Ruth Cross References - BBE

¹ Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time. ³ And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her. ⁴ And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years. ⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband. ⁶ So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food. ⁷ And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah. ⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me: ⁹ May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly. ¹⁰ And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people. ¹¹ But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands? ¹² Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons, ¹³ Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me. ¹⁴ Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her. ¹⁵ And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law. ¹⁶ But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death. ¹⁸ And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more. ¹⁹ So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰ And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate. ²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me? ²² So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

¹⁰ And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

¹⁷ Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

¹ And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

¹ Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

²⁷ And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:

²⁰ Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,

¹¹ And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

²⁸ You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

¹⁹ So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath which is Beth-lehem.

¹¹ Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

¹ Now the land was in bitter need of food.

¹⁴ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

¹⁵ Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.

¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

²⁵ Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

¹⁶ Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

³¹ And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

³ I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

³¹ And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower. ³² But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not. ⁵ And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt:

²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

¹⁹ And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

¹⁵ For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

⁴ But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.

³ Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

²⁰ Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

³ No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:

⁵ If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

³⁸ You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

³⁹ See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. ¹⁶ Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; ¹⁷ For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went: ¹⁸ And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

¹⁸ And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. ²⁰ If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. ²² And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice. ²⁵ So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord. ²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God. ²⁸ Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.

¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them. ¹⁶ Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them. ¹⁷ But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so. ¹⁸ And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

²⁴ Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.

⁸ And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

⁸ And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah. ² And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband.

¹⁰ And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.

¹⁴ Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

¹¹ And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you. ¹² The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

²³ So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.

¹ And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

⁷ The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up; ⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

²¹ And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

¹⁷ And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.

¹¹ So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.

²¹ And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.

²² May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.

⁹ May God's punishment be on Abner, if I do not for David as the Lord in his oath has said,

³⁵ And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

¹⁹ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth. ²⁰ It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you. ²¹ And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be.

¹³ And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

¹ In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

⁹ And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.

²³ Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

¹ Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: ² The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word. ² Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ³ Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan. ⁴ The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there. ⁵ So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink. ⁷ Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land. ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁹ Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food. ¹⁰ So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink? ¹¹ And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread. ¹² Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

² So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

² Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

²⁰ And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?

¹⁰ Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el. ³ And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more. ⁴ Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho. ⁵ And at Jericho the sons of the prophets came up to Elisha and said to him, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said in answer, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more. ⁶ Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on together.

¹ Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

³¹ Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

¹ Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years. ² So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years. ³ And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

¹⁷ Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

²⁶ For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

⁶ Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah.

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

³ In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

⁹ I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it. ¹⁰ No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

¹⁰ O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

³⁰ If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; ³¹ If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; ³² Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

¹⁶ And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

⁵ He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.

⁶³ I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.

⁵ But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

¹⁵ My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

¹⁵ The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

¹⁴ He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.

¹⁷ A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

⁸ Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

¹ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

⁷ Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

¹³ I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

¹ The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

¹⁰ For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

¹⁵ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

¹ I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. ² By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. ³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. ⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. ⁶ He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. ⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. ⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. ⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. ¹⁰ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. ¹¹ By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. ¹² With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. ¹³ He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body. ¹⁴ I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day. ¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. ¹⁶ By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust. ¹⁷ My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. ¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. ²⁰ My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

¹³ Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

²¹ For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

⁴⁷ And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear.

²⁹ And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

⁴ But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.

¹⁰ The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor. ¹¹ The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

¹⁶ Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead. ¹⁸ What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen. ¹⁹ O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame. ²⁰ The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

⁶ But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

⁶ And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

⁷ The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

⁵ And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;

¹¹ Give us this day bread for our needs.

¹⁹ And there came a scribe and said to him, Master, I will come after you wherever you go.

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

²⁰ And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy; ²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

²² But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.

¹⁰ And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this?

²⁵ Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother; ²⁶ In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all the woman came to her end.

²¹ And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me. ²² But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.

⁶⁸ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,

¹² Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

²⁵ Now a great number of people went with him. ²⁶ And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. ²⁷ Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? ²⁹ For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, ³⁰ And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete. ³¹ Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace. ³³ And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

²⁸ And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on;

²⁸ And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on; ²⁹ But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.

⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away? ⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

³⁷ Peter said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for you.

⁴² And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

²³ Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

³⁴ But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

³⁷ And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,

¹³ Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁴ And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself, ¹⁸ And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

² Give honour to your father and mother which is the first rule having a reward, ³ So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

¹⁸ I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

²⁴ Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

⁹ Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

⁸ But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains; ¹⁷ But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me ¹⁸ May he have the Lord's mercy in that day; and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.

¹⁰ For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁸ But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. ³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. ¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

⁸ I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.