Job 10 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me. ³ Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees? ⁵ Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man’s days, ⁶ that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin? ⁷ Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand. ⁸ ¶ Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. ⁹ Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? ¹⁰ Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast hedged me with bones and sinews. ¹² Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation has kept my spirit. ¹³ And these things thou hast hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee. ¹⁴ ¶ If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity? ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction. ¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me. ¹⁷ Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me. ¹⁸ Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, ²¹ before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; ²² land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

⁷ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

⁶ ¶ And the LORD repented of having made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. ⁷ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the animals and the fowls of the air; for I repent of having made them.

¹⁹ behold now, thy slave has found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.

⁷ ¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

⁷ keeping mercy for thousands, letting go of iniquity and rebellion and sin; and by no means will I absolve the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons’ sons, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

¹⁵ And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

¹⁸ The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. ³⁰ But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

⁵⁹ Then the LORD will augment thy plagues wonderfully, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues and of long continuance, and evil sicknesses and of long continuance.

³⁹ ¶ See now that I, I am he, and there are no gods with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is not one that can deliver out of my hand.

²¹ I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

⁷ And the LORD replied unto Samuel, Do not look on his countenance or on the height of his stature because I have refused him, for it is not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

²³ But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

¹⁴ For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

¹⁰ because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb nor hide the misery from my eyes. ¹¹ ¶ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?

¹³ For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

²⁰ ¶ Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures; ²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave; ²³ to the man who does not know which way he goes and whom God has hedged in?

⁹ who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;

¹⁵ But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent. ¹⁶ Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he shall ransom thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

² Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances! ³ For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

⁸ ¶ Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! ⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

²⁶ Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and are spent without hope. ⁷ ¶ Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good.

⁷ ¶ Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good. ⁸ The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be. ⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again; ¹⁰ he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more. ¹¹ Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ ¶ What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him ¹⁸ and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ¹⁹ For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.

²¹ And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.

⁵ if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

⁹ for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

²⁰ ¶ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man; neither will he help the evil doers.

¹² Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?

¹⁵ Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

²⁰ If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse. ²¹ If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.

²¹ If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life. ²² ¶ One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he? ²⁵ ¶ Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good. ²⁶ They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh {Heb. reed} as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless. ²⁹ If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment.

³ Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁷ Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.

¹⁴ ¶ If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity? ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction. ¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.

¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me. ¹⁷ Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.

²¹ withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.

²⁶ Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

¹ ¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

¹⁰ But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

¹⁰ But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be? ¹¹ The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up. ¹² So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep. ¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!

¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me! ¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes. ¹⁵ Then thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire towards the work of thine hands. ¹⁶ ¶ For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.

⁶ ¶ Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me. ⁷ But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company. ⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. ⁹ His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble. ¹² I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,

²² When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

¹⁴ I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.

⁴ And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.

⁶ know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment. ⁸ ¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree. ¹¹ He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

² Hear diligently my speech, and let this be instead of your consolations. ³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

⁶ Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

¹⁶ Behold that their good is not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁸ He had filled their houses with good things. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

⁹ if he is working to the north, I shall not see him; to the south, he hides himself, that I shall not see him. ¹⁰ But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

¹³ ¶ But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired it, and he did it.

¹³ ¶ But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired it, and he did it. ¹⁴ Therefore, he will finish that which is necessary for me; and there are many such things in him. ¹⁵ Therefore, I shall fear before his face; I shall consider, and I shall fear him.

⁷ ¶ Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

¹⁴ what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?

³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

⁴ The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right. ⁶ In my judgment he was a liar, my arrow wound is grievous without my having committed a transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up the scorn like water?

¹⁸ Is it fit to say to the king, Thou art of Belial and to the princes, Ye are ungodly? ¹⁹ How much less to him who is not a respecter of the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

²² There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

³¹ ¶ For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy. ³² Teach me that which I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

⁷ He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted. ⁸ And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction, ⁹ then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.

¹⁷ But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, against the judgment and the justice that sustain everything. ¹⁸ Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with a stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

² Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this.

⁸ Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

¹⁷ He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. ¹⁸ His bones are as strong as brass; his members are like bars of iron.

⁷ ¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, as my slave Job has.

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

¹ To the Overcomer in Neginoth upon Sheminith,
A Psalm of David. ¶ O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul is also greatly troubled; but thou, O LORD, how long? ⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands,

⁸ The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. ⁹ Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.

¹⁷ The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until thou find none.

³ Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me.

⁶ Vau Remember, O LORD, thy compassion and thy mercies, for they have been ever of old. ⁷ Zain Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellions; according to thy mercy remember me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

⁷ Zain Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellions; according to thy mercy remember me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

¹⁸ Resh Look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins.

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. ² Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart. ³ For thy mercy is before my eyes, and I walk in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites. ⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked.

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my green growth is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and I have not hid my iniquity. I said, I will confess (against myself) my rebellions unto the LORD, and thou shalt forgive the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹ A Psalm of David,
to bring to remembrance. ¶ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

¹⁹ though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.

²¹ shall not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you away, and there be none to deliver.

¹⁹ God shall hear and bring them down, even he that abides from of old. Selah. Because they do not change, nor do they fear God.

⁸ As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

³³ For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

¹¹ Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave? or thy truth in hell? ¹² Shall thy wonder be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹² Shall thy wonder be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. ³ Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.

³ Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam. ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

¹² ¶ But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations.

