Psalms 87 Cross References - CLV

¹ {For the Sons of Korah, A Psalm, A Song{ His foundation in the holy mountain ranges:" ² Yahweh is loving the gateways of Zion More than all the tabernacles of Jacob. ³ Glorious things are spoken of you, City of the One, Elohim. {Interlude{ " ⁴ I shall mention Rahab and Babylon as among those knowing Me, Behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Nubia:This one was born there." ⁵ Indeed concerning Zion it shall be said:Each and every one was born in her, And He Who is Supreme, He shall establish her." ⁶ Yahweh, He shall recount in the list of the peoples:This one was born there. {Interlude{ " ⁷ The singers, like a chorus, will say:All my springs are in you. {A Song, A Psalm, For the Sons of Korah{ {Permanent, Concerning a Chorus for Response{ "

⁵ But rather for the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there, you shall inquire for His tabernacle, and there will you come.

⁸ And he stands and calls unto the ranks of Israel, and said to them, `Why are you come out to set in array the battle? [am] not I the Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me;"

¹⁴ And David is dancing with all strength before Yahweh, and David is girded with a linen ephod,

¹⁶ and Ishbi-Benob, who [is] among the children of the giant--the weight of his spear [is] three hundred [shekels] weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one--speaks of smiting David, ¹⁷ and Abishai son of Zeruiah gives help to him, and smites the Philistine, and puts him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, `You do not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.. ¹⁸ And it comes to pass afterwards, that the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, then has Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Saph, who [is] among the children of the giant. ¹⁹ And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smites [a brother of] Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear [is] like a beam of weavers. ²⁰ And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands [are] six, and the toes of his feet [are] six, twenty and four in number, and he also has been born to the giant, ²¹ and he reproaches Israel, and smite him does Jonathan son of Shimeah, brother of David;" ²² these four have been born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

¹ And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, and comes to try him with enigmas, ² and she comes to Jerusalem, with a very great company, camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stone, and she comes unto Solomon, and speaks unto him all that has been with her heart. ³ And Solomon declares to her all her matters--there has not been a thing hid from the king that he has not declared to her. ⁴ And the queen of Sheba sees all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he built, ⁵ and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his butlers, and his burnt-offering that he causes to ascend in the house of Yahweh, and there has not been in her any more spirit. ⁶ And she said unto the king, `True has been the word that I heard in my land, concerning your matters and your wisdom;" ⁷ and I gave no credence to the words till that I have come, and my eyes see, and lo, it was not declared to me--the half; you have added wisdom and goodness unto the report that I heard. ⁸ O the happiness of your men, O the happiness of your servants--these--who are standing before you continually, who are hearing your wisdom!" ⁹ Yahweh your Elohim is blessed who delighted in you, to put you on the throne of Israel; in Yahweh's loving Israel to the eon He does set you for king, to do judgment and righteousness. ¹⁰ And she gives to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices very many, and precious stone; there came not like that spice any more for abundance that the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. ¹¹ And also, the navy of Hiram that bore gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir almug-trees very many, and precious stone;" ¹² and the king makes the almug-trees a support for the house of Yahweh, and for the house of the king, and harps and psalteries for singers; there have not come such almug-trees, nor have there been seen [such] unto this day. ¹³ And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that which he gave to her as a memorial of king Solomon, and she turns and goes to her land, she and her servants. ¹⁴ And the weight of the gold that has come to Solomon in one year is six hundred sixty and six talents of gold, ¹⁵ apart from [that of] the tourists, and of the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the land. ¹⁶ And king Solomon makes two hundred targets of alloyed gold--six hundred of gold go up on the one target; ¹⁷ and three hundred shields of alloyed gold--three pounds of gold go up on the one shield; and the king puts them [in] the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸ And the king makes a great throne of ivory, and overlays it with refined gold;" ¹⁹ six steps has the throne, and a round top [is] to the throne behind it, and hands [are] on this [side] and on that, unto the place of the sitting, and two lions are standing near the hands, ²⁰ and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps, on this [side] and on that; it has not been made so for any kingdom. ²¹ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [are] of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [are] of refined gold--there are none of silver; it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything, ²² for a navy of Tarshish has the king at sea with a navy of Hiram; once in three years comes the navy of Tarshish, bearing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²³ And king Solomon is greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom, ²⁴ and all the earth is seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that Elohim has put into his heart, ²⁵ and they are bringing each his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, the matter of a year in a year. ²⁶ And Solomon gathers chariots, and horsemen, and he has a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he places them in the cities of the chariot, and with the king in Jerusalem. ²⁷ And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he has made as the sycamores that [are] in the low country, for abundance. ²⁸ And the outgoing of the horses that king Solomon has [is] from Egypt, and from Keveh; merchants of the king take from Keveh at a price;" ²⁹ and a chariot comes up and comes out of Egypt for six hundred silverlings, and a horse for fifty and a hundred, and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they bring out.

¹⁷ Lo, days are coming, and borne has been all that [is] in your house, and that your father have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Yahweh;" ¹⁸ and of your sons who go out from you, whom you beget, they take away, and they have been eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon..

¹⁶ And David said to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy. ¹⁷ And the Levites appoint Heman son of Joel, and of his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah;" ¹⁸ and with them their brethren, the seconds [in rank], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah; and Obed-Edom and Jeiel the gatekeepers;" ¹⁹ and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to sound, ²⁰ and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jeheil, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries besides virgins, ²¹ and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps, on the octave, to oversee. ²² And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, [is] over the burden; he instructs about the burden, for he [is] intelligent. ²³ And Berechiah and Elkanah [are] gatekeepers for the ark. ²⁴ And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, are blowing with trumpets before the ark of Elohim; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah [are] gatekeepers for the ark. ²⁵ And it is David, and the elders of Israel, and the heads of the thousands, who are going to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy;" ²⁶ and it comes to pass, in Elohim's helping the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrifice seven bullocks and seven rams. ²⁷ And David is wrapped in an upper robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who are bearing the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah head of the burden of the singers; and on David [is] an Ephod of linen. ²⁸ And all Israel are bringing up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of a cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding with psalteries and harps, ²⁹ and it comes to pass, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is entering in unto the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul is looking through the window, and sees king David dancing and playing, and despises him in her heart.

⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Yahweh, `with instruments that I made for praising,' [said David..

¹ And David and the heads of the host separate for service, of the sons of Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who are prophesying with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen is according to their service. ² Of sons of Asaph:Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, [are] by the side of Asaph, who is prophesying by the side of the king. ³ Of Jeduthun:sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, Shisshah, [are] by the side of their father Jeduthun; with a harp he is prophesying, for giving of thanks and of praise to Yahweh. ⁴ Of Heman:sons of Heman:Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;" ⁵ all these [are] sons of Heman--seer of the king in the things of Elohim--to lift up a horn; and Elohim gives to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these [are] by the side of their father in the song of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of Elohim; by the side of the king [are] Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman.

