Psalms 104 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty, ² who dost cover thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain, ³ who dost establish his chambers between the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind, ⁴ who makes his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire, ⁵ who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved by any age. ⁶ Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. ⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. ⁸ The mountains were exposed; they descended through the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over, that they not turn again to cover the earth. ¹⁰ ¶ Thou art he who sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the mountains. ¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst. ¹² Next to them the fowls of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the leaves. ¹³ He waters the mountains from his chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. ¹⁴ He causes the hay to grow for the cattle and grass for the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth ¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man’s heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the LORD are satisfied; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, ¹⁷ that the birds may make their nests there: the stork makes her house among the fir trees. ¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rocks for the conies. ¹⁹ ¶ He appointed the moon for times and seasons; the sun knows his going down. ²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move. ²¹ The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. ²² The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens. ²³ Man goes forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. ²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom thou hast made them all; the earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts. ²⁶ There go the ships; there is that leviathan, whom thou didst make to play therein. ²⁷ These wait all upon thee, that thou may give them their food in due season. ²⁸ Thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. ²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust. ³⁰ Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth. ³¹ ¶ Let the glory of the LORD endure for ever; let the LORD rejoice in his works. ³² He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the mountains, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. ³⁴ My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the LORD. ³⁵ Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Halelu- JAH (Praise ye the LORD).

² And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³ ¶ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁴ And God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁵ And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. ⁶ ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made a firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heavens. And the evening and the morning were the second day. ⁹ ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas; and God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth green grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its nature, whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it was so. ¹² And the earth brought forth green grass and herb yielding seed after its kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself, according to its nature; and God saw that it was good.

¹⁴ ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years; ¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

²⁰ ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth great quantities of creatures with living souls and fowl that may fly above the earth upon the face of the firmament of the heavens. ²¹ And God created the great dragons and every living soul that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their nature, and every winged fowl after its nature; and God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

²⁴ ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its nature, beasts and serpents and animals of the earth after its nature; and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that moves upon the earth after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every beast that moves upon the earth. ²⁹ ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green grass for food; and it was so. ³¹ ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

⁵ and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and all the grass of the field before it grew, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and neither was there a man to till the ground.

⁹ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¹ ¶ Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field; 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.

¹² when thou tillest the ground, from now on it shall not yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

¹ ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

¹¹ that I will establish my covenant with you, that all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. ¹² ¶ And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for perpetual ages: ¹³ I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall appear in the clouds; ¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

⁵ and I will bring a morsel of bread and comfort your hearts; after that ye shall pass on because for this ye are come to your slave. And they said, So do as thou hast said.

¹³ ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the port of the sea; and he shall be for a port of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

¹⁸ And all Mount Sinai smoked because the LORD had descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

¹⁷ It is a sign between me and the sons of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.

⁵ And the coney because it chews the cud, but divides not the hoof: it is unclean unto you.

¹⁹ the stork, the heron according to her species, the lapwing, and the bat.

²⁶ When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.

⁶ As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedars beside the waters.

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, and should be driven to worship them and serve them because the LORD thy God has conceded them unto all the peoples under all the heavens.

³ And he afflicted thee and caused thee to hunger and sustained thee with manna, food of which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD shall man live.

⁷ For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,

¹¹ The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and valleys and drinks water of the rain of heaven,

⁷ Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you;

⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall fall.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that same day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

¹⁴ and for the gifts of the fruits of the sun and for the gifts of the influence of the moon, ¹⁵ and for the summit of the ancient mountains and for the gifts of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶ and for the gifts of the earth and fullness thereof, and may the grace of him that dwelt in the bush come upon the head of Joseph and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

¹⁹ They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; therefore they shall suck the abundance of the seas and hidden treasures of the sand.

³¹ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let those that love thee be as the sun when he rises in all his might. And the land had rest forty years.

⁹ But the olive tree replied, Should I leave my fatness, which because of me, God and man are honoured, to go and sway over the trees?

¹³ And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheers God and man, to go and sway over the trees?

¹⁶ ¶ And, behold, an old man, who in the evening came from working in the field, who was also of Mount Ephraim, sojourned in Gibeah, but the men of the place were sons of Jemini. {Benjamin}

² Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

¹¹ And he rode upon a cherub and flew; and he appeared upon the wings of the wind.

⁵ And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.

¹¹ And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, a chariot of fire with horses of fire separated the two, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

¹⁷ And Elisha prayed and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horsemen and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

⁶ Thou, O LORD, art alone; thou hast made the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein, and thou givest life to them all; and the host of the heavens worship thee.

⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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

⁹ Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

²⁴ Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

¹³ ¶ They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths. ¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief. ¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light. ¹⁷ For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.

