Micah 7 Cross References - Brenton

¹ Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul! ² For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour: ³ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul: ⁴ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations. ⁵ Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her. ⁶ For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies. ⁷ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me. ⁸ Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me. ⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. ¹⁰ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways. ¹¹ It is the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances. ¹² And thy cities shall be levelled, and parted among the Assyrians; and thy strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. ¹³ And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings. ¹⁴ Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old. ¹⁵ And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous things. ¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee. ¹⁸ Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins. ²⁰ He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.

^{5 (119:5)} Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

⁶ and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹³ All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

¹⁶ O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

⁴ And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

³¹ For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

^{3 (51:3)} Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

¹⁰ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

^{11 (24:12)} And behold, the skirt of thy mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not slay thee: know then and see to-day, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against thee, yet thou layest snares for my soul to take it.

²⁰ And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek thy life, as the night hawk pursues its prey in the mountains.

^{1 (11:1)} For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth. Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

^{1 (13:1)} For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one. ^{2 (13:2)} The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god. ^{3 (13:3)} They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

^{6 (56:6)} They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul: they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it themselves. Pause.

¹¹ If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

⁶ The words of ungodly men are crafty; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

¹ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.

⁷ And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁶ They are all mighty men:

²⁶ For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

¹⁶ Behold, I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

¹⁸ We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

¹⁰ who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹⁵ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad. ¹⁶ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice. ¹⁷ Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

^{9 (20:9)} And it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people. ^{10 (20:10)} And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, He blessed God and the king: and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let them die. ^{11 (20:11)} And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them. ^{12 (20:12)} And they proclaimed a fast, and set Nebuthai in a chief place among the people. ^{13 (20:13)} And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died. ^{14 (20:14)} And they sent to Jezabel, saying, Nabuthai is stoned, and is dead.

¹⁶ For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. ¹⁷ For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from his holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

⁵ Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

¹⁰ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.

⁶ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in thee each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

²⁷ Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

¹⁸ He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

¹² For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.

¹¹ The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.

⁶ All these are as a thorn thrust forth, for they shall not be taken with the hand, ⁷ and a man shall not labour among them; and one shall have that which is fully armed with iron, and the staff of a spear, an he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burnt in their shame.

³ And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,

⁵ For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.

¹³ And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.

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¹⁵ They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

⁶ And thou, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against thee round about, and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house.

²³ Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall no more at all use this parable: for thou shalt say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision. ²⁴ For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

⁷ The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded. ⁸ The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

² And he said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them any more.

¹⁰ For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

⁵ And the princess of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength is, and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give thee each eleven hundred pieces of silver. ⁶ And Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein is thy great strength, and wherewith thou shalt be bound that thou mayest be humbled. ⁷ And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men. ⁸ And the princess of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them. ⁹ And the liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known. ¹⁰ And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith thou shalt be bound. ¹¹ And he said to her, If they should bind me fast with new ropes with which work has not been done, then shall I be weak, and shall be as another man. ¹² And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread. ¹³ And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I intreat thee, wherewith thou mayest be bound: and he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and shouldest fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man. ¹⁴ And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall. ¹⁵ And Dalida said to Sampson, How sayest thou, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? this third time thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein is thy great strength. ¹⁶ And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death. ¹⁷ Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy one of God from my mother's womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all other men. ¹⁸ And Dalida saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princess of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands. ¹⁹ And Dalida made Sampson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him. ²⁰ And Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.

¹⁴ Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me. ¹⁵ My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.

^{8 (117:8)} It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man. ^{9 (117:9)} It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes.

⁴ Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

²² And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without. ²³ And Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father. ²⁴ And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.

⁴ Thou wast insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for thou wentest up to the bed of thy father; then thou defiledst the couch, whereupon thou wentest up.

¹⁰ And Abessalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, When ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then shall ye say, Abessalom is become king in Chebron. ¹¹ And there went with Abessalom two hundred chosen men from Jerusalem; and they went in their simplicity, and knew not anything. ¹² And Abessalom sent to Achitophel the Theconite, the counsellor of David, from his city, from Gola, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Abessalom were increasingly numerous.

