Ezekiel 2 Cross References - CAB

¹ This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of One speaking. And He said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you. ² And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him speaking to me. ³ And He said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, to them that provoke Me; who have provoked Me, they and their fathers to this day. ⁴ And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord. ⁵ Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear (for they are a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them. ⁶ And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions), be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for they are a provoking house. ⁷ And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear; for they are a provoking house. ⁸ And you, son of man, hear Him that speaks to you; be not provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you. ⁹ And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it was a volume of a book. ¹⁰ And He unrolled it before me. And in it the front and the back were written upon. And there was written in it lamentations, and mournful songs, and woe.

³ And Moses said to Aaron, This is the thing which the Lord spoke, saying, I will be sanctified among them that draw near to Me, and I will be glorified in the whole congregation; and Aaron was pricked in his heart.

²⁵ And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased. ²⁶ And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and said to them, Hear me, you disobedient; must we bring you water out of this rock?

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and said to them, Hear me, you disobedient; must we bring you water out of this rock? ¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and much water came forth, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. ¹² And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed Me to sanctify Me before the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. ¹³ This is the water of Strife, because the children of Israel spoke insolently before the Lord, and He was sanctified in them.

²⁴ Let Aaron be added to his people; for you shall certainly not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because you provoked Me at the water of Strife.

¹³ And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years He caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct. ¹⁴ Behold, you have risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.

²⁴ You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which He became known to you.

²⁷ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their wickedness, and their sins.

¹⁶ Therefore you shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and you shall not stiffen your neck.

²⁷ For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

²⁵ And the Spirit of the Lord began to go out with him in the camp of Dan, and between Zorah and Esthaol.

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Hear the voice of the people, in whatever they shall say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them. ⁸ According to all their doings which they have done to Me, from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day, even as they have deserted Me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

¹³ And Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose, and departed to Ramah.

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

²¹ and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Judah, saying, Thus says the Lord: Because you have resisted the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God has commanded you, ²² but have returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He spoke to you, saying, You shall not eat bread, and shall not drink water; therefore your body shall by no means enter into the tomb of your fathers.

¹⁴ And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹⁵ And the Angel of the Lord spoke to Elijah, and said, Go down with him, be not afraid of them. And Elijah rose up, and went down with him to the king.

¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and practiced divinations and soothsaying, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him. ¹⁸ And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; and there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. ¹⁹ Even Judah as well kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practiced, and rejected the Lord. ²⁰ And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until He cast them out of His presence.

⁸ And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers did; give glory to the Lord God, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, and He shall turn away His fierce anger from you.

¹³ in that he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, which he adjured him by God not to do; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

¹⁵ And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of His prophets; rising early and sending His messengers, for He had compassion on His people, and His sanctuary. ¹⁶ Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and despised His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy.

⁷ From the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass until this day; and because of our iniquities we, and our kings, and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the Gentiles by the sword, by captivity, by spoil, and with shame of our face, as at this day.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to Your commandments, ¹⁷ and refused to listen, and remembered not Your wonders which You worked among them. And they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You, O God, are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and You did not forsake them. ¹⁸ And still farther they even made for themselves a molded calf, and said, These are the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they worked great provocations.

²⁶ But they turned, and revolted from You, and cast Your law behind their backs; and they killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to You, and they worked great provocations.

³⁰ Yet You had patience with them for many years, and testified to them by Your Spirit by the hand of Your prophets: but they hearkened not; so You gave them into the hand of the nations of the land.

³³ For You are righteous in all the things that come upon us; and You have dealt faithfully, but we have greatly sinned. ³⁴ And our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our fathers, have not performed Your law, and have not given heed to Your commandments, and have not kept Your testimonies which You testified to them. ³⁵ And they did not serve You in Your kingdom, and in Your great goodness which You gave to them, and in the large and fat land which You furnished before them, and they turned not from their evil devices.

⁴ What is man, that You are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that You visit him?