¹ And Solomon begins to build the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

⁶ and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

¹³ Eloah, He does not reverse His anger; The helpers of Rahab prostrate before Him.

³⁰ His seed shall serve Him; It shall be recounted about Yahweh To the generation that is coming.

⁹ For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light shall we see light.

¹² The daughter of Tyre comes with an approach present, The rich of the people are beseeching Your presence."

⁴ A river! Its rillets shall make the city of Elohim rejoice, The holiest Grand Tabernacle of the Supreme."

¹ {A Song{ {A Psalm for the Sons of Korah{ Great is Yahweh, and praised exceedingly In the city of our Elohim, His holy mountain;" ² Lovely of undulation, The elation of the entire earth is Mount Zion, The flanks of the north, the town of the great King."

² Lovely of undulation, The elation of the entire earth is Mount Zion, The flanks of the north, the town of the great King." ³ Elohim, in her citadels He is known as an Impregnable Retreat."

⁸ Just as we had heard, so we saw, In the city of Yahweh of hosts, In the city of our Elohim. Elohim, He shall establish it for the eon. {Interlude{ "

¹¹ Mount Zion shall rejoice, The daughters of Judah shall exult, On account of Your judgments, O Yahweh." ¹² Go around Zion, and encompass her; Count off her towers;" ¹³ Set your heart on her rampart; Survey her citadels, That you may recount it to the next generation."

¹⁶ Why are you looking askance, lofty mountains, At the mountain Elohim covets for His dwelling? Indeed, Yahweh Himself shall tabernacle there permanently."

²⁴ They have seen Your processions, O Elohim, The processions of my El, my King, in the Sanctuary." ²⁵ Singers precede, after them the players, In the midst of the damsels playing the tambourine."

³¹ Let envoys arrive from Egypt; Let Nubia run with its hands stretched out to Elohim.

²⁸ Let them be wiped out from the scroll of life, And let them not be written with the righteous."

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim." ⁶⁸ Yet He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loves;" ⁶⁹ And He built His Sanctuary like the heights of heaven, Like the earth that He founded for the eon."

¹⁰ You crushed Rahab who became like one slain; With Your strong arm You dispersed Your enemies.

¹ {A Song for Ascents{ I am lifting my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?

¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Those who trust in Yahweh are like Mount Zion which is immovable; It shall dwell securely for the eon. ² As Jerusalem has mountains round about it, So Yahweh is round about His people Henceforth and unto the eon."

¹³ For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He yearns for it as His dwelling place: ¹⁴ This is My resting place unto the future; Here shall I dwell, for I yearn for it."

¹ By the streams of Babylon, There we sat down and lamented, While we remembered Zion."

⁸ Daughter of Babylon, the devastator, Happy is he who shall repay you With your dealing which you dealt to us." ⁹ Happy is he who shall hold and shatter your unweaned children Against the crag.

³ May they praise His Name in chorus; With tambourine and harp may they make melody to Him.

² And it comes in the days hereafter, established shall be the mount of Yahweh, and the house of the Elohim, on the summit of the mountains, and borne by the hills. And stream to it all the nations." ³ And go many peoples and say, "Go, and we will ascend to the mount of Yahweh, and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob, and He will direct us in His ways, and we will go in His paths.For from Zion shall fare forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem."

³ And it comes that the remnant in Zion, and the rest in Jerusalem, are being termed holy for Him, all those written as living in Jerusalem."

³ And you will bail water with elation from the springs of salvation.

⁶ Make a noise and be jubilant, dweller of Zion, for great within you is the Holy One of Israel!"

¹ LOAD OF BABYLON which was perceived by Isaiah, the son of Amoz:" ² On a mountain ridge lift up a banner! Raise high the voice to them! Do not fear! Wave a hand! And they shall enter the portals of the patrons. ³ I, I instruct My hallowed. And I call them. Moreover, I call My masters, for My anger, even My joyous and My proud." ⁴ The sound of a throng in the mountains, like many people! The sound of tumult of kingdoms, of nations being gathered! Yahweh of hosts is Musterer of the battle host" ⁵ coming from a land afar, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the instruments of His menace, to harm the entire earth." ⁶ Howl! For near is the day of Yahweh! As devastation from Him Who-Suffices shall it come. ⁷ Therefore all hands shall be slack, and every mortal's heart shall melt" ⁸ and be flustered. Throes and cramps shall take hold of them. As a bearing woman shall they travail. A man at his associate shall be amazed, and as a facade of blazes are their faces." ⁹ Behold! The day of Yahweh has come, cruel, with rage and hot anger, to make the entire earth a desolation, and its sinners is He exterminating from it." ¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens are not appearing, and their constellations are not irradiating their light. Dark is the sun in its faring forth, and the moon is not brightening with its light." ¹¹ And I check over all the habitance for its evil, and on the wicked for their depravity. And I eradicate the pomp of the arrogant, and the pride of the terrifiers am I abasing." ¹² More precious am I making the remaining mortal than glittering gold. And a human than certified African gold. ¹³ Therefore the heavens will I disturb, and the earth shall quake from its place, in the furious rage of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of His hot anger." ¹⁴ And the remainder becomes as a gazelle running away, and as a flock straying with no one to get it together. Each man toward his people shall face, and each man to his land shall flee." ¹⁵ Everyone found shall be stabbed, and everyone gathered up shall fall by the sword." ¹⁶ And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished." ¹⁷ Behold Me rousing against them the Medes, who are not accounting silver, and gold--they are not delighting in it." ¹⁸ And with bows they are dashing the youths to pieces, and on the fruit of the belly they are not having compassion. And over the sons their eye is not commiserating." ¹⁹ And it comes that Babylon, the stateliest of kingdoms, the beauty, the pomp of the Chaldeans, shall be as the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah by the Elohim." ²⁰ It shall not be indwelt permanently, nor shall anyone tabernacle there further, for generation after generation, nor shall the Arabian tent there, nor shepherds recline their flocks there." ²¹ Yet the animals of arid spaces will recline there, and their houses will be full of their uproar. And the ostrich will tabernacle there. And hairy creatures will dance there." ²² And falcons will respond in their citadels, and jackals in the delicate palaces. And near to come is her era, and her days shall not be protracted further."

⁴ And you lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say in that day, "How ceases the exactor! Ceases the audacious city!" ⁵ Yahweh has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of rulers." ⁶ Smitten are peoples in a rage, a smiting barring withdrawal. Swaying, in anger, over nations, pursuing, failing to keep back."

³² And what will they answer, the messengers of a nation? That Yahweh founds Zion, and in it the humble of His people will find refuge."

¹¹ Yea! Foolish are the chiefs of Zoan, the wise counselors of Pharaoh give brutish counsel. How will you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of former kings"?

