Luke Cross References - YLT

¹ Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, ² as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, — ³ it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus, ⁴ that thou mayest know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.
⁵ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth; ⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless, ⁷ and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days. ⁸ And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God, ⁹ according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord, ¹⁰ and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume. ¹¹ And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume, ¹² and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him; ¹³ and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John, <sup>14</sup> and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy, <sup>15</sup> for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb; <sup>16</sup> and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God, <sup>17</sup> and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.' <sup>18</sup> And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?' ¹⁹ And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee, <sup>20</sup> and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.' <sup>21</sup> And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his tarrying in the sanctuary, <sup>22</sup> and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb. <sup>23</sup> And it came to pass, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he went away to his house, <sup>24</sup> and after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying— <sup>25</sup> `Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.'
²⁶ And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth, ²⁷ to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name is Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin is Mary. ²⁸ And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women;' <sup>29</sup> and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be. <sup>30</sup> And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God; ³¹ and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; ³² he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, ³³ and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.' ³⁴ And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?' <sup>35</sup> And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God; ³⁶ and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren; ³⁷ because nothing shall be impossible with God.' ³⁸ And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.
<sup>39</sup> And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea, <sup>40</sup> and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. <sup>41</sup> And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, <sup>42</sup> and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb; ⁴³ and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me? ⁴⁴ for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb; ⁴⁵ and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.' ⁴⁶ And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord, <sup>47</sup> And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour, <sup>48</sup> Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations, <sup>49</sup> For He who is mighty did to me great things, And holy is His name, <sup>50</sup> And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him, <sup>51</sup> He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart, <sup>52</sup> He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly, <sup>53</sup> The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty, <sup>54</sup> He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, <sup>55</sup> As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed—to the age.' <sup>56</sup> And Mary remained with her about three months, and turned back to her house.
<sup>57</sup> And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son, <sup>58</sup> and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her. <sup>59</sup> And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias, <sup>60</sup> and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.' ⁶¹ And they said unto her—`There is none among thy kindred who is called by this name,' <sup>62</sup> and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called, <sup>63</sup> and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, `John is his name;' and they did all wonder; ⁶⁴ and his mouth was opened presently, and his tongue, and he was speaking, praising God. ⁶⁵ And fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of, ⁶⁶ and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.
<sup>67</sup> And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying, <sup>68</sup> `Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, ⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; ⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, ⁷² To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, ⁷³ An oath that He sware to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, ⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life. ⁷⁶ And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways. ⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins, ⁷⁸ Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us, ⁷⁹ To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.' ⁸⁰ And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

³¹ and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

¹ The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, ² till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up, ³ to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

¹⁶ and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety—God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

¹⁷ and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

¹⁶ For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty— ¹⁷ for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son—the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;' ¹⁸ and this voice we—we did hear, out of heaven borne, being with him in the holy mount.
¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts;

¹ A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

¹⁴ He who is sowing doth sow the word;

⁴⁸ and ye—ye are witnesses of these things.

²⁷ and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

³ to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

⁸ but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

²¹ `It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ²² beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

³⁹ and we—we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, —whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree. ⁴⁰ `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God—to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

¹⁶ but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee,

¹⁶ for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹ Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

⁷ of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; ⁸ to me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ,

¹¹ and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers, ¹² unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became—I Paul—a ministrant. ²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly, ²⁵ of which I—I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us,

¹ Elders who are among you, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

¹⁶ For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty—

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life— ² and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us— ³ that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

⁵ Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

²¹ These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

⁹ And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many similes.

¹ Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,

¹ The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

⁴ And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,

¹⁹ wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

²⁵ it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul—

²⁸ `For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:

²⁶ `Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:

³ always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

²⁵ and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

⁴⁰ and she is happier if she may so remain—according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

¹² and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all his will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.

²⁵ this one was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John;

¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹ but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

⁶ And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing—in all good things.

¹⁵ and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
¹⁶ For, skilfully devised fables not having followed out, we did make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but eye-witnesses having become of his majesty—

¹⁰ for Hakkoz the seventh, for Abijah the eighth,

¹⁹ These are their appointments for their service, to come in to the house of Jehovah, according to their ordinance by the hand of Aaron their father, as Jehovah God of Israel, commanded them.

⁴ Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

¹⁷ of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai;

¹ And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem,

⁹ These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

¹ And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

⁴ `And thou—if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee—My statutes and My judgments thou dost keep—

³ `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

² Truly I have known that it is so, And what—is man righteous with God?

⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

¹ And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

⁹ What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin, ¹⁰ according as it hath been written—`There is none righteous, not even one; ¹¹ There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God. ¹² All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one. ¹³ A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Swift are their feet to shed blood. ¹⁶ Ruin and misery are in their ways. ¹⁷ And a way of peace they did not know. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.'
¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; ²⁰ wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin. ²¹ And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets, ²² and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, —for there is no difference, ²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God— ²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God—

² And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

⁶ according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless! ⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; ⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

¹³ to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

³ for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another; ⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

¹⁴ wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

³ and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

²⁹ if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

⁷ Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

² And Abram saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.' <sup>3</sup> And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

¹ And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name is Hagar; ² and Sarai saith unto Abram, `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.

¹⁷ And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?'

¹¹ And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him;

²¹ And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

¹ And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.'

² And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name is Manoah, his wife is barren, and hath not borne; ³ and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, `Lo, I pray thee, thou art barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son.

² and he hath two wives, the name of the one is Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah, and Peninnah hath children, and Hannah hath no children.

⁵ and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion—double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb; ⁶ and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb. ⁷ And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat. ⁸ And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'

¹ And king David is old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,

¹⁴ And he saith, `And what—to do for her?' and Gehazi saith, `Verily she hath no son, and her husband is aged.'

¹⁹ and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

¹¹ By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

¹ `And thou, bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for his being priest to Me, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron;

⁴¹ and thou hast clothed Aaron thy brother with them, and his sons with him, and hast anointed them, and hast consecrated their hand, and hast sanctified them, and they have been priests to Me.

¹ `And this is the thing which thou dost to them, to hallow them, for being priests to Me: Take one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams, perfect ones,

⁹ and hast girded them with a girdle (Aaron and his sons), and hast bound on them bonnets; and the priesthood hath been theirs by a statute age-during, and thou hast consecrated the hand of Aaron, and the hand of his sons,

⁴⁴ `And I have sanctified the tent of meeting, and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I sanctify for being priests to Me,

³⁰ and Aaron and his sons thou dost anoint, and hast sanctified them for being priests to Me.

⁷ and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

² and Nadab dieth, and Abihu, in the presence of their father, and they had no sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar act as priests.

¹⁴ And he establisheth, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister over-against the priests, according to the matter of a day in its day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at gate and gate, for so is the command of David the man of God.

¹⁴ for the Levites have left their suburbs and their possession, and they come to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons have cast them off from acting as priests to Jehovah,

² And Hezekiah appointeth the courses of the priests, and of the Levites, by their courses, each according to his service, of the priests and of the Levites, for burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to give praise in the gates of the camps of Jehovah.

¹⁹ And to sons of Aaron, the priests, in the fields of the suburb of their cities, in every city and city, are men who have been defined by name, to give portions to every male among the priests, and to every one who reckoned himself by genealogy among the Levites.

