1 Samuel 19 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceedingly. ² And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid. ³ And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall see, I will tell thee. ⁴ And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee. ⁵ And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault? ⁶ And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain. ⁷ Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and Jonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been yesterday and the day before. ⁸ And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against the Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled from his face. ⁹ And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in his house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his hand. ¹⁰ And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that night. ¹¹ Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die: ¹² She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. ¹³ And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes. ¹⁴ And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick. ¹⁵ And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain. ¹⁶ And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon the bed, and a goat skin at his head. ¹⁷ And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee. ¹⁸ But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Najoth. ¹⁹ And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth, in Ramatha. ²⁰ So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of the Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy. ²¹ And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they also prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers the third time: and they prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding angry, ²² Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the great cistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and said: In what place are Samuel and David? And it was told him: Behold they are in Najoth, in Ramatha. ²³ And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied till he came to Najoth, in Ramatha. ²⁴ And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night. This gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?

⁶ Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

² And perceiving also, that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.

¹⁹ At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

²² And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children. ¹⁸ And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children? ¹⁹ They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

¹⁰ Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.

¹³ And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.

²⁵ And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards. ²⁶ Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for they also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.

⁵ And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

² And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,

⁴ The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:

¹⁰ That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. ¹¹ But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, ¹² The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die. ¹³ Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

⁵ And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them quickly, and you will overtake them.

¹⁵ Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

¹⁷ And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hand of Madian,

³ And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?

² And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.

⁵ And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

¹⁴ The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do.

¹⁷ But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

²⁵ If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

¹⁷ And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

⁵ After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying. ⁶ And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.

¹⁰ And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.

¹⁰ And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them. ¹¹ And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing tha the was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the prophets? ¹² And one answered another, saying: And who is their father? therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?

¹³ And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord this day hath wrought salvation in Israel:

³⁹ As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done by Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people gainsayed him.

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

³⁴ And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

¹⁴ But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

¹⁶ Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee, will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayst bear it more easily.

²¹ And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.

⁴⁹ And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. ⁵⁰ And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a stone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no sword in his hand, ⁵¹ He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the Philistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away. ⁵² And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued after the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of Accaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of Saraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron. ⁵³ And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the Philistines, fell upon their camp.

¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. ² And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house.

² And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house. ³ And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his own soul.

⁹ And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward. ¹⁰ And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand as at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand,

¹⁰ And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand as at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand, ¹¹ And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David stept aside out of his presence twice.

¹¹ And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David stept aside out of his presence twice.

¹³ Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over a thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people.

⁶ And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

¹⁰ And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that night. ¹¹ Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die:

¹¹ Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die:

¹⁴ And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick.

²⁰ So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of the Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy.

² And he said to him: (God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my father will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath then my father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be.

⁹ And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should certainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I could do no otherwise than tell thee.

¹³ May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But if my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

³² And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done? ³³ And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.

⁹ And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. ¹⁰ And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.

¹⁴ And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?

¹⁷ And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king'sservants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

¹⁹ And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.

¹ And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David is hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over against the wilderness.

³ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and soothsayers out of the land.

¹⁰ And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth, there shall no evil happen to thee for this thing.

¹² And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.

²¹ And the woman came to Saul, (for he was very much troubled) and said to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest to me.

²² And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest I be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold up my face to Joab thy brother.

¹⁴ And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

²⁰ And David returned to bless his own house: and Michol the daughter of Saul coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the king of Israel to day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.

¹⁷ And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend? ¹⁸ And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will I abide. ¹⁹ Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.

²⁰ And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into Jerusalem.

²⁰ And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

⁹ And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down. ¹⁰ And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. ¹¹ And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king: Make haste and come down. ¹² Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. ¹³ Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before Elias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.

² Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over them.

¹⁴ But these men stood in the midst of the field, and defended it: and they slew the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliverance to his people.

²² If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:

¹⁴ They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

³¹ If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

⁴ In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

³ To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

^{17 (18:18)} He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

^{32 (18:33)} God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless. ^{33 (18:34)} Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places. ^{34 (18:35)} Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow. ^{35 (18:36)} And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me. ^{36 (18:37)} Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened. ^{37 (18:38)} I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed. ^{38 (18:39)} I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. ^{39 (18:40)} And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me. ^{40 (18:41)} And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me. ^{41 (18:42)} They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not. ^{42 (18:43)} And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets. ^{43 (18:44)} Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles. ^{44 (18:45)} A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me. ^{45 (18:46)} The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths. ^{46 (18:47)} The Lord liveth, and blessed by my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ^{47 (18:48)} O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies. ^{48 (18:49)} And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me. ^{49 (18:50)} Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name. ^{50 (18:51)} Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.

³ Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

³ If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.

^{19 (34:20)} Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

¹² They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

¹² The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

¹ Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Samuel 19] ^(59:2) Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me. ^{2 (59:3)} Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men. ^{3 (59:4)} For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me: ^{4 (59:5)} Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps. ^{5 (59:6)} Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity. ^{6 (59:7)} They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city. ^{7 (59:8)} Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us? ^{8 (59:9)} But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing. ^{9 (59:10)} I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: ^{10 (59:11)} My God, his mercy shall prevent me. ^{11 (59:12)} God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector: ^{12 (59:13)} For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, ^{13 (59:14)} When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth. ^{14 (59:15)} They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city. ^{15 (59:16)} They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled. ^{16 (59:17)} But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble. ^{17 (59:18)} Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.

^{4 (69:5)} They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

⁴ Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. ⁵ And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

¹¹ I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.

⁷ Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁹ The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.

¹³ He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

¹⁷ He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.

¹ As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

¹¹ Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver. ¹² If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

²⁴ An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit. ²⁵ When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. ⁴ Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

²² Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

¹² A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass. ⁹ Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.

² At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot.

³³ For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

² And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.

²³ If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

²⁰ Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

¹⁵ But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing.

⁴ For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

⁴ What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

⁸ Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.

¹⁶ Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

²² Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name?

²³ And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

⁴³ And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. ⁴⁴ Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. ⁴⁵ Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

⁴ Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.

²⁴ And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.

³⁰ But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. ²⁵ And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. ²⁶ Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself: and entering in they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

³² The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

⁴⁵ The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? ⁴⁶ The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? ⁴⁸ Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one of them): ⁵¹ Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth? ⁵² They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

³⁹ They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.

⁵¹ And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. ¹⁹ If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁵ But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

²¹ And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

²⁴ But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

²⁴ But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. ²⁵ But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

²⁴ But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

¹⁶ Which when Paul's sister's son had heard, of their lying in wait, he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.

¹⁵ Their feet swift to shed blood:

¹² Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

² And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³ But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and exhortation and comfort.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all. ²⁵ The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.

³² At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me. ³³ And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

¹⁶ Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

³ How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

¹⁶ Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

²⁰ For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. ²² For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just. ¹³ Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.