Psalms 12 Cross References - ACV

¹ Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men. ² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. ³ LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, ⁴ who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us? ⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for. ⁶ The words of LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times. ⁷ Thou will keep them, O LORD. Thou will preserve them from this generation forever. ⁸ The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

¹² And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

²¹ And Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps set to the Sheminith, to lead.

⁷ Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul. Save me for thy loving kindness' sake.

¹ Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy might.

⁶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

⁹ Unless LORD of hosts had left to us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.

²¹ How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

¹ The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil.

⁴ No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

¹³ transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ¹⁴ And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. ¹⁵ Yea, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

⁵ And I looked, and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me.

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.

¹ Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig. ² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

²⁵ And the disciples having approached, they awoke him, saying, Save us, Lord, we are perishing.

³⁰ But seeing the boisterous wind, he was afraid, and having begun to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.

¹² And because of the increased lawlessness, the love of the many will become cold.

³³ Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order the battle array, and were not of double heart.

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. ⁴ He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

⁶ And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual. ² Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

¹² for the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

⁴ They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

⁸ whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they bend their tongue-their bow-for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD. ⁴ Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity. ⁶ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies wait for him.

²⁴ For there shall no more be any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

⁵ For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

⁸ a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

³ Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. ⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.

²³ By thy messengers thou have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it. And I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. ²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

²² For I know not to give flattering titles, else my maker would soon take me away.

¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

⁸ They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says the lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy heart as the heart of God.

⁹ Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.

³ Speak, and say, Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? ³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice from heaven fell, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee.

⁸ I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

²⁵ And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the sanctified of the Most High. And he shall think to change the times and the law, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

¹⁶ These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

⁵ And a mouth was given to it speaking great things and blasphemy. And authority was given it to make war forty-two months.

⁵ For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

¹⁵ Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hands?

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

²³ And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. ²⁴ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ⁸ And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ⁹ And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁶ And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served LORD. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

²¹ Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

⁵ His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them.

¹² Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor.

¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible.

⁶ This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

²¹ O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name. ²² Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches thee all the day.

¹⁰ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight. ¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those who are appointed to death,

⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners. ⁸ LORD opens the eyes of the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.

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

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

¹ Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

⁸ If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For a man higher than the high is observing, and there are higher men than they.

²⁰ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them.

¹⁰ Now I will arise, says LORD. Now I will lift up myself. Now I will be exalted.

¹² has wronged the poor and needy man, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, ¹³ has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

¹⁸ As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, LORD will be a light to me. ⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

³¹ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

⁸ The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

¹⁰ For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

¹⁴⁰ Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loves it.

⁵ Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

³ Yea, he loves the people. All his sanctified are in thy hand, and they sat down at thy feet. He shall receive from thy words.

⁹ He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness, for by strength no man shall prevail.

¹ Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I take refuge.

²⁸ For LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his sanctified. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

⁴⁰ and LORD helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from sinners, and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

⁸ LORD will keep thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

²⁰ LORD preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

³ I LORD am its keeper, I will water it every moment. Lest any hurt it, I will guard it night and day.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹ Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

¹⁸ and ye have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem because he is your brother), ¹⁹ if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. ²⁰ But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo, and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. ²¹ And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. ²² And Abimelech was ruler over Israel three years. ²³ And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem, and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, ²⁴ that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother who killed them, and upon the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. ²⁵ And the men of Shechem set ambushes for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and it was told Abimelech. ²⁶ And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem, and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. ²⁷ And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. ²⁸ And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is not he the son of Jerubbaal, and Zebul his officer? Serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him? ²⁹ And would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. ³⁰ And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. ³¹ And he sent messengers to Abimelech privately, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and, behold, they are fortifying the city against thee. ³² Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people who are with thee, and lie in wait in the field. ³³ And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shall rise early, and rush upon the city, and, behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against thee, then thou may do to them as thou shall find occasion. ³⁴ And Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. ³⁵ And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambushment. ³⁶ And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there comes a people down from the tops of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, Thou see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men. ³⁷ And Gaal spoke again and said, See, there comes a people down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim. ³⁸ Then Zebul said to him, Where is now thy mouth, that thou said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people that thou have despised? Go out now, I pray, and fight with them. ³⁹ And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. ⁴⁰ And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate. ⁴¹ And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem. ⁴² And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field, and they told Abimelech. ⁴³ And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field. And he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city. And he rose up against them, and smote them. ⁴⁴ And Abimelech, and the companies who were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field, and smote them. ⁴⁵ And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. And he took the city, and killed the people that were in it, and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. ⁴⁶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of El-berith. ⁴⁷ And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. ⁴⁸ And Abimelech got up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the people who were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. ⁴⁹ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. ⁵⁰ Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. ⁵¹ But there was a strong tower inside the city. And all the men and women fled, and all those of the city, and shut themselves in, and got up to the roof of the tower. ⁵² And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. ⁵³ And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. ⁵⁴ Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. ⁵⁵ And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place. ⁵⁶ Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brothers. ⁵⁷ And God requited all the wickedness of the men of Shechem upon their heads. And the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to thee for a wife. Only be thou valiant for me, and fight LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. ¹⁸ And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. ⁷ In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. ⁸ And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from those of every people, nor do they keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to endure them. ⁹ If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. ¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. ¹¹ And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to thee. ¹² Then the king's scribes were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it. And there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the rulers of every people, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written. And it was sealed with the king's ring. ¹³ And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little sons and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. ¹⁴ A copy of the writing that the decree should be given out in every province was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. ¹⁵ The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

⁸ They are sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

¹⁰ Day and night they go about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it. ¹¹ Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

¹² If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

⁴ And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. ⁵ The fool shall no more be called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful. ⁶ For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

²¹ And in his place he who is contemptible shall stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom. But he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.

¹⁶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

⁶³ And the high priest having torn his clothes, he says, What further need have we of witnesses? ⁶⁴ Ye have heard the blasphemy. What does it seem to you? And they all condemned him to be deserving of death. ⁶⁵ And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with a fist, and to say to him, Prophesy. And the subordinates were throwing him with slaps.