¹¹ And David said to Abessa and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came forth out of my bowels seeks my life; still more now may the son of Benjamin: let him curse, because the Lord has told him.

²¹ And Achitophel said to Abessalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, whom he left to keep his house; and all Israel shall hear that thou hast dishonoured thy father; and the hands of all that are with thee shall be strengthened. ²² And they pitched a tent for Abessalom on the roof, and Abessalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. ²³ And the counsel of Achitophel, which he counselled in former days, was as if one should enquire of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel both to David and also to Abessalom.

^{9 (40:9)} For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

^{12 (54:12)} For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated me had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him. ^{13 (54:13)} But thou, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance, ^{14 (54:14)} who in companionship with me sweetened our food: we walked in the house of God in concord.

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

⁶ For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have dealt treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.

¹⁰ For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire ye, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

⁷ In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

⁷ They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.

¹⁸ waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

² O ye sons on men, how long will ye be slow of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause. ³ But know ye that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him.

^{5 (24:5)} Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God my Saviour: and I have waited on thee all the day.

^{12 (26:12)} Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself. ^{13 (26:13)} I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. ^{14 (26:14)} Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let thy heart be strengthened: yea wait on the Lord.

^{5 (33:5)} Draw near to him, and be enlightened: and your faces shall not by any means be ashamed. ^{6 (33:6)} This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

^{7 (36:7)} Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

^{15 (37:15)} For I hoped in thee, O Lord: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

^{1 (39:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ^{2 (39:2)} And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. ^{3 (39:3)} And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

^{15 (49:15)} And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

^{16 (54:16)} I cried to God, and the Lord hearkened to me. ^{17 (54:17)} Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known my wants: and he shall hear my voice.

^{1 (61:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David for Idithun. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? for of him is my salvation. ^{2 (61:2)} For he is my God, and my saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved very much. ^{3 (61:3)} How long will ye assault a man? ye are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge. ^{4 (61:4)} They only took counsel to set at nought mine honour: I ran in thirst: with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause. ^{5 (61:5)} Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him is my patient hope. ^{6 (61:6)} For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved. ^{7 (61:7)} In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God. ^{8 (61:8)} Hope in him, all ye congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper. Pause.

^{2 (64:2)} Hear my prayer; to thee all flesh shall come.

^{4 (108:4)} Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray.

^{5 (129:5)} have I waited for thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for thy word.

^{4 (141:4)} I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul. ^{5 (141:5)} I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

¹⁷ And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

² Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.

⁹ And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

²² Turn ye to me, and ye shall be saved, ye that come from the end of the earth: I am God, and there is none other.

²⁵ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him ²⁶ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

¹⁷ For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs; ¹⁸ yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour. ¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and he will perfectly strengthen my feet; he mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by his song.

²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!

^{4 (12:4)} lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved. ^{5 (12:5)} But I have hoped in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. ^{6 (12:6)} I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

^{1 (26:1)} A Psalm of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

^{15 (34:15)} Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not. ^{16 (34:16)} They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

^{19 (34:19)} Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

^{24 (34:24)} Judge me, O Lord, according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me. ^{25 (34:25)} Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul: neither let them say, We have devoured him. ^{26 (34:26)} Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

^{21 (36:21)} The sinner borrows, and will not pay again: but the righteous has compassion, and gives.

^{24 (36:24)} When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand.

^{16 (37:16)} For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

^{10 (40:10)} But thou, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them. ^{11 (40:11)} By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me. ^{12 (40:12)} But thou didst help me because of mine innocence, and hast established me before thee for ever.

^{11 (83:11)} For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

^{11 (96:11)} Light is sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

^{10 (106:10)} even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron; ^{11 (106:11)} because they rebelled against the words of God, and provoked the counsel of the Most High. ^{12 (106:12)} So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper. ^{13 (106:13)} Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses. ^{14 (106:14)} And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder. ^{15 (106:15)} Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonders to the children of men.

^{4 (111:4)} To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

¹⁶ For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise again: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles. ¹⁷ If thine enemy should fall, rejoice not over him, neither be elated at his overthrow. ¹⁸ For the Lord will see it, and it will not please him, and he will turn away his wrath from him.

