Isaiah 46 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness. ² They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity. ³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb. ⁴ Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save. ⁵ To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like? ⁶ You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship. ⁷ They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation. ⁸ Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart. ⁹ Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: ¹⁰ Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done: ¹¹ Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it. ^{12 (46:11)} Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice. ^{13 (46:12)} I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

¹⁵ I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall cursh thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

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

¹⁰ The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

²² Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall; ²³ But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him. ²⁴ His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel. ²⁵ The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb. ²⁶ The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

¹² And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.

¹¹ Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?

⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

² And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. ³ And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron. ⁴ And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

¹⁷ I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth ¹⁸ And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully. ¹⁹ Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city. ²⁰ And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. ²¹ He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock, ²² And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. ²³ And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things? ²⁴ They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

³¹ And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

²⁴ Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. ²⁵ If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath: ²⁶ I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you, ²⁷ And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you. ²⁸ And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ²⁹ And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul. ³⁰ After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice. ³¹ Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers.

¹⁵ But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out. ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. ²² May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish. ²³ Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron. ²⁴ The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed. ²⁵ The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away. ²⁷ The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed. ²⁸ The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind. ²⁹ And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee. ³⁰ Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof. ³¹ May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May thy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy sheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee. ³² May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand. ³³ May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times. ³⁴ And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes shall see: ³⁵ May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top of the head. ³⁶ The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in. ³⁸ Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all. ³⁹ Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish. ⁴¹ Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity. ⁴² The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground. ⁴³ The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee. ⁴⁶ And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever. ⁴⁷ Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: ⁴⁸ Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand, ⁵⁰ A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant, ⁵¹ And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee. ⁵² And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee: ⁵³ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee. ⁵⁴ The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom, ⁵⁵ So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter, ⁵⁷ And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name: that is, The Lord thy God: ⁵⁹ The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual. ⁶⁰ And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee. ⁶¹ Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume thee: ⁶² And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. ⁶³ And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess. ⁶⁴ The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. ⁶⁵ Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness: ⁶⁶ And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes. ⁶⁸ The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

⁷ Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

¹¹ As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders. ¹² The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

²⁹ O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

²⁶ There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.

¹² The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand? ¹³ And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more: ¹⁴ Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

³ So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it to thee. ⁴ And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas.

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. ¹⁸ So they that were gone in took away the graven thing, the ephod, and the idols, and the molten god, And the priest said to them: What are you doing?

²⁴ And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?

³ And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took Dagon, and set him again in his place.

²¹ And they left there their idols: which David and his men took away.

²⁸ And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶ And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made.

⁴⁰ And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.

² Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

⁷ Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham. ⁸ And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just. ⁹ And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea. ¹⁰ And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day. ¹¹ And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters. ¹² And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went. ¹³ Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts. ¹⁴ Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant. ¹⁵ And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them. ¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. ¹⁷ And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them. ¹⁸ Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies: ¹⁹ Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go. ²⁰ And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst. ²¹ Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn. ²² And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan. ²³ And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it. ²⁴ And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as it pleased them. ²⁵ And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness. ²⁶ But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies. ²⁷ And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of their enemies. ²⁸ But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight: and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies. ²⁹ And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. ³⁰ And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands. ³¹ Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God. ³² Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day. ³³ And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. ³⁴ Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them. ³⁵ And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices. ³⁶ Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it. ³⁷ And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

¹³ For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

⁷ Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

^{9 (22:10)} For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. ^{10 (22:11)} I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God,

¹¹ But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

¹ Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. ^(46:2) Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

^{5 (46:6)} God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

^{14 (48:15)} For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

¹ Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. ^(49:2) Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

⁶ By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:

