Job 3 Cross References - CAB

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth, ² saying, ³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a male child! ⁴ Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it. ⁵ But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it. ⁶ Let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. ⁷ But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. ⁸ But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the Great Whale. ⁹ Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise: ¹⁰ because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ For why did I not die in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? ¹² And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts? ¹³ Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest, ¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who gloried in their swords; ¹⁵ or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver: ¹⁶ or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light. ¹⁷ There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest. ¹⁸ And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the voice of the oppressor. ¹⁹ The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord. ²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in grief? ²¹ Who desire death, and obtain it not, digging for it as for treasures; ²² and would be very joyful if they should gain it? ²³ Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in. ²⁴ For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep, being beset with terror. ²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. ²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

¹⁸ Because the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

³¹ And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

³ And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.

²³ And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh were borne on the sides of Joseph.

⁶ And Pharaoh gave orders to the taskmasters of the people and the accountants, saying, ⁷ You shall no longer give straw to the people for brickmaking as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves. ⁸ And you shall impose on them daily the rate of brickmaking which they perform: you shall not reduce anything, for they are idle. Therefore have they cried, saying, Let us arise and do sacrifice to our God.

¹⁵ And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you act thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make bricks; and behold, your servants have been scourged; therefore you will injure your people. ¹⁷ And he said to them, You are idle, you are idlers. Therefore you say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you shall return the rate of bricks. ¹⁹ And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, for men were saying, You shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

²² And Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was darkness, very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ And for three days no man saw his brother, and no man rose up from his bed for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in all the places where they were.

¹⁵ And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.

¹¹ And you drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and a tempest.

¹² A land which the Lord your God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

¹⁴ And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laish answered, and said to their brethren, You know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what you shall do.

⁵ And to Anna he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Elkanah loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

¹⁰ And she was very much grieved in her spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

¹⁰ And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David.

²⁷ And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.

⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightway came into his own city, into the land of Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. And King Solomon slept with his fathers, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take my life from me, I pray, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁷ And she came to Elisha to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisha said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it to me.

²⁵ And Jeremiah mourned over Josiah, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josiah until this day. And they made it an ordinance for Israel, and behold, it is written in the lamentations.

⁵ And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin offering for their souls; for Job said, Lest perhaps my sons have thought evil, and cursed God in their minds. Thus, then Job did continually.

¹¹ But put forth Your hand, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

²² In all these events that befell him, Job sinned not before the Lord, and did not impute wrong to God.

⁵ Ah, but put forth Your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh — surely he will curse You to Your face!

⁹ And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, ^(9A) Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? ^(9B) For behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; ^(9C) and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, ^(9D) and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors, and my pangs which now beset me: ^(9E) but curse the Lord, and die. ¹⁰ But he looked at her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not with his lips before God.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a male child!

¹⁶ or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together! ³ And surely they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

⁷ For my wrath cannot cease, for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.

⁹ Let the Lord begin to wound me, but let Him not utterly destroy me.

⁸ The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more. ⁹ I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man should go down to the grave, he shall not come up again. ¹⁰ And he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

¹⁴ You scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions. ¹⁵ You will separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death. ¹⁶ For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

¹⁹ How long do You not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

²¹ Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon Him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ Why then did You bring me out of the womb? And why did I not die, and no eye see me, ¹⁹ and I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

²¹ before I go to where I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; ²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can anyone see the life of mortals.

²² to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can anyone see the life of mortals.

¹⁴ If He should cast down, who will build up? If He should shut up against man, who shall open?

¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

²¹ He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly.

¹⁰ But a man that has died is utterly gone, and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. ¹¹ For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails, and is dried up. ¹² And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep. ¹³ Oh that You had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until Your wrath should cease, and You should set me a time in which You would remember me!

²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

^{16 (16:17)} My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, and has raised His bulwark against me.

⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: He has set darkness before my face.

¹² His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.

²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

¹³ And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

²⁵ So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and He shall bring you forth as pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

² Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and His hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

¹⁷ For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

⁹ Will God hear his prayer? Or when distress has come upon him,

¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay, ¹⁷ all these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess His wealth.

³ He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

¹⁵ My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

²⁶ But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came upon me all the more.

²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of His burden.

²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

³⁰ And He has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise Him in the light.

¹⁶ Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

¹⁷ And do the gates of death open to you out of fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?

⁷ He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

^{1 (40:20)} But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

^{10 (41:1)} Do you not fear because preparation has been made by Me? For who is there that resists Me?

^{18 (41:9)} At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

^{25 (41:16)} And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

¹ For the end, concerning the morning aid, A Psalm of David. O God, my God, attend to me; why have You forsaken me? The account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. ² O my God, I will cry to You by day, but You will not hear; and by night, and it shall not be reckoned to me as folly.

⁹ For You are He that drew Me out of the womb; My hope from My mother's breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast on You from the womb; You are My God from My mother's belly.

⁴ Yea, though I walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁸ And You have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.

³ Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

⁸ I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly; I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

² I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. ³ My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation; I spoke with my tongue,

³ My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God? ⁴ I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of Your wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exaltation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

¹⁹ For You have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

² both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.

⁶ They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth — ⁷ a brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? He shall not give to God a ransom for himself, ⁸ or the price for the redemption of his soul, though he labor forever, ⁹ and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption. ¹⁰ When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

¹⁴ They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

¹⁴ They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory. ¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when He shall receive me. Pause. ¹⁶ Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him. ¹⁸ For his soul shall be blessed in his life; he shall give thanks to you when you do well to him. ¹⁹ Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. ²⁰ Man that is in honor, understands not; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is likened unto them.

⁵ Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me. ⁶ And I said, O, that I had wings as those of a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause. ⁸ I waited for Him that would deliver me from my distressed spirit, and from the tempest.

⁸ They shall be destroyed as melted wax; the fire has fallen, and they have not seen the sun.

⁶ On You have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother You have been my protector: of You is my praise offered continually.

⁵ You will feed us with the bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.

⁸ You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

⁴⁸ What man is there who shall live, and not see death? Shall anyone deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

¹⁰ even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and irons;

¹⁴ And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces.

¹³ For You, O Lord, have possessed my reins; You have helped me from my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will give You thanks; for You are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are Your works; and my soul knows it well. ¹⁵ My bones, which You made in secret, were not hidden from You, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in Your book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

¹¹ You shall revive me, O Lord, for Your name's sake; in Your righteousness You shall bring my soul out of affliction.

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

⁶ Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain,

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness. ⁵ Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest. There is no more rest to this one than another.

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

¹⁰ Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Hades, where you are going.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and folly are vanity.

⁵ and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered, because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market.

⁷ before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

⁷ For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

⁸ Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's; will you dwell alone upon the land?

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

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations; neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it. ²¹ But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and demons shall dance there, ²² and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, and from your hard servitude in which you served them. ⁴ And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

¹⁰ All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us. ¹¹ Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth; under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering. ¹² How has Lucifer, that rose of the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth. ¹³ But you have said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven; I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north; ¹⁴ I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth! ¹⁶ They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

⁸ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

²⁷ For do not say, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, O Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed?

³ Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by Me from the womb, and taught by Me from infancy, even to old age;

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. ² His burial shall be in peace; he has been removed out of the way.

¹² And your old waste desert places shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

¹¹ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove; we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

¹² For thus says the Lord: Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles; their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

⁶ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in?

²⁸ For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above. For I have spoken, and I will not relent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.

³⁴ And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

¹⁵ We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but there was anxiety.

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice; ¹⁸ and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

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

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me! ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child has been born to you. ¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon; ¹⁷ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always enlarged with me.

¹⁷ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always enlarged with me. ¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth from the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth from the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

⁷ He has hedged me in, and I cannot come forth; He has made my bronze chain heavy. ⁸ ( { β}) GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. ⁹ ( { γ}) DALETH. He has built up my ways, He has hedged my paths;

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.

²⁰ and great waters shall cover you, and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

¹⁸ The people of Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Helbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market. ¹⁹ Out of Uzal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among your trading population. ²⁰ The people of Dedan were your merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, bringing camels, lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones; and they brought gold to your market. ²³ Haran and Canneh, these were your merchants: Assyria and Chilmad, were your merchants; ²⁴ bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. ²⁵ Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading population; and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ The rowers have brought you into great waters. The south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea. ²⁷ Your forces and your gain, and that of your traders and your rowers, and your pilots and your counselors, and they that traffic with you, and all your warriors that are in you; and all your company in the midst of you shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of your fall. ²⁸ At the cry of your voice your pilots shall be greatly terrified; ²⁹ and all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. ³⁰ And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them. ³¹ (TEXT OMITTED) ³² And their sons shall take up a lament for you, even a lamentation for Tyre, saying,

³ For the day of the Lord is near, a day of clouds; it shall be the end of the nations.

¹² As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and clouds, in the midst of the sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep, and I will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of clouds and darkness.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? A miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

² for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist; a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been one like it from the beginning, and after it there shall not be again, even to the years of many generations.

⁸ who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is His name;

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty: In all the streets shall be lamentations, and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! The farmer shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

¹⁸ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! What is this day of the Lord to you? Seeing that it is darkness, and not light.

¹⁰ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.

³ And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁸ And their silver and their gold shall by no means be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealously; for He will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

³ And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

¹⁶ the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and to those who sat in the land and the shadow of death, light sprang up on them."

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.

¹⁷ and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; We mourned to you, and you did not lament.'

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour, darkness came upon all the land.

³⁸ And He went to the house of the synagogue leader, and observed a commotion, people weeping and wailing, very much.

⁷⁹ to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

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.

²² And it came to pass that the beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁰ And neither the sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, finally all hope for us to be saved was taken away.

⁸ And last of all, as of one born out of due time, He appeared to me also.

⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, ⁷ and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

⁹ Then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, lest anyone falls in the same example of disobedience.

²⁷ And just as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this judgment,

¹⁸ For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and to a whirlwind,

⁸ (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--

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.

¹³ And I heard a voice out of heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on,' "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow with them."

¹⁰ Then the fifth one poured out his bowl on the throne of the Beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain.

²² The sound of harpists, and musicians, and of flutists, and of trumpeters shall by no means be heard in you anymore. And no craftsman of any craft shall by no means be found in you anymore, and the sound of a mill shall by no means be heard in you anymore. ²³ And the light of a lamp shall by no means shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and of a bride shall by no means be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the magnates of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.