¹⁸ and they have established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God that is in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

⁵ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;

⁷ `And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it, ⁸ and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations.

²⁵ And he maketh the perfume-altar of shittim wood; a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth (square), and two cubits its height; its horns have been of the same; ²⁶ and he overlayeth it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns; and he maketh for it a wreath of gold round about; ²⁷ and two rings of gold he hath made for it under its wreath, at its two corners, at its two sides, for places for staves to bear it with them. ²⁸ And he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold; ²⁹ and he maketh the holy anointing oil, and the pure spice-perfume—work of a compounder.

⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.

²⁸ even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

⁴⁹ And Aaron and his sons are making perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of the perfume, for all the work of the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses servant of God commanded.

¹³ Sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron is separated for his sanctifying the holy of holies, he and his sons—unto the age, to make perfume before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name—unto the age.

¹⁶ And at his being strong his heart hath been high unto destruction, and he trespasseth against Jehovah his God, and goeth in unto the temple of Jehovah to make perfume upon the altar of perfume.

¹¹ My sons, be not now at rest, for on you hath Jehovah fixed to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to be to Him ministering and making perfume.'

⁶ And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,

¹⁷ `And no man is in the tent of meeting in his going in to make atonement in the sanctuary, till his coming out; and he hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the assembly of Israel.

¹⁴ Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—may we hold fast the profession,

²⁴ for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter—figures of the true—but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

³ and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne,

¹ `And thou hast made an altar for making perfume; of shittim wood thou dost make it; <sup>2</sup> a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns are of the same. <sup>3</sup> `And thou hast overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou hast made to it a crown of gold round about; ⁴ and two rings of gold thou dost make to it under its crown; on its two ribs thou dost make them, on its two sides, and they have become places for staves, to bear it with them. ⁵ `And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold; <sup>6</sup> and thou hast put it before the vail, which is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which is over the testimony, whither I am met with thee. <sup>7</sup> `And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it, ⁸ and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations. ⁹ `Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it; ¹⁰ and Aaron hath made atonement on its horns, once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year doth he make atonement for it, to your generations; it is most holy to Jehovah.'

²⁶ And he setteth the golden altar in the tent of meeting, before the vail, ²⁷ and maketh perfume on it—spice-perfume—as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

¹³ and he hath put the perfume on the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of the perfume hath covered the mercy-seat which is on the testimony, and he dieth not.

³ and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, `Lo, I pray thee, thou art barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son.

⁹ And God hearkeneth to the voice of Manoah, and the messenger of God cometh again unto the woman, and she is sitting in a field, and Manoah her husband is not with her,

¹⁹ And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

²⁸ And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women;'

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people—

¹⁹ and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,

³ he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;' <sup>4</sup> and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

¹⁴ are they not all spirits of service—for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?

³ and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne, ⁴ and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God;

¹³ And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

²² And Gideon seeth that He is a messenger of Jehovah, and Gideon saith, `Alas, Lord Jehovah! because that I have seen a messenger of Jehovah face to face!'

²² And Manoah saith unto his wife, `We certainly die, for we have seen God.'

¹⁴ Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear. ¹⁵ And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;

⁷ `And I have seen—I, Daniel, by myself—the appearance: and the men who have been with me have not seen the appearance, but a great trembling hath fallen on them, and they flee to be hidden;

⁵ and having entered into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right hand, arrayed in a long white robe, and they were amazed.

²⁹ and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.

⁹ and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they feared a great fear. ¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people—

⁴ and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

¹⁰ this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;

¹⁹ and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

¹⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why is this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really—I bear—and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'

²³ And Jehovah saith to him, `Peace to thee; fear not; thou dost not die.'

³ and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, `Lo, I pray thee, thou art barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son. ⁴ And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, ⁵ for, lo, thou art conceiving and bearing a son, and a razor doth not go up on his head, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb, and he doth begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.'

²⁰ and it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the days, that Hannah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Samuel, `for, from Jehovah I have asked him.' <sup>21</sup> And the man Elkanah goeth up, and all his house, to sacrifice to Jehovah the sacrifice of the days, and his vow. <sup>22</sup> And Hannah hath not gone up, for she said to her husband, `Till the youth is weaned—then I have brought him in, and he hath appeared before the face of Jehovah, and dwelt there—unto the age.' ²³ And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Do that which is good in thine eyes; abide till thy weaning him; only, Jehovah establish His word;' and the woman abideth and suckleth her son till she hath weaned him,

²¹ When Jehovah hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah.

¹⁶ and he saith, `At this season, according to the time of life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, `Nay, my lord, O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.' ¹⁷ And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto her.

⁹ Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

²¹ I thank Thee, for Thou hast answered me, And art to me for salvation.

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men. ⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

³ And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

¹² And he saith unto me: Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words have been heard, and I have come because of thy words.

⁴ and Jehovah saith unto him, `Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;

⁶ And she conceiveth again, and beareth a daughter, and He saith to him, `Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I add no more to pity the house of Israel, for I do utterly take them away;

⁹ and He saith, `Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you; ¹⁰ and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

²¹ and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

²⁷ and immediately Jesus spake to them, saying, `Be of good courage, I am he, be not afraid.'

⁵ And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

⁶ And he saith to them, `Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise—he is not here; lo, the place where they laid him!

³⁰ And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God;

⁶⁰ and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.' <sup>61</sup> And they said unto her—`There is none among thy kindred who is called by this name,' ⁶² and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called, ⁶³ and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, `John is his name;' and they did all wonder;

²¹ And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

³⁶ and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace—to you;' <sup>37</sup> and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit. <sup>38</sup> And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts? ³⁹ see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.' ⁴⁰ And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

³¹ and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;

⁶ and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'

²⁰ A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

²⁴ The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

⁵⁸ and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

² And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

¹⁹ And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When a man or woman doeth singularly, by vowing a vow of a Nazarite, to be separate to Jehovah; ³ from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat; ⁴ all days of his separation, of anything which is made of the wine-vine, from kernels even unto husk, he doth not eat.

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `This day I begin to make thee great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with thee;

¹⁴ On that day hath Jehovah made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they reverence him, as they reverenced Moses, all days of his life.

⁴ And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, ⁵ for, lo, thou art conceiving and bearing a son, and a razor doth not go up on his head, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb, and he doth begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.' ⁶ And the woman cometh and speaketh to her husband, saying, `A man of God hath come unto me, and his appearance is as the appearance of a messenger of God, very fearful, and I have not asked him whence he is, and his name he hath not declared to me;

⁸ and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

¹² and the riches, and the honour are from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand is power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all.

⁹ For thou art He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

⁵ `Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

¹⁵ Jehovah of Hosts doth cover them over, And they consumed, and subdued sling-stones, Yea, they have drunk, They have made a noise as wine, And they have been full as a bowl, As corners of an altar.