¹⁸ And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

^{5 (76:6)} All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

^{10 (76:11)} For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

¹ Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. ³ How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. ⁵ And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: ⁶ That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. ⁷ That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments. ⁸ That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. ⁹ The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk. ¹¹ And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them. ¹² Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. ¹³ He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel. ¹⁴ And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep. ¹⁶ He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers. ¹⁷ And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. ¹⁹ And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people? ²¹ Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel. ²² Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation. ²³ And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven. ²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven. ²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance. ²⁶ He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind. ²⁷ And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions. ²⁹ So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: ³⁰ they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: ³¹ And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel. ³² In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works. ³³ And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. ³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶ And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him: ³⁷ But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. ³⁸ But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath. ³⁹ And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not. ⁴⁰ How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? ⁴¹ And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel. ⁴² They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them: ⁴³ How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis. ⁴⁴ And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust. ⁴⁷ And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. ⁴⁸ And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire. ⁴⁹ And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels. ⁵⁰ He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death. ⁵¹ And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham. ⁵² And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies. ⁵⁴ And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution. ⁵⁵ And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies. ⁵⁷ And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. ⁵⁸ They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things. ⁵⁹ God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing. ⁶⁰ And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men. ⁶¹ And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy. ⁶² And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance. ⁶³ Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn. ⁶⁵ And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. ⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach. ⁶⁷ And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: ⁶⁸ But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever. ⁷⁰ And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, ⁷¹ To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.

^{8 (81:9)} Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, ^{9 (81:10)} There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god. ^{10 (81:11)} For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ^{11 (81:12)} But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. ^{12 (81:13)} So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. ^{13 (81:14)} If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

⁸ There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

^{6 (89:7)} For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

^{8 (89:9)} O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

^{14 (92:15)} They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

^{26 (102:27)} They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. ^{27 (102:28)} But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

¹ Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. ² Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works. ³ Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. ⁴ Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. ⁵ Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. ⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. ⁷ He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. ⁹ Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac: ¹⁰ And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament: ¹¹ Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance. ¹² When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein: ¹³ And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. ¹⁵ Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. ¹⁶ And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. ¹⁸ They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, ¹⁹ Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. ²⁰ The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty. ²¹ He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession. ²² That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom. ²³ And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. ²⁴ And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies. ²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants. ²⁶ He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. ²⁷ He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish. ³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts. ³² He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land. ³³ And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number. ³⁵ And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour. ³⁷ And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble. ³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them. ³⁹ He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night. ⁴⁰ They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land. ⁴² Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham. ⁴³ And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness. ⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people: ⁴⁵ That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.

⁴ He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord:

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

⁸ Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

²⁴ For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.

¹⁵⁰ They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from thy law.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.

⁶ Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the deeps.

¹⁸ Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that trusteth in them.

²² O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? ²³ Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

¹ Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice? ² Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths, ³ Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: ⁴ O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. ⁵ O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.

²¹ There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

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

⁹ Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.

⁸ And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

²⁰ In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

²² For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.

¹¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

² Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

² Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. ³ I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory. ⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.

²⁴ The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed, ²⁵ So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder. ²⁶ This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations. ²⁷ For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?

⁷ And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed. ⁸ And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights. ⁹ Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.

⁹ Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

²³ Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

¹⁸ Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians? ¹⁹ Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

⁴ It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.

¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?

¹⁹ And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

³⁸ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁵ What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him? ¹⁹ Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? ²⁰ He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.

²⁵ And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?

² Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.

⁴ Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.

⁶ Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. ⁷ The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

²² Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. ²³ Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.

⁹ The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

⁷ And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him.

¹³ And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

²⁵ I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

¹ And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. ² Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have chosen.

⁷ Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set before me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the things to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them.

¹² The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary. ¹³ The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a house. ¹⁴ He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the rain hath nourished. ¹⁵ And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed himself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a god, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it. ¹⁶ Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.

¹⁷ But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God. ¹⁸ They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.

¹⁸ They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart. ¹⁹ They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?

¹⁹ They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree? ²⁰ Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand. ²¹ Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not.

²¹ Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not.

²³ Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

²⁸ Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me: ⁶ That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else:

¹³ I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts. ¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.

¹⁸ For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save. ²¹ Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

²¹ Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me. ²² Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

¹ Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

⁵ To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?

¹¹ Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created, and I will do it. ^{12 (46:11)} Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from justice.

⁷ And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

¹ Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.

⁴ For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

¹⁴ Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. ¹⁵ I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his way is made prosperous.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in the way that thou walkest. ¹⁸ O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

¹ Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name. ² And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his quiver he hath hidden me.

¹ Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

⁵ My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.

⁷ Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

²¹ And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.

³ To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

¹¹ For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

¹¹ Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.

⁹ In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

¹⁷ For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

²⁸ Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

³ For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. ⁴ He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder. ⁵ They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good. ⁶ There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in might. ⁷ Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the glory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee. ⁸ They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. ⁹ Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.

