Judges 5 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And Debbora and Barac son of Abineem sang in that day, saying, ² A revelation was made in Israel when the people were made willing: Praise you⌃ the Lord. ³ Hear, you⌃ kings, and listen, rulers: I will sing, it is I [who will sing] to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the god of Israel. ⁴ O Lord, in your going forth on Seir, when you went forth out of the land of Edom, the earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, and the clouds dropped water. ⁵ The mountains were shaken before the face of the Lord Eloi, this Sina before the face of the Lord God of Israel. ⁶ In the days of Samegar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the ways, and went in by-ways; they went in crooked paths. ⁷ The mighty men in Israel failed, they failed until Debbora arose, until she arose a mother in Israel. ⁸ They chose new gods; then the cities of rulers fought; there was not a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel. ⁹ My heart [inclines] to the orders given in Israel; you⌃ that are willing among the people, bless the Lord. ¹⁰ You⌃ that mount a she-ass at noon-day, you⌃ that sit on the judgment-seat, and walk by the roads of them that sit in judgment by the way; declare ¹¹ [you⌃ that are delivered] from the noise of disturbers among the drawers of water; there shall they relate righteous acts: O Lord, increase righteous acts in Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the cities. ¹² Awake, awake, Debbora; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barac, and lead your captivity captive, son of Abineem. ¹³ Then went down the remnant to the strong, the people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me. ¹⁴ Ephraim rooted them out in Amalec, behind you was Benjamin among your people: the inhabitants of Machir came down with me searching out the enemy, and from Zabulon came they that draw with the scribe's pen of record. ¹⁵ And princess in Issachar were with Debbora and Barac, thus she sent Barac on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Ruben; great [pangs] reached to the heart. ¹⁶ Why did they sit between the sheepfolds to hear the bleating of flocks for the divisions of Ruben? [there were] great searchings of heart. ¹⁷ Galaad [is] on the other side of Jordan where he pitched his tents; and why does Dan remain in ships? Aser sat down on the sea-coasts, and he will tabernacle at his ports. ¹⁸ The people Zabulon exposed their soul to death, and Nephthali came to the high places of their land. ¹⁹ Kings set themselves in array, then the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanaach at the water of Mageddo; they took no gift of money. ²⁰ The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves [to fight] with Sisara out of their paths. ²¹ The brook of Kison swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kison: my mighty soul will trample him down. ²² When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted ²³ to curse Meroz: Curse you⌃ [it], said the angel of the Lord; cursed [is] every one that dwells in it, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to his help among the mighty. ²⁴ Blessed among women be Jael wife of Chaber the Kenite; let her be blessed above women in tents. ²⁵ He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes. ²⁶ She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and struck him; she nailed through his temples. ²⁷ He rolled down between her feet; he fell and lay between her feet; he bowed and fell: where he bowed, there he fell dead. ²⁸ The mother of Sisara looked down through the window out of the loophole, [saying], Why was his chariot ashamed? why did the wheels of his chariots wait? ²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, [saying], ³⁰ Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely be gracious to every man: [there are] spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they [are] the spoils for his neck. ³¹ Thus let all your enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength. ³² And the land had rest forty years.

¹ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

²¹ And Mariam led them, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been very greatly glorified: the horse and rider has he cast into the sea.

¹⁷ Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin [to sing] of the well;

¹ My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in your salvation.

²¹ And he took counsel with the people, and set appointed men to sing psalms and praises, to give thanks, and sing the holy songs of praise in going forth before the host: and they said, Give thanks to the Lord, for his mercy [endures] for ever.

²⁷ And all the men of Juda returned to Jerusalem, and Josaphat led them with great joy; for the Lord gave them joy over their enemies.

⁷ When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

¹ (19) For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

¹ And in that day you shall say, I [will] bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and have pitied me. ² Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation. ³ Draw you⌃ therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation. ⁴ And in that day you shall say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious [deeds] among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great [things]: declare this in all the earth. ⁶ Exalt and rejoice, you⌃ that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

¹ O Lord God, I will glorify you, I will sing to your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] an ancient [and] faithful counsel. So be it.

¹ In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation [its] wall and bulwark.

⁴³ Rejoice, you⌃ heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you⌃ Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.

⁹ My heart [inclines] to the orders given in Israel; you⌃ that are willing among the people, bless the Lord.

⁴⁷ The Lord lives, and blessed [be] my guardian, and my God, my strong keeper, shall be exalted. ⁴⁸ The Lord who avenges me [is] strong, chastening the nations under me,

¹⁶ And after him Amasias the [son] of Zari, who was zealous for the Lord; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of strength.