²⁴ I said, O my God, do not cut me off in the midst of my days; thy years are from generation to generation. ²⁵ Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed: ²⁷ But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou dost bear unto thy people; O visit me with thy saving health,

²¹ ¶ And thou, O GOD the Lord, do unto me for thy name’s sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver me.

⁷³ ¶ JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, and I shall learn thy commandments.

¹⁵³ ¶ RESH. Consider my affliction and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

³ If thou, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall endure?

⁸ The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; thy mercy, O LORD, endures for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.

¹ To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David. ¶ O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.

¹ To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David. ¶ O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou dost understand my thoughts from afar.

¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and that, my soul knows right well. ¹⁵ My body was not hid from thee, even though I was made in secret and brought together in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which were then formed, without lacking one of them.

²¹ Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts ²⁴ and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

² And enter not into judgment with thy slave; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

⁶ ¶ Because for every will there is time and judgment, because the evil of man is great upon him, ⁷ for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him?

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.

¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.

⁵ ¶ Then I said, Woe is me! for I am dead because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the hosts.

¹¹ I said, I shall not see JAH, even JAH, in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

¹³ I reckoned that I had until morning. As a lion, he broke all my bones: from the morning even unto the night thou shalt make an end of me.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken unto me, and he himself has done it; I shall walk softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

⁷ even every one that is called by my name, for I have created them for my glory; I have formed them; yea, I have made them.

⁷ I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

⁹ Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?

¹⁵ Verily thou art God, that thou might hide thyself; God of Israel, who saves.

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is no one like me, ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: ¹¹ Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country; I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it; I will also do it.

⁵ Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved. ⁶ ¶ But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁸ But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; such that we all are the work of thy hands.

⁶ Neither did they say, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt?

³⁴ Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.

¹ ¶ Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace. ² Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they grow, and they bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their kidneys. ³ But thou, O LORD, dost know me; thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.

¹⁶ Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

¹⁰ ¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.

³ Then I went down to the potter’s house; and, behold, he wrought a work upon a wheel. ⁴ And the vessel that he made of clay was broken in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. ⁵ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

⁶ O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. ⁷ In an instant I shall speak against Gentiles and against kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy. ⁸ But if these Gentiles shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. ⁹ And in an instant I shall speak concerning the nation and concerning the kingdom, to build and to plant it; ¹⁰ but if it should do evil in my sight, not hearing my voice, then I will repent of the good that I had determined to do unto them.

¹⁴ ¶ Cursed be the day in which I was born; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and did not repent; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide ¹⁷ because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception. ¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

²⁰ Resh Look, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.

² Aleph He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. ³ Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day. ⁴ Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones. ⁵ Beth He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail. ⁶ Beth He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. ⁷ Gimel He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer. ⁹ Gimel He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.

¹⁰ Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places. ¹¹ Daleth He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. ¹² Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. ¹⁴ He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day. ¹⁵ He He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood. ¹⁶ Vau He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ Vau My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good. ¹⁸ Vau And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.

³⁷ ¶ Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?

⁴⁰ Nun Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD. ⁴¹ Nun Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. ⁴² ¶ Nun We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.

¹ ¶ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ³ We are orphans without father; our mothers are as widows. ⁴ We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. ⁵ Our necks are under persecution; we are become tired and have no rest. ⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements. ⁸ Slaves have ruled over us: there was no one to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine. ¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. ¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand; the countenance of the elders was not honoured. ¹³ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head; woe now unto us, for we have sinned!

¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head; woe now unto us, for we have sinned! ¹⁷ ¶ For this our heart is saddened; for these things our eyes are become dim.

¹⁷ ¶ For this our heart is saddened; for these things our eyes are become dim. ¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, shall remain for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. ²⁰ Why should thou forget us for ever and forsake us for such a long time? ²¹ Turn us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as at the beginning. ²² For in stepping back thou hast rejected us; thou hast become very angry against us.

⁴ Then he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones hear the word of the LORD. ⁵ Thus hath the Lord GOD said unto these bones: Behold, I will cause spirit to enter into you, and ye shall live: ⁶ And I will lay nerves upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put spirit in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a thunder, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and behold nerves upon them and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no spirit in them.

¹⁵ Now, are ye ready when ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and of every musical instrument to fall down and worship the statue which I made? For if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁰ And now I will uncover her folly in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her out of my hand.

⁷ Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a tiger in the way I will observe them: ⁸ I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps and will rend the veil of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them apart.

⁸ The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and make a visitation upon the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

¹⁸ Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.

²⁵ ¶ Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

²⁴ The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

²⁶ And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass from there to us.

¹⁰ So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves: we have done that which was our duty to do.

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself unto them because he knew all men ²⁵ and needed not that any man should give testimony, for he knew what was in man.

²⁸ and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said unto him, Feed my sheep.

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things

²⁸ for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also of his lineage.

⁸ but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. ⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;

¹ ¶ So that now, there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ, Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

²¹ Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

³³ ¶ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

⁵ Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.

³¹ For if we would examine ourselves, we should not be judged. ³² But being judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

¹² ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

² For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, ³ if so be that we shall be found clothed and not naked.

¹¹ according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹⁶ From whom the whole body fitly joined together and well tied together among itself by the nourishment that every connecting bond supplies, by the operation of each member according to measure they have received, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in charity.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,

¹² and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall never fail.

¹⁹ Therefore, let those that are afflicted according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls unto him as unto a faithful Creator, doing good.

⁸ ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like white wool, as the snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire