Psalms 68:13 Cross References - BBE

¹³ Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:

¹⁴ And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

¹⁶ Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts. ²¹ And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

¹⁹ O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

⁶ I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

³⁷ He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.

⁴ For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.

⁶ And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life; ⁷ And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing. ⁸ Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine. ⁹ Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil. ¹⁰ And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk. ¹¹ And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful. ¹⁴ You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

¹⁶ And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

²² But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

² You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins, ² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; ³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

³ For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood; ⁶ And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.