²³ In that day a highway will come from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria comes into Egypt, and Egypt goes into Assyria. And Egypt serves with Assyria." ²⁴ In that day Israel shall become third to Egypt and to Assyria. They shall be a blessing within the earth, ²⁵ who are blessed by Yahweh of hosts, who says, "Blessed be My people, Egypt, and the making of My hands, Assyria, and My allotment, Israel."

¹ LOAD OF TYRE Howl! Ships of Tharshish. For it is devastated of house and entry. They come no longer from the land of Kittim. A deportation has arrived also to them. ² Be still! Dwellers of the coastland. The merchant of Sidon, passing over the sea, filled you, ³ and in many waters was the seed of the merchant. The harvest of the waterway was her income, and she became the mart of nations." ⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon! For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor have I borne, and not brought up choice men, nor raised virgins." ⁵ As the report progresses to Egypt, they will travail. As to the report of Tyre, ⁶ they pass it through toward Tharshish; they will howl! Dwellers of the coastland! ⁷ Was this your joy from the days aforetime? In antiquity her feet fetched her from afar to sojourn. ⁸ Who counseled this against Tyre, the crown giver, whose merchants were chiefs, her traffickers the glorious of the earth? ⁹ Yahweh of hosts counseled it, to violate the pomp of all stateliness, to make light of all the glorious of the earth." ¹⁰ Pass! Serve your land as a waterway, daughter of Tharshish. There is no use for ships any longer." ¹¹ Your hand was stretched out over the sea; it disturbed the kingdoms. Yahweh of hosts instructs as to Canaan, to exterminate its strongholds." ¹² And saying is He, "No longer shall you continue to be joyous, extorted virgin daughter of Sidon. To Kittim! Arise! Pass! Even there, there is no stopping for you." ¹³ Behold the land of the Chaldeans--this people became nothing. Assyria devastated it into arid regions. They raise lookouts. They denude citadels. They make into a fallen place. Even there, there is no stopping." ¹⁴ Howl! Ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is devastated!" ¹⁵ And it comes in that day, Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, as the days of one king. From the end of seventy years Tyre will become as a song of the prostitute." ¹⁶ Take a harp; go around the city, forgotten prostitute. Do good playing. Increase the song, that you may be remembered." ¹⁷ And it comes, from the end of the seventy years, then Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she recalls her fee, and she prostitutes with all kingdoms of the earth, on the surface of the ground." ¹⁸ And it comes that her merchandise and her fee will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor safeguarded. For all her merchandise shall come to dwellers before Yahweh, for eating and drinking to satisfaction, and for shiftable covering."

¹⁶ Wherefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "Behold Me laying in Zion a foundation stone, a choice stone, a corner of a precious well-founded foundation. The believer on it shall not be put to shame."

⁴ And they will sprout as grass between water, as oleanders by runnels of water." ⁵ This one will say, `I am for Yahweh,' and this one will call in the name of Jacob, and this one will write with his hand, `For Yahweh.' And in the name `Israel' is he entitled."

¹⁴ Yet saying is Zion, "I am forsaken by Yahweh, and my Lord has forgotten me." ¹⁵ Will a woman forget her child, not to have compassion on the son of her belly? Even if these a woman will forget, yet I will not forget you,says Yahweh." ¹⁶ Behold! On My palms I tattoo you, and your walls are in front of Me continually." ¹⁷ Your sons hasten more than your demolishers, and those who made you a desert, are faring forth from you." ¹⁸ Lift your eyes around and see them all. They are convened and come to you. "Living am I,averring is Yahweh, "For with them all, as an ornament, shall you be clothed, and you shall tie them on as a bride her wreath." ¹⁹ For they are your deserts and your desolations, and the land of your demolitions, for now are you constricted because of the dweller, yet far away are they who swallowed you up." ²⁰ Further, the sons of your bereavements shall say in your ears, `Constricted for me is the place. Come close to me and I will dwell.'" <sup>21</sup> And you say in your heart, `Who generated these for me, while I was bereaved and a widow, and deported and withdrawn? And these--who brought them up for me? Behold! I remained alone. Yet these-- whereat were they?'" ²² For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "Behold! I will lift My hand to the nations, and to the peoples will I raise My banner high. And they bring your sons in a bosom pouch, and your daughters on the shoulders shall be borne, ²³ and kings become your foster fathers, and their chiefesses your wet nurses. Nostrils to the earth, shall they prostrate to you, and the soil at your feet shall they lick up. Then you shall know that I am Yahweh, and those expecting Me shall not be ashamed." ²⁴ Taken from a master is the booty? And would the captive of a terrifier escape? ²⁵ For thus says Yahweh, "Even the captive of a master will be taken, and the booty of the terrifier will escape. Yet with your contender I will contend, and your sons I will save." ²⁶ And I feed those tyrannizing over you with their own flesh, and as with juice, with their own blood shall they be drunk. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Saviour, and your Redeemer is the Sturdy One of Jacob."

⁹ Rouse! Rouse! Clothe yourself with strength, arm of Yahweh! Rouse as in days aforetime, the generations of the eons! Are not You He, the Hewer of the audacious, the Wounder of the monster?

² Widen the place of your tent, and the sheets of your tabernacles will stretch out. You must not keep back! Lengthen your cords, and your pegs make fast." ³ For right and left shall you breach, and your seed shall tenant nations, and the desolated cities shall be indwelt." ⁴ You must not fear, for you are not shamed, and you must not be confounded, for you shall not be abashed. For the shame of your adolescence will you forget, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no longer." ⁵ For your Possessor is your Maker. Yahweh of hosts is His name. And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. The Elohim of the entire earth shall He be called. ⁶ For as a woman, forsaken and grieved in spirit, Yahweh called you, and as a wife of youth, that is being rejected,says Yahweh, your Elohim." ⁷ For a small moment I forsook you, yet with great compassions will I convene you." ⁸ In effervescent wrath I concealed My face a moment from you, yet with kindness eonian have I compassion on you,says your Redeemer, Yahweh." ⁹ For this is the waters of Noah to Me. As I swore off from passing the waters of Noah again over the earth, so I swore off from wrath over you further and from rebuking you." ¹⁰ For the mountains shall remove, and the hills shall slip, yet My kindness from you shall not remove, and the covenant of My welfare shall not slip, says your Compassionate One, Yahweh."

⁷ I bring them also to My holy mountain, and I make them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their ascent approaches and their sacrifices shall ascend for acceptance on My altar, for My house a house of prayer shall be called, for all the peoples,

²⁰ And there comes to Zion the Redeemer, and "He shall turn back transgression from Jacob,averring is Yahweh." ²¹ And I--this is My covenant with them,says Yahweh. "My spirit, which is on you, and My word, which I place in your mouth, shall not remove from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed,says Yahweh, "Henceforth and till the eon."

¹ Light up! Light up, Jerusalem! For come has your light, and the glory of Yahweh over you is radiant." ² For behold! The darkness is covering the earth, and murkiness the folkstems, yet, over you, radiant is Yahweh, and His glory over you is appearing." ³ And the nations will go to your light, and kings to the brightness of your radiance." ⁴ Lift your eyes around and see your children. All of them are convened. They come to you. Behold! All your sons from afar are coming, and your daughters on the side are being fostered." ⁵ Then you shall see and beam. And awed and wide will be your heart, for turned to you shall be the throng of the sea. The estate of nations shall come to you." ⁶ An accumulation of camels shall cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba shall come. Gold and frankincense and precious stones shall they carry, and of the praises of Yahweh shall they bear tidings." ⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be convened to you, and the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you. They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, and My house of prayer will I beautify." ⁸ Who are these? As a thick cloud are they flying, and as doves to their crevices." ⁹ For to Me the boats of the coastlands are stretching, and the ships of Tharshish among the first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Yahweh, your Elohim, and to the Holy One of Israel, for He beautifies you."

²⁰ No further shall your sun set, nor your moon be gathered in, for Yahweh shall be yours for light eonian; and repaid are the days of your mourning." ²¹ And your people, all of them are righteous; for the eon shall they tenant the land, the scion of Yahweh's planting, the making of His hand, to beautify itself." ²² The small one shall become a thousand, and the inferior a staunch nation. I, Yahweh, in its era, will hurry it."

³ to give rejoicing to the mourners of Zion, to give to them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of elation instead of mourning, the muffler of praise instead of dimness of spirit. And they are called arbiters of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to beautify Himself." ⁴ And they will build the places deserted for an eon; the former desolations shall they raise. And they will renew the cities deserted; the desolations of generation after generation shall they raise. ⁵ And aliens will stand and graze your flocks, and sons of foreigners will be your farmers and your vineyardists." ⁶ And you, priests of Yahweh shall be called, "Ministers of our Elohim,to you shall be said. The estate of nations shall you eat, and with their glory you shall change yourselves." ⁷ Instead of your shame, a second portion is yours, and for confounding they shall jubilate in their portion. Wherefore, in their land a second portion shall they tenant. And rejoicing eonian shall come to be on their heads." ⁸ For I, Yahweh, am a lover of judgment, and a hater of pillage by iniquity. And I give them their wage in truth, and a covenant eonian will I contract with them." ⁹ And known among the nations is their seed, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All seeing them shall recognize them, that they are the seed blessed by Yahweh Elohim." ¹⁰ With elation will I be elated in Yahweh. My soul shall exult in my Elohim. For he clothes me with the garments of salvation, and in the robe of righteousness will He muffle me, as a bridegroom with a priestly beautiful turban, and as a bride is ornamenting herself with her outfit." ¹¹ For as the earth is bringing forth her sprouts, and as the garden is causing its sowings to sprout, so, my Lord Yahweh Elohim will cause righteousness to sprout, and praise, in front of all the nations."

³ And you become a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal turban in the palm of your Elohim." ⁴ And it will not be said of you any further, "Forsaken"; and of your land it will not be said any further, "Desolation.For He shall call you Hephzi-bah, and your land Beulah. For Yahweh is delighted with you, and your land is possessed." ⁵ For as possessing is a chosen man a virgin, possessing you are your sons. And as the elation of a bridegroom over the bride, so will Yahweh, your Elohim, be elated over you." ⁶ Over your walls, Jerusalem, I give the supervision to keepers. All the day and all the night, continually, they shall not hush reminding Yahweh. There must be no stillness for you!" ⁷ And you must not give Him stillness till He shall make ready, and till He shall establish, and till He shall constitute Jerusalem a praise in the earth." ⁸ Sworn has Yahweh with His right hand, and with the arm of His strength, "Should I give your grain further as food for your enemies--! And should sons of foreigners drink your grape juice for which you labor--!" ⁹ For its gatherers shall eat it and praise the name of Yahweh. And those who get it together shall drink it in the courts of My holy place,says your Elohim." ¹⁰ Pass! Pass through the gates! Surface the way for My people! Heap up! Heap up the highway! Throw out the stones! "Raise high the banner,say among the peoples." ¹¹ Behold! Yahweh announces to the outmost part of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold! your Saviour is coming! Behold! His hire is with him, and His wage is before him." ¹² And they call them, "People of the Holy One,Redeemed of Yahweh.And you are called, "City inquired for, not forsaken."

¹⁴ Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Yahweh. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion, ¹⁵ And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding." ¹⁶ And it has come to pass, when you are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days--an affirmation of Yahweh, They say not any more, `The ark of the covenant of Yahweh,' Nor does it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again." <sup>17</sup> At that time they cry to Jerusalem, `O throne of Yahweh,' And gathered unto her has been all the nations, For the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart."

¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, And give to you a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father--you do call to Me, And from after Me you do not turn back."

⁹ Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north--an affirmation of Yahweh--even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes eonian."

¹² And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Yahweh, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul has been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more." ¹³ Then rejoice does a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men--together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