¹⁴ Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

⁷ Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall say no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt: ⁸ But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.

⁹ And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a gladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all the good things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be troubled for all the good things, and for all the peace that I will make for them.

¹² And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace. ¹³ And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.

¹ Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled. ² There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee. ³ A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction. ⁴ Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones. ⁵ For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction. ⁶ Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness. ⁷ For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

⁷ For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. ⁸ And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken: ⁹ Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited. ¹⁰ Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood. ¹¹ Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed. ¹² Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another. ¹³ And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted. ¹⁴ How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle? ¹⁵ Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts. ¹⁶ The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly. ¹⁷ Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod? ¹⁸ Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks. ¹⁹ Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done? ²⁰ Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted. ²¹ And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath. ²² And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim, ²³ And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon, ²⁴ And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. ²⁵ The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.

² Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.

²⁹ Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

⁴⁵ Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.

²⁰ Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: ²¹ And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it: ²² And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin: ²³ And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers. ²⁴ And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, saith the Lord. ²⁵ Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. ²⁶ And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord. ²⁷ Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust. ²⁸ Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion. ²⁹ And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable.

⁴⁴ And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁷ Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁵² Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:

⁶ And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in thy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live in thy blood. ⁷ I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion. ⁸ And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine. ⁹ And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from thee: and I anointed thee with oil. ¹⁰ And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed thee with fine garments. ¹¹ I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck. ¹² And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head. ¹³ And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a queen. ¹⁴ And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. ¹⁵ But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his. ¹⁶ And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.

²⁸ Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

⁴ Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth to be devoured.

¹ King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.

⁵ That in the hour that you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and of the flute, and of the harp, of the sackbut, and of the psaltery, and of the symphony, and of all kind of music, ye fall down and adore the golden statue which king Nabuchodonosor hath set up. ⁶ But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire. ⁷ Upon this, therefore, at the time when all the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages fell down and adored the golden statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. ⁸ And presently at that very time some Chaldeans came and accused the Jews, ⁹ And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever: ¹⁰ Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, shall prostrate himself, and adore the golden statue: ¹¹ And that if any man shall not fall down and adore, he should be cast into a furnace of burning fire. ¹² Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up. ¹³ Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, ad Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king. ¹⁴ And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods, nor adore the golden statue that I have set up? ¹⁵ Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

^{35 (4:32)} And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?

⁶ We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee. ⁸ O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned. ⁹ But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from thee: ¹⁰ And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets. ¹¹ And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. ¹² And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a great evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that which hath been done in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and think on thy truth. ¹⁴ And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon us: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for we have not hearkened to his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord, our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt, with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity,

⁴ They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish. ⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed? ⁶ For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.

⁵ The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it. ⁶ For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

¹⁷ And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion, my holy monntain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through it no more.

⁵ And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: and Jonas went down into the inner part of the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

¹⁴ And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee. ¹⁵ And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging. ¹⁶ And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims to the Lord, and made vows.

³ For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall notlie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

¹⁸ What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. ¹⁹ Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof. ²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

⁵ And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways: ⁸ Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build the house: and it shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.

¹¹ But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. ¹² And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts.

¹⁶ When thon shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of lsrael: but iniquity shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.

⁶ For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

¹³ Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord. ¹⁴ And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts? ¹⁵ Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

¹⁷ And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger!

¹⁰ And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.

²³ And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

²⁷ For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, ²⁸ To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.

²⁸ To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.

³⁹ But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.

⁵¹ You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

¹⁸ To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

²⁹ Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

¹⁷ For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

²¹ But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. ²² Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction. ²³ For all have sinned and do need the glory of God. ²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, ²⁶ Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ

³ For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. ⁴ For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth. ⁵ For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it. ⁶ But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down; ⁷ Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. ⁸ But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy mouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach. ⁹ For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰ For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded. ¹² For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him. ¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things?

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

³³ O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! ³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

⁶ Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

⁹ That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, ¹⁰ In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him. ¹¹ In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

¹¹ In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹¹ According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

⁶ Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁰ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.

¹² That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high:

¹² And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

¹⁷ Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

³⁷ For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

⁸ Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

¹⁷ Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

⁶ Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded.

¹⁷ Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.