2 Samuel 11 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And it came to pass, at the return of the same season of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of ‘Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained behind at Jerusalem. ² And it happened at evening-tide, that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and he saw from the roof a woman bathing herself; and the woman was of a very beautiful appearance. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman; and some one said, Behold, this is Beth-sheba’, the daughter of Eli’am, the wife of Uriyah the Hittite. ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her, and she had just purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house. ⁵ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child. ⁶ And David sent to Joab, Send unto me Uriyah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriyah to David. ⁷ And when Uriyah was come unto him, David asked after the well-being of Joab, and after the well-being of the people, and how the war prospered. ⁸ And David said to Uriyah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriyah went forth out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king. ⁹ But Uriyah laid himself down at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. ¹⁰ And they told David, saying, Uriyah is not gone down unto his house: and David said unto Uriyah, Art thou not come from a journey? why then art thou not gone down unto thy own house? ¹¹ Then said Uriyah unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my Lord Joab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open field: and should I alone go unto my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. ¹² And David said unto Uriyah, Tarry here also this day, and tomorrow will I send thee off. So Uriyah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the following. ¹³ And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunken; and he went out in the evening to lie down on his resting-place with the servants of his lord; but to his house he did not go down. ¹⁴ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriyah. ¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriyah in front, opposite to the hottest fight, and then withdraw from behind him, that he may be smitten and die. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, when Joab was enclosing the city, that he placed Uriyah toward the spot of which he knew that valiant men were there. ¹⁷ And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David, and there died also Uriyah the Hittite. ¹⁸ Then did Joab send, and told unto David all the events of the war. ¹⁹ And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast finished telling all the events of the war to the king, ²⁰ And it happen that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore did you approach unto the city to fight? knew ye not, that they would shoot down from off the wall? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech the son of Yerubbesheth? did not a woman throw down upon him a piece of an upper mill-stone from off the wall so that he died at Thebez? why did ye approach unto the wall? then must thou say, Also thy servant Uriyah the Hittite is dead. ²² And the messenger went, and came and told unto David all for which Joab had sent him. ²³ And the messenger said unto David, Because the men overpowered us and came out against us into the field; but we set upon them, as far as the entrance of the gate. ²⁴ And the archers then shot at thy servants from off the wall; and there died some of the servants of the king, and also thy servant Uriyah the Hittite is dead. ²⁵ Then said David to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, Let this thing not be displeasing in thy eyes; for at times this, at other times the other will the sword devour; continue firmly in thy war against the city, and overthrow it: and thus do thou encourage him. ²⁶ And when the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her husband had died, she mourned for her lord. ²⁷ And when the time of mourning was past, David sent and took her to his house, and she became his wife; and she bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was displeasing in the eyes of the Lord.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou canst rule over it.

² That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose.

⁴ Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

² And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye can rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ³³ And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. ³⁴ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father; let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ³⁵ And they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father will be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

⁶ And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

² And Shechem the son of Chamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and did her violence.

¹⁴ And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brothers, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

¹⁰ And the thing which he did was displeasing in the eyes of the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

¹⁸ And he said, What is the pledge which I shall give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy scarf, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them unto her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. ¹⁹ And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. ²⁰ And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to take the pledge out of the woman’s hand; but he found her not. ²¹ Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was at the cross-road on the highway? And they said, There hath been no harlot in this neighborhood. ²² And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place have said, There hath been no harlot in this place. ²³ And Judah said, Let her keep it, lest we be put to shame; behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he troubled himself not about aught he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance. ⁷ And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

²⁴ And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house; and he gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.

³⁴ And he sent portions unto them from before him; but Benjamin’s portion exceeded the portions of all of them fivefold. And they drank, and were merry with him.

²¹ And Moses said unto Aaron, What hath this people done unto thee, that thou hast brought upon it so great a sin?

² Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a male child: then shall she be unclean seven days, even as in the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. ³ And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised. ⁴ And thirty and three days shall she then continue in the blood of her purification; any thing hallowed shall she not touch, and into the sanctuary shall she not come, until the days of her purification be at an end. ⁵ But if she bear a female child, then shall she be unclean two weeks as in her separation; and sixty and six days shall she continue in the blood of the purification.