⁹ `But what went ye out to see? —a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet, <sup>10</sup> for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. <sup>11</sup> Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he. <sup>12</sup> `And, from the days of John the Baptist till now, the reign of the heavens doth suffer violence, and violent men do take it by force, ¹³ for all the prophets and the law till John did prophesy, ¹⁴ and if ye are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was about to come; ¹⁵ he who is having ears to hear—let him hear.
¹⁶ `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades, <sup>17</sup> and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast. <sup>18</sup> `For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon; ¹⁹ the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

²⁸ for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'

³³ `For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

³⁵ he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

⁴ and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

¹⁴ and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings, <sup>15</sup> for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day. <sup>16</sup> `But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; ¹⁸ and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;

¹⁵ and when God was well pleased—having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace—

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

³ A voice is crying—in a wilderness—Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God. ⁴ Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley. ⁵ And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen it have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

⁶ And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'

³ And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

¹ Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, ² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,' <sup>3</sup> for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.' ⁴ And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field. ⁵ Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan, ⁶ and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

³² for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last—to believe him.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

⁵ and Samuel saith, `Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray for you unto Jehovah.'

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, `Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'

¹⁸ And he saith, `I have not troubled Israel, but thou and the house of thy father, in your forsaking the commands of Jehovah, and thou goest after the Baalim;

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found—because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

⁴ and therefore, thus said Jehovah, The bed whither thou hast gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die;' and Elijah goeth on. ⁵ And the messengers turn back unto him, and he saith unto them, `What is this—ye have turned back!' <sup>6</sup> And they say unto him, `A man hath come up to meet us, and saith unto us, Go, turn back unto the king who sent you, and ye have said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is not a God in Israel—thou art sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron? therefore, the bed whither thou hast gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die.'

¹⁶ and speaketh unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron—is it because there is not a God in Israel to inquire of His word? therefore, the bed whither thou hast gone up—thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die.'

¹⁸ `O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;

³⁶ and rejoice doth Hezekiah and all the people, because of God's giving preparation to the people, for the thing hath been suddenly.

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

⁸ And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise is standing for ever!

²⁴ And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'

¹² Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

⁵ Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful. ⁶ And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

⁴ And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath? <sup>8</sup> bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, <sup>9</sup> and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, <sup>10</sup> and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast. <sup>11</sup> `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, ¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

¹⁴ and if ye are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was about to come;

⁴ for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

¹¹ And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, ¹² and I say to you—Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'

²⁹ And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went. <sup>30</sup> `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go, sir, and went not; ³¹ which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, ³² for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last—to believe him.

¹¹ And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first. ¹² And he answering said to them, `Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought? ¹³ But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

¹⁶ and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God,

⁷ Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? <sup>8</sup> make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father—Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham; <sup>9</sup> and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.' <sup>10</sup> And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' ¹¹ and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats—let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals—in like manner let him do.' <sup>12</sup> And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' ¹³ and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.' <sup>14</sup> And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

¹³ who—not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but—of God were begotten.

²¹ And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' —`The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.' ²² They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?' <sup>23</sup> He said, `I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.' ²⁴ And those sent were of the Pharisees, ²⁵ and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?' <sup>26</sup> John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me, ²⁷ of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.' ²⁸ These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,
²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world; ³⁰ this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:

³⁴ and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

²⁸ ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

³³ at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

²³ and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call—us—

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. ¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹² Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

²¹ if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master—to every good work having been prepared,

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹¹ All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? ¹² waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; ¹³ and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell; ¹⁴ wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

⁸ and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

¹² and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days—the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

²¹ And Moses saith, `Six hundred thousand footmen are the people in whose midst I am; and Thou, Thou hast said, Flesh I give to them, and they have eaten, a month of days! <sup>22</sup> Is flock and herd slaughtered for them, that one hath found for them? —are all the fishes of the sea gathered for them—that one hath found for them?' <sup>23</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.'

³⁶ And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, <sup>37</sup> lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth drought—then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;' <sup>38</sup> and it is so, and he riseth early on the morrow, and presseth the fleece, and wringeth dew out of the fleece—the fulness of the bowl, of water. <sup>39</sup> And Gideon saith unto God, `Let not Thine anger burn against me, and I speak only this time; let me try, I pray Thee, only this time with the fleece—let there be, I pray Thee, drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth let there be dew.' ⁴⁰ And God doth so on that night, and there is drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth there hath been dew.

² And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, `Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens—shall this thing be?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'

²² And Hezekiah saith, `What is the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'

⁷ and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

³⁴ And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

¹⁶ And I hear a voice of man between the banks of Ulai, and he calleth and saith: Gabriel, cause this one to understand the appearance.

²¹ yea, while I am speaking in prayer, then that one Gabriel, whom I had seen in vision at the commencement, being caused to fly swiftly, is coming unto me at the time of the evening present. ²² And he giveth understanding, and speaketh with me, and saith, `O Daniel, now I have come forth to cause thee to consider understanding wisely; ²³ at the commencement of thy supplications hath the word come forth, and I have come to declare it, for thou art greatly desired, and understand thou concerning the matter, and consider concerning the appearance.

¹⁰ `Beware! —ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

²⁶ And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth,

¹⁰ and he saith, `returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.' <sup>11</sup> And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him; <sup>12</sup> and Abraham and Sarah are aged, entering into days—the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah; <sup>13</sup> and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, `After I have waxed old I have had pleasure! —my lord also is old!' ¹⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why is this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really—I bear—and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.' <sup>15</sup> And Sarah denieth, saying, `I did not laugh;' for she hath been afraid; and He saith, `Nay, but thou didst laugh.'

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

¹² And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.'

¹⁹ and the captain answereth the man of God, and saith, `And lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens—it is according to this word?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat;'

⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If ye do not give credence, Surely ye are not stedfast.'

²⁶ and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house are they.

²⁷ In that day opened is thy mouth with the escaped, And thou speakest, and art not silent any more, And thou hast been to them for a type. And they have known that I am Jehovah.'

¹⁹ And he answering him, said, `O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;'

¹⁴ Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;

²² and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.

⁴⁵ and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.'

³ for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

¹³ if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

²³ `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus ye do bless the sons of Israel, saying to them, <sup>24</sup> `Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; ²⁵ `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; <sup>26</sup> `Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee—peace. ²⁷ `And they have put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I—I do bless them.'

⁶² and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called,

²⁴ Simon Peter, then, doth beckon to this one, to inquire who he may be concerning whom he speaketh,

¹⁷ and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

³³ and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander—the Jews thrusting him forward—and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,

⁴⁰ And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:

⁵ and commandeth them, saying, `This is the thing that ye do; The third of you are going in on the sabbath, and keepers of the charge of the house of the king, ⁶ and the third is at the gate of Sur, and the third at the gate behind the runners, and ye have kept the charge of the house pulled down; ⁷ and two parts of you, all going out on the sabbath—they have kept the charge of the house of Jehovah about the king,

²⁵ And their brethren in their villages are to come in for seven days from time to time with these.

¹ And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken; ² and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;

²² And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb, ²³ and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, `God hath gathered up my reproach;'

⁶ and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb.

¹⁹ And they rise early in the morning, and bow themselves before Jehovah, and turn back, and come in unto their house in Ramah, and Elkanah knoweth Hannah his wife, and Jehovah remembereth her; ²⁰ and it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the days, that Hannah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Samuel, `for, from Jehovah I have asked him.'

²¹ When Jehovah hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah. ²² And Eli is very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling at the opening of the tent of meeting,

¹ And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

¹ Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more are the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah. ² Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not—lengthen thy cords, And thy pins make strong. ³ For right and left thou breakest forth, And thy seed doth nations possess, ⁴ And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.

¹³ and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

²³ and coming, he dwelt in a city named Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophets, that `A Nazarene he shall be called.'

⁴ and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,

⁴⁵ Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth;' <sup>46</sup> and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'

⁴¹ others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

²² Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

¹⁶ and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was begotten Jesus, who is named Christ.

¹⁸ And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

²⁰ And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten is of the Holy Spirit, ²¹ and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

²³ `Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted `With us he is God.'

⁴ and Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David, ⁵ to enrol himself with Mary his betrothed wife, being with child.

²⁴ Blessed above women is Jael, Wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent she is blessed.

¹² and the messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith unto him, `Jehovah is with thee, O mighty one of valour.'

²⁹ `Many are the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.' ³⁰ The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself. ³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

⁵ Be not afraid, for I am with thee, From the east I bring in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.

¹⁸ And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land; ¹⁹ and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee am I, —an affirmation of Jehovah—to deliver thee.

¹⁹ and he saith: Do not fear, O man greatly desired, peace to thee, be strong, yea, be strong; and when he speaketh with me, I have strengthened myself, and I say, Let my lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me.

² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

⁴⁸ And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'

⁴² and spake out with a loud voice, and said, `Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb;

²⁷ And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!' <sup>28</sup> And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

¹³ And Gideon saith unto him, `O, my lord—and Jehovah is with us! —and why hath all this found us? and where are all His wonders which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Hath not Jehovah brought us up out of Egypt? and now Jehovah hath left us, and doth give us into the hand of Midian.' <sup>14</sup> And Jehovah turneth unto him and saith, `Go in this—thy power; and thou hast saved Israel out of the hand of Midian—have not I sent thee.' ¹⁵ And he saith unto him, `O, my lord, wherewith do I save Israel? lo, my chief is weak in Manasseh, and I the least in the house of my father.'

²⁰ As to the asses which are lost to thee this day three days, set not thy heart to them, for they have been found; and to whom is all the desire of Israel?' is it not to thee and to all thy father's house?' ²¹ And Saul answereth and saith, `Am not I a Benjamite—of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why hast thou spoken unto me according to this word?'

⁴⁹ And they having seen him walking on the sea, thought it to be an apparition, and cried out, ⁵⁰ for they all saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he spake with them, and saith to them, `Take courage, I am he, be not afraid.'

⁵ and having entered into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right hand, arrayed in a long white robe, and they were amazed. ⁶ And he saith to them, `Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise—he is not here; lo, the place where they laid him!

¹² and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;

⁶⁶ and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.

¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

⁵¹ and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

¹⁷ And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

¹⁴ Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

¹ And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name—thou art Mine. ² When thou passest into waters, I am with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee. ³ For I—Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead. ⁴ Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.

² Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.

³² `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

⁹ And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; ¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

²⁴ saying, Be not afraid Paul; before Caesar it behoveth thee to stand; and, lo, God hath granted to thee all those sailing with thee;

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

⁶ so that we do boldly say, `The Lord is to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

²⁵ and did not know her till she brought forth her son—the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

²⁷ to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name is Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin is Mary.

⁴ and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

¹¹ even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house. ¹² `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom; ¹³ He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.

¹⁶ and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

⁶ For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

⁵ And established in kindness is the throne, And one hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this is he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'
<sup>17</sup> For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

²² Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, And I have set it, From the top of its tender shoots a tender one I crop, And I—I have planted it on a mountain high and lofty. ²³ In a mountain—the high place of Israel, I plant it, And it hath borne boughs, and yielded fruit, And become a goodly cedar, And dwelt under it have all birds of every wing, In the shade of its thin shoots they dwell. ²⁴ And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'

²³ And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them—my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd, ²⁴ And I, Jehovah, I am their God, And My servant David prince in their midst, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

²⁴ And My servant David is king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them. ²⁵ And they have dwelt on the land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob, In which your fathers have dwelt, And they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, And their son's sons—unto the age, And David My servant is their prince—to the age.

¹¹ In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old. ¹² So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My name is called, An affirmation of Jehovah—doer of this.

¹ A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

¹¹ `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

⁴² `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!

¹⁸ And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

⁷ and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What—to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

⁶¹ and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou the Christ—the Son of the Blessed?'

¹⁵ for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

³⁵ And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

¹⁶ John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals—he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

³⁵ `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

³⁵ the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; ³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

²¹ `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth; <sup>22</sup> for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, <sup>23</sup> that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him. <sup>24</sup> `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. ²⁵ `Verily, verily, I say to you—There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live; <sup>26</sup> for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself, <sup>27</sup> and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. <sup>28</sup> `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

⁶⁹ and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

³⁴ the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain—to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this—the Son of Man?'

³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

³⁶ assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him—this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

⁴⁸ `But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

¹⁷ she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'

⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

²⁰ which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; ²² and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him—head over all things to the assembly, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

⁹ wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

² in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; ³ who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might—through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
⁴ having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they. ⁵ For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?' ⁶ and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him—all messengers of God;' <sup>7</sup> and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;' ⁸ and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy reign;

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is age-during, and for ever, A sceptre of uprightness Is the sceptre of Thy kingdom.

³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, ³⁶ His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me, ³⁷ As the moon it is established—to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

⁴⁴ `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed—to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

¹³ `I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was one coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near. ¹⁴ And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion is a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.

¹⁸ and receive the kingdom do the saints of the Most High, and they strengthen the kingdom unto the age, even unto the age of the ages.

²⁷ and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people—the saints of the Most High, His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.

²¹ And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!'

⁷ And I have set the halting for a remnant, And the far-off for a mighty nation, And reigned hath Jehovah over them in mount Zion, From henceforth, and unto the age.

⁶ And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;

²⁴ then—the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power— ²⁵ for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet—

²⁹ and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise—heirs.

¹⁶ and as many as by this rule do walk—peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

³ for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

⁸ and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy reign;

¹⁵ And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become those of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years; ⁵ and the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years may be finished; this is the first rising again. ⁶ Happy and holy is he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

³ and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him, ⁴ and they shall see His face, and His name is upon their foreheads, ⁵ and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them light, and they shall reign—to the ages of the ages.

⁸ And Manoah maketh entreaty unto Jehovah, and saith, `O, my Lord, the man of God whom Thou didst send, let him come in, I pray thee, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.' <sup>9</sup> And God hearkeneth to the voice of Manoah, and the messenger of God cometh again unto the woman, and she is sitting in a field, and Manoah her husband is not with her, <sup>10</sup> and the woman hasteth, and runneth, and declareth to her husband, and saith unto him, `Lo, he hath appeared unto me—the man who came on that day unto me.' ¹¹ And Manoah riseth, and goeth after his wife, and cometh unto the man, and saith to him, `Art thou the man who spake unto the woman?' and he saith, `I am .' ¹² And Manoah saith, `Now let thy words come to pass; what is the custom of the youth—and his work?'

⁶ trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord said unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman?

⁷ I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

²⁰ And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten is of the Holy Spirit,

³ And the Tempter having come to him said, `If Son thou art of God—speak that these stones may become loaves.'

³³ and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, `Truly—God's Son art thou.'

⁶³ and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ—the Son of God.' <sup>64</sup> Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.'

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, `Truly this was God's Son.'

²⁴ saying, `Away! what—to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art—the Holy One of God.'

³¹ and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; ³² he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

³⁶ And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

¹⁵ for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner—apart from sin;

²⁶ For such a chief priest did become us—kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, ²⁷ who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself; ²⁸ for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son—to the age having been perfected.

²³ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.'

² According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not fallen more than you.

¹⁷ `Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm; there is nothing too wonderful for Thee:

²⁷ `Lo, I am Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful?

⁶ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Surely it is wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, Also in Mine eyes it is wonderful, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

²⁶ And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

²⁷ And Jesus, having looked upon them, saith, `With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.'

²⁷ and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'

²¹ who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

²⁵ `And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken; ²⁶ And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee, ²⁷ For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer; ²⁸ And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou art God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness, ²⁹ And now, begin and bless the house of Thy servant, to be unto the age before Thee, for Thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken, and by Thy blessing is the house of Thy servant blessed—to the age.'

¹⁶ Cause it to come, O Jehovah, for I am Thy servant. I am Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.

³⁸ Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That is concerning Thy fear.

²⁰ and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, ²¹ and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

⁴⁰ And Joshua smiteth all the land of the hill-country, and of the south, and of the low-country, and of the springs, and all their kings—he hath not left a remnant, and all that doth breathe he hath devoted, as Jehovah, God of Israel, commanded.

⁴⁸ And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, ⁴⁹ and Dannah, and Kirjath-Sannah (it is Debir) ⁵⁰ and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, ⁵¹ and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages. ⁵² Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, ⁵³ and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah, ⁵⁴ and Humtah, and Kirjath-Arba (it is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities and their villages. ⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, ⁵⁶ and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, ⁵⁷ Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their villages. ⁵⁸ Halhul, Beth-Zur, and Gedor, ⁵⁹ and Maarath, and Beth-Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and their villages.

⁷ And they sanctify Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba (it is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah;

⁹ And they give out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name; ¹⁰ and they are for the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathite, of the sons of Levi, for theirs hath been the first lot; ¹¹ and they give to them the city of Arba father of Anak (it is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;

⁶⁵ And fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,

²² and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If it is right—why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.

¹⁰ On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou art my God.

⁴⁴ for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

⁶⁷ And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

¹ And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

⁸ Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

³ look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

⁵⁵ and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

¹⁸ and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

⁶ For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

² Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

¹⁷ His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.
¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders, ¹⁹ And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

⁴⁸ Because He looked on the lowliness of His maid-servant, For, lo, henceforth call me happy shall all the generations,

³⁸ saying, `blessed is he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.'

²⁶ because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet—my flesh also shall rest on hope, ²⁷ because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; ²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

¹⁰ And she falleth on her face, and boweth herself to the earth, and saith unto him, `Wherefore have I found grace in thine eyes, to discern me, and I a stranger?'

⁴¹ And she riseth and boweth herself—face to the earth—and saith, `Lo, thy handmaid is for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'

¹ A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

¹⁴ but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized—and thou dost come unto me!'

¹¹ because there was born to you to-day a Saviour—who is Christ the Lord—in the city of David,

⁷ wherefore not even myself thought I worthy to come unto thee, but say in a word, and my lad shall be healed;

⁴² and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ⁴³ till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool; ⁴⁴ David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'

⁵ afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded. ⁶ He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou—dost thou wash my feet?' <sup>7</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;' ⁸ Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet—to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;'

¹³ ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

³ nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves—

⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

²⁰ And they rise early in the morning, and go out to the wilderness of Tekoa, and in their going out Jehoshaphat hath stood and saith, `Hear me, O Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, remain stedfast in Jehovah your God, and be stedfast; remain stedfast in His prophets, and prosper.'

²⁰ and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.'

⁴⁰ Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

²⁹ Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'

¹ And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation. ² There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God. ³ Ye multiply not—ye speak haughtily—The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed. ⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength. ⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished. ⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. ⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. ⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world. ⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty. ¹⁰ Jehovah—broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

² In Jehovah doth my soul boast herself, Hear do the humble and rejoice. ³ Ascribe ye greatness to Jehovah with me, And we exalt His name together.

⁹ And my soul is joyful in Jehovah, It rejoiceth in His salvation.

¹ By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts—His Holy Name. ² Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And forget not all His benefits,

¹⁵ Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.
¹⁶ From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, woe is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

²⁵ In Jehovah are all the seed of Israel justified, And they boast themselves.'

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

¹¹ And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

³¹ that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying—in the Lord let him glory.'

¹⁴ and to God are thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation. ³ And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me. ²² Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I am God, and there is none else.

¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁴ Cry aloud, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Rejoice and exult with the whole heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Jehovah hath turned aside thy judgments, He hath faced thine enemy, The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in thy midst, Thou seest evil no more. ¹⁶ In that day it is said to Jerusalem, `Fear not, O Zion, let not thy hands be feeble. ¹⁷ Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

³ for this is right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

³ (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.

¹³ and Leah saith, `Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher.

¹¹ and voweth a vow, and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men—then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'

⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

⁸ and now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the comely place, from after the flock, to be leader over My people, over Israel;

¹⁸ And king David cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who am I, Lord Jehovah? and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto? ¹⁹ And yet this is little in Thine eyes, Lord Jehovah, and Thou dost speak also concerning the house of Thy servant afar off; and this is the law of the Man, Lord Jehovah.

¹⁷ He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy. ⁸ To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

²³ Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age is His kindness.

⁶ For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

² And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

¹² And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

²⁷ And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; ²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless—

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

¹¹ Who is like Thee among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like Thee—honourable in holiness—Fearful in praises—doing wonders?

² There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

⁸ Who is this—`the king of glory?' Jehovah—strong and mighty, Jehovah, the mighty in battle.

¹⁹ And Thy righteousness, O God, is unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who is like Thee? ²⁰ Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back—Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back—Thou bringest me up. ²¹ Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest—Thou comfortest me,

³ They praise Thy name, `Great, and fearful, holy it is.'

⁹ Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And bow yourselves at His holy hill, For holy is Jehovah our God!

⁹ Redemption He hath sent to His people, He hath appointed to the age His covenant, Holy and fearful is His name.

² Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.' ³ Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

²⁴ Therefore—the affirmation of the Lord—Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,

³ And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.'

¹⁵ For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

¹ `Who is this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' —`I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.'

⁶ Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great art Thou, and great Thy name in might.

¹¹ And Jehovah is with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten.

¹³ and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea—and they were about two thousand—and they were choked in the sea.

²⁰ and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

⁸ And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within are full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'

⁴ who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone art kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

⁶ and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

⁶ and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

¹⁹ How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

⁹ Only, near to those fearing Him is His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

¹¹ For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons, ¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

¹³ He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great.

⁴ I pray you, let those fearing Jehovah say, That, to the age is His kindness.

¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. ¹⁷ And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing—a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him. ¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

⁵ And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying, `Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great;'

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

²¹ and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

⁶ Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Is become honourable in power; Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Doth crush an enemy. ⁷ And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath—It consumeth them as stubble.

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — ¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters. ¹¹ Who is like Thee among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like Thee—honourable in holiness—Fearful in praises—doing wonders? ¹² Thou hast stretched out Thy right hand—Earth swalloweth them! ¹³ Thou hast led forth in Thy kindness The people whom Thou hast redeemed. Thou hast led on in Thy strength Unto Thy holy habitation.

¹¹ now I have known that Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly—He is above them!'

³⁴ Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors—according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

¹⁹ `And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst. ²⁰ Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,

³ Ye multiply not—ye speak haughtily—The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed. ⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁹ And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder? ¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on. ¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low. ¹² See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

¹ Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? ² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: ³ `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.' <sup>4</sup> He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them. <sup>5</sup> Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them: <sup>6</sup> `And I—I have anointed My King, Upon Zion—My holy hill.'

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

⁹ I thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done it, And I wait on Thy name for it is good before Thy saints!

⁵ As with milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And with singing lips doth my mouth praise.

¹⁰ Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

¹³ Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand—high Thy right hand.

¹ A Psalm. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, For wonders He hath done, Given salvation to Him hath His right hand and His holy arm.

¹⁵ A voice of singing and salvation, Is in the tents of the righteous, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.

¹² And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. ¹³ For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants, ¹⁴ And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I—I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.' ¹⁵ —Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood! ¹⁶ Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day. ¹⁸ And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer. ¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his forest are few, And a youth doth write them.

¹⁰ Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire is with Him, and His wage before Him.

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!

¹⁰ Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God.

¹² Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during.

²⁹ We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Exceeding proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, And his pride, and the height of his heart, ³⁰ I—I have known, an affirmation of Jehovah, His wrath, and it is not right, His devices—not right they have done.

³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

²⁵ and this is the writing that is noted down: Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, and Divided. ²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it. ²⁷ Weighed—Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking. ²⁸ Divided—Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.' ²⁹ Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel with purple, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and they have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the kingdom.
³⁰ In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain, ³¹ and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son of sixty and two years.

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

⁵ reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁸ because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong is the Lord God who is judging her;

⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up. ⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. ⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

¹¹ To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety. ¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

²⁴ He breaketh the mighty—no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. ²⁵ Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. ²⁶ As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. ²⁷ Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, ²⁸ To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

⁴⁰ He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy—no way. ⁴¹ And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

⁶ He is humbling Himself to look On the heavens and on the earth.

¹⁴ For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

²⁴ And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'

¹¹ In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.

³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' —and they were being stumbled at him.

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁹ And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation, ¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

⁸ They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men. ⁹ For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled with goodness.

⁷ Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

²⁹ And I have raised for them a plant for renown, And they are no more consumed by hunger in the land, And they bear no more the shame of the nations.

⁶ `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness—because they shall be filled.

²¹ `Happy those hungering now—because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now—because ye shall laugh.

²⁴ `But woe to you—the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

¹⁶ And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; <sup>17</sup> and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits? <sup>18</sup> and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things, <sup>19</sup> and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. <sup>20</sup> `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be? ²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

¹⁹ `And—a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, <sup>20</sup> and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores, <sup>21</sup> and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores. <sup>22</sup> `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham—and the rich man also died, and was buried; ²³ and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, ²⁴ and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame. ²⁵ `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive—thou—thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; ¹² I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things—as many as I possess. ¹³ `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner! ¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

²⁴ And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, `How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God! ²⁵ for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

¹¹ and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished. ¹² And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;' ¹³ they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

³⁵ And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst—at any time;

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

⁸ Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you; ² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! ⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you—doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; ⁵ ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; ⁶ ye did condemn—ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

¹⁷ because thou sayest—I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹⁶ they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, ¹⁷ because the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

³ He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

²¹ Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou art, I formed thee, a servant to Me thou art, O Israel, thou dost not forget Me.

³ Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the womb, ⁴ Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

¹⁴ And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.' ¹⁵ Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one—the son of her womb? Yea, these forget—but I—I forget not thee. ¹⁶ Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls are before Me continually.

⁶ For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God. ⁷ In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee, ⁸ In overflowing wrath I hid my face for a moment from thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy Redeemer—Jehovah! ⁹ For, the waters of Noah is this to Me, In that I have sworn—the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth—So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee. ¹⁰ For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one—Jehovah.

⁷ The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts. ⁸ And He saith, Only My people they are, Sons—they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour. ⁹ In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old. ¹⁰ And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them. ¹¹ And He remembereth the days of old, Moses—his people. Where is He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock? Where is He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit? ¹² Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during. ¹³ Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not. ¹⁴ As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.
¹⁵ Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where is Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves. ¹⁶ For Thou art our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, Our redeemer from the age, is Thy name.

³ From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee with kindness.

²⁰ A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁴ `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise—So that they are no more a people before them! ²⁵ Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed— ²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back to their captivity, and have pitied them.'

²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

¹⁴ Cry aloud, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Rejoice and exult with the whole heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Jehovah hath turned aside thy judgments, He hath faced thine enemy, The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in thy midst, Thou seest evil no more. ¹⁶ In that day it is said to Jerusalem, `Fear not, O Zion, let not thy hands be feeble. ¹⁷ Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.' ¹⁸ Mine afflicted from the appointed place I have gathered, from thee they have been, Bearing for her sake reproach. ¹⁹ Lo, I am dealing with all afflicting thee at that time, And I have saved the halting one, And the driven out ones I do gather, And have set them for a praise and for a name, In all the land of their shame. ²⁰ At that time I bring you in, Even at the time of My assembling you, For I give you for a name, and for a praise, Among all peoples of the land, In My turning back to your captivity before your eyes, said Jehovah!

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses. ¹⁰ And I have cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, Yea, cut off hath been the bow of battle, And he hath spoken peace to nations, And his rule is from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth. ¹¹ Also thou—by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.

⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; ⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, ⁷² To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, ⁷³ An oath that He sware to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, ⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

³ And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

⁴ and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

¹⁴ and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. ⁷ He is Jehovah our God, In all the earth are His judgments.
⁸ He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations, ⁹ That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, ¹⁰ And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel—a covenant age-during,

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee. ¹² If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee. ¹³ For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired it for a seat to Himself, ¹⁴ This is My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it. ¹⁵ Her provision I greatly bless, Her needy ones I satisfy with bread, ¹⁶ And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud. ¹⁷ There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.

²⁸ As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice—beloved on account of the fathers; ²⁹ for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

¹⁶ and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ; ¹⁷ and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

² and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him; ³ and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him—Isaac;

¹⁹ God is not a man—and lieth, And a son of man—and repenteth! Hath He said—and doth He not do it ? And spoken—and doth He not confirm it?

⁶ And it came to pass, in their being there, the days were fulfilled for her bringing forth, ⁷ and she brought forth her son—the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.

¹⁹ lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me, and I have died;

¹⁴ And the women say unto Naomi, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath not let a redeemer cease to thee to-day, and his name is proclaimed in Israel, <sup>15</sup> and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath loved thee—who is better to thee than seven sons—hath borne him.' <sup>16</sup> And Naomi taketh the lad, and layeth him in her bosom, and is to him for a nurse; <sup>17</sup> and the neighbouring women give to him a name, saying, `There hath been a son born to Naomi,' and they call his name Obed; he is father of Jesse, father of David.

⁹ `Do I bring to the birth, And not cause to bring forth?' saith Jehovah, `Am not I He who is causing to beget? I have also restrained,' said thy God. ¹⁰ Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her,

¹⁴ and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

²⁵ `Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.'

¹⁵ to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

²⁶ and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

¹² `And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

³ and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him—Isaac; ⁴ and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, being a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

³ and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

⁸ `And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob—the twelve patriarchs;

⁵ circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!

²⁵ and sendeth by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and calleth his name Jedidiah, because of Jehovah.

⁶³ and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, `John is his name;' and they did all wonder;

³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

⁸ No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

² And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

⁶⁰ and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.'

¹⁵ and thou hast spoken unto him, and hast set the words in his mouth, and I—I am with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and have directed you that which ye do; ¹⁶ and he, he hath spoken for thee unto the people, and it hath come to pass, he—he is to thee for a mouth, and thou—thou art to him for God;

⁷ O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face—I have been troubled. ⁸ Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, And unto Jehovah I make supplication. ⁹ `What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.' ¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy. ¹² So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!

¹⁵ O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

¹⁸ Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.
¹⁹ Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them—I thank Jah.

¹ And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.

⁹ And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.

²⁷ And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house are they.

²¹ In that day I cause to shoot up a horn to the house of Israel, And to thee I give an opening of the mouth in their midst, And they have known that I am Jehovah!'

²² And the hand of Jehovah hath been unto me in the evening, before the coming in of the escaped one, and He openeth my mouth till the coming in unto me in the morning, and opened is my mouth, and I have not been silent again.

³⁴ `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation; <sup>35</sup> and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done? <sup>36</sup> `At that time my understanding doth return unto me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my brightness doth return unto me, and to me my counsellors and my great men do seek, and over my kingdom I have been made right, and abundant greatness hath been added to me. ³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

³³ and the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake, and the multitude did wonder, saying that `It was never so seen in Israel:'

³² and they bring to him a deaf, stuttering man, and they call on him that he may put the hand on him. ³³ And having taken him away from the multitude by himself, he put his fingers to his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue, ³⁴ and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,' that is, `Be thou opened;' ³⁵ and immediately were his ears opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain. ³⁶ And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming it, ³⁷ and they were being beyond measure astonished, saying, `Well hath he done all things; both the deaf he doth make to hear, and the dumb to speak.'

⁶ And the men of Gibeon send unto Joshua, unto the camp at Gilgal, saying, `Let not thy hand cease from thy servants; come up unto us with haste, and give safety to us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorite, dwelling in the hill-country, have been assembled against us.'

³⁹ And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,

¹⁶ and fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying—`A great prophet hath risen among us,' and—`God did look upon His people.'

⁴³ And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles,

⁵ and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,

¹¹ and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

¹⁷ and this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who are dwelling at Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified,

¹¹ And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

¹¹ and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.

² And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian,

²⁴ And the woman beareth a son, and calleth his name Samson, and the youth groweth, and Jehovah doth bless him, ²⁵ and the Spirit of Jehovah beginneth to move him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

¹⁸ And Samuel is ministering in the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt with an ephod of linen;

¹⁸ And one of the servants answereth and saith, `Lo, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, skilful in playing, and a mighty virtuous man, and a man of battle, and intelligent in word, and a man of form, and Jehovah is with him.'

⁴⁶ and the hand of Jehovah hath been on Elijah, and he girdeth up his loins, and runneth before Ahab, till thine entering Jezreel.

¹⁷ Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.

²¹ With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

⁸⁰ And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

⁴⁰ and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

⁴⁴ `Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

²¹ and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord.

²⁵ and Jehovah cometh down in the cloud, and speaketh unto him, and keepeth back of the Spirit which is on him, and putteth on the seventy men of the elders; and it cometh to pass at the resting of the Spirit on them, that they prophesy, and do not cease.

² The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word is on my tongue.

²⁸ And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.

⁴¹ And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

²⁶ And he saith: `Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

²⁰ and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

¹⁶ `Go, and thou hast gathered the elders of Israel, and hast said unto them: Jehovah, God of your fathers, hath appeareth unto me, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have certainly inspected you, and that which is done to you in Egypt; ¹⁷ and I say, I bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

³¹ and the people believe when they hear that Jehovah hath looked after the sons of Israel, and that He hath seen their affliction; and they bow and do obeisance.

⁴⁸ and also thus hath the king said, Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath given to-day one sitting on my throne, and mine eyes seeing.'

¹⁰ And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age.

²⁰ And David saith to all the assembly, `Bless, I pray you, Jehovah your God;' and all the assembly bless Jehovah, God of their fathers, and bow and do obeisance to Jehovah, and to the king.

¹³ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age—and unto the age. Amen and Amen.

⁴⁸ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'

³⁸ and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

¹ And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

¹⁰ Jehovah—broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

²⁶ And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee,

³ My God is my rock—I take refuge in Him; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, My high tower, and my refuge! My Saviour, from violence Thou savest me!

¹³ only all the kingdom I do not rend away; one tribe I give to thy son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, that I have chosen.'

² Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

³ I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

¹⁷ For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

²⁰ I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. ²¹ With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. ²² An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. ²³ And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, ²⁴ And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. ²⁵ And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. ²⁶ He proclaimeth me: `Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' ²⁷ I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him. ²⁹ And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; ³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, ³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, ³³ And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

¹⁷ There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed. ¹⁸ His enemies I do clothe with shame, And upon him doth his crown flourish!

¹ And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful. ² Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. ³ To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth. ⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death. ⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness—the girdle of his reins. ⁶ And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them. ⁷ And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw. ⁸ And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand. ⁹ Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this is he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'
<sup>17</sup> For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel, ¹⁸ And to the priests—the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice—all the days.' ¹⁹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying, ²⁰ `Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season, ²¹ Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers. ²² As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.' ²³ And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying:

¹⁰ blessed is the coming reign, in the name of the Lord, of our father David; Hosanna in the highest.'

² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings— ³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

¹⁶ `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!

¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth.

¹⁰ And thou, be not afraid, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah, Nor be affrighted, O Israel, For, lo, I am saving thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity, And Jacob hath turned back and rested, And is quiet, and there is none troubling.

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader is seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. ²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations. ²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many—one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

³⁶ for David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on My right hand, till I place thine enemies—thy footstool;

²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?' ²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

²¹ whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age. ²² `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said—A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; ²³ and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; ²⁴ and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

²⁵ And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word—`Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings—

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear—

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

¹⁰ and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See—not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

²⁹ O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who is the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'

¹⁰ And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

¹ Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob. ² And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors. ³ And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,

²⁴ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I am Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth—who is with Me? ²⁵ Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish. ²⁶ Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,

⁷ In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee, ⁸ In overflowing wrath I hid my face for a moment from thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy Redeemer—Jehovah! ⁹ For, the waters of Noah is this to Me, In that I have sworn—the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth—So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee. ¹⁰ For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one—Jehovah.
¹¹ O afflicted, storm-tossed, not comforted, Lo, I am laying with cement thy stones, And have founded thee with sapphires, ¹² And have made of agate thy pinnacles, And thy gates of carbuncle stones, And all thy border of stones of delight, ¹³ And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons. ¹⁴ In righteousness thou establishest thyself, Be far from oppression, for thou fearest not, And from ruin, for it cometh not near unto thee. ¹⁵ Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth! ¹⁶ Lo, I—I have prepared an artisan, Blowing on a fire of coals, And bringing out an instrument for his work, And I have prepared a destroyer to destroy. ¹⁷ No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

⁹ And they have served Jehovah their God, And David their king whom I raise up to them.
¹⁰ And thou, be not afraid, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah, Nor be affrighted, O Israel, For, lo, I am saving thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity, And Jacob hath turned back and rested, And is quiet, and there is none troubling. ¹¹ For with thee am I, An affirmation of Jehovah—to save thee, For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have scattered thee, Only, of thee I do not make an end, And I have chastised thee in judgment, And do not entirely acquit thee.

