Isaiah 38 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live. ² And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, ³ And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping. ⁴ And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying: ⁵ Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years: ⁶ And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it. ⁷ And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken: ⁸ Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down. ⁹ The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. ¹⁰ I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. Hell... Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. ¹¹ I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest. ¹² My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. ¹³ I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. ¹⁴ I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me. ¹⁵ What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live. ¹⁷ Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. ¹⁸ For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children. ²⁰ O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. ²¹ Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed. ²² And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

²² And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

⁹ These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

¹³ I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.

¹ And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

²⁶ And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service? ²⁷ You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored.

¹⁴ And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵ For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.

¹ Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea. ² The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him. ³ The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name. ⁴ Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea. ⁵ The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone. ⁶ Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy. ⁷ And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble. ⁸ And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea. ⁹ The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them. ¹⁰ Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹ Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders? ¹² Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them. ¹³ In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation. ¹⁴ Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim. ¹⁵ Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff. ¹⁶ Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed. ¹⁷ Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. ¹⁸ The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. ¹⁹ For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof. ²⁰ So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances. ²¹ And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea.

³³ And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

⁹ Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

⁷ And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

¹⁸ And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,

³ He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

¹⁹ Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.

³⁹ See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

²¹ And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones? ²² You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel,

⁸ My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

¹² Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the valley of Ajalon. ¹³ And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down the space of one day. ¹⁴ There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.

¹ In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said: ² O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord. ³ Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁴ O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water. ⁵ The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the God of Israel. ⁶ In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel, the paths rested: and they that went by them, walked through bye-ways. ⁷ The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose, a mother arose in Israel. ⁸ The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel. ⁹ My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord. ¹⁰ Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in judgment, and walk in the way. ¹¹ Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty. ¹² Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise, and utter a canticle. Arise, Barac, and take hold of thy captives, O son of Abinoem. ¹³ The remnants of the people are saved, the Lord hath fought among the valiant ones. ¹⁴ Out of Ephraim he destroyed them into Amalec, and after him out of Benjamin into thy people, O Amalec: Out of Machir there came down princes, and out of Zabulon they that led the army to fight. ¹⁵ The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the steps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong, and into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men. ¹⁶ Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men. ¹⁷ Galaad rested beyond the Jordan, and Dan applied himself to ships: Aser dwelt on the sea shore, and abode in the havens. ¹⁸ But Zabulon and Nephthali offered their lives to death in the region of Merome. ¹⁹ The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac, by the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils. ²⁰ There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining in their order and courses, fought against Sisara. ²¹ The torrent of Cison dragged their carcasses, the torrent of Cadumim, the torrent of Cison: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong ones. ²² The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong down. ²³ Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men. ²⁴ Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her tent. ²⁵ He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes. ²⁶ She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples. ²⁷ Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched. ²⁸ His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow? ²⁹ One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law: ³⁰ Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn necks. ³¹ So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. ^(5:32) And the land rested for forty years.

¹⁷ And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me: ¹⁸ And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming. ¹⁹ So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him. ²⁰ And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the unleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth thereon. And when he had done so, ²¹ The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight. ²² And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord, said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

³⁷ I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew in the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I shall know that by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel. ³⁸ And it was so. And rising before day, wringing the fleece, he filled a vessel with the dew. ³⁹ And he said again to God: Let not thy wrath be kindled against me, if I try once more, seeking a sign in the fleece. I pray that the fleece only may be dry, and all the ground wet with dew.

¹⁰ As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,

¹ My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation. ² There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God. ³ Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared. ⁴ The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength. ⁵ They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened. ⁶ The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again. ⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: ⁸ He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world. ⁹ He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength. ¹⁰ The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

³ And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in they heart: because the Lord is with thee. ⁴ But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: ⁵ Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?

²¹ And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat bread. ²² And he said: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept for him: for I said: Who knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to me, and the child may live?

²³ But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

⁴ That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.

²⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight.

³⁰ That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

⁴ And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments, ⁵ I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel.

¹² Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. ¹³ Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen.

²⁴ And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body. ²⁵ And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city, wherein that old prophet dwelt. ²⁶ And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way, heard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he hath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.