¹ The word that Yahweh has spoken concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:" ² `Declare you among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say you:Captured has been Babylon, Put to shame has been Bel, Broken has been Merodach, Put to shame have been her grievous things, Broken have been her idols." ³ For come up against her has a nation from the north, It makes her land become a desolation, And there is not an inhabitant in it. From man even unto beast, They have moved, they have gone." ⁴ In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Yahweh, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Yahweh their Elohim they seek." ⁵ [To] Zion they ask the way, Thitherward [are] their faces:Come in, and we are joined unto Yahweh, A covenant eonian--not forgotten." ⁶ A perishing flock has My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, [To] the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place." ⁷ All finding them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said:We are not guilty, Because that they sinned against Yahweh, The habitation of righteousness, And the hope of their fathers--Yahweh." ⁸ Move you from the midst of Babylon, And from the land of the Chaldeans go out. And be as he-goats before a flock." ⁹ For, lo, I am stirring up, And am causing to come up against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from a land of the north, And they have set in array against her, From thence she is captured, Its arrow--as a skilful hero--returns not empty, ¹⁰ And Chaldea has been for a spoil, All her spoilers are satisfied, An affirmation of Yahweh." ¹¹ Because you rejoice, because you exult, O spoilers of Mine inheritance, Because you increase as a heifer [at] the tender grass, And do cry aloud as bulls, ¹² Ashamed has been your mother greatly, Confounded has she been that bare you, Lo, the hindermost of nations [is] a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert." ¹³ Because of the wrath of Yahweh it is not inhabited, And it has been a desolation--all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And does hiss because of all her plagues." ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All you treading a bow, Shoot at her, have no pity on the arrow, For against Yahweh she has sinned." ¹⁵ Shout against her round about, She has given forth her hand, Fallen have her foundations, Thrown down have been her walls, For it [is] the vengeance of Yahweh, Be avenged of her, as she did--do you to her." ¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest, Because of the oppressing sword, Each unto his people--they turn, And each to his land--they flee." ¹⁷ A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Has Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon." ¹⁸ Therefore thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:Lo, I am seeing after the king of Babylon, And after his land, As I have seen after the king of Asshur;" ¹⁹ And I have brought back Israel unto his habitation, And he has fed on Carmel, and on Bashan. And in mount Ephraim, and on Gilead is his soul satisfied." ²⁰ In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Yahweh, Sought is the iniquity of Israel, and it is not, And the sin of Judah, and it is not found, For I am propitious to those whom I leave!" ²¹ Against the land of Merathaim:Go up against it, and unto the inhabitants of Pekod, Waste and devote their posterity, An affirmation of Yahweh, And do according to all that I have commanded you." ²² A noise of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction." ²³ How has it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How has Babylon been for a desolation among nations!" ²⁴ I have laid a snare for you, And also--you are captured, O Babylon, And you--you have known, You have been found, and also are caught, For against Yahweh you have stirred yourself up." ²⁵ Yahweh has opened His treasury, And He brings out the weapons of His indignation, For a work [is] to the Lord Yahweh of Hosts, In the land of the Chaldeans." ²⁶ Come you in to her from the extremity, Open you her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant." ²⁷ Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Woe [is] on them, for come has their day, The time of their inspection." ²⁸ A voice of fugitives and escaped ones [Is] from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our Elohim, The vengeance of His temple." ²⁹ Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let [her] have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did--do to her, For unto Yahweh she has been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel." ³⁰ Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Yahweh." ³¹ Lo, I [am] against you, O pride, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh of Hosts, For your day has come, the time of your inspection." ³² And stumbled has pride, And he has fallen, and has no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it has devoured all round about him." ³³ Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away." ³⁴ Their Redeemer [is] strong, Yahweh of Hosts [is] His name, He does thoroughly plead their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He has given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon." ³⁵ A sword [is] for the Chaldeans, An affirmation of Yahweh, And it [is] on the inhabitants of Babylon, And on her heads, and on her wise men;" ³⁶ A sword [is] on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword [is] on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;" ³⁷ A sword [is] on his horses and on his chariot, And on all the rabble who [are] in her midst, And they have become women; A sword [is] on her treasuries, And they have been spoiled;" ³⁸ A sword [is] on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it [is] a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves." ³⁹ Therefore dwell do Ziim with Iim, Yea, dwelt in her have daughters of the ostrich, And it is not inhabited any more for ever, Nor dwelt in unto all generations." ⁴⁰ As overthrown by Elohim with Sodom, And with Gomorrah, and with its neighbors, An affirmation of Yahweh, none does dwell there, Nor sojourn in her does a son of man." ⁴¹ Lo, a people has come from the north, Even a great nation, And many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth." ⁴² Bow and halbert they seize, Cruel [are] they, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea sounds, and on horses they ride, Set in array as a man for battle, Against you, O daughter of Babylon." ⁴³ Heard has the king of Babylon their report, And feeble have been his hands, Distress has seized him; pain as a travailing woman." ⁴⁴ Lo, as a lion he comes up, Because of the rising of the Jordan, Unto the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause them to run from off her. And who is chosen? on her I lay a charge, For who [is] like Me? And who does convene Me? And who [is] this shepherd who stands before Me? ⁴⁵ Therefore, hear you the counsel of Yahweh, That He counselled concerning Babylon, And His devices that He has devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans; Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Does He not make desolate over them the habitation? ⁴⁶ From the voice:Captured was Babylon, Has the earth been shaken, And a cry among nations has been heard!"

⁴ And He calls unto the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Yahweh said unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'"

⁹ And My hand has been on the prophets, Who are seeing vanity, and who are divining a lie, In the assembly of My people they are not, And in the writing of the house of Israel they are not written, And unto the ground of Israel they come not, And you have known that I [am] the Lord Yahweh."

¹ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying:" ² `And you, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and you have said to Tyre:" ³ O dweller on the entrances of the sea, Merchant of the peoples unto many isles, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:O Tyre, you--you have said:I [am] the perfection of beauty." ⁴ In the heart of the seas [are] your borders, Your builders have perfected your beauty." ⁵ Of firs of Senir they have built to you all your double-boarded ships, Of cedars of Lebanon they have taken to make a mast for you, ⁶ Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars, Your bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim." ⁷ Of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt has been your sail, To be to you for an ensign, Of blue and purple from isles of Elishah has been your covering." ⁸ Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to you, Your wise men, O Tyre, have been in you, They [are] your pilots." ⁹ Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in you, Strengthening your breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, Have been in you, to trade [with] your merchandise." ¹⁰ Persian and Lud and Phut Have been in your forces--your men of war. Shield and helmet they hung up in you, They--they have given out your honor." ¹¹ The sons of Arvad, and your force, [Are] on your walls round about, And short swordsmen in your towers have been, Their shields they have hung up on your walls round about, They--they have perfected your beauty." ¹² Tarshish [is] your merchant, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For silver, iron, tin, and lead, They have given out your remnants." ¹³ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech--they [are] your merchants, For persons of men, and vessels of brass, They have given out your merchandise." ¹⁴ They of the house of Togarmah, [For] horses, and riding steeds, and mules, They have given out your remnants." ¹⁵ Sons of Dedan [are] your merchants, Many isles [are] the mart of your hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back your reward." ¹⁶ Aram [is] your merchant, Because of the abundance of your works, For emerald, purple, and embroidery, And fine linen, and coral, and agate, They have given out your remnants." ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel--they [are] your merchants, For wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, And honey, and oil, and balm, They have given out your merchandise." ¹⁸ Damascus [is] your merchant, For the abundance of your works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For wine of Helbon, and white wool." ¹⁹ Vedan and Javan go about with your remnants, They have given shining iron, cassia, and cane, In your merchandise it has been." ²⁰ Dedan [is] your merchant, For clothes of freedom for riding." ²¹ Arabia, and all princes of Kedar, They [are] the traders of your hand, For lambs, and rams, and he-goats, In these your merchants." ²² Merchants of Sheba and Raamah--they [are] your merchants, For the chief of all spices, And for every precious stone, and gold, They have given out your remnants." ²³ Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur--Chilmad--[are] your merchants, ²⁴ They [are] your merchants for perfect things, For wrappings of blue, and embroidery, And for treasuries of rich apparel, With cords bound and girded, for your merchandise, ²⁵ Ships of Tarshish [are] your double walls of your merchandise, And you are filled and honored greatly, In the heart of the seas." ²⁶ Into great waters have they brought you, Those rowing you, The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas." ²⁷ Your wealth and your remnants, Your merchandise, your mariners, And your pilots, strengtheners of your breach, And the traders of your merchandise, And all your men of war, who [are] in you, And in all your assembly that [is] in your midst, Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your fall, ²⁸ At the voice of the cry of your pilots shake do the suburbs.