³⁷ Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently;

²⁶ And they have dwelt on it confidently, And builded houses, and planted vineyards, And dwelt confidently—in My doing judgments, On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I, Jehovah, am their God!'

²⁵ And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.

²⁸ And they are no more a prey to nations, And the beast of the earth devoureth them not, And they have dwelt confidently, And there is none troubling.

⁸ After many days thou art appointed, In the latter end of the years thou comest in unto a land brought back from sword, A people gathered out of many peoples, Upon mountains of Israel, That have been for a perpetual waste, And it from the peoples hath been brought out, And dwelt safely have all of them.

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses. ¹⁰ And I have cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, Yea, cut off hath been the bow of battle, And he hath spoken peace to nations, And his rule is from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.

⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

⁸ he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

⁴ `I—lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations; <sup>5</sup> and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee; <sup>6</sup> and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.
<sup>7</sup> `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; ⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.' ⁹ And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

⁴² then I have remembered My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.

⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

⁵ Prey He hath given to those fearing Him, He remembereth to the age His covenant.

⁸ And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

⁶⁰ And I—I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.

⁵⁴ He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, ⁵⁵ As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed—to the age.'

²⁵ `Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ²⁶ to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

²⁸ As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice—beloved on account of the fathers;

¹⁵ Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

¹³ For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' ¹⁵ and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; ¹⁶ for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath, ¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, ¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

¹⁶ and saith, `By Myself I have sworn—the affirmation of Jehovah—that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one— ¹⁷ that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies; ¹⁸ and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

⁷ Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

³ sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;

⁸ but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

¹² `And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,

⁹ That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,

⁵ In order to establish the oath that I have sworn to your fathers, To give to them a land flowing with milk and honey, as this day. And I answer and say, `Amen, O Jehovah.'

¹³ For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

¹⁶ for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath, ¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

⁹ No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed, ¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

¹³ And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons. ¹⁴ In righteousness thou establishest thyself, Be far from oppression, for thou fearest not, And from ruin, for it cometh not near unto thee.

²¹ And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit. ²² They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones. ²³ They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah are they, And their offspring with them. ²⁴ And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear. ²⁵ Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent—dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!

²⁵ And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests. ²⁶ And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are. ²⁷ And given hath the tree of the field its fruit, And the land doth give her increase, And they have been on their land confident, And they have known that I am Jehovah, In My breaking the bands of their yoke, And I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them. ²⁸ And they are no more a prey to nations, And the beast of the earth devoureth them not, And they have dwelt confidently, And there is none troubling.

²⁸ And they have known that I am Jehovah their God, In My removing them unto the nations, And I have gathered them unto their land, And I leave none of them any more there. ²⁹ And I hide not any more My face from them, In that I have poured out My spirit on the house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

⁸ And I have pitched for My house a camp, Because of the passer through, and of the returner, And pass not through against them again doth an exactor, For, now, I have seen with My eyes.

⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us,

²² And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

¹⁵ for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba—Father.'

⁷ for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

¹⁵ and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁰ `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

² so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.

⁴⁴ And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess, ⁴⁵ That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. ³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: ⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

²⁴ And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land,
²⁵ And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. ²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

⁴ according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

²⁴ and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

¹ As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

⁷ for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

¹³ And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

⁹ who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, ¹⁶ because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

⁴ through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
⁵ And this same also—all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, ⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, ⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; ⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

⁵ Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.

³ for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

⁹ `But what went ye out to see? —a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet, ¹⁰ for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

⁵ and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

²⁶ and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

² As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' — <sup>3</sup> `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' —

³² But if we may say, From men,' —they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;

¹⁶ and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God, ¹⁷ and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

³² he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

⁴ as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths; ⁵ every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways; ⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'

²⁷ this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee; ²⁸ for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'

²³ He said, `I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

²⁷ of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

²⁴ John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel; ²⁵ and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not he, but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of his feet.

³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

³ `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' — ⁴ John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation—to remission of sins,

³ and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation—to remission of sins,

⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'

⁴⁷ therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.' ⁴⁸ And he said to her, `Thy sins have been forgiven;' <sup>49</sup> and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?' ⁵⁰ and he said unto the woman, `Thy faith have saved thee, be going on to peace.'

⁷ this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him; ⁸ that one was not the Light, but—that he might testify about the Light. ⁹ He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

¹⁵ John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;' ¹⁶ and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace; ¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

²⁷ John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; <sup>28</sup> ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; <sup>29</sup> he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. <sup>30</sup> `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; ³¹ he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all. ³² `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth; ³³ he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; ³⁴ for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

³⁸ and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁹ reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

³¹ this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

⁴³ to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

³⁸ `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ³⁹ and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

⁴ And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;'

²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God—

⁶ even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: ⁷ `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; ⁸ happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

¹⁷ I see it, but not now; I behold it, but not near; A star hath proceeded from Jacob, And a sceptre hath risen from Israel, And hath smitten corners of Moab, And hath destroyed all sons of Sheth.

⁶ Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age are they.

¹ And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.

⁷ The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

¹⁵ Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where is Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves.

⁸ Hear, I pray thee, Joshua, the high priest, Thou and thy companions sitting before thee, (For men of type are they,) For lo, I am bringing in My servant—a Shoot.

¹² and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot—is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah.

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

⁴ and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

¹⁴ wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

¹ If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts;

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; ¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

⁵ Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

²² A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'

⁴ Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff—they comfort me.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way. ¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

¹² Who is this—the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

¹⁹ But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

¹⁰ Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed, ¹¹ Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out, ¹² Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase. ¹³ Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!

¹⁰ Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

¹⁴ He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

² The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.

⁷ To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

¹⁶ And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

²² There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!

⁹ To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is their pasture.

¹⁹ Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah. ²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire. ²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

¹ Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. ² For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. ³ And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

⁶ And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land—none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

¹⁶ the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.'

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, ²⁹ take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

³² a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

⁹ He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

⁵ when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

⁴⁶ I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me—in the darkness may not remain;

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

¹⁷ And a way of peace they did not know.

⁸ for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

⁴ and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; ⁵ all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

⁵ And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; ⁶ if we may say—`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk—we lie, and do not the truth; ⁷ and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light—we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

¹⁹ And Samuel groweth up, and Jehovah hath been with him, and hath not let fall any of his words to the earth; ²⁰ and all Israel know, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, that Samuel is established for a prophet to Jehovah.

¹ And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

⁷ And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, `What went ye out to the wilderness to view? —a reed shaken by the wind?

⁵² and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

³¹ and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.