¹ Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them, for thou are a gracious and merciful God.

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

³ If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

²² It is of LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear. Open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name. For we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, hearken and do. Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

² O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid. O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

⁵ Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is in the heavens, thy faithfulness to the skies.

¹⁰ For thy loving kindness is great to the heavens, and thy truth to the skies.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

¹⁷ But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons,

³ As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

⁵⁰ And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us, ⁵ even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace), ⁶ and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenly things in Christ Jesus. ⁷ So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

¹ The Mighty One, God, LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

³ From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same LORD's name is to be praised.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

⁶ that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am LORD, and there is none else.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

²⁰ In those days, and in that time, says LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. For I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

² Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of those who worship, once having been cleansed, to have no further conscience of sins?

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

¹² Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurturing father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers?

⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the un-walled towns a great many.

¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

¹¹ LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

¹² For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me. ¹⁶ For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

⁹ They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

² But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

⁹ Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name.

³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that ye need all these things.

¹¹ And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent? ¹² Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his bondmen, Bring forth the best robe and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for his feet.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

²⁶ Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives. ⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

²¹ And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

²⁵ Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?

³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. ³⁹ And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes not again.

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁶ Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

¹ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. ² He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue. ³ And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?

⁵ Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶ In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.

¹ Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!

⁴ And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer, which, when he who looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.

⁶ The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field. ⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass. ⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever.

¹² I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,

⁴ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

¹⁰ but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.

²⁴ Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

²⁴ And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. ⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. ⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. ¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. ¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass.

⁶ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

¹⁵ Only LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples as at this day.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done it.

⁶ Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever of old.

¹ I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations. ² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

¹⁶ Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory upon their sons.

⁵ For LORD is good. His loving kindness is forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness is forever. ² O give thanks to the God of gods, for his loving kindness is forever. ³ O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁴ to him who alone does great wonders, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁵ to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁶ to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁷ to him who made great lights, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁸ the sun to rule by day, for his loving kindness is forever, ⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁰ to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹¹ and brought out Israel from among them, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹² with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea apart, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁵ but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁶ to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁷ to him who smote great kings, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁸ and killed famous kings, for his loving kindness is forever, ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁰ and Og king of Bashan, for his loving kindness is forever, ²¹ and gave their land for a heritage, for his loving kindness is forever, ²² even a heritage to Israel his servant, for his loving kindness is forever, ²³ who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁴ and has delivered us from our adversaries, for his loving kindness is forever, ²⁵ who gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness is forever. ²⁶ O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loving kindness is forever.

⁸ But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

¹³ I bring near my righteousness. It shall not be far off. And my salvation shall not tarry, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

³ LORD appeared of old to me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn thee.

²⁴ Consider thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which LORD chose, he has cast them off? Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. ²⁵ Thus says LORD: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ²⁶ then I will also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, 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.

⁵ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of LORD.

³² And we proclaim good news to you: the promise to the fathers, which happened because God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, ³³ as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee. ³⁴ And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David.

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

²¹ But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. ²² And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction. ²³ For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified.

⁸ And I say, Christ Jesus became a helper of men of circumcision, for the sake of God's truth (in order to confirm the promises of the fathers),

⁴ Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him in love. ⁵ Who predestined us for sonship through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the desire of his will, ⁶ for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

¹³ But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth, ¹⁴ for which he called you, through our good news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

⁹ And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shall keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. ¹⁰ This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

⁸ And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that LORD has made with you concerning all these words.

²³ Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which LORD thy God has forbidden thee.

⁶ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. ⁷ And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lie down, and when thou rise up. ⁸ And thou shall bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. ⁹ And thou shall write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

⁹ Know therefore that LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

³¹ And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before LORD, to walk after LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

¹⁰ All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

⁹ With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word. ¹⁰ With my whole heart I have sought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments. ¹¹ I have laid thy word up in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

¹² If thy sons will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.

¹⁶ And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always non-stumbling before God and men.

¹ Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in the Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

⁶ But now he has obtained a superior ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a superior covenant, which has been enacted upon superior promises. ⁷ For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. ⁸ For, finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will perfect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ⁹ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me for a people. ¹¹ And they will, no, not teach each man his fellow citizen, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from their small as far as their great. ¹² Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins and their lawlessness I will no, not further remember. ¹³ In saying, New, he has made the first old. And what is becoming old and obsolete is near disappearance.

⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

⁷ but LORD will endure forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment,

⁴ LORD is in his holy temple. LORD's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men.

² For LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

³ But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.

¹ Thus says LORD, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What manner of house will ye build to me, and what place shall be my rest?

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.

²⁵ That thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of heaven. And seven times shall pass over thee till thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

³⁴ And 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. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

²¹ far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming. ²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,

¹ Now a summation about the things being spoken is, we have such a high priest who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.

³⁵ And it came to pass that night, that the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

¹ Ascribe to LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe to LORD glory and strength.

²⁵ Man ate the bread of the mighty. He sent them food to the full.

² Praise ye him, all his agents. Praise ye him, all his host.

² Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

¹¹ And LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great. For he is strong who executes his word. For the day of LORD is great and very fearful, and who can abide it?

¹⁰ May thy kingdom come. May thy will happen on the earth as also in heaven.

⁵³ Or do thou think that I cannot now call my Father, and he will provide to me more than twelve legions of agents?

¹⁹ And having answered, the agent said to him, I am Gabriel who stand in the presence of God. And I was sent to speak to thee, and to announce these good news to thee.

¹³ And suddenly there came to be with the agent a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

⁵ And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise ye our God, all his bondmen and those who fear him, the small and the great. ⁶ And I heard as the sound of a large multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Praise the Lord! Because the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

² And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's camp. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

¹⁴ And he said, No, but as captain of the army of LORD I have now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant?

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, Therefore hear thou the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

¹⁸ And Micaiah said, Therefore hear ye the word of LORD. I saw LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing at his right hand and at his left.

⁶ Thou are LORD, even thou alone, thou have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preserve them all. And the host of heaven worships thee.

⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

¹⁷ The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.

⁴ who makes his agents spirits, his ministers a flame of fire,

⁹ I beheld till thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and the wheels of it burning fire. ¹⁰ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.

⁴¹ The Son of man will send forth his agents, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness,

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky. And then all the tribes of the earth will beat the breast, and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the sky with power and much glory. ³¹ And he will send forth his agents with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the boundaries of the heavens-as far as their boundaries.

¹³ And suddenly there came to be with the agent a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power ⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him. ⁷ And indeed toward the agents he says, He who makes his agents spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

⁸ And I am John, the man hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the agent showing me these things. ⁹ And he says to me, See thou not. I am thy fellow bondman, and of thy brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!

¹ Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

¹ Bless LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou are very great. Thou are clothed with honor and majesty,

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless LORD, O my soul. Praise ye LORD.

¹⁰ All thy works shall give thanks to thee, O LORD, and thy sanctified shall bless thee.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Praise LORD, O my soul.

³ Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of LORD. For he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which shall not pass away. ⁷ Praise LORD from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps, ⁸ fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind, fulfilling his word, ⁹ mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds, ¹¹ kings of the earth and all peoples, rulers and all judges of the earth, ¹² both young men and virgins, old men and sons.

⁶ Let everything that has breath praise LORD. Praise ye LORD.

¹⁰ Sing to LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. ¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains. ¹² Let them give glory to LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

²⁰ The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

²³ Sing, O ye heavens, for LORD has done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein. For LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

¹³ Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains. For LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.

¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly! ¹⁴ And the four living creatures were saying the Truly. And the elders fell down and worshiped.