² `Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because your heart has been high, And you do say:A el I [am], The habitation of Elohim I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And you [are] man, and not El, And you give out your heart as the heart of Elohim,

² Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because the enemy said against you, Aha, and the high places of old for a possession have been to us,

¹¹ And I have multiplied on you man and beast, And they have multiplied and been fruitful, And I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, And I have done better than at your beginnings, And you have known that I [am] Yahweh." ¹² And I have caused man to walk over you, --My people Israel, And they possess you, and you have been to them for an inheritance, And you do add no more to bereave them." ¹³ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because they are saying to you:A devourer of men [are] you, And a bereaver of your nations you have been, ¹⁴ Therefore, man you devour no more, And your nations you cause not to stumble any more, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." ¹⁵ And I proclaim not unto you any more the shame of the nations, And the reproach of peoples you bear no more, And your nations stumble not any more, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh.'" ¹⁶ And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, ¹⁷ `Son of man, The house of Israel are dwelling on their land, And they defile it by their way and by their doings, As the uncleanness of a separated one has their way been before Me." ¹⁸ And I do pour out My fury upon them For the blood that they shed on the land, And with their idols they have defiled it." ¹⁹ And I scatter them among nations, And they are spread through lands, According to their way, and according to their doings, I have judged them." ²⁰ And one goes in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Yahweh [are] these, And from His land they have gone forth." ²¹ And I have pity on My holy name, That the house of Israel have polluted among nations whither they have gone in." ²² Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But--for My holy name, That you have polluted among nations whither you have gone in." ²³ And I have sanctified My great name, That is profaned among nations, That you have polluted in your midst, And known have the nations that I [am] Yahweh, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, In My being sanctified in you before your eyes." ²⁴ And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land, ²⁵ And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And you have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you." ²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh." ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes you walk, And My judgments you keep, and have done them." ²⁸ And you have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And you have been to Me for a people, And I--I am to you for Elohim." ²⁹ And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you." ³⁰ And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that you receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations." ³¹ And you have remembered your ways that [are] evil, And your doings that [are] not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations." ³² Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel." ³³ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built, ³⁴ And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by, ³⁵ And they have said:This land, that was desolated, Has been as the garden of Eden, And the cities--the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained." ³⁶ And known have the nations who are left round about you, That I Yahweh have built the thrown down, I have planted the desolated:I Yahweh have spoken, and I have done [it]." ³⁷ Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Yet this I am required, By the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men, ³⁸ As a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem, In her appointed seasons, So are the waste cities full of flocks of men, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!'"

²⁷ And My tabernacle has been over them, And I have been to them for Elohim, And they have been to Me for a people." ²⁸ And known have the nations that I Yahweh am sanctifying Israel, In My sanctuary being in their midst--to the eon!'"

¹ In the twenty and fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in this self-same day has a hand of Yahweh been upon me, and He brings me in thither;" ² in visions of Elohim He has brought me in unto the land of Israel, and causes me to rest on a very high mountain, and upon it [is] as the frame of a city on the south." ³ And He brings me in thither, and lo, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed, and he is standing at the gate, ⁴ and the man speaks unto me:`Son of man, see with your eyes, And with your ears hear, And set your heart to all that I am showing you, For, in order to show [it] you, You have been brought in hither, Declare all that you are seeing to the house of Israel.'" <sup>5</sup> And lo, a wall on the outside of the house all round about, and in the hand of the man a measuring-reed, six cubits by a cubit and a handbreadth, and he measures the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed." <sup>6</sup> And he comes in unto the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he goes up by its steps, and he measures the threshold of the gate one reed broad, even the one threshold one reed broad, <sup>7</sup> and the little chamber one reed long and one reed broad, and between the little chambers five cubits, and the threshold of the gate, from the side of the porch of the gate from within, one reed." <sup>8</sup> And he measures the porch of the gate from within one reed, <sup>9</sup> and he measures the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within, <sup>10</sup> and the little chambers of the gate eastward, three on this side, and three on that side; one measure [is] to them three, and one measure [is] to the posts, on this side and on that side." <sup>11</sup> And he measures the breadth of the opening of the gate ten cubits, the length of the gate thirteen cubits;" <sup>12</sup> and a border before the little chambers, one cubit, and one cubit [is] the border on this side, and the little chamber [is] six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side." <sup>13</sup> And he measures the gate from the roof of the [one] little chamber to the roof of another; the breadth twenty and five cubits, opening over-against opening." <sup>14</sup> And he makes the posts of sixty cubits, even unto the post of the court, the gate all round about;" <sup>15</sup> and by the front of the gate of the entrance, by the front of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits;" <sup>16</sup> and narrow windows [are] unto the little chambers, and unto their posts at the inside of the gate all round about--and so to the arches--and windows all round about [are] at the inside, and at the post [are] palm-trees." <sup>17</sup> And he brings me in unto the outer court, and lo, chambers and a pavement made for the court all round about--thirty chambers on the pavement--" <sup>18</sup> and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against the length of the gates [is] the lower pavement; <sup>19</sup> and he measures the breadth from before the lower gate, to the front of the inner court, on the outside, a hundred cubits, eastward and northward." <sup>20</sup> As to the gate of the outer court whose front [is] northward, he has measured its length and its breadth;" <sup>21</sup> and its little chambers, three on this side, and three on that side, and its posts and its arches have been according to the measure of the first gate, fifty cubits its length, and the breadth five and twenty by the cubit;" <sup>22</sup> and its windows, and its arches, and its palm-trees [are] according to the measure of the gate whose face [is] eastward, and by seven steps they go up on it, and its arches [are] before them." <sup>23</sup> And the gate of the inner court [is] over-against the gate at the north and at the east; and he measures from gate unto gate, a hundred cubits." <sup>24</sup> And he causes me to go southward, and lo, a gate southward, and he has measured its posts and its arches according to these measures;" <sup>25</sup> and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about, like these windows, fifty cubits the length, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;" <sup>26</sup> and seven steps [are] its ascent, and its arches [are] before them, and palm-trees [are] to it, one on this side, and one on that side, at its posts;" <sup>27</sup> and the gate of the inner court [is] southward, and he measures from gate unto gate southward, a hundred cubits." <sup>28</sup> And he brings me in unto the inner court by the south gate, and he measures the south gate according to these measures;" <sup>29</sup> and its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches [are] according to these measures, and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about; fifty cubits the length, and the breadth twenty and five cubits." <sup>30</sup> As to the arches all round about, the length [is] five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits;" <sup>31</sup> and its arches [are] unto the outer court, and palm-trees [are] unto its posts, and eight steps [are] its ascent." <sup>32</sup> And he brings me in unto the inner court eastward, and he measures the gate according to these measures;" <sup>33</sup> and its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches [are] according to these measures:and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about, the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;" <sup>34</sup> and its arches [are] toward the outer court, and palm-trees [are] toward its posts, on this side and on that side, and eight steps [are] its ascent." <sup>35</sup> And he brings me in unto the north gate, and has measured according to these measures;" <sup>36</sup> its little chambers, its posts, and its arches; and windows [are] to it all round about:the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;" <sup>37</sup> and its posts [are] to the outer court, and palm-trees [are] unto its posts, on this side and on that side, and eight steps [are] its ascent." <sup>38</sup> And the chamber and its opening [is] by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering." <sup>39</sup> And in the porch of the gate [are] two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slaughter on them the burnt-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering;" <sup>40</sup> and at the side without, at the going up to the opening of the north gate, [are] two tables; and at the other side that [is] at the porch of the gate, [are] two tables;" <sup>41</sup> four tables [are] on this side, and four tables on that side, at the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughter." <sup>42</sup> And the four tables for burnt-offering [are] of hewn stone:the length one cubit and a half, and the breadth one cubit and a half, and the height one cubit:on them they place the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice." <sup>43</sup> And the boundaries [are] one handbreadth, prepared within all round about:and on the tables [is] the flesh of the offering." <sup>44</sup> And on the outside of the inner gate [are] chambers of the singers, in the inner court, that [are] at the side of the north gate, and their fronts [are] southward, one at the side of the east gate [has] the front northward." <sup>45</sup> And he speaks unto me:`This chamber, whose front [is] southward, [is] for priests keeping charge of the house;" ⁴⁶ and the chamber, whose front [is] northward, [is] for priests keeping charge of the altar:they [are] sons of Zadok, who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Yahweh, to serve Him.'" ⁴⁷ And he measures the court:the length a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, square, and the altar [is] before the house." ⁴⁸ And he brings me in unto the porch of the house, and he measures the post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate, three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side;" ⁴⁹ the length of the porch twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and by the steps whereby they go up unto it:and pillars [are] at the posts, one on this side, and one on that side."