⁸ Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

¹⁶ They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burned up the sinners. ¹⁹ And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image, ²⁰ and they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that feeds on grass. ²¹ They forgot God that saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt;

²⁸ They were joined also to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked Him with their deeds;

³² They provoked Him also at the Water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes; ³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy; ³⁵ but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them. ³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, ³⁸ and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood, ³⁹ and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds. ⁴⁰ So the Lord was very angry with His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

²⁹ An ungodly man hardens his face, but the upright man himself understands his ways.

¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids. ¹⁴ A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! Evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am here, send me. And He said, Go, and say to this people, ⁹ You shall hear indeed, but you shall not understand; and you shall see indeed, but you shall not perceive. ¹⁰ For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

¹⁸ And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass; and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

⁸ Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be for many long days, even forever. ⁹ For the people are disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God; ¹⁰ who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak them not to us, but speak and report to us another error; ¹¹ and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.

⁴ I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

⁵ and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens my ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

⁷ Hear Me, you that know judgment, the people in whose heart is My law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

¹² I, even I, am He that comforts you; consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who have withered as grass.

⁷ And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all the words that I shall command you, you shall speak. ⁸ Be not afraid before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord. ⁹ And the Lord stretched forth His hand to me, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.

¹⁷ Gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command you. Be not afraid of their face, neither be alarmed before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

³ And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

²⁵ We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us. Because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

³ O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

¹⁵ They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.

²⁸ They are all disobedient, walking perversely. They are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.

² Hear the word of the Lord, all Judea.

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¹⁶ Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

¹¹ Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, says the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook Me, and kept not My law. ¹² (And you sinned worse than your fathers — for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is My word spoken to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.

³ In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for twenty-three years, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, ⁴ and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying, ⁵ Turn, everyone of you, from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, forever and ever. ⁶ Do not go after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, lest you provoke Me by the works of your hands, to do you harm. ⁷ But you hearkened not to Me.

² Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word.

² Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word.

² Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word. ³ Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

³ Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices. ⁴ And you shall say, Thus said the Lord: If you will not hearken to Me, to walk in My statutes which I set before you, ⁵ to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent to you early in the morning; yes, I sent them, but you hearkened not to Me; ⁶ then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

² Take a scroll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to you against Jerusalem, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah king of Judah, even to this day.

²⁹ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in here, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and beast shall fail from off it? ³⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall not have a man to sit on the throne of David, and his carcass shall be cast out in the heat by day, and in the frost by night. ³¹ And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants; and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they did not heed. ³² And Baruch took another scroll, and wrote upon it by the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim had burned. And there were yet more words added to it like the former.

²¹ Did not the Lord remember the incense which you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem — you, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? Did it not enter into His heart?

²⁸ As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of brightness round about.

³ And He said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, to them that provoke Me; who have provoked Me, they and their fathers to this day.

⁵ Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear (for they are a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them. ⁶ And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions), be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for they are a provoking house. ⁷ And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or fear; for they are a provoking house. ⁸ And you, son of man, hear Him that speaks to you; be not provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.

¹ And He said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.

¹ And He said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel. ² So He opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And He said to me, Son of man, ³ your mouth shall eat, and your belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. ⁴ And He said to me, Son of man, go your way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak My words to them.

⁴ And He said to me, Son of man, go your way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak My words to them. ⁵ For you are not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Israel; ⁶ neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words you would not understand; although if I had sent you to such, they would have hearkened to you. ⁷ But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to you; for they will not hearken to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.

⁷ But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to you; for they will not hearken to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted. ⁸ And behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.

⁸ And behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power. ⁹ And it shall be continually stronger than a rock — be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because they are a provoking house. ¹⁰ And He said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear them with your ears.

¹⁰ And He said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear them with your ears. ¹¹ And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse. ¹² Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place.

¹⁴ And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

¹⁷ I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall threaten them from Me.

¹⁹ But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul.

²⁴ Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house.

²⁶ Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover; because they are a provoking house. ²⁷ But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.

²⁷ But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.

¹ And you, son of man, take a brick, and set it before your face, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.

¹ And you, son of man, take a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard; and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.