⁵ And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

² O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

⁹ saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness shew themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.

¹⁰ Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him hearken to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.

¹ Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and there shall be gross darkness on the nations: but the Lords shall appear upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. ³ And kings shall walk in thy light, and nations in thy brightness.

¹⁹ And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten thy night; but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and God thy glory. ²⁰ For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be completed.

^{11 (27:11)} Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

²¹ CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth. ²² THAU. O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry thee captive: he has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered thy sins.

⁶ For thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;

¹⁵ Thou shalt be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:

¹² And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.

¹⁰ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

² But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

⁴¹ and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in the punishment of their sins.

¹⁸ And Samuel reported all the words, and hid them not from him. And Heli said, He is the Lord, he shall do that which is good in his sight.

^{15 (24:16)} The Lord be judge and umpire between me and thee, the Lord look upon and judge my cause, and rescue me out of thy hand.

³⁹ And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife.

¹⁰ And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord smite him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so.

¹¹ And David said to Abessa and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came forth out of my bowels seeks my life; still more now may the son of Benjamin: let him curse, because the Lord has told him. ¹² If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.

¹⁷ And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel smiting the people, and he said, Behold, it is I that have done wrong, but these sheep what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be upon me, and upon my father's house.

¹⁰ For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

³¹ For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which thou didst command.

^{6 (36:6)} And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

^{1 (42:1)} A Psalm of David. Judge me, o God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

¹³ I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.

^{17 (27:17)} Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria firsts devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. ^{18 (27:18)} Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria. ^{19 (27:19)} And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied. ^{20 (27:20)} In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

^{33 (27:33)} Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go. ^{34 (27:34)} But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

^{35 (28:35)} My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say. ^{36 (28:36)} Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

¹⁸ TSADE. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

³⁹ MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? ⁴⁰ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven. ⁴² We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned.

¹⁸ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.

⁴³ And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.

³³ And he said, Throw her down. And they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and they trampled on her. ³⁴ And Ju went in and ate and drank, and said, Look now, after this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵ And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. ³⁶ And they returned and told him. And he said, It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Eliu the Thesbite, saying, In the portion of Jezrael shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezabel. ³⁷ And the carcass of Jezabel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezrael, so that they shall not say, This is Jezabel.

^{42 (17:42)} I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

^{26 (34:26)} Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

^{3 (41:3)} My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?

^{10 (41:10)} While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is thy God?

^{10 (57:10)} The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

^{10 (78:10)} Lets haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.

^{29 (108:29)} Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

^{2 (114:2)} lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

^{8 (136:8)} Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward thee as thou hast rewarded us. ^{9 (136:9)} Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.

¹⁰ God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons. ¹¹ And he shall spread forth his hands, even as he also brings down man to destroy him: and he shall bring low his pride in regard to the thing on which he has laid his hands. ¹² And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.

⁵ who hast humbled and brought down them that dwell on high thou shalt cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground. ⁶ And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

¹⁰ Thus shall ye say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. ¹¹ Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered?

¹⁵ Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but thou shalt rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

⁵ Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom. ⁶ I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy, ⁷ and saidst, I shall be a princess for ever: thou didst not perceive these things in thine heart, nor didst thou remember the latter end. ⁸ But now hear these words, thou luxurious one, who art the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement. ⁹ But now these two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee, for thy sorcery, for the strength of thine enchantments,

²² thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more. ²³ And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.

² Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as if fresh from a trodden winepress? ³ I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

^{8 (28:8)} And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed. ^{9 (28:9)} We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars. ^{10 (28:10)} The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.

^{24 (28:24)} And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell there all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes, saith the Lord.

^{51 (28:51)} We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, even into the house of the Lord.

¹⁸ And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

¹⁵ Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁷ Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

¹⁰ Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

¹¹ And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Sion.

¹ It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength. ² For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches. ³ They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion

⁵ And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

⁵ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified upon the borders of Israel.