⁴ But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

¹⁴ But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

³⁶ Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

²⁷ And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

² He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zacharias.

⁵ He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him: ⁶ And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

¹³ In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.

²⁰ And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians.

¹ In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son of Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not llve. ² And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying: ³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping. ⁴ And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying: ⁵ Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord. ⁶ And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake. ⁷ And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.

⁷ And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed. ⁸ And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

⁸ And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

⁸ And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

⁸ And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day? ⁹ And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?

⁹ And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees? ¹⁰ And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.

¹⁰ And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees. ¹¹ And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down on the dial of Achaz.

¹¹ And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down on the dial of Achaz. ¹² At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the Babylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that Ezechias had been sick. ¹³ And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the house of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and divers precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not. ¹⁴ And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon. ¹⁵ And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They saw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. ¹⁶ And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord. ¹⁷ Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. ¹⁸ And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. ¹⁹ Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days. ²⁰ And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? ²¹ And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son reigned in his stead.

² And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in thy heart: for God is with thee. ³ Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying: ⁴ Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.

⁹ And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.

¹⁹ And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength to those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise against thee.

² And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.

³⁰ And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.

²⁰ So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, ²¹ In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it and prospered.

²² And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the hand of all, and gave them treasures on every side.

²⁴ In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and he prayed to the Lord: and he heard him, and gave him a sign.

³¹ But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.

³ And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

¹⁰ And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

¹ Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation.

⁴ And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and mourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.

¹⁹ Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies.

²² I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

³¹ And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the firstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.

²⁵ For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me. ²⁶ Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.

²⁰ From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

¹⁸ For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

⁹ And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

³ So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. ⁴ If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness. ⁵ My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together. ⁶ My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. ⁷ Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

⁷ Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

¹¹ Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

²⁵ My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. ²⁶ They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.

¹ My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully. ¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.

² Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

⁵ The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

^{12 (16:13)} I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. ^{13 (16:14)} He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth, ^{14 (16:15)} He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

¹ My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

³ Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

¹¹ My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. ¹² They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. ¹³ If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. ¹⁴ I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience? ¹⁶ All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

²⁵ But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

¹¹ My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it. ¹² I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

¹⁸ And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

²⁹ I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

¹⁹ He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. ²⁰ Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired. ²¹ His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare. ²² His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers. ²³ If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness, ²⁴ He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him. ²⁵ His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth. ²⁶ He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice. ²⁷ He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved. ²⁸ He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

¹⁴ Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him. ¹⁵ For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

^{4 (6:5)} Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake. ^{5 (6:6)} For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

^{5 (6:6)} For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

^{8 (6:9)} Depart from em, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

^{13 (9:14)} Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies. ^{14 (9:15)} Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

² Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

⁸ I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

¹ Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: ^(18:2) I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

^{20 (18:21)} And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands: ^{21 (18:22)} Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God. ^{22 (18:23)} For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me. ^{23 (18:24)} And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity. ^{24 (18:25)} And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. ^{25 (18:26)} With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent: ^{26 (18:27)} And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted. ^{27 (18:28)} For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

¹ Unto the end. A psalm for David. ^(20:2) May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee. ^{2 (20:3)} May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of Sion. ^{3 (20:4)} May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burntoffering be made fat.

³ For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.

⁵ For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle. ⁶ He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

¹³ I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

^{3 (30:4)} Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

^{6 (30:7)} And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved. ^{7 (30:8)} O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

^{9 (30:10)} What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

^{11 (30:12)} Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness: ^{12 (30:13)} To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

^{22 (31:23)} But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

² Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

² Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

^{5 (34:6)} Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded. ^{6 (34:7)} This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

^{9 (39:10)} I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. ^{10 (39:11)} Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

^{10 (39:11)} Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

^{12 (39:13)} Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

^{2 (40:3)} And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

¹ Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. ^(42:2) As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. ^{2 (42:3)} My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

²² Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

^{8 (51:10)} To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

^{15 (51:17)} O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

^{8 (56:9)} I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

¹³ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, ¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. ¹⁵ I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.