⁷ He stretches out the north wind over the empty place and hangs the earth upon nothing.

¹⁰ He has compassed the waters with bounds until the end of light and darkness.

¹³ By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

⁵ Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as if it were converted in fire.

²⁶ if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty; ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand; ²⁸ this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.

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

¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵ all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

²⁹ When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,

³¹ For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food to the multitude.

⁸ Then the beast shall go into its lair and inhabit its dwelling.

⁴ ¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding. ⁵ Who ordered its dimensions, if thou knowest? Or who has stretched the line upon it? ⁶ Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone; ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

¹⁰ and established my decree upon it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed. ¹² ¶ Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,

²⁵ ¶ Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters or a way for the lightning of thunder, ²⁶ to cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man; ²⁷ to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

²⁷ to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of the dew?

³⁷ Who declared the heavens in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven

³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions,

⁴¹ Who provided food for the raven; when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food?

¹ ¶ Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?

⁵ Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands? ⁶ Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land. ⁷ He laughs at the multitude of the city, neither does he hearken to the voice of the exactor of tribute. ⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

¹ ¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord which thou lettest down on his tongue? ² Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a slave for ever? ⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens? ⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Canst thou cut his skin with knives or his head with a fish spear? ⁸ Lay thine hand upon him; thou shalt remember the battle and do no more. ⁹ Behold, your hope regarding him shall fail; for even at the sight of him they shall faint. ¹⁰ No one is so bold as to dare stir him up; who then shall be able to stand before me? ¹¹ ¶ Who has preceded me, that I should repay him? All that is under the whole heaven is mine. ¹² I will not conceal his lies, nor his might, nor the beauty of his order. ¹³ Who shall uncover the face of his garment? Or who shall come to him with a double bridle? ¹⁴ Who shall open the doors of his face? The orders of his teeth are terrible. ¹⁵ His scales {Heb. shields} are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. ¹⁶ One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. ¹⁷ They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be separated. ¹⁸ By his sneezings lights are lit, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰ Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. ²¹ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² In his neck dwells strength, and before him the work is undone. ²³ The failings of his flesh are joined together; his flesh is firm in him and does not move. ²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; as hard as a piece of the lower millstone. ²⁵ Of his greatness, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they remove sin from themselves. ²⁶ When one catches up to him, no sword or spear or dart or coat of mail shall endure against him. ²⁷ He esteems iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸ The arrow cannot make him flee; with him, slingstones are turned into stubble. ²⁹ He counts any weapon as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear. ³⁰ Broken clay vessels are under him; he carves his imprint upon the mire. ³¹ He makes the deep to boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³² He makes the path shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. ³³ Upon earth there is not his like, who behaves without fear. ³⁴ He despises all exalted things; he is king over all the sons of pride.

² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.

⁴ ¶ The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

¹ Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. ¶ O LORD my God, in thee I have put my trust: save me from all those that persecute me, and deliver me

³ ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

² I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High

¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his hiding place; in his tabernacle round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the heavens.

¹⁵ Then the depths of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

⁵ Thou shalt prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup is running over.

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. ² For he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. ² Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. ³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD broke the cedars of Lebanon.

⁷ LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong; thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

¹¹ Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

⁶ By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; he lays up the deeps for treasures.

⁹ For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it came into being.

¹⁰ Jod The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep; O LORD, thou dost preserve man and beast.

³⁸ But the rebels were destroyed all together; the wicked were cut off in the end.

⁵ Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are with me.

¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are with me. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine and the fullness thereof.

¹³ Consume them in wrath, consume them that they may not be and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

⁴ Thus will I bless thee in my life; in thy name shall I lift up my hands. ⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips ⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches.

⁹ Thou dost visit the earth, and when thou hast caused it to want, thou dost greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water; thou dost prepare their grain, according to thy will. ¹⁰ Thou dost water its rows abundantly; thou dost settle its furrows; thou dost make it soft with showers of rain; thou dost bless its sprouting. ¹¹ Thou dost crown the year with thy goodness, and thy clouds distill fatness.

¹¹ Thou dost crown the year with thy goodness, and thy clouds distill fatness. ¹² They fall upon the habitations of the wilderness; and the hills gird themselves with happiness. ¹³ The plains clothe themselves with sheep, and the valleys cover themselves with grain; they give shouts of triumph, they even sing.

¹ To the Overcomer,
A Psalm or Song of David. ¶ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those that hate him flee before him. ² As smoke is driven away; so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.

³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.

²⁷ For, behold, those that stray from thee shall perish; thou dost cut off all those that go a whoring from thee.