³ And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹² Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from thee to us have come to Jerusalem the rebellious and wicked city, which they are building, and its walls are set in order, and they have established the foundations of it. ¹³ Now then be it known to the king, that if that city be built up, and its walls completed, thou shalt have no tribute, neither will they pay anything, and this injures kings. ¹⁴ And it is not lawful for us to see the dishonour of the king: therefore have we sent and made known the matter to the king; ¹⁵ That examination may be made in thy fathers' book of record; and thou shalt find, and thou shalt know that city is rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for runaway slaves: therefore this city has been made desolate. ¹⁶ We therefore declare to the king, that, if that city be built, and its walls be set up, thou shalt not have peace. ¹⁷ Then the king sent to Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe, and the rest of their fellow-servants who dwelt in Samaria, and the rest beyond the river, saying, Peace; and he says, ¹⁸ The tribute-gatherer whom ye sent to us, has been called before me. ¹⁹ And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it. ²⁰ And there were powerful kings in Jerusalem, and they ruled over all the country beyond the river, and abundant revenues and tribute were given to them. ²¹ Now therefore make a decree to stop the work of those men, and that city shall no more be built. ²² See that ye be careful of the decree, not to be remiss concerning this matter, lest at any time destruction should abound to the harm of kings. ²³ Then the tribute-gatherer of king Arthasastha read the letter before Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe, and his fellow-servants: and they went in haste to Jerusalem and through Juda, and caused them to cease with horses and an armed force. ²⁴ Then ceased the work of the house of God in Jerusalem, and it was at a stand until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

⁸ and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the garden which belongs to the king, that he may give me timber to cover the gates, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I shall enter. And the king gave to me, according as the good hand of God was upon me.

¹⁷ Then I said to them, Ye see this evil, in which we are, how Jerusalem is desolate, and her gates have been set on fire: come, and let us build throughout the wall of Jerusalem, and we shall be no longer a reproach.

¹ Then Eliasub the high priest, and his brethren the priests, rose up, and built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of the hundred they sanctified it, to the tower of Anameel. ² And they builded by the side of the men of Jericho, and by the side of the sons of Zacchur, the son of Amari. ³ And the sons of Asana built the fish-gate; they roofed it, and covered in its doors, and bolts, and bars. ⁴ And next to them the order reached to Ramoth the son of Uria, the son of Accos, and next to them Mosollam son of Barachias the son of Mazebel took his place: and next to them Sadoc the son of Baana took his place. ⁵ And next to them the Thecoim took their place; but the Adorim applied not their neck to their service. ⁶ And Joida the son of Phasec, and Mesulam son of Basodia, repaired the old gate; they covered it in, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars. ⁷ And next to them repaired Maltias the Gabaonite, and Evaron the Meronothite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, to the throne of the governor on this side the river. ⁸ And next to him Oziel the son of Arachias of the smiths, carried on the repairs: and next to them Ananias the son of one of the apothecaries repaired, and they finished Jerusalem to the broad wall. ⁹ And next to them repaired Raphaea the son of Sur, the ruler of half the district round about Jerusalem. ¹⁰ And next to them repaired Jedaia the son of Eromaph, and that in front of his house: and next to him repaired Attuth son of Asabania. ¹¹ And next to him repaired Melchias son of Heram, and Asub son of Phaat Moab, even to the tower of the furnaces. ¹² And next to him repaired Sallum the son of Alloes, the ruler of half the district round about Jerusalem, he and his daughters. ¹³ Anun and the inhabitants of Zano repaired the gate of the valley: they built it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate. ¹⁴ And Melchia the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district round about Beth-accharim, repaired the dung-gate, he and his sons; and they covered it, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars. ¹⁵ But Solomon the son of Choleze repaired the gate of the fountain, the ruler of part of Maspha; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors and its bars, and the wall of the pool of the skins by the meadow of the king, and as far as the steps that lead down from the city of David. ¹⁶ After him repaired Neemias son of Azabuch, ruler of half the district round about Bethsur, as far as the garden of David's sepulchre, and as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.