¹ And these [are] the names of the tribes:From the north end unto the side of the way of Hethlon, at the coming in to Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus northward, unto the side of Hamath, and they have been his--side east and west, Dan one, ² and by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher one, ³ and by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali one, ⁴ and by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh one, ⁵ and by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim one, ⁶ and by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben one, ⁷ and by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah one, ⁸ and by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side is the heave-offering that you lift up, five and twenty thousand broad and long, as one of the parts, from the east side unto the west side:and the sanctuary has been in its midst." ⁹ The heave-offering that you lift up to Yahweh [is] five and twenty thousand long, and broad ten thousand." ¹⁰ And of these is the holy heave-offering for the priests, northward five and twenty thousand, and westward [in] breadth ten thousand, and eastward [in] breadth ten thousand, and southward [in] length five and twenty thousand:and the sanctuary of Yahweh has been in its midst." ¹¹ For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred, ¹² even the heave-offering has been to them, out of the heave-offering of the land, most holy, by the border of the Levites." ¹³ `And [to] the Levites over-against the border of the priests [are] five and twenty thousand [in] length, and [in] breadth ten thousand, all the length [is] five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand." <sup>14</sup> And they do not sell of it, nor exchange, nor cause to pass away the first-fruit of the land:for [it is] holy to Yahweh." <sup>15</sup> And the five thousand that is left in the breadth, on the front of the five and twenty thousand, is common--for the city, for dwelling, and for suburb, and the city has been in its midst." <sup>16</sup> And these [are] its measures:the north side five hundred, and four thousand, and the south side five hundred, and four thousand, and on the east side five hundred, and four thousand, and the west side five hundred, and four thousand." <sup>17</sup> And the suburb to the city has been northward, fifty and two hundred, and southward, fifty and two hundred, and eastward, fifty and two hundred, and westward, fifty and two hundred." <sup>18</sup> `And the residue in length over-against the heave-offering of the holy [portion is] ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward, and it has been over-against the heave-offering of the holy [portion], and its increase has been for food to the servants of the city, ¹⁹ even [to] him who is serving the city, they serve it out of all the tribes of Israel." ²⁰ All the heave-offering [is] five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand, square do you lift up the heave-offering of the holy [portion] with the possession of the city." ²¹ `And the residue [is] for the prince, on this side and on that side of the heave-offering of the holy [portion], and of the possession of the city, on the front of the five and twenty thousand of the heave-offering unto the east border, and westward, on the front of the five and twenty thousand on the west border, over-against the portions of the prince; and the heave-offering of the holy [portion], and the sanctuary of the house, has been in its midst." <sup>22</sup> And from the possession of the Levites, from the possession of the city, in the midst of that which is to the prince, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, there is to the prince." <sup>23</sup> `As to the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin one, ²⁴ and by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon one, ²⁵ and by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar one, ²⁶ and by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun one, ²⁷ and by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad one, ²⁸ and by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border has been from Tamar [to] the waters of Meriboth-Kadesh, the stream by the great sea." ²⁹ This [is] the land that you separate by inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these [are] their portions--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." ³⁰ `And these [are] the outgoings of the city on the north side, five hundred, and four thousand measures." ³¹ And the gates of the city [are] according to the names of the tribes of Israel; three gates northward:the gate of Reuben one, the gate of Judah one, the gate of Levi one." ³² And on the east side five hundred, and four thousand, and three gates:the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one." ³³ And the south side five hundred, and four thousand measures, and three gates:the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zebulun one." ³⁴ The west side five hundred, and four thousand, their gates three:the gate of Gad one, the gate of Asher one, the gate of Naphtali one." ³⁵ Round about [is] eighteen thousand, and the renown of the city [is] from the day Yahweh [is] there.'"

³⁵ Round about [is] eighteen thousand, and the renown of the city [is] from the day Yahweh [is] there.'"

⁴⁷ Answering is the king to Daniel and saying, "In verity, your Eloah, He is the Eloah of elohim, Lord of kings, and only Revealer of hidden secrets, seeing that you can reveal this secret." ⁴⁸ Then the king made much of Daniel:he grants to him immense, huge gifts; and gives him authority over all the province of Babylon; and makes him grandee of the prefects who are over all the wise men of Babylon."

³⁰ Responding is the king to all this by saying, "Is not this Babylon great that I have built to be the house of the kingdom within the might of my safeguarding walls, for the esteem of my honor!"

³² And it comes that everyone who shall call on the name of Yahweh shall escape, for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, deliverance shall come to be, just as Yahweh says; and among the survivors are those whom Yahweh is calling."

³ Thus says Yahweh:I return to Zion, and I tabernacle in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is called the city of truth, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts, the holy mountain."

¹⁸ Now I, also, am saying to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will I be building My ecclesia, and the gates of the unseen shall not be prevailing against it."

²⁰ However, in this be not rejoicing, that the spirits are subject to you, yet be rejoicing that your names are engraven in the heavens."

¹² Yet whoever obtained Him, to them He gives the right to become children of God, to those who are believing in His name, ¹³ who were begotten, not of bloods, neither of the will of the flesh, neither of the will of a man, but of God." ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tabernacles among us, and we gaze at His glory, a glory as of an only-begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."

¹⁶ for of that which fills Him we all obtained, and grace for grace."

³ Jesus answered and said to him, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten anew, he can not perceive the kingdom of God." ⁴ Nicodemus is saying to him, "How can a man, being a veteran, be begotten? He can not be entering into the womb of his mother a second time and be begotten!" ⁵ Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If anyone should not be begotten of water and of spirit, he can not be entering into the kingdom of God."

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, "If you were aware of the gratuity of God, and Who it is Who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would request Him, and He would give you living water."

¹⁴ yet whoever may be drinking of the water which I shall be giving him, shall under no circumstances be thirsting for the eon, but the water which I shall be giving him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into life eonian."

³⁷ Now on the last, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cries, saying, "If anyone should be thirsting, let him come to Me and drink." ³⁸ He who is believing in Me, according as the scripture said, out of his bowel shall gush rivers of living water." ³⁹ Now this He said concerning the spirit which those believing in Him were about to get. For not as yet was holy spirit given, for Jesus is not as yet glorified."

²⁷ And rising, he went. And lo! a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, a potentate of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over her entire exchequer, who had come, to be worshiping, to Jerusalem."

³¹ What then, shall we declare to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it." ¹¹ For other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ."

²⁶ for you are all sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus." ²⁷ For whoever are baptized into Christ, put on Christ, ²⁸ in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus."

²⁶ Yet the Jerusalem above is free, who is mother of us all." ²⁷ For it is written, "Be glad, barren one, who art not bringing forth! Burst forth and implore, thou who art not travailing! For many are the children of the desolate, Rather than of her who has the husband." ²⁸ Now you, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise." ²⁹ But even as then, the one generated according to flesh persecuted the one according to spirit, thus also it is now." ³⁰ But what is the scripture saying? Cast out this maid and her son, for by no means shall the son of the maid be enjoying the allotment with the son of the free woman." ³¹ Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of the maid, but of the free woman."

²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, ²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:" ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God's dwelling place, in spirit."

³ Yes, I am asking you also, genuine yokefellow, be aiding them, these women who compete together with me in the evangel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the scroll of life."

³² And what still may I be saying? For the time will be lacking for me to relate concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, besides Samuel also, and the prophets,

²² But you have come to mount Zion, and the city of the living God, celestial Jerusalem, and to ten thousand messengers,

²² But you have come to mount Zion, and the city of the living God, celestial Jerusalem, and to ten thousand messengers, ²³ to a universal convocation, and to the ecclesia of the firstborn, registered in the heavens, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the just perfected,

²³ to a universal convocation, and to the ecclesia of the firstborn, registered in the heavens, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the just perfected, ²⁴ and to Jesus, the Mediator of a fresh covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which is speaking better than Abel."

¹⁷ All good giving and every perfect gratuity is from above, descending from the Father of lights, in Whom there is no mutation or shadow from revolving motion."

²³ having been regenerated, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, living and permanent, ²⁴ because All flesh is grass, And all its glory is as the flower of grass. Withered is the grass, And the flower falls off..."

⁴ Whom approaching, a living Stone, having been rejected indeed by men, yet chosen by God, held in honor, ⁵ you, also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, most acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. " ⁶ Because of this it is included in the scripture: Lo! I am laying in Zion a corner capstone, chosen, held in honor, and he who is believing on it may by no means be disgraced." ⁷ To you, then, who are believing, is the honor, yet to the unbelieving: "A Stone which is rejected by the builders, this came to be for the head of the corner, ⁸ and a stumbling stone and a snare rock; who are stumbling also at the word, being stubborn, to which they were appointed also."

¹⁸ And this voice we hear being carried out of heaven, being together with Him in the holy mountain."

⁸ And all who are dwelling on the earth will be worshiping it, everyone whose name is not written in the scroll of life of the Lambkin slain from the disruption of the world."

¹ And I perceived, and lo! the Lambkin standing on mount Zion, and with It a hundred forty-four thousand, having Its name and Its Father's name written on their foreheads."

¹ And I perceived, and lo! the Lambkin standing on mount Zion, and with It a hundred forty-four thousand, having Its name and Its Father's name written on their foreheads." ² And I hear a sound out of heaven as the sound of many waters and as the sound of loud thunder, and the sound which I hear is as lyre singers playing on their lyres." ³ And they are singing a new song before the throne and before the four animals and before the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth."

⁵ And on her forehead is written a name: Secret Babylon the Great the mother of the prostitutes and the abominations of the earth.

² And he cries with a strong voice, saying, "It falls! It falls! Babylon the great! And it became the dwelling place of demons and the jail of every unclean spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird,

¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the scroll of life, he was cast into the lake of fire."

⁶ And He said to me, "I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Origin and the Consummation. To him who is thirsting I shall be giving of the spring of the water of life gratuitously."

¹⁰ And he carries me away, in spirit, on a mountain, huge and high, and shows me the holy city, Jerusalem, as it is descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory from God. Her luminosity is like a stone most precious, as a crystalline jasper gem, ¹² having a wall, huge and high, having twelve portals, and at the portals twelve messengers, and their names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel." ¹³ From the east are three portals, and from the north three portals, and from the south three portals, and from the west three portals." ¹⁴ And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lambkin." ¹⁵ And he who is speaking with me had a measure, a golden reed, that he should be measuring the city, and its portals, and its wall." ¹⁶ And the city is lying four square: and its length is as much as the breadth. And he measures the city with the reed to twelve thousand stadia. Its length and breadth and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measures its wall of a hundred forty-four cubits of a human measure, which is that of the messenger." ¹⁸ And the building material in its wall is jasper, and the city is clear gold, like clear glass." ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every precious stone, the first foundation with jasper, the second lapis lazuli, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh topaz, the eighth beryl, the ninth peridot, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh amethyst, the twelfth garnet." ²¹ And the twelve portals are twelve pearls. Each one of the portals was respectively of one pearl. And the square of the city is gold, clear as translucent glass." ²² And a temple I did not perceive in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lambkin." ²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should be appearing in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lambkin." ²⁴ And the nations shall be walking by means of its light, and the kings of the earth are carrying their glory into it." ²⁵ And its portals should under no circumstances be locked by day; for there shall be no night there. ²⁶ And they shall be carrying the glory and the honor of the nations into it, ²⁷ and under no circumstances may anything contaminating, or one who is making an abomination and a lie be entering into it, except those written in the Lambkin's scroll of life."

¹ And he shows me a river of water of life, resplendent as crystal, issuing out of the throne of God and the Lambkin."

¹⁷ And the spirit and the bride are saying, 'Come!' and let him who is hearing say, 'Come!' And let him who is thirsting come. Let him who will, take the water of life gratuitously."