Job 19 Cross References - KJ2000

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. ⁴ And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself. ⁵ If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: ⁶ Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I cry out concerning wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no justice. ⁸ He has fenced up my way that I cannot 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 destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree. ¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies. ¹² His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent. ¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is repulsive to my wife, though I make supplication for the children of my own body. ¹⁸ Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. ¹⁹ All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me. ²⁰ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. ²² Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? ²³ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! ²⁴ That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! ²⁵ For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: ²⁶ And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God: ²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me. ²⁸ But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? ²⁹ Be yourselves afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

¹⁸ And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.

⁷ And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God permitted him not to hurt me.

⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself unknown unto them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, from where do you come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be set in settings of gold. ¹² And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

²¹ And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with its name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁶ And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tables.

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

²² Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put me to the test now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

¹⁷ I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall crush the forehead of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

² And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourselves up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: ³ And you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you are passed over, that you may go in unto the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.

⁸ And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

⁷ And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

⁶ And her adversary also provoked her severely to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

²³ And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

¹⁷ And David spoke unto the LORD when he saw the angel that struck the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let your hand, I pray you, be against me, and against my father’s house.

¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

²³ And he went up from there unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth youths out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, you bald head; go up, you bald head.

³ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

¹² And it came to pass, that when the Jews who dwelt near them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places where you shall return unto us they will be upon you.

¹¹ But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.

¹³ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: ¹⁴ And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them: ¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you. ¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God has fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God has fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone am escaped to tell you. ¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you. ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone am escaped to tell you.

⁴ And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has will he give for his life. ⁵ But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

⁵ But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face. ⁶ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; but spare his life. ⁷ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse God, and die. ¹⁰ But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

¹⁰ But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

⁶ Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways? ⁷ Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? ⁸ Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks that pass away;

²¹ For now you are nothing; you see my terror, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. ⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

²⁰ I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

² How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

⁴ If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression; ⁵ If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty; ⁶ If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: ¹⁴ Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web. ¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. ¹⁶ He grows green in the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden. ¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the stone heap, and looks for a place in the stones. ¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?

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

³ Is it good unto you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile upon the counsel of the wicked?

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction; ¹⁶ For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me.

¹⁶ For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me. ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are ever with me.

³ Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

³ Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? ⁴ For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes. ⁵ But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you; ⁶ And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

¹⁴ If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

⁷ Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will you accept his person? will you contend for God? ⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him? ¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly show partiality. ¹¹ Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him. ¹⁶ He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him. ¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. ¹⁸ Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified. ¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall die. ²⁰ Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from you. ²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid. ²² Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and you answer me. ²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin. ²⁴ Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? ²⁵ Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

⁴ Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God. ⁵ For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.

¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for you? on the word that deals gently with you? ¹² Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,

²² He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.

⁷ But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

⁹ He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

¹¹ God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

¹¹ God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers surround me, he slashes my kidneys asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

¹³ His archers surround me, he slashes my kidneys asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a warrior.

¹⁷ Not for any violence in my hands: also my prayer is pure. ¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place. ¹⁹ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

¹⁹ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

²¹ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

¹ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹⁵ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

² How long will it be before you make an end of words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.

⁴ He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place? ⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp shall be put out with him. ⁷ The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare. ⁹ The trap shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold of him.

⁹ The trap shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold of him. ¹⁰ The noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

¹⁰ The noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the way. ¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. ¹² His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. ¹³ It shall devour patches of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. ¹⁴ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ They shall dwell in his tent, who are none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. ¹⁷ His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. ¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. ²⁰ They that come after him shall be astounded at his day, as they that went before were frightened. ²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not God.

¹⁷ My breath is repulsive to my wife, though I make supplication for the children of my own body.

²² Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

⁴ Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. ⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. ⁷ There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

²⁰ The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

² As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul;

⁷ When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square! ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. ⁹ The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: ¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a turban.

²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

¹ But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

²⁰ I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

³¹ If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied.

³¹ If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied. ³² The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.

³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. ³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,

¹⁹ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: ²⁰ So that his life abhors bread, and his soul the choicest food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen now stick out. ²² Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to those who bring death. ²³ If there be a messenger with him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: ²⁴ Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice.

⁸ Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?

⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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 you, O LORD, how long?

⁷ But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹¹ You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my body. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

¹¹ I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

³ When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

²⁶ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. ³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

² For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹⁶ For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

⁹ Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹¹ By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

⁹ But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies. ¹⁰ You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us take spoil for themselves. ¹¹ You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations. ¹² You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price. ¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. ¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁶ Be not afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; ¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: ¹³ But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my close friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

²⁰ He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he has broken his covenant. ²¹ The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God who judges in the earth.

⁷ Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

³ Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

¹⁰ For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried. ¹¹ You brought us into the net; you laid affliction upon our backs. ¹² You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.

⁸ I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

⁸ You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

¹³ But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before you. ¹⁴ LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me? ¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ¹⁸ Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

¹⁸ Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

³⁹ You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁴ You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁶ How long, LORD? will you hide yourself forever? shall your anger burn like fire?

⁷ For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

¹¹ My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. ⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

¹² If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.

¹⁸ There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

²⁴ A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

⁵ And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.

¹ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.

¹ Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

⁵ O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation. ⁶ I will send him against a godless nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

¹⁹ Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, forever and ever:

¹⁴ Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought them all down as fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose song is in their ships.

¹⁰ Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

²³ But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body like the ground, and as the street, for them that pass over.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

²⁰ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD. ²¹ As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendant's descendants, says the LORD, from this time forth and forever.

⁶ But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

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

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

⁸ For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and plunder; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

¹⁰ For I heard the mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹² Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

⁵ The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁵ The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. ⁶ And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

⁴ My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones.

⁷ He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.

⁸ Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.

¹⁰ Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

¹³ My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

⁴ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

³ Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.

²⁰ And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.

¹² When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

⁵ Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

² O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save! ³ Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

¹⁰ This shall they have because of their pride, because they have reproached and boasted themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

⁷ The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

¹ Judge not, that you be not judged. ² For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again.

²¹ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

⁵⁶ But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

²⁵ Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

² And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose you that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? ³ I tell you, Nay: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. ⁴ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

⁴⁸ But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betray you the Son of man with a kiss?

²² For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: ²³ That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father who has sent him. ²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. ²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself; ²⁷ And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹ And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of condemnation.

¹² Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

² And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

³⁴ They answered and said unto him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

¹⁸ I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

¹ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. ² Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves judgment. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same: ⁴ For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.

²⁶ And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.

⁵ For every man shall bear his own burden.

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

²¹ Who shall change our humble body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

¹⁶ At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind: ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹¹ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy behavior of the wicked: ⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,

⁷ Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him: and all tribes of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?