¹⁴ Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

¹⁶ The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

¹² I meditated also on all thy works and spoke of thy doings.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

¹⁸ The voice of thy thunder was all around; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

³ Even the sparrow has found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young upon thine altars, O LORD of the hosts, my King and my God.

³ Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.

² To show forth thy mercy in the morning and thy faithfulness every night

¹⁰ But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn; I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹ ¶ The LORD reigns; he has clothed himself with majesty; the LORD has clothed himself with strength; he has girded himself: he has established the world also, that it cannot be moved.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. ⁵ The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Honour and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

¹⁰ ¶ Say among the Gentiles that the LORD reigns; he also has established the world, it shall not be moved; he shall judge the peoples righteously.

⁴ His lightnings enlightened the world; the earth saw and trembled. ⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

⁸ I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.

¹⁶ because the LORD shall have built up Zion, and he shall be seen in his glory.

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless the name of his holiness. ² Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

²² Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

²² Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

³ who dost establish his chambers between the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,

¹² Next to them the fowls of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the leaves. ¹³ He waters the mountains from his chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

¹⁶ The trees of the LORD are satisfied; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, ¹⁷ that the birds may make their nests there: the stork makes her house among the fir trees.

³⁵ Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Halelu- JAH (Praise ye the LORD).

¹⁶ Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

⁴⁵ that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws. Halelu-JAH.

⁹ He reprehended the Red sea also, and it was dried up, so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Halelu-JAH.

²³ ¶ Those that go down to the sea in ships that do work in many waters,

³¹ Oh that men would praise the LORD for his mercy and for his wonderful works unto the sons of Adam!

³⁵ He turns the wilderness into reservoirs of water and dry ground into watersprings.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What came upon thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee? And thou O Jordan, that thou wast driven back? ⁶ Ye mountains, why didst ye skip like rams and ye little hills, like lambs? ⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

¹⁵ I will meditate in thy precepts and consider thy ways. ¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words.

¹¹¹ ¶ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹²⁷ ¶ Therefore I have loved thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore I have esteemed all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I have hated every false way.

¹⁶⁷ ¶ My soul has kept thy testimonies, and I have loved them exceedingly.

⁵ To him that by intelligence made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁶ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁷ To him that made the great lights: for his mercy endures for ever: ⁸ The sun to rule in the day: for his mercy endures for ever: ⁹ The moon and stars to rule in the night: for his mercy endures for ever.

²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.

⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, ¹⁰ even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall shine because of me. ¹² Even the darkness does not hide from thee; but the night shines as the day; the darkness is as the light.

¹⁷ ¶ Therefore, how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with thee.

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

¹ David’s Psalm of praise. ¶ Aleph I will extol thee, my God, my king, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. ² Beth Each day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. ³ Gimel Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

¹⁵ Ain The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

¹⁵ Ain The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season. ¹⁶ Pe Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁶ Pe Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

² In my life I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises unto my God while I live.

⁴ His spirit shall go forth, he shall return to his earth; in that very day all his thoughts shall perish.

⁸ Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

⁸ Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains. ⁹ He who gives the beast his food and to the sons of the ravens which cry unto him.

⁹ He who gives the beast his food and to the sons of the ravens which cry unto him.

⁸ fire and hail; snow and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word,

¹⁰ beasts and all animals; creeping things and flying fowl,

²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

¹⁹ The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by intelligence has he established the heavens. ²⁰ By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the heavens drop down the dew.

²² ¶ The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. ²³ I was set up with eternal dominion, from the beginning, before the earth was. ²⁴ I was begotten before the depths, before the existence of the fountains of many waters. ²⁵ Before the mountains were founded, before the hills was I begotten. ²⁶ While as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the beginning of the dust of the world, ²⁷ when he composed the heavens, I was there. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth, ²⁸ when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,

²⁸ when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, ²⁹ when he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ I was with him ordering everything; I was his delight every day, being content before him at all times; ³¹ I am content in the circumference of his earth, and my contentment is with the sons of men. ³² ¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye sons; for blessed are those that keep my ways. ³³ Hearken unto chastening, and be wise; refuse it not. ³⁴ Blessed is the man that hears me, keeping vigil at my gates, waiting at the threshold of my doors. ³⁵ For whosoever finds me shall find life and shall obtain the will of the LORD. ³⁶ But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those that hate me love death.

¹⁴ So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: if thou shalt find it, and in the end thy hope shall not be cut off.

²⁶ the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

⁶ Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.

⁴ ¶ One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides for ever.

¹² The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

¹ ¶ Who is as the wise man? and who is as he who knows the interpretation of all things? The wisdom of this man shall make his face to shine, and the coarseness of his face shall be changed.

⁷ Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.

¹⁹ The banquet is made for pleasure, and wine makes merry; but money answers all things.

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

² ¶ Oh! if he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! for thy love is better than wine. ³ Because of the savour of thy good ointments (ointment poured forth is thy name), therefore have the virgins loved thee. ⁴ Draw me after thee, we will run. The king has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will remember thy love more than the wine; the upright love thee.

¹ ¶ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water,

¹ ¶ The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

¹ ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall visit punishment upon leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon leviathan that serpent of double vision; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

⁴ For thus has the LORD spoken unto me, Like the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, even if a multitude of shepherds come forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voices, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of the hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion and for his hill.

¹⁴ Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the noise of the city shall cease; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; ¹⁵ until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness is turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted for a forest.

⁷ The parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

²² He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

¹⁸ I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will turn the wilderness into pools of water and the dry land into springs of water.

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

¹² I have made the earth, and created man upon it, I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens and I have commanded all their host.

⁹ For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so I have sworn that I would not be wroth again with thee, nor reprehend thee.

¹⁷ For he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of saving health upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak,

⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoices with the bride, so shall thy God rejoice with thee.

¹ ¶ Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, ² as when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the Gentiles may tremble at thy presence!

¹⁷ ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. ¹⁸ But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy. ¹⁹ And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

²² For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

²³ I beheld the earth, and, behold, it was without order, and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light. ²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all the hills were destroyed. ²⁵ I beheld, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled. ²⁶ I beheld, and, behold, Carmel was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD and by his fierce anger.

²² Do ye not fear me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at my presence, who placed the sand for the bound of the sea by an eternal order, which cannot be broken? Storms shall raise themselves up, yet they shall not prevail; their waves shall roar, yet they shall not pass over it.

⁷ Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle dove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.

¹² He that makes the earth by his power, he that orders the world with his wisdom and extends the heavens with his intelligence: ¹³ at his voice, there is given a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes the lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

⁵ Even the hind calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass. ⁶ And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things.

²³ Thou didst inhabit Lebanon, thou didst make thy nest in the cedars. How shalt thou cry out when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

²⁴ Can any hide himself in hiding places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? said the LORD.

¹² Therefore they shall come and do praises in the height of Zion and shall run unto the goodness of the LORD, unto the bread, and unto the wine, and unto the oil, and unto the gain of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

³⁵ ¶ Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, and the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts is his name;

¹⁷ Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing hidden from thee; ¹⁸ that thou dost show mercy in thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of the hosts, is his name, ¹⁹ great in counsel and magnificent in works: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give unto each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;

⁴¹ And, I will rejoice with them doing them good, and I will plant them in this land with truth, with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

¹³ As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the appearance of lit torches; the fire went up and down among the living creatures and the brightness of the fire; and out of the fire went forth lightning.

¹⁶ Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.

¹⁶ When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction and which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will destroy your sustenance of bread.

¹³ Son of man, when the land sins against me by rebelling blatantly and I stretch out my hand upon her and break the staff of the bread thereof and send famine upon her and cut off man and beast out of her

²³ in the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a magnificent cedar; and under it shall dwell every fowl; everything that flies shall dwell in the shadow of its branches.

² and thou shalt say, How hast thy mother, the lioness, lain down among the lions? She raised her whelps among the young lions. ³ And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men. ⁴ The Gentiles also heard of him; he was taken in their trap, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. ⁵ Now when she saw that she had waited a long time and her hope was being lost, then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men. ⁷ And he knew their widows, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the voice of his roaring. ⁸ Then the Gentiles set against him on every side from the provinces and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. ⁹ And they put him in prison in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into fortresses that his voice should no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰ ¶ Thy mother was like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters, bearing fruit and spreading forth branches by reason of the many waters. ¹¹ And she had strong rods for the sceptres of those that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height and with the multitude of her branches. ¹² But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; her branches were broken, and she withered; fire consumed the rod of her strength. ¹³ And now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground. ¹⁴ And fire is gone out of the rod from her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule has remained in her. This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation.

⁹ The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee to repair thy breaches: all the galleys of the sea with their rowers were in thee to negotiate thy business dealings.

⁶ All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt many Gentiles.

⁹ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe upon these slain, and they shall live.

²¹ whose leaves were fair and his fruit abundant and in him was food for all, under whom the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the fowls of the heaven dwelt:

⁹ ¶ I beheld until thrones were placed, and an Elder of great age did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne a flame of fire, his wheels burning fire.

⁴ ¶ and I prayed unto the LORD my God and made my confession and said, Now O Lord, thou great God who is worthy to be feared, who keeps the covenant and the mercy with those that love thee and keep thy commandments;

¹⁸ How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.

²⁰ The beasts of the field also cry unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the meadows of the wilderness.

²² Be not afraid, ye animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness shall become green again, for the trees shall bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall give their fruits.

¹³ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have ripped off the mountains of Gilead that they might enlarge their border:

⁴ Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he has taken nothing?

⁸ Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall all rise up as a flood, and it shall be cast out and sunk, as the river of Egypt.

⁶ He that built his degrees in the heaven and has founded his gathering upon the earth; he that calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

⁴ Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars, from there I will bring thee down, said the LORD.

³ The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the world and all that dwell therein. ⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

¹⁷ Thy princes shall be as the locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises, they flee away, and it is not known where they were.

¹² ¶ Art thou not from the beginning, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die, O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment, and thou hast established him strong for chastisement.

⁵ Before his face went mortality, and burning coals went forth from his feet. ⁶ He stood and measured the earth; he beheld and drove out the Gentiles; and the ancient mountains crumbled, the ancient hills; the ways of the world bowed unto him.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the waters passed by; the abyss uttered its voice; the deep lifted up its hands.

¹⁷ Because the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vines; the labour of the olive shall lie, and the cultivated fields shall yield no food; the sheep shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: ¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will joy in the God of my saving health.

¹⁷ The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

¹⁵ The LORD of the hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink and make a noise as though drunk with wine; and they shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar. ¹⁶ And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as a flock of his people, for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. ¹⁷ For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! The wheat shall make the young men cheerful, and the wine the maids.

¹ ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD upon Israel, said the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him.

⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father who is in the heavens, for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?

²⁰ And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

³² which indeed is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and make their nests in its branches.

² and [he] was transfigured before them, and his face shined as the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light.

⁶⁴ Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said it; nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven.

³⁹ And as he arose, he rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

²³ And taking the cup, having given thanks, he gave it to them; and they all drank of it.

⁴⁷ and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saving Health,

⁴⁶ Thou didst not anoint my head with oil; but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? ²⁵ And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? ²⁶ If ye then are not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? ²⁷ Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ²⁸ If then God so clothes the grass, which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

⁵ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

²² But the father said to his slaves, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet ²³ and bring here the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; ²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

¹⁷ Nevertheless he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

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

⁸ For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

⁵ And he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm.

²⁰ For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them, ²¹ with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. ²² For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

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!

³⁶ For of him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for the ages. Amen.

⁷ So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.

⁵ unto whom be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁸ which has over abounded in us in all wisdom and prudence;

¹ ¶ And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

⁴ ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us, ⁵ even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

¹⁰ To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} the manifold wisdom of God,

²¹ unto him be glory in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice.

⁸ neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought, but working with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, ⁹ Not because we did not have authority, but to give you an example that you might imitate us. ¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we declared unto you, that if anyone desires not to work neither should he eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk among you out of order, not working at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now those that are such, we charge and exhort in our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their bread.

¹⁶ the only one who has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. ¹⁷ Charge those that are rich in this world, that they not be highminded, not placing their hope in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

¹⁸ And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

⁷ And of the angels he said, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.

⁹ Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. ¹⁰ And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: ¹¹ they shall perish; but thou dost remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; 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.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth in service for the love of those who are the heirs of saving health?

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹¹ To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ Of course, they willingly ignore that the heavens were created of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by the word of God;

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, burning, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

¹⁸ But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and until the day of eternity. Amen.

⁵ ¶ This then is the promise which we have heard of him and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

²⁰ ¶ But ye have the anointing of the Holy One, and ye know all things.

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him and those also who pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail over him. Even so, Amen.

¹³ and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle. ¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like white wool, as the snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire ¹⁵ and his feet like unto brilliant metal as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters. ¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword, and his countenance was as the sun when it shines in its strength. ¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last, ¹⁸ and he that lives and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of Hades and of death. ¹⁹ Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which must be after these. ²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, and the seven lampstands which thou sawest are the seven congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}.

¹² saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to take power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. ¹³ And I heard every creature which is in heaven and upon the earth and under the earth and such as are upon the sea and all that are in it, saying, Blessing and honour and glory and power, be unto him that is seated upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

¹⁴ And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

¹ ¶ And after these things I heard a great voice of a great company in the heaven, saying, Halelu-JAH; Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God; ² for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great whore, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his slaves at her hand. ³ And again they said, Halelu-JAH. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

¹¹ ¶ And I saw a great white throne and him that was seated upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and their place was not found.

⁵ And he that was seated upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are faithful and true.