³ And Tobias the Ammanite came near to him, and said to them, Do they sacrifice or eat in their place? shall not a fox go up and pull down their wall of stones?

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¹¹ Afflicted and outcast thou has not been comforted: behold, I will prepare carbuncle for thy stones, and sapphire for thy foundations;

²⁵ And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days: ¹² that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, may earnestly seek me, saith the Lord who does all these things. ¹³ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seedtime; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted. ¹⁴ And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

¹⁶ And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.

²³ In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed, ²⁵ saying, Blessed be my people that is in Egypt, and that is among the Assyrians, and Israel mine inheritance.

¹² And it shall come to pass in that day that God shall fence men off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do ye gather one by one the children of Israel. ¹³ And it shall come to pass in that day that they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

⁶ I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from the land afar off, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

¹² Behold, these shall come from far: and these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

⁴ Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold thy children gathered: all thy sons have come from far, and thy daughters shall be borne on men's shoulders. ⁵ Then shalt thou see, and fear, and be amazed in thine heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to thee, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to thee, ⁶ and the camels of Madiam and Gaepha shall cover thee: all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified. ⁸ Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me? ⁹ The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis among the first, to bring thy children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and that for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.

¹⁹ And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. ²⁰ And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters drawn by mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.

¹⁸ In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.

³ And I will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

^{8 (38:8)} Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

²¹ In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²¹ And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.

¹¹ They shall be amazed and fly as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will restore them to their houses, saith the Lord.

³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate. ³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation. ³⁵ And ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it kept not among your sabbaths, when ye dwelt in it. ³⁶ And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them. ³⁷ And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand your enemies. ³⁸ And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.

⁸ Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

²² Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

¹⁰ Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works. ¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

¹¹ And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate. ¹² And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied. ¹³ And yet there shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.

³ The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things. ⁴ The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning. ⁵ And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left. ⁷ The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh. ⁸ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

¹⁰ I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

¹⁴ And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

¹¹ And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

^{19 (39:19)} the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:

^{26 (4:23)} And whereas they said, Leave the stumps of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom abides sure to thee from the time that thou shalt know the power of the heavens. ^{27 (4:24)} Therefore, O king, let my counsel please thee, and atone for thy sins by alms, and thine iniquities by compassion on the poor: it may be God will be long-suffering to thy trespasses.

¹² Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

¹³ Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.

¹⁶ And how shall it be surely known, that both I and this people have found favour with thee, except only if thou go with us? So both I and thy people shall be glorified beyond all the nations, as many as are upon the earth.

⁹ For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

²⁸ And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky shall be misty with dew upon thee.

^{1 (22:1)} A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall want nothing. ^{2 (22:2)} In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest. ^{3 (22:3)} He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. ^{4 (22:4)} Yea, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, these have comforted me.

^{9 (27:9)} Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.

^{5 (76:5)} I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years. ^{6 (76:6)} And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ^{7 (76:7)} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? ^{8 (76:8)} Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? ^{9 (76:9)} Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. ^{10 (76:10)} And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. ^{11 (76:11)} I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember thy wonders from the beginning.

^{7 (94:7)} For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

^{3 (99:3)} Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

^{5 (142:5)} I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all thy doings: yea, I meditated on the works of thine hands.

² And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory o the Lord, and the majesty of God.

²⁴ For thou hast reproached the Lord by messengers; for thou hast said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:

¹¹ He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

¹⁰ They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.

¹⁰ And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor shall be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.

⁷ ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation.

²¹ Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

¹³ And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land. ¹⁴ I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.

⁴ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

¹³ and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.

⁴ And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years.

²⁰ and I will stretch out my hand, and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I shall work among them, and after that he will send you forth.

^{22 (67:22)} The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring my people again through the depths of the sea.

^{12 (77:12)} the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes. ^{13 (77:13)} He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle. ^{14 (77:14)} And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. ^{15 (77:15)} he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep. ^{16 (77:16)} And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers. ^{17 (77:17)} And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. ^{18 (77:18)} And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls. ^{19 (77:19)} They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? ^{20 (77:20)} Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people? ^{21 (77:21)} Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. ^{22 (77:22)} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. ^{23 (77:23)} Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, ^{24 (77:24)} and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. ^{25 (77:25)} Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full. ^{26 (77:26)} He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind. ^{27 (77:27)} And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas. ^{28 (77:28)} And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents. ^{29 (77:29)} So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire. ^{30 (77:30)} They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth, ^{31 (77:31)} then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel. ^{32 (77:32)} In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles. ^{33 (77:33)} And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety. ^{34 (77:34)} When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God. ^{35 (77:35)} And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer. ^{36 (77:36)} Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. ^{37 (77:37)} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. ^{38 (77:38)} But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger. ^{39 (77:39)} And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not. ^{40 (77:40)} How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land! ^{41 (77:41)} Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ^{42 (77:42)} They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. ^{43 (77:43)} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes: ^{44 (77:44)} and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink. ^{45 (77:45)} He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them. ^{46 (77:46)} And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust. ^{47 (77:47)} He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost. ^{48 (77:48)} And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire. ^{49 (77:49)} He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels. ^{50 (77:50)} He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death; ^{51 (77:51)} and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham. ^{52 (77:52)} And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness. ^{53 (77:53)} And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies. ^{54 (77:54)} And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased. ^{55 (77:55)} And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ^{56 (77:56)} Ye they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies. ^{57 (77:57)} And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow. ^{58 (77:58)} And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ^{59 (77:59)} God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel. ^{60 (77:60)} And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men. ^{61 (77:61)} And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. ^{62 (77:62)} And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance. ^{63 (77:63)} Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not. ^{64 (77:64)} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for. ^{65 (77:65)} So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine. ^{66 (77:66)} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach. ^{67 (77:67)} And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; ^{68 (77:68)} but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved. ^{69 (77:69)} And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth. ^{70 (77:70)} He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep. ^{71 (77:71)} He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance. ^{72 (77:72)} So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

⁹ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

¹¹ Then he remembered the ancient days, saying, Where is he that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that put his Holy Spirit in them? ¹² who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water to separate from before him, to make himself an everlasting name. ¹³ He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not, ¹⁴ and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus thou leddest thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. ¹⁵ Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

⁷ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt; ⁸ but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither he had driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.

⁵ Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. ¹⁰ And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.

^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

^{2 (125:2)} Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles,

¹¹ O Lord, thine arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they shall be ashamed: jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

¹⁵ Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut: for they to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.

¹⁸ And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

²³ And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood. ¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. ¹⁹ And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you. ²⁰ And ye shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, saith the Lord. ²¹ And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

²⁰ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also. ²² And many peoples and many nations shall come to seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to obtain favour of the Lord. ²³ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days my word shall be fulfilled if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold — even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

^{14 (3:15)} And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life. ^{15 (3:16)} And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.

¹⁴ The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Phylistines. ¹⁵ Then the princes of Edom, and the chiefs of the Moabites hasted; trembling took hold upon them, all the inhabitants of Chanaan melted away. ¹⁶ Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm, let them become as stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till this thy people pass over, whom thou hast purchased.

⁹ and she said to them, I know that the Lord has given you the land; for the fear of you has fallen upon us. ¹⁰ For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. ¹¹ And when we heard it we were amazed in our heart, and there was no longer any spirit in any of us because of you, for the Lord your god is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath.

²⁴ And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord thy God charged his servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you; and we feared very much for our lives because of you, and therefore we did this thing.

¹¹ And they both went in to Messab of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of their Caves, where they had hidden themselves.

²⁰ Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

^{45 (17:45)} The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

^{9 (71:9)} The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁹ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth. ²⁰ For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats; ²¹ to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

³ Therefore shall the poor people bless thee, and cities of injured men shall bless thee.

²³ And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

¹⁹ So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they that come from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflicted thee, and of them that provoked thee, shall come to thee in fear; and thou shalt be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

² as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the nations shall be troubled,

²⁵ Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

^{9 (40:9)} And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.

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⁵ And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.

¹¹ Who is like to thee among the gods, O Lord? who is like to thee? glorified in holiness, marvellous in glories, doing wonders.

¹⁸ And Moses says, Manifest thyself to me. ¹⁹ And God said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷ and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

⁹ and said, If I have found grace before thee, let my Lord go with us; for the people is stiff-necked: and thou shalt take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be thine.

¹⁸ The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.

²¹ There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, the glories of rulers are in him.

²⁶ There is not any such as the God of the beloved; he who rides upon the heaven is thy helper, and the magnificent One of the firmament.

²³ and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above and on the earth beneath, keeping covenant and mercy with thy servant who walks before thee with all his heart;

¹⁷ and refused to listen, and remembered not thy wonders which thou wroughtest with them; and they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt: but thou, O God, art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.

^{10 (34:10)} All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

^{3 (64:3)} The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but do thou pardon our sins.

^{19 (70:19)} even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which thou has done: O God, who is like to thee?

^{6 (76:6)} And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ^{7 (76:7)} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? ^{8 (76:8)} Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? ^{9 (76:9)} Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause. ^{10 (76:10)} And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.

^{4 (84:4)} Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn thy anger away from us. ^{5 (84:5)} Wouldest thou be angry with us for ever? or wilt thou continue thy wrath from generation to generation?

^{5 (85:5)} For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

^{15 (85:15)} But thou, O Lord God, art compassionate and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

^{6 (88:6)} For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

^{8 (88:8)} O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

^{2 (102:2)} Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises: ^{3 (102:3)} who forgives all thy transgressions, who heals all thy diseases;

^{8 (102:8)} The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy. ^{9 (102:9)} He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

^{13 (102:13)} As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear him.

^{5 (112:5)} Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places, ^{6 (112:6)} and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth:

^{4 (129:4)} For with thee is forgiveness: for thy name's sake

^{7 (129:7)} Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. ^{8 (129:8)} And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

¹⁸ To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?

²⁵ Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

²⁵ I, even I, am he that blots out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and thy sins; and I will not remember them.

²² For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and thy sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem thee.

⁸ Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart; ⁹ and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

⁷ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

¹⁰ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy many ways; yet thou saidst not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for thou has done these things; therefore thou has not supplicated me.

¹⁶ I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

⁵ And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell in thee: and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.

¹⁹ And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.

¹² Go and read these words toward the north, and thou shalt say, Return to me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever.

^{34 (38:34)} And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

^{41 (39:41)} And I will visit them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all my soul.

^{8 (45:8)} and he went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,

^{20 (27:20)} In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

³¹ For the Lord will not reject for ever. ³² CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy.

¹¹ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn ye heartily from your way; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

⁹ To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee;

³² And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.

⁸ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.

² And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.

¹² Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:

⁷ And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.

³ Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men. ⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

¹⁴ Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.

¹⁷ The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

³ then the Lord shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered thee.

⁶ And the Lord shall purge thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

³⁶ For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:

⁸ And now our God has dealt mercifully with us, so as to leave us to escape, and to give us an establishment in the place of his sanctuary, to enlighten our eyes, and to give a little quickening in our servitude. ⁹ For we are slaves, yet in our servitude the Lord our God has not deserted us; and he has extended favour to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to give us a quickening, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

^{13 (89:13)} Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants. ^{14 (89:14)} We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

^{12 (102:12)} As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

^{8 (129:8)} And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

¹⁷ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.

¹⁵ Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us? ¹⁶ For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning. ¹⁷ Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,

^{20 (38:20)} Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste to help him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

³² CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy.

¹⁹ And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh: ²⁰ that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

²⁵ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances, and to keep my judgments, and do them.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

^{4 (14:5)} I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

² And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. ³ And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.

¹⁶ I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and on my account hast not spared thy beloved son, ¹⁷ surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies. ¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

³ And sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee, and bless thee, for I will give to thee and to thy seed all this land; and I will establish my oath which I swore to thy father Abraam. ⁴ And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven; and I will give to thy seed all this land, and all the nations of the earth shall be blest in thy seed.

¹³ And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

⁸ But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.

^{8 (104:8)} He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: ^{9 (104:9)} which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac. ^{10 (104:10)} And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;

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