¹⁹ And if a woman have an issue, so that blood flow from her flesh: then shall she be in her state of separation seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁰ And every thing that she may lie upon in her separation shall be unclean: and whatever she may sit upon shall be unclean. ²¹ And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. ²² And whosoever toucheth any vessel, that she may sit upon, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. ²³ And if something be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she may sit, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁴ And if any man should lie with her, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he may lie shall be unclean. ²⁵ And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation: all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall she be as in the days of her separation; she shall be unclean. ²⁶ Every bed whereon she may lie all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and whatever vessel she may sit upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. ²⁷ And whosoever toucheth these things shall be unclean; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. ²⁸ And when she becometh clean of her issue, then shall she number to herself seven days, and after that shall she be clean. ²⁹ And on the eighth day shall she take unto herself two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ³⁰ And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness. ³¹ And ye shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they may not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst. ³² This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; ³³ And of her that is suffering in her separation, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

¹⁹ And a woman in the separation of her uncleanness shalt thou not approach, to uncover her nakedness.

¹¹ For only ‘Og the king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; lo! it is in Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon: nine cubits is its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the arm of a man.

⁸ When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof; that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one were to fall from there.

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband: then shall both of them die, the man that lieth with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

²⁹ Then shall the man who lieth with her give unto the father of the damsel fifty shekels of silver; and she shall become his wife, because he hath done violence to her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.

⁸ I pray thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back before their enemies! ⁹ And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

³² And the people called him on that day Yerubba’al, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he hath overthrown his altar.

¹ Then Yerubba’al, who is Gid’on, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Charod; and the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

⁵⁰ And Abimelech went then to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and captured it. ⁵¹ But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and the women, and all the chief persons of the city, and shut the doors behind them, and went up to the roof of the tower. ⁵² And Abimelech came up to the tower, and fought against it, and approached as far as the door of the tower to burn it with fire. ⁵³ But a certain woman cast a piece of an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and crushed his skull. ⁵⁴ Then called he hastily unto the young man that bore his armor, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that people may not say of me, A woman hath slain him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

²⁶ And she said, Pardon, my Lord, as thy soul liveth, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, to pray unto the Lord.

⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought away from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth over the cherubim: and the two sons of ‘Eli, Chophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

⁹ And then see, if it go up by the way to its own boundary, to Beth-shemesh, then hath he done us this great evil; but if not, then shall we know that not his hand hath smitten us; it is a chance which hath happened to us.

²⁵ And they went down from the high-place into the city, and he spoke with Saul upon the roof.

¹⁸ And Saul said unto Achiyah, Bring hither the ark of God; for the ark of God was on that day with the children of Israel.

³⁰ And he said, I have sinned; yet honor me now, I pray thee, in the presence of the elders of my people, and in the presence of Israel, and return with me, that I may prostrate myself unto the Lord thy God.

²² And David left the articles which he had on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran into the array, and came and asked of his brothers after their welfare.

⁵⁵ And when Saul saw David going forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this lad? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I know it not.

¹⁷ And Saul said to David, Behold, here is my eldest daughter Merab, her will I give to thee for wife: only be thou unto me a man of valor, and fight the Lord’s battles. And Saul thought, Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.

²¹ And Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may become unto him a snare, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Through the second shalt thou this day become my son-in-law.

²⁵ And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged on the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.

³ But David swore again, and said, Thy father well knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes; wherefore he said, Jonathan must not know this, lest he be grieved: nevertheless, as truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there was but one step between me and death.

¹⁷ And the king said unto the runners that stood about him, Turn round and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he was fleeing, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not stretch forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. ¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou round, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned round, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day eighty and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and lambs, with the edge of the sword.

²⁶ And now, my lord, as the Eternal liveth, and as thy soul liveth, it is the Lord who hath withholden thee from coming to blood-guiltiness, and from helping thyself with thy own hand; and now may like Nabal be thy enemies, and those that seek to do my Lord evil.

² And there were born unto David sons in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Achino’am the Yizre’elitess; ³ And his second was Kilab, of Abigayil the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Abshalom, the son of Ma’achah the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur; ⁴ And the fourth, Adoniyah, the son of Chaggith; and the fifth, Shephatyah, the son of Abital; ⁵ And the sixth, Yithre’am, by ‘Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

²⁷ And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him in private; and he smote him there under the fifth rib, and he died, for the blood of ‘Asahel his brother.

³¹ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and go mourning before Abner. And king David walked behind the bier.

³⁴ Thy hands were not bound, and thy feet were not put into fetters: as one falleth before men of wickedness art thou fallen. And all the people wept again over him.

⁵ And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Ba’anah, went, and came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who was just lying in bed as usual at noon.

⁷ Namely, they came into the house, while he was lying on his bed in his sleeping-chamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and cut off his head, and took his head, and went by the way of the plain all the night.

¹³ And David took yet more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were born to David yet more sons and daughters. ¹⁴ And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua’, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, ¹⁵ And Yibchar, and Elishua’, and Nepheg, and Yaphia’, ¹⁶ And Elishama’, and Elyada’, and Eliphelet.

² That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, while the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

⁶ For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even until this day; but have been moving about in a tent and in a tabernacle.

¹⁷ And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David, and there died also Uriyah the Hittite.

²¹ Who smote Abimelech the son of Yerubbesheth? did not a woman throw down upon him a piece of an upper mill-stone from off the wall so that he died at Thebez? why did ye approach unto the wall? then must thou say, Also thy servant Uriyah the Hittite is dead.

⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord to do what is evil in his eyes? Uriyah the Hittite hast thou smitten with the sword, and his wife hast thou taken unto thee for wife; but him hast thou slain with the sword of the children of ‘Ammon.

²⁶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon, and captured the royal city.

²⁶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon, and captured the royal city. ²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David; and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have also captured the water-town. ²⁸ And now gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and capture it: lest I capture the city myself, and it be called by my name.

² Then sent Joab to Tekoa’, and he fetched thence a wise woman, and said to her, Feign. I pray thee, as though thou mournest, and do put on mourning garments, and anoint thyself not with oil; but be as a woman that hath these many days been mourning for the dead.

¹⁹ And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my Lord, O king! none can turn to the right or to the left from all that my Lord the king hath spoken; for it was thy servant Joab who hath bidden me, and it was he that hath put in the mouth of thy hand-maid all these words.

⁶ And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba’ the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Abshalom: take thou the servants of thy Lord, and pursue after him, lest he succeed in reaching fortified cities, and withdraw himself from our eyes.

⁹ And Joab said to ‘Amassa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab’s right hand took hold of ‘Amassa’s beard to kiss him. ¹⁰ And ‘Amassa did not guard himself against the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. But Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba’ the son of Bichri.

³⁹ Uriyah the Hittite: in all thirty and seven.

⁵ And thou also knowest well what Joab the son of Zeruyah hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto ‘Amassa the son of Yether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and on his shoes that were on his feet.

³¹ Then said the king unto him, Do as he hath spoken, and fall upon him, and bury him; and remove thus the innocent blood, which Joab hath shed, from me, and from the house of my father. ³² And may the Lord bring back his blood-guiltiness upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, while my father David knew it not, Abner the son of Ner, the captain of the army of Israel, and ‘Amassa the son of Yether, the captain of the army of Judah. ³³ And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord. ³⁴ So Benayahu the son of Yehoyada’ went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

²² And the prophet approached unto the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou hast to do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

²⁶ And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to the war with Israel.

⁸ So she wrote letters in Achab’s name, and sealed them with his seal; and she sent the letters unto the elders and unto the nobles who were in his city, and who dwelt near Naboth. ⁹ And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people; ¹⁰ And seat two men, worthless fellows, opposite to him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast blasphemed God and the king; and then lead him forth, and stone him, that he may die.

¹² They proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people. ¹³ And there came in two men, worthless fellows, and seated themselves opposite to him; and these worthless men testified against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Then they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. ¹⁴ And they sent to Izebel, saying, Naboth hath been stoned, and is dead.

⁶ Then wrote he to them a letter the second time, saying, If ye be for me, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, then take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me to Yizre’el by this time tomorrow. Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

⁵ And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shim’a, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua’ the daughter of ‘Ammiel;

⁴¹ Uriyah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Achlai,

¹ And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the same season of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that Joab led out the power of the army, and destroyed the country of the children of ‘Ammon, and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained behind at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and pulled it down.

⁷ And this thing was displeasing in the eyes of God, and he smote Israel.

¹⁰ And with the expiration of the year did king Nebuchadnezzar send and had him brought to Babylon, with the costly vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem,

¹² But who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel; ¹³ Who catcheth the wise in their own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong; ¹⁴ By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;

¹² If the evil be sweet in his mouth, he will conceal it under his tongue; ¹³ He will cherish it, and not forsake it; and hold it back within his palate; ¹⁴ His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him.

¹ A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin?

⁹ If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door: ¹⁰ Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her; ¹¹ For this would be incest; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

^{6 (5:7)} Thou wilt destroy those that speak lies: the man of blood and deceit the Lord abhorreth.

^{2 (12:3)} Deceptively do they speak every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips, with a double heart do they speak.

^{13 (19:14)} Also from presumptuous sins withhold thy servant; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from any great transgression.

^{8 (39:9)} From all my transgressions deliver thou me: render me not the object of reproach of the worthless.

^{21 (44:22)} Would not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

¹⁸ When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David, ^(51:2) When Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in unto Bath-sheba’. ^(51:3) Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy kindness: according to the greatness of thy mercies blot out my transgressions. ^{2 (51:4)} Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ^{3 (51:5)} For of my transgressions I have full knowledge; and my sin is before me continually. ^{4 (51:6)} To thee, thee only, have I sinned, and what is evil in thy eyes have I done:—in order that thou mightest be righteous when thou speakest, be justified when thou judgest.

^{4 (51:6)} To thee, thee only, have I sinned, and what is evil in thy eyes have I done:—in order that thou mightest be righteous when thou speakest, be justified when thou judgest.

^{4 (51:6)} To thee, thee only, have I sinned, and what is evil in thy eyes have I done:—in order that thou mightest be righteous when thou speakest, be justified when thou judgest. ^{5 (51:7)} Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

^{5 (51:7)} Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ^{6 (51:8)} Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: therefore do thou cause me to know wisdom in the recesses of the heart. ^{7 (51:9)} Cleanse me from sin with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ^{8 (51:10)} Cause me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast crushed may rejoice. ^{9 (51:11)} Hide thy face from my sins, and all my iniquities do thou blot out. ^{10 (51:12)} Create unto me a clean heart, O God; and a firm spirit renew thou within me. ^{11 (51:13)} Cast me not away from thy presence; and thy holy spirit do not take from me. ^{12 (51:14)} Restore unto me the gladness of thy salvation; and with a liberal spirit do thou support me.— ^{13 (51:15)} I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee. ^{14 (51:16)} Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; that my tongue may sing aloud of thy righteousness.

^{14 (51:16)} Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; that my tongue may sing aloud of thy righteousness. ^{15 (51:17)} O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise. ^{16 (51:18)} For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: in burnt-offering hast thou no delight. ^{17 (51:19)} The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, wilt thou not despise. ^{18 (51:20)} Do good in thy favor unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. ^{19 (51:21)} Then wilt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and entire offering: then shall bullocks be offered upon thy altar.

^{2 (52:4)} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sharpened razor, thou worker of deceit.

^{21 (55:22)} The creamy words of his mouth are smooth, yet there is war in his heart; his words are softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.

^{9 (62:10)} Verily nought are the sons of common men, a lie the sons of the great; they must rise in the balance; they are altogether lighter than nought.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity: on thy way do thou give me life.

²⁵ Covet not her beauty in thy heart, and let her not conquer thee with her eyelids.

³⁴ For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not spare on the day of vengeance.

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth man into a deep sleep; and an indolent soul will suffer hunger.

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is noisy; and whosoever indulgeth therein will never be wise.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

³³ “A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;” ³⁴ But then will thy poverty come like a rover; and thy wants as a man armed with a shield.

¹³ He that concealeth his transgressions will not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them will obtain mercy.

¹² If a ruler listen to the word of falsehood, all his servants become wicked.

²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wrong.

³⁰ False is grace, and vain is beauty: a woman only that feareth the Lord shall indeed be praised.

⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

¹ For all this did I reflect over in my heart and to explain all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their services, are in the hand of God: that man knoweth neither love nor hatred; it is all ordained before them; ² Every thing as it is to happen to all; there is but one occurrence for the righteous, and for the wicked; for the good and for the clean, and for the unclean; and for him that sacrificeth, and for him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. ³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.

¹¹ I turned about, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; and that also the wise have no bread, nor yet the men of understanding riches, nor yet men of knowledge favor; but time and fate will overtake them all. ¹² For man also knoweth not his time, like the fishes that are caught in an evil net, and like the birds that are caught in the snare: like these are the sons of men ensnared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

¹⁰ They all will commence and say unto thee, “Thou—thou also art become weak like us; similar unto us art thou become!”

¹² And the Lord Eternal of hosts called on that day for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth. ¹³ And behold there are gladness and joy, slaying of oxen, and killing of sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we must die.” ¹⁴ And it was revealed in my ears by the Lord of hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven unto you until ye die, said the Lord the Eternal of hosts.

¹³ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is but the acquired precept of men;

¹⁵ Woe unto those that seek to hide deeply their counsel from the Lord, so that their works may be in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

²² For though thou wash thyself with natron, and take for thyself much soap: yet would the stain of thy iniquity remain before me, saith the Lord Eternal. ²³ How canst thou say, I am not become unclean, after the Be’alim have I not gone? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: like a swift dromedary bound fast to her ways;

³⁷ Also from this one shalt thou go forth, with thy hands clasped over thy head; for the Lord hath rejected those on whom thou trustest and thou shalt not prosper with them.

⁸ As robust horses they rose by times in the morning: every one neighed after the wife of his neighbor.

^{1 (8:23)} Oh that one would make my head water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people! ^{2 (9:1)} Oh that one would place me in the wilderness in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors. ^{3 (9:2)} And they bend their tongues, their bow of falsehood, and not for the truth are they valiant in the land; for from evil to evil do they proceed, and me they know not, saith the Lord. ^{4 (9:3)} Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and on any brother place ye no reliance; for every brother will surely supplant, and every neighbor will go about as a talebearer.

⁹ Deceitful is the heart above all things, and sick: who can know it?

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are unclean, shall become as the place of the Thopheth, with all the houses upon the roofs of which they have burnt incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

¹³ Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

⁵¹ And Samaria hath not committed even the half of thy sins; but thou didst multiply thy abominations more than they; and thou hast justified thy sisters through all thy abominations which thou hast done. ⁵² Bear then thou also thy own confusion, which thou didst adjudge unto each of thy sisters; through thy sins, which thou hast committed more abominably than they, are they made more righteous than thou: therefore thou also—be ashamed, and bear thy confusion, since thou hast justified thy sisters.

^{20 (21:25)} A way shalt thou appoint, that the sword may come against Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon, and the other against Judah dwelling in Jerusalem the fortified.

¹¹ Oppressed is Ephraim, broken through punishment; because he willingly walked after the commandment of false prophets.

⁶ For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

³ For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth bribes, and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network of wrong. ⁴ The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchmen, thy punishment, is come; now shall be perplexity among them. ⁵ Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a confidant: from her that lieth in thy bosom guard the doors of thy mouth.

¹⁵ Woe unto him that maketh his neighbors drink, to thee that pourest out thy poisonous wine, and makest them also drunken, in order to look on their nakedness!

³ Then will the Lord go forth, and fight against these nations, as on the day when he fought on the day of battle.