² Thus says the Lord: An end has come to the land of Israel, the end has come on the four corners of the land.

³ And He stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.

³ You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house.

² Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and you shall prophesy, and shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord:

³ Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

¹³ Son of man, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it.

² And you, son of man — of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?

¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;

² Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities; ³ and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ And as for your birth in the day in which you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither were you salted with salt, neither were you swathed in swaddling-bands. ⁵ Nor did My eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day in which you were born. ⁶ And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, Let there be life out of your blood; ⁷ increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you increased and grew, and entered into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare. ⁸ And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, it was your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore an oath to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine. ⁹ And I washed you in water, and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ And I clothed you with embroidered garments, and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk, ¹¹ and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck. ¹² And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head. ¹³ So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour and oil and honey, and became extremely beautiful. ¹⁴ And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord. ¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by. ¹⁶ And you took of your garments, and made for yourself idols of needlework, and went a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall the like take place. ¹⁷ And you took your fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed harlotry with them. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set before them My oil and My incense. ¹⁹ And you took My bread which I gave you, (yea, I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord. ²⁰ And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and sacrificed these to them to be destroyed. You went a-whoring as if that were little, ²¹ and slain your children, and gave them up, in offering them up as a sacrifice. ²² This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and lived, though defiled in your blood. ²³ And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord, ²⁴ that you built yourself a house of fornication, and made a public place for yourself in every street; ²⁵ and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication. ²⁶ And you went a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and went a-whoring, often to provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver you up to the will of those that hate you, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned. ²⁸ And you went a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even then were you satisfied; yea, you went a-whoring, and were not satisfied. ²⁹ And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied. ³⁰ Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? And you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters. ³¹ You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments. ³² An adulteress resembles you, taking rewards of her husband. ³³ She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yea, you loaded them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication. ³⁴ And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give payments over and above, and payments were not given to you; and thus perverseness happened in you. ³⁵ Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord: ³⁶ Thus says the Lord: Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them. ³⁷ Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame. ³⁸ And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords. ⁴¹ And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women; and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give you rewards. ⁴² So will I slacken My fury against you, and My jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful for you. ⁴³ Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your other iniquities. ⁴⁴ These are all the things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying, ⁴⁵ As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom — pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed. ⁵² You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them appear more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonor, in that you have justified your sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them; ⁵⁴ that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonored for all that you have done in provoking Me to anger. ⁵⁵ And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you were at the beginning. ⁵⁶ And surely your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the days of your pride; ⁵⁷ before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about. ⁵⁸ As for your ungodliness and your iniquities, you have borne them, says the Lord. ⁵⁹ Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant. ⁶⁰ And I will remember My covenant, made with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones, and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant. ⁶² And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, ⁶³ that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.

² Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:

¹ And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me. ² And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ³ Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord.

³ Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord. ⁴ Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? Testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers, ⁵ and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am the Lord your God; ⁶ in that day I helped them with My hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land. ⁷ And I said to them, Let everyone cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ⁸ But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt. ⁹ But I acted so that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ And I brought them into the wilderness. ¹¹ And I gave them My commandments, and made known to them My ordinances, all which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them. ¹² And I gave them My Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between Me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them. ¹³ And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected My ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ But I acted so that My name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out. ¹⁵ But I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands; ¹⁶ because they rejected My ordinances, and walked not in My commandments, but profaned My Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts. ¹⁷ Yet My eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them. ¹⁹ I am the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them; ²⁰ and hallow My Sabbaths, and let them be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. ²¹ But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them. ²² But I acted so that My name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight. ²³ I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries; ²⁴ because they kept not My ordinances, and rejected My commandments, and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers. ²⁵ So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live. ²⁶ And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them. ²⁷ Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: In this too have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me. ²⁸ Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there sweet-smelling savors, and there they poured out their drink offerings. ²⁹ And I said to them, What is Bamah, that you go in there? And they called its name Bamah, until this day. ³⁰ Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Do you pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do you go a-whoring after their abominations, ³¹ and do you pollute yourselves with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit. ³² And it shall not be as you say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones. ³³ Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath. ³⁴ I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands in which you were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath. ³⁵ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face. ³⁶ As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, says the Lord. ³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under My rod, and I will bring you in by number. ³⁸ And I will separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord, even the Lord. ³⁹ And as for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, even the Lord: Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter if you hearken to Me, then shall you no more profane My holy name by your gifts and by devices. ⁴⁰ For upon My holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, even the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me forever. And there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your firstfruits, and the firstfruits of your offerings, in all your holy things. ⁴¹ I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savor, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries in which you have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations. ⁴² And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers. ⁴³ And you shall there remember your ways, and your devices in which you defiled yourselves; and you shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness. ⁴⁴ And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that My name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, says the Lord. ⁴⁵ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁴⁶ Son of man, set your face against Thaman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Negev, ⁴⁷ and you shall say to the forest of Negev, Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, even the Lord: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour in you every green tree, and every dry tree. The flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. ⁴⁹ And I said, Not so, O Lord God! They say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: ³ and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity. ⁴ And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were Mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oholah, and Jerusalem was Oholibah. ⁵ And Oholah went a-whoring from Me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors, ⁶ clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses. ⁷ And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices. ⁸ And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her. ⁹ Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. ¹⁰ They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters. ¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister. ¹² She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men. ¹³ And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way. ¹⁴ And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil, ¹⁵ having variegated belts on their loins, having also richly dyed turbans upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land. ¹⁶ And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans. ¹⁷ And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them. ¹⁸ And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame. And My soul was alienated from her, even as My soul was alienated from her sister. ¹⁹ And you multiplied your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, in which you committed harlotry in Egypt, ²⁰ and you doted upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and their members as the members of horses. ²¹ And you looked upon the iniquity of your youth, the things which you did in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth. ²² Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about, ²³ the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses. ²⁴ And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against you round about;and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements. ²⁵ And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant. ²⁶ And they shall strip you of your clothing, and take away your ornaments. ²⁷ So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt; and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt. ²⁸ Wherefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated. ²⁹ And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare; and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed. And your ungodliness and your fornication ³⁰ has brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and defiled yourself with their devices. ³¹ You walked in the way of your sister; and I will put her cup into your hands. ³² Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness. ³³ And you shall be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of your sister Samaria, ³⁴ drink it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons; for I have spoken it, says the Lord. ³⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have forgotten Me, and have cast Me behind your back, therefore receive the reward of your ungodliness and your fornication. ³⁶ And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their iniquities? ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to Me. ³⁸ So long too as they did these things to Me, they defiled My sanctuary, and profaned My Sabbaths. ³⁹ And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into My sanctuary to profane it; and whereas they did thus in the midst of My house, ⁴⁰ and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments, ⁴¹ and sat on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for My incense and My oil, they rejoiced in them, ⁴² and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads. ⁴³ Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? And has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot? ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, to work iniquity. ⁴⁵ And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ Thus says the Lord God: Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them. ⁴⁷ And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses. ⁴⁸ And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness. ⁴⁹ And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁴ And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁹ But if you forewarn the wicked of his way, to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but you have delivered your own soul.

³³ But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come; and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.

²⁷ And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do them.

³ And He said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? And I said, O Lord God, only You know this!

⁵ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.

¹⁷ And he came and stood near where I stood. And when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face. But he said to me, Understand, son of man, for the vision is yet for an appointed time. ¹⁸ And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth. And he touched me, and set me on my feet.

⁵ we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from Your commandments and from Your judgments; ⁶ we have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever You have scattered them, for the sin which they have committed. ⁸ In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of face, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned. ⁹ To you, O Lord our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, whereas we have departed from You. ¹⁰ Neither have we heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by the hands of His servants the prophets. ¹¹ Moreover, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and have refused to heed Your voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. ¹² And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the Law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not sought after the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all Your truth.

¹⁰ And behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees. ¹¹ And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to you, and stand upright, for I am now sent to you. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling.

¹⁶ And behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, at the sight of you my insides were turned within me, and I had no strength. ¹⁷ And how shall your servant be able, O my lord, to speak with this my lord? And as for me, from now on strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me. ¹⁸ And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, ¹⁹ and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace be to you, gird yourself like a man, and be strong. And when he had spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. ²⁹ And on My servants and on My handmaids in those days will I pour out of My Spirit.

¹⁰ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words. ¹¹ For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land. ¹² And Amaziah said to Amos, Go, seer, remove yourself to the land of Judah, and live there, and you shall prophesy there: ¹³ but you shall no longer prophesy at Bethel — for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house. ¹⁴ And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a sheepbreeder, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits. ¹⁵ And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to My people Israel. ¹⁶ And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Do not prophesy to Israel, and do not raise a tumult against the house of Jacob. ¹⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be measured with the line; and you shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God showed me.

² Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.

⁸ Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

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, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.

² And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and that plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.

¹² And as you enter into a household, greet it. ¹³ And if indeed the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it should not be worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. ¹⁵ Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city! ¹⁶ "Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

²⁸ And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.

¹³ When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He was questioning His disciples, saying, "Who do men pronounce Me, the Son of Man, to be?" ¹⁴ So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others say Elijah, and yet others say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." ¹⁵ He said to them, "But who do you pronounce Me to be?" ¹⁶ And Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

⁷ But Jesus approached and touched them and said, "Arise, and do not be afraid."

²⁰ teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

² And at harvest-time he sent a servant to the farmers, in order that he might receive his part from the fruit of the vineyard. ³ And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Again he sent them another servant, and that one they wounded in the head with stones, and they sent him away shamefully treated. ⁵ And again he sent another, and that one they killed, and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ 'The very dust from your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near to you.' ¹² I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.

¹⁹ Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

⁴ "And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing further they can do.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ And you are witnesses of these things.

¹³ And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

²¹ Therefore Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! Just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." ²² And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

¹³ Now when they observed the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them and said, "Whether it is right before God to hear you rather than God, you judge.

²⁹ Now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

⁶ "But stand up and enter into the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must do."

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly said, "It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

²⁶ Therefore I testify to you this very day, that I am innocent of all blood. ²⁷ For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

¹⁶ But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will yet reveal to you,

³ For what if some did not believe? Surely their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God?

¹⁵ And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

¹⁵ For we are the fragrance of Christ to God among those being saved, and among those perishing. ¹⁶ To some we are the fragrance of death leading to death, but to others the fragrance of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not as the rest, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, in the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

²⁸ and not being terrified in anything by your enemies, which is to them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be in these things, so that your progress may be evident to all. ¹⁶ Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

⁷ Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.' "

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing the Unseen One.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer on account of righteousness, you are blessed. "But do not fear their threats, nor be troubled."

³ nor as being masters over the flock under you, but rather being examples to the flock.

¹ And I saw in the right hand of He that sat on the throne a scroll, having been written inside and outside, and having been sealed with seven seals. ² Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?" ³ And no one in heaven above or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, nor to look at it. ⁴ And I began to weep much, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll, nor to look at it. ⁵ But one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, to open the scroll and its seven seals."

¹³ And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe for those who dwell on the earth, from the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are to sound their trumpets!"

³ Then out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth. And power was given to them, as scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any plant, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ And they were not given authority to kill them, but that they should torment them for five months. And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶ And in those days men shall seek death, and shall by no means find it; they shall be longing to die, yet death shall elude them.

¹² One woe is past. Behold, yet two woes are coming after these things.

⁸ Then the voice which I heard from heaven was speaking with me again and saying, "Go, take the little scroll which was open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land." ⁹ And I went to the angel, saying to him to give to me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it up; and it shall make your stomach bitter, but it shall be as sweet as honey in your mouth."

⁹ And I went to the angel, saying to him to give to me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it up; and it shall make your stomach bitter, but it shall be as sweet as honey in your mouth." ¹⁰ Then I took the scroll out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. And when I ate it, my stomach was made bitter. ¹¹ And they said to me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

¹¹ Now after the three-and-a-half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who were watching them.

¹⁴ The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.