Psalms 63 Cross References - BBE

¹ A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is; ² To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place. ³ Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise. ⁴ So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name. ⁵ My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy; ⁶ When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time. ⁷ Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings. ⁸ My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support. ⁹ But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁰ They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes. ¹¹ But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.

²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing. ²⁷ Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

² The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.

³ And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

¹⁸ And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory. ¹⁹ And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

³⁰ But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men. ³¹ And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two; ³² And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. ³³ So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

¹³ Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

²¹ And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

³⁷ And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.

⁵ And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

¹⁴ And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands. ¹⁵ And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh. ¹⁶ And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God; ¹⁷ And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.

²³ So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah. ²⁴ And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land. ²⁵ And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

²⁰ And now I am certain that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be made strong under your authority.

²⁹ And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

¹ And the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, and said, Is not David waiting secretly near us in the hill of Hachilah, before the waste land? ² Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph. ³ And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

¹⁰ And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

¹⁹ And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

¹ Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the fight was going badly for Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers. ⁴ Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself. ⁵ And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death. ⁶ So death overtook Saul and his three sons and his servant on the same day.

²⁸ See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.

²² Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven, ²³ Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts. ²⁴ And you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day. ²⁵ So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done. ²⁶ So now, O God of Israel, it is my prayer that you will make your word come true which you said to your servant David, my father. ²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made! ²⁸ Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day; ²⁹ That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place. ³⁰ Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy. ³¹ If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house: ³² Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong. ³³ When your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers to you and requesting your grace in this house: ³⁴ Then give ear in heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again into the land which you gave to their fathers. ³⁵ When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them: ³⁶ Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage. ³⁷ If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be: ³⁸ Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house: ³⁹ Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men: ⁴⁰ So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers. ⁴¹ And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name: ⁴² For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house: ⁴³ Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name. ⁴⁴ If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name: ⁴⁵ Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them. ⁴⁶ If they do wrong against you, for no man is without sin, and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near; ⁴⁷ And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil; ⁴⁸ And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name: ⁴⁹ Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them; ⁵⁰ Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them; ⁵¹ For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace; ⁵² Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you. ⁵³ For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. ⁵⁴ Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven; ⁵⁵ And, getting on his feet, he gave a blessing to all the men of Israel, saying with a loud voice, ⁵⁶ Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true. ⁵⁷ Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up; ⁵⁸ Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers. ⁵⁹ And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need. ⁶⁰ So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the Lord is God, and there is no other. ⁶¹ Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day. ⁶² Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord. ⁶³ And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house. ⁶⁴ The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings. ⁶⁵ So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt, kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days. ⁶⁶ And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

¹¹ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

²¹ And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

¹⁶ So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

¹³ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

⁶ There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

³ My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

¹¹ But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

¹⁷ The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

⁸ Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

¹⁵ As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

³⁵ You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!

⁶ For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

⁹ Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

² Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

⁵ For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

¹² So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

¹⁴ But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

¹⁸ Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

⁴ Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

²⁶ Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings. ⁸ The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures. ⁹ For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

²⁴ Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

¹² Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

¹⁴ Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

¹² And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. ² My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

⁸ But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

¹¹ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

⁴ Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

¹⁵ O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. Selah. ⁴ See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.

¹⁵ Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

²³ But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

⁴ I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. Selah.

⁴ Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

¹⁷ My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.

²⁴ We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place.

¹⁶ Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.

² Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

²³ Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

¹⁷ Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers. ¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

²³ But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come. ⁵ My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone. ⁶ The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

¹³ Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God? ¹⁴ You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

³⁴ When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

⁶¹ And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

² The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

² The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God. ³ The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God. ⁴ Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. Selah. ⁵ Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion. ⁶ Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain. ⁷ They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion. ⁸ O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. ⁹ O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king. ¹⁰ For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin. ¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹³ For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

² Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

¹⁸ If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

⁶ Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

³ My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. ⁴ My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. ⁵ Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

³³ I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being. ³⁴ Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

⁴ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

⁴² The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. ¹⁵ The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

²⁸ You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.

⁵⁵ I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

⁸¹ CAPH My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

¹⁴⁷ Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words. ¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

² Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

³ Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.

¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them! ¹⁸ If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

⁶ My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. Selah.

⁶ My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. Selah. ⁷ Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

¹⁰ Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.

¹ A Song of praise. Of David. Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever. ² Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever. ³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.

¹¹ Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength;

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. ² While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints. ² Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King. ³ Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.

⁵ Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.

²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. ²⁸ Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

¹⁷ Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

⁴ Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

⁶ His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

¹⁵ Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.

¹ By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

¹ By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him. ² I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

² I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

² I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him. ³ The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

⁸ I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

⁹ The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

¹⁵ But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

¹⁹ But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

¹⁸ In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

⁶ And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

⁹ In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

⁷ And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹⁸ I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.

²³ By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

¹⁶ So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

²¹ For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

¹ At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

⁴ I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.

³³ But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁹ Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

¹⁸ Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld. ¹⁹ Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision, ²⁰ Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people. ²¹ The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword. ²² There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword: ²³ Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: ²⁵ They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword. ²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ²⁷ And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living. ²⁸ But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword. ²⁹ There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld. ³⁰ There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld. ³¹ Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord. ³² For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

⁵ Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.

¹⁷ And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink. ¹⁸ The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. ¹⁹ You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you. ²⁰ At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

² Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

¹⁰ The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

⁵ And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,

⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.

⁴³ But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.

²⁴ Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

⁵ Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming. ⁶ And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge. ⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

²⁵ To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

¹⁹ I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

¹ For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. ⁵ For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. ⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

²³ I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; ¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

²⁹ And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

¹⁰ For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

¹³ For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

¹⁵ Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell. ⁷ For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; ⁸ But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death. ⁹ With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun: ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

⁵ And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him. ⁶ And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King. ⁷ Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God; ¹⁸ So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.