^{25 (68:26)} Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

^{3 (69:4)} I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

²⁰ How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

¹⁴ And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

³ How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. ⁵ And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: ⁶ That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

¹ Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. ^(84:2) How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! ^{2 (84:3)} my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

^{10 (84:11)} For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners. ^{11 (84:12)} For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory. ^{12 (84:13)} He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

^{2 (85:3)} Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.

¹³ For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

^{4 (88:5)} I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, ^{5 (88:6)} Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ^{6 (88:7)} They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

^{10 (88:11)} Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? ^{11 (88:12)} Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

^{3 (89:4)} I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: ^{4 (89:5)} Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

^{45 (89:46)} Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. ^{46 (89:47)} How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? ^{47 (89:48)} Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

¹⁵ He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

² And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

^{4 (102:5)} I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. ^{5 (102:6)} Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. ^{6 (102:7)} I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. ^{7 (102:8)} I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

^{9 (102:10)} For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

^{11 (102:12)} My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

^{23 (102:24)} He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. ^{24 (102:25)} Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

^{24 (102:25)} Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

¹⁷ He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. ¹⁹ And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. ²⁰ He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions. ²¹ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. ²² And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

¹⁷ The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell. ¹⁸ But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.

¹ I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. ² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.

² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. ³ The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: ⁴ And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.

⁸ For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. ⁹ I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

¹⁷ I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: ¹⁹ In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

¹⁷ I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord. ¹⁸ The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered me over to death. ¹⁹ Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and give praise to the Lord.

²³ For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

²⁵ My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded.

⁸² My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

¹²² Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me. ¹²³ My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

¹⁷⁵ My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.

¹ A gradual canticle. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

¹ A gradual canticle. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. ² Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us. ³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. ⁴ For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

² Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

⁴ Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

² In my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. ^(146:3) Put not your trust in princes:

³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

⁴ Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

³² The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. ⁶ Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

¹ The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.

⁸ And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

¹¹ Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above. ¹² And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. ¹³ And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

¹ And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. ² Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation. ³ Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's fountains: ⁴ And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name is high. ⁵ Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this forth in all the earth. ⁶ Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰ It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.

⁴ For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the lions whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount Sion, and upon the hill thereof. ⁵ As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

² And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the son of Amos the prophet.

²¹ And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians:

³⁰ But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that spring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

³⁵ And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

¹ In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.

¹ In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live. ² And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, ³ And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping. ⁴ And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying: ⁵ Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years: ⁶ And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it. ⁷ And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken: ⁸ Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

²² And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

³ Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon. ⁴ And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All things that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing which I have not shewn them in my treasures.

²⁵ I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

¹¹ We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

⁵ Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

⁷ I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. ⁸ If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. ⁹ And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it. ¹⁰ If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.

³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

¹⁷ Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

¹⁶ And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

²⁴ And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

¹⁴ For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

¹ In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. ² For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

⁴ And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

³ Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

^{1 (2:2)} And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. ^{2 (2:3)} And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice. ^{3 (2:4)} And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood hast compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me. ^{4 (2:5)} And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again. ^{5 (2:6)} The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head. ^{6 (2:7)} I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

^{6 (2:7)} I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God. ^{7 (2:8)} When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple. ^{8 (2:9)} They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy. ^{9 (2:10)} But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.

⁴ And Jonas began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. ¹⁹ He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

⁷ And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the feet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places singing psalms.

⁴ Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

⁶ But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

¹² But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹ And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

⁴⁶ And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

³³ And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.

¹³ But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John.

²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither. ²⁷ And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, ²⁸ That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments. ²⁹ And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. ³⁰ But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance. ³¹ And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

¹⁴ Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.

⁴ I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

⁶ When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,

¹ Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister. ² (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³ His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. ⁴ And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it. ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.

²⁷ Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

³⁷ And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died. Whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

²⁴ Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

³⁰ Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep. ³¹ But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. ³² But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

³² But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

⁹ But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

¹² For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

¹⁷ For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

¹ For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

⁴ For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁶ But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

²⁷ For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore, I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow. ²⁹ Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with honour such as he is. ³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¹² And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

¹⁰ And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. ¹¹ Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

¹⁴ Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

¹³ But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. ¹⁴ Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

²¹ Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God. ²² And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. ¹⁵ And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

¹⁷ For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.