² And the people blessed all the men that volunteered to dwell in Jerusalem.

¹¹ And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.

¹ (95) The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.

⁸ The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

³ His work is [worthy of] thanksgiving and honor: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever.

⁶ The high praises of God shall be in their throat, and two-edged swords in their hands; ⁷ to execute vengeance on the nations, [and] punishments among the peoples; ⁸ to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron; to execute on them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints.

¹⁷ And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatever things are upon the earth shall die.

⁹ And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

⁶ And I have appointed him and Eliab the [son] of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan, and to every one understanding in heart I have given understanding; and they shall make all things as many as I have appointed you, —

²⁸ then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you sevenfold according to your sins.

¹ Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.

³ For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign you⌃ greatness to our God.

⁷ The mighty men in Israel failed, they failed until Debbora arose, until she arose a mother in Israel.

²² And Eliu said to the people, I am left, the only one prophet of the Lord; and the prophets of Baal [are] four hundred and fifty men, and the prophets of the groves four hundred.

¹⁰ And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken you: they have digged down your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.

¹⁴ And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, and they have overthrown your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.

²¹ and from me, whatever it shall seem [good] to you to give. I king Arthasastha have made a decree for all the treasuries that are in the [country] beyond the river, that whatever Esdras the priest and scribe of the God of heaven may ask you, it shall be done speedily,

¹⁰ Now therefore understand, you⌃ kings: be instructed, all you⌃ that judge the earth. ¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling. ¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition.

¹ (50) A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof]. ² Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

⁴ For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things, ⁵ the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.

² And he said, The Lord is come from Sina, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan, with the ten thousands of Cades; on his right hand [were] his angels with him.

⁸ And the earth was troubled and quaked, and the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, because the Lord was angry with them.

⁶ Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes. ⁸ The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, [and] justified altogether. ¹⁰ To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. ¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward. ¹² Who will understand [his] transgressions? purge you me from my secret [sins]. ¹³ And spare your servant [the attack] of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin. ¹⁴ So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before you, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

⁷ For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face. ⁸ I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

³ God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. Pause. ⁴ His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; [there were] horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength. ⁵ Before his face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains, ⁶ the earth stood at his feet and trembled: he [*]saw, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at his everlasting going forth.

¹⁸ The mount of Sina was altogether on a smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and the people were exceedingly amazed.

¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thundering, and the flashes, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and all the people feared and stood afar off,

¹¹ And you⌃ drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: [there was] darkness, blackness, [and] tempest. ¹² And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you⌃ heard: and you⌃ saw no likeness, only [you⌃ heard] a voice.

²² These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—[there was] darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me. ²³ And it came to pass when you⌃ heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that you⌃ came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders: ²⁴ and you⌃ said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live. ²⁵ And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.

⁸ I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

⁵ Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm.

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

¹ If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from you, and they shall melt, ² as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and your name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at your presence the nations shall be troubled, ³ whenever you shall work gloriously; trembling from you shall take hold upon the mountains.

⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, [even] the world, and all that dwell in it.

¹⁰ The nations shall see you and be in pain, [as you do] divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

²² And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

³¹ And after him rose up Samegar the son of Dinach, and struck the Philistines to the number of six hundred men with a plowshare [such as is drawn by] oxen; and he too delivered Israel.

¹⁷ And Sisara fled on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Chaber the Kenite his friend: for there was peace between Jabin king of Asor and the house of Chaber the Kenite. ¹⁸ And Jael went, out to meet Sisara, and said to him, Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me, fear not: and he turned aside to her into the tent; and she covered him with a mantle.

⁵ And in that time there is no peace to one going out, or to one coming in, for the terror of the Lord is upon all that inhabit the lands.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

⁸ For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and you⌃ shall by no means deem them men.

⁴ DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.

¹⁸ We have hunted [for] our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

¹² Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

⁴ And Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, —she judged Israel at that time. ⁵ And she sat under the palm tree of Debbora between Rama and Baethel in mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel went up to her for judgment. ⁶ And Debbora sent and called Barac the son of Abineem out of Cades Nephthali, and she said to him, Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded you? and you shall depart to mount Thabor, and shall take with yourself ten thousand men of the sons of Nephthali and of the sons of Zabulon.

¹⁹ I am a peaceful one of the strong ones in Israel; but you seek to destroy a city and a mother city in Israel: why do you seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord?

¹⁹ On this account then [it is that] the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar [as] a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

²³ And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their princesses your nurses, they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

¹⁶ They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.

¹² And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and walked after other gods, of the gods of the nations round about them; and they worshipped them.

¹⁷ for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them; and they turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked to listen to the words of the Lord; they did not so.

³ And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

¹⁹ And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear. ²⁰ And all Israel went down to the Land of the Philistines to forge every one his reaping-hook and his tool, and every one his axe and his sickle. ²¹ And it was near the time of vintage: and their tools were [valued at] three shekels for a plowshare, and there was the same rate for the axe and the sickle. ²² And it came to pass in the days of the war of Machmas, that there was not a sword or spear found in the hand of all the people, that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and Jonathan his son was there found.

² A revelation was made in Israel when the people were made willing: Praise you⌃ the Lord.

⁹ And the people rejoiced because of the willingness, for they offered willingly to the Lord with a full heart: and king David rejoiced greatly.

⁴ And he had thirty-two sons riding on thirty-two colts, and they had thirty-two cities; and they called them Jair's towns until this day in the land of Galaad.

¹⁴ And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, that rode upon seventy colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

² Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? [who] shall cause all his praises to be heard?

⁵ Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

⁶ They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

¹² Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.

²⁰ And the shepherds of Gerara strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him. ²¹ And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity. ²² And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.

¹⁷ And the shepherds came, and were driving them away; and Moses rose up and rescued them, and drew water for them, and watered their sheep. ¹⁸ And they came to Raguel their father; and he said to them, Why have you⌃ come so quickly today? ¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds, and drew water for us and watered our sheep.

²⁴ you⌃ shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.

⁸ They chose new gods; then the cities of rulers fought; there was not a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel.

⁷ And now stand still, and I will judge you before the Lord; and I will relate to you all the righteousness of the Lord, the things which he has wrought among you and your fathers.

⁷ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

⁷ who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:

³ Draw you⌃ therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

² Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, all Judea.

⁴ We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:

⁹ We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

⁵ O my people, remember now, what counsel Balac king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Galgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

⁸ They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

¹ (104) [A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you have clothed yourself with praise and honor: ² who do robe yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

² for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty [man] have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

² And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives [to them]; and they that had lordship over them shall be under [their] rule.

¹ Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

²⁴ Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered? ²⁵ For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes [them] from a mighty [man] shall be delivered: for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children. ²⁶ And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

⁹ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

¹ Awake, awake, Sion; put on your strength, O Sion; and o you put on your glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through you, the uncircumcised and unclean. ² Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Sion.

¹ Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

²⁶ Make you⌃ him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing stock.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

⁷ You are terrible; and who shall withstand you, because of your anger?

¹⁵ Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make [them] as chaff: ¹⁶ and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].

¹⁸ which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever. ¹⁹ Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every [other] beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: ²⁰ and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up [some] of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest. ²¹ I [*]saw, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; ²² until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom. ²³ And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all [other] kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it. ²⁴ And his ten horns are ten kings [that] shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings. ²⁵ And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and [power] shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time. ²⁶ And the judgment has sat, and they shall remove [his] dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly. ²⁷ And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey him.

⁸ And Amalec came and fought with Israel in Raphidin. ⁹ And Moses said to Joshua, Choose out for yourself mighty men, and go forth and set the army in array against Amalec to-morrow; and, behold, I [shall] stand on the top of the hill, and the rod of God [will be] in my hand. ¹⁰ And Joshua did as Moses said to him, and he went out and set the army in array against Amalec, and Moses and Aaron and Or went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hands, Amalec prevailed. ¹² But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Or supported his hands one on this side and the other on that, and the hands of Moses were supported till the going down of the sun. ¹³ And Joshua routed Amalec and all his people with the slaughter of the sword. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak [this] in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalec from under heaven. ¹⁵ And Moses built an altar to the Lord, and called the name of it, The Lord my Refuge. ¹⁶ For with a secret hand the Lord wages war upon Amalec to all generations.

³⁹ And a son of Machir the son of Manasse went to Galaad, and took it, and destroyed the Amorite who lived in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Galaad to Machir the son of Manasse, and he lived there.

¹³ And he gathered to himself all the children of Ammon and Amalec, and went and struck Israel, and took possession of the city of Palm-trees.

²⁷ And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he [was] before them.

¹⁰ And Barac called Zabulon and Nephthali out of Cades, and there went up at his feet ten thousand men, and Debbora went up with him.

¹⁴ And Debbora said to Barac, Rise up, for this [is] the day on which the Lord has delivered Sisara into your hand, for the Lord shall go forth before you: and Barac went down from mount Thabor, and ten thousand men after him.

¹⁵ And Abdon the son of Ellel, the Pharathonite, died, and was buried in Pharathon in the land of Ephraim in the mount of Amalec.

⁶ And Debbora sent and called Barac the son of Abineem out of Cades Nephthali, and she said to him, Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded you? and you shall depart to mount Thabor, and shall take with yourself ten thousand men of the sons of Nephthali and of the sons of Zabulon.

³² And of the sons of Issachar having wisdom with regard to the times, knowing what Israel should do, two hundred; and all their brethren with them.

¹³ The sluggard makes excuses, and says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.

¹ And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle: ² and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, ³ Ataroth, and Daebon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabau, and Baean, ⁴ the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and your servants have cattle. ⁵ And they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over Jordan.

²⁴ And you⌃ shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and you⌃ shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.

¹⁵ And princess in Issachar were with Debbora and Barac, thus she sent Barac on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Ruben; great [pangs] reached to the heart.

⁴ Be you⌃ angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what you⌃ say in your hearts. Pause.

⁶ that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

⁴⁰ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts with [our] hand to the lofty One in heaven.

²⁵ And their borders were Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and half the land of the children of Ammon to Araba, which is before Arad.

³¹ and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, royal cities of Og in the land of Basan, [Moses gave] to the sons of Machir the sons of Manasse, even to the half-tribe sons of Machir the sons of Manasse, according to their families.

²⁴ And the fifth lot came out to Aser according to their families. ²⁵ And their borders were Exeleketh, and Aleph, and Baethok, and Keaph, ²⁶ and Elimelech, and Amiel, and Maasa, and the lot will border on Carmel westward, and on Sion, and Labanath. ²⁷ And it will return westward from Baethegeneth, and will join Zabulon and Ekgai, and Phthaeel northwards, and the borders will come to Saphthaebaethme, and Inael, and will go on to Chobamasomel, ²⁸ and Elbon, and Raab, and Ememaon, and Canthan to great Sidon. ²⁹ And the borders shall turn back to Rama, and to the fountain of Masphassat, and the Tyrians; and the borders shall return to Jasiph, and their going forth shall be the sea, and Apoleb, and Echozob, ³⁰ and Archob, and Aphec, and Raau. ³¹ This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Aser according to their families, the cities and their villages.

¹⁶ Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast you⌃ for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day: and I also and my maidens will fast; and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

¹⁶ So Cain went forth from the presence of God and lived in the land of Nod over against Edem.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the Lord the most high God, who made the heaven and the earth,

²² And Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out these five kings out of the cave. ²³ And they brought out the five kings out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam. ²⁴ And when they brought them out to Joshua, then Joshua called together all Israel, and the chiefs of the army that went with him, saying to them, Come forward and set your feet on their necks; and they came and set their feet on their necks. ²⁵ And Joshua said to them, Do not fear them, neither be cowardly; be courageous and strong, for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies, against whom you⌃ fight. ²⁶ And Joshua killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening. ²⁷ And it came to pass toward the setting of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast them into the cave into which they [had] fled for refuge, and rolled stones to the cave, [which remain] till this day.

¹ And when Jabis the king of Asor heard, he sent to Jobab king of Maron, and to the king of Symoon, and to the king of Aziph, ² and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor, ³ and to the Chananites on the coast eastward, and to the Amorites on the coast, and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites in the mountain, and the Evites, and those dwelling under [mount] Aermon in the land Massyma. ⁴ And they and their kings with them went forth, as the sand of the sea in multitude, and horses, and very many chariots. ⁵ And all the kings assembled in person, and came to the same place, and encamped at the waters of Maron to war with Israel. ⁶ And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow [at] this time I will put them to flight before Israel: you shall hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire ⁷ And Joshua and all the men of war came upon them at the water of Maron suddenly; and they attacked them in the hill country. ⁸ And the Lord delivered them into the power of Israel; and they struck them and pursued them to great Sidon, and to Maseron, and to the plains of Massoch eastward; and they destroyed them till there was not one of them left that survived. ⁹ And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire. ¹⁰ And Joshua returned at that time, and took Asor and her king; now Asor in former time was the chief of these kingdoms. ¹¹ And they killed with the sword all that breathed in it, and utterly destroyed them all, and there was no living thing left in it; and they burnt Asor with fire. ¹² And Joshua took all the cities of the kingdoms, and their kings, and killed them with the edge of the sword; and utterly killed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. ¹³ But all the walled cities Israel burnt not; but Israel burnt Asor only. ¹⁴ And the children of Israel took all its spoils to themselves; and they killed all the men with the edge of the sword, until he destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing. ¹⁵ As the Lord commanded his servant Moses, even so Moses commanded Joshua; and so Joshua did, he transgressed no precept of all that Moses commanded him.

²⁷ And Manasse did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Baethsan, which is a city of Scythians, nor her towns, nor her suburbs; nor Thanac, nor her towns; nor the inhabitants of Dor, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; nor the inhabitant of Balac, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; nor the inhabitants of Magedo, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; nor the inhabitants of Jeblaam, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; and the Chananite began to dwell in this land.

¹³ And Sisara summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron and all the people with him, from Arisoth of the Gentiles to the brook of Kison.

³⁰ Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely be gracious to every man: [there are] spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they [are] the spoils for his neck.

¹² Bana son of Achiluth [had] Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and [his was] the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp. ⁵ Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me. ⁶ They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth—

¹² They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me. ¹³ But I [will cry] to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. ¹⁴ Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

⁸ I will keep your ordinances: O forsake me not greatly. ⁹ Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping your words. ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments. ¹¹ I have hidden your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against you. ¹² Blessed are you, O Lord: teach me your ordinances.

¹¹ And when they fled from the face of the children of Israel at the descent of Oronin, then the Lord cast upon them hailstones from heaven to Azeca; and they were more that died by the hailstones, than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword in the battle.

¹⁵ And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barac: and Sisara descended from off his chariot, and fled on his feet.

¹⁰ And Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering; and the Philistines drew near to war against Israel; and the Lord thundered with a mighty sound in that day upon the Philistines, and they were confounded and overthrown before Israel.

¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for [the desire of] their souls.

¹⁸ waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

⁷ And I will bring to you to the torrent of Kison Sisara the captain of the host of Jabin, and his chariots, and his multitude, and I will deliver them into your hands.

⁴⁰ And Eliu said to the people, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Eliu brings them down to the brook Kisson, and he killed them there.

⁵ Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

⁹ Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of your anointed. ¹⁰ For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

¹⁰ God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons.

¹⁰ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where [is] the Lord your God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.

¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

²⁸ Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.

⁴ Behold, I have loosed you from the manacles that were upon your hands. If it seem good to you to go with me to Babylon, then will I set mine eyes upon you.

¹³ Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make your horns iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall utterly destroy many nations, and shall consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.

¹ And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the [place of] weeping, and to Baethel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the Lord, I brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you into the land which I sware to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant that I have made with you.

¹¹ And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ephratha in the land of Joas father of Esdri; and Gedeon his son [was] threshing wheat in a wine-press in order to escape from the face of Madiam.

³ And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, you are barren and have not born; yet you shall conceive a son.

⁹ And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad. ¹⁰ And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go you⌃ and strike the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword.

⁴⁷ And all this assembly shall know that the Lord delivers not by sword or spear, for the battle [is] the Lord's, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

¹⁷ [And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merob, I will give her to you to Wife, only be you to me a mighty man and fight the wars of the Lord. And Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be upon him. ]

²⁸ Remove, I pray you, the trespass of your servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in you.

¹⁹ And now let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable: but if the sons of men, they [are] cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other Gods.

⁵ And next to them the Thecoim took [their] place; but the Adorim applied not their neck to their service.

¹⁰ And Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.

¹⁹ And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth,

¹⁷ And Sisara fled on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Chaber the Kenite his friend: for there was peace between Jabin king of Asor and the house of Chaber the Kenite.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

¹⁹ And Sisara said to her, Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty: and she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him. ²⁰ And Sisara said to her, Stand now by the door of the tent, and it shall come to pass if any man come to you, and ask of you, and say, Is there [any] man here? then you shall say, There is not. ²¹ And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.

²¹ And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.

⁴⁹ And David stretched out his hand to his scrip, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone penetrated through the helmet into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the ground. ⁵⁰ [So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him, and there was no sword in the hand of David. ] ⁵¹ And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his sword, and killed him, and cut off his head: and the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, and they fled.

²² And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sabee the son of Bochori; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

² And Ochozias fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to enquire of him.

⁶ For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

⁹ My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.

¹⁴ Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.

³ And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion.

¹⁸ And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king's daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.

⁵ But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction: ⁶ and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands [of them], and on them that keep my commandments.

⁵ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind, and with all your soul, and all your strength.

¹¹ And the land was quiet forty years; and Gothoniel the son of Kenez died.

³⁰ So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.

⁴ And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire. ⁵ We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions.

⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp. ⁵ Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me.

¹⁰ [As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me [vengeance] on mine enemies. ¹¹ Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.

¹ (69) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. ² I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. ³ I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

⁹ Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of your anointed. ¹⁰ For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. ¹¹ For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. ¹² O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

¹⁴ Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

³ And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars for ever and ever.

³ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]: