Job 7 Cross References - Leeser

¹ Is there not a limited time of service to a mortal upon the earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired laborer? ² As a servant eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hired laborer hopeth for his reward: ³ So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me. ⁴ When I He down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am wearied with tossings about till the dawn of day. ⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and clods of dust: my skin is burst open, and become loathsome. ⁶ My days hasten away more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end in the absence of hope. ⁷ Oh remember that nothing but a breath is my life; that my eye will not again see happiness; ⁸ The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: thou fixest thy eyes upon me, and I am no more. ⁹ As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again. ¹⁰ He will return no more to his house, and his place will not recognize him any more. ¹¹ Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea, or a monster, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ For should I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help me bear my complaint: ¹⁴ Then wouldst thou frighten me with dreams, and with visions wouldst thou terrify me; ¹⁵ So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine. ¹⁶ I loathe it; I cannot live for ever: let me alone; for my days are but nought. ¹⁷ What is the mortal, that thou shouldst make him great? and that thou shouldst direct thy heart toward him? ¹⁸ And that thou shouldst visit him every morning, probe him every moment? ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not turn thy regard from me, nor let; me loose till I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what injury can I cause unto thee, O thou Guardian of men? why hast thou set me as an object for thee to strike at, so that I am become a burden to myself? ²¹ And why wilt thou not forgive my transgression, and let my iniquity pass away? for soon must I lie down in the dust; and thou wilt seek for me, but I shall be no more.

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here am I.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife from the daughters of Heth, such as these, from the daughters of the land, what good will life do me?

⁵ And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each his dream in one night, each in accordance with the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison. ⁶ And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked at them, and, behold, they were sad. ⁷ And he asked the officers of Pharaoh that were with him in ward in his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly today?

⁸ And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret the same unto Pharaoh.

²¹ And they said to one another, Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said unto them, Me ye have bereaved of my children: Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and Benjamin ye will take away; all these things are against me.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

³⁴ And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, my angel shall go before thee; but on the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

¹³ Thou shalt not withhold any thing from thy neighbor, nor rob him: there shall not abide with thee the wages of him that is hired, through the night until morning.

⁵⁰ And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him.

¹⁶ Who hath fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; in order to afflict thee, and in order to prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

¹⁸ It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee, that for double the wages of a hired laborer hath he served thee six years; and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.

¹⁵ On the same day shalt thou give him his wages, that the sun may not go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul longeth for it; so that he may not cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin in thee.

⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only evening! and at evening thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only morning! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience, and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see.

¹³ And when Gid’on was come, behold, a man was telling a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and, lo, a baked cake of barley bread was rolling round through the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and struck against it so that it fell, and it turned it bottom upward, and the tent thus tumbled down. ¹⁴ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gid’on the son of Joash, a man of Israel; into whose hand God hath delivered Midian, and the whole camp.

¹⁰ But she had bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept greatly.

¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel gone out? after whom art thou pursuing? after a dead dog, after a single flea.

²³ But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast then? can I restore him again? I am going to him; but he will not return to me.

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water which is spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and yet doth God not take away life; and he deviseth thoughts, so that the banished one may not remain banished from him.

²³ And when Achithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled the ass, and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and gave his charge to his household, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

¹⁰ And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away; for I have acted very foolishly.

⁴ But he himself went forward into the wilderness a day’s journey, and he came and sat down under a certain broom-bush: and he requested for himself to die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my soul; for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁷ And she came to the man of God to the mount, and caught hold of his feet; and Gechazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is grieved within her; and the Lord hath hidden it from me, and hath not told it me. ²⁸ And she said, Did I request a son from my Lord? did I not say, Do not lead me astray?

⁸ Remember, I beseech thee, the word with which thou didst charge Moses thy servant, saying, If ye become truly unfaithful, I will indeed scatter you among the nations.

⁶ Thou indeed art the Eternal One alone: It is thou that hast made the heavens with all their host, the earth, and all that is upon her, the seas, and all that is in them, and thou givest life to them all; and the host of the heavens bow down before thee.

⁷ Thereupon went the Accuser forth from the presence of the Lord, and he smote Job with a sore inflammation, from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. ⁸ And Job took himself a potsherd to scrape himself there with, while he was sitting down among the ashes.

¹³ For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,

²⁰ Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul? ²¹ Who wait for death, which cometh not; and who dig for it sooner than for hidden treasures; ²² Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?

²⁴ For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.

⁷ But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁹ Yea, that it would please God that he might crush me: that he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? and what my end, that I should yet longer retain my patience?

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, and to regard as wind the speeches of one that is despairing?

³ So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me. ⁴ When I He down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am wearied with tossings about till the dawn of day.

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: thou fixest thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.

¹¹ Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹² Am I a sea, or a monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

¹² Am I a sea, or a monster, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ For should I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help me bear my complaint: ¹⁴ Then wouldst thou frighten me with dreams, and with visions wouldst thou terrify me;

¹⁷ What is the mortal, that thou shouldst make him great? and that thou shouldst direct thy heart toward him?

¹⁸ But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.

¹⁸ He suffereth me not to recover my breath; but feedeth me overmuch with bitter things.

²¹ I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.

²⁵ And my days pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sorrowful countenance, and recover my cheerfulness: ²⁸ O then would I be in dread of all my pains; I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent. ²⁹ I must ever be guilty: why then should I fatigue myself for nought? ³⁰ If I were to wash myself in snow-water, to cleanse myself in the purity of my hands: ³¹ Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.

³¹ Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.

¹ My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that as though I were clay hast thou made me; and wilt thou cause me to return again unto the dust?

¹⁴ If I have sinned, then dost thou watch me, and from my iniquity thou wilt not declare me guiltless. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction;

²⁰ Lo! my days are but few: cease, then, withdraw from me thy hand, that I may recover my cheerfulness a little. ²¹ Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

²¹ Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²² A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.

⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou effect? it is deeper than the nether world; what canst thou know?

¹³ Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over me what will.

¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? my transgression and my sin let me know. ²⁴ Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee?

²⁶ That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth; ²⁷ And that thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest narrowly all my paths; and settest for thyself a mark upon the soles of my feet?

³ And yet on such a one dost thou open thy eyes, and me thou bringest into judgment with thee?

⁵ Seeing that his days are determined, the number of his months are fixed with thee, that thou hast set his bounds which he cannot pass: ⁶ Turn thyself from him that he may recover from his pain, and be able to enjoy like a hired laborer his day.

⁶ Turn thyself from him that he may recover from his pain, and be able to enjoy like a hired laborer his day.

¹⁰ But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he? ¹¹ The waters run off from the sea, and the river faileth and drieth up: ¹² So doth man lie down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, and will not be roused out of their sleep. ¹³ Oh who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then! ¹⁴ Or, when a man dieth, will he live again? all the days of my time of service would I then wait, till the hour of my release were come.

¹⁶ Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with the punishment of my sin.

⁶ Though I were to speak, my pain would not be restrained; and though I should forbear, what will go away from me? ⁷ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

¹² I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark; ¹³ His archers encompass me round about; he cleaveth my reins sunder, and doth not pity; he poureth out upon the ground my gall; ¹⁴ He breaketh me down with breach upon breach; he runneth against me like a mighty man.

²² For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.

¹¹ My days are past, my resolves are broken off, even the thoughts—the possessions of my heart. ¹² These would change the night into day, the light as near in the presence of darkness.—

¹⁴ When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms. ¹⁵ Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it fulfilled?

²⁶ And after my skin is cut to pieces will this be: and then freed from my body shall I behold God;

⁹ If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.

³ Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock. ⁴ As for me,—is against man my complaint? and if this be so, why should my spirit not be impatient?

²⁵ While this other dieth with an embittered soul, and hath never partaken of any happiness;

³² Yea he will indeed be carried to the grave, and men will quickly think of his monument: ³³ Sweet are to him the clods of the valley; and after him succeedeth every man, as those that were before him are without number.

⁵ Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities?

²⁰ The mother that bore such a one will forget him; the worm will feed sweetly on him; he will be no more remembered; and like a tree will wickedness be broken.

²¹ The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place.

²³ Men will clap their hands over him, and will hiss after him out of his place.

² Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded me;

¹⁵ Terrors have turned their face against me; they chase like the wind my glory: and like a cloud is my happiness passed away.

¹⁷ All night it holloweth out my bones out of my body; and my pursuers take no rest. ¹⁸ Through the Almlghty’s power is my garment made unknown: like the opening of my coat hath he enclosed me. ¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

³³ If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;

⁹ “I am pure without transgression, I am quite clean; and there is no iniquity in me:

²⁷ He then should assemble men around, and say, “I had sinned, and perverted what is right, yet have I not received a like return.”

¹⁴ If he were to set his heart upon man, he would gather unto himself his spirit and his breath: ¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, and the son of earth would return again unto dust.

⁶ If thou sin, what dost thou effect against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

¹¹ Also with moisture he loadeth the cloud; and he scattereth the cloud of his lightning;

⁶ Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone: ⁷ When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God? ⁸ And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth? ⁹ When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth, ¹⁰ And when I decreed for it my law, and set for it bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed thy strength in the pride of thy waves?

^{1 (40:25)} Canst thou draw out the crocodile with a fishhook? or cause his tongue to sink into the batted rope? ^{2 (40:26)} Canst thou put a reed through his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ^{3 (40:27)} Will he address many supplications unto thee? or will he speak submissively unto thee? ^{4 (40:28)} Will he make a covenant with thee? that thou couldst take him as a servant for ever? ^{5 (40:29)} Canst thou play with him as with a bird? and tie him up for thy maidens? ^{6 (40:30)} Can companions waylay him? can they divide him among merchants? ^{7 (40:31)} Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? and pierce with a fish-spear his head? ^{8 (40:32)} Lay thy hand upon him; think of the battle: thou wilt never do it again. ^{9 (41:1)} Behold, his expectation was deceived: even at his mere sight is he cast down. ^{10 (41:2)} None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me? ^{11 (41:3)} Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.— ^{12 (41:4)} I will not conceal the account of his limbs, nor the relation of his might, nor the grace of his proportion. ^{13 (41:5)} Who hath ever laid open the front of his garment? or who can penetrate into his double row of teeth? ^{14 (41:6)} Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror. ^{15 (41:7)} What pride is there in his strong shields; he is locked up as with a close seal. ^{16 (41:8)} One is joined to another; and no breath can come between them. ^{17 (41:9)} They are fitted closely one to another: they are interlocked, that they cannot be severed. ^{18 (41:10)} From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn. ^{19 (41:11)} Out of his mouth issue burning torches, sparks of fire escape therefrom. ^{20 (41:12)} Out of his nostrils cometh forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. ^{21 (41:13)} His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh out of his mouth. ^{22 (41:14)} In his neck abideth strength, and before him danceth terror joyfully. ^{23 (41:15)} The flakes of his flesh are fitted closely together: they are as molten metal on him, immovable. ^{24 (41:16)} His heart is firm like a stone: yea, as firm as the nether millstone. ^{25 (41:17)} At his lifting himself up the mighty are terrified: the waves also are lessened. ^{26 (41:18)} If one overtake him with the sword, it cannot hold; nor the spear, the dart, and armor. ^{27 (41:19)} He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. ^{28 (41:20)} The child of the bow cannot make him flee: into stubble are slingstones changed unto him. ^{29 (41:21)} Clubs are esteemed as stubble, and he laugheth at the whirring of the lance. ^{30 (41:22)} Beneath him are sharp-pointed potsherds, he spreadeth out, as it were, a threshing-roller upon the mire. ^{31 (41:23)} He causeth the deep to boil like a pot: he rendereth the sea like an apothecary’s mixture. ^{32 (41:24)} Behind him he causeth his pathway to shine, so that men esteem the deep to be hoary. ^{33 (41:25)} There is none upon earth that ruleth over him, who is made to be without dread. ^{34 (41:26)} He looketh upon all that is high: he is the king over all the ravenous beasts.

^{3 (6:4)} And my soul is greatly terrified; but thou, O Lord, how long yet—?

^{6 (6:7)} I am weary with my sighing; I flood every night my bed; With my tears I moisten my couch.

^{4 (8:5)} What is the mortal, that thou rememberest him? and the son of man, that thou thinkest of him:

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(13:2) How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me continually! how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ^{2 (13:3)} How long shall I have to devise resolves in my soul, with grief in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? ^{3 (13:4)} Look down, answer me, O Lord my God! enlighten my eyes, that I may not sleep the sleep of death;

^{12 (21:13)} For thou wilt make them turn their back; upon thy bow-strings thou wilt make ready thy arrows against their face.

^{6 (36:7)} Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy acts of justice like the great deep: man and beast dost thou ever help, O Lord.

³⁶ Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

^{5 (38:6)} Foul, corrupt are my bruises because of my folly. ^{6 (38:7)} I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief. ^{7 (38:8)} For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

^{3 (39:4)} My heart was hot within me, in my self-communing there burnt a fire: then spoke I with my tongue, ^{4 (39:5)} Let me know, O Lord, my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I wish to know when I shall cease to be. ^{5 (39:6)} Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah.

^{10 (39:11)} Remove thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed. ^{11 (39:12)} When thou with corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as if eaten by the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. Selah.

^{13 (39:14)} Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.

^{9 (40:10)} I announce thy righteousness in the great assembly: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, thou well knowest it.

^{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.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy hath defied the Lord, and that a worthless foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

²² Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember thy defiance from the worthless fool all the day.

^{4 (77:5)} Thou holdest my eyes awake: I am troubled and I cannot speak.

³³ Therefore he caused their days to come to an end in nought, and their years in dread.

³⁹ And he remembered that they are but flesh, a spirit that passeth away, and returneth not again.

^{4 (80:5)} O Lord of hosts, how long shall thy anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

^{47 (89:48)} Remember what I am, what my duration is here, for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!

^{50 (89:51)} Remember, Lord, the disgrace of thy servants; that I bear in my bosom the burden of all the many nations;

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they grow like the grass which changeth. ⁶ In the morning it blossometh, and is changed: in the evening it is mowed off, and withereth.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.

³ How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?

^{11 (102:12)} My days are like a shadow that declineth; and like the herb I wither.

¹⁵ As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom.

¹⁵ As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom. ¹⁶ When a wind but passeth over it, it is gone, and its place will recognize it no more.

¹⁶ When a wind but passeth over it, it is gone, and its place will recognize it no more.

²³ Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and panted for breath; because for thy commandments did I long.

⁶ My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning expect the morning.

⁶ I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul longeth for thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

³ Lord, what is man, that thou takest cognizance of him: the son of a mortal, that thou regardest him! ⁴ Man is like the breath: his days are like a passing shadow.

³² Through his own evil is the wicked thrust down; but even in his death doth the righteous have confidence.

¹⁴ I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all is vanity and a torture of the spirit.

¹¹ For there are many things that increase vanity: what advantage cometh thence for man? ¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his vain life, that he should spend them as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

⁸ No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit; and there is no control over the day of death; and there is no representation in that war; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise it.

⁷ When the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.—

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

¹¹ Into the nether world is brought down thy pride, the clatter of thy psalteries: beneath thee is spread the worm, and thy cover is the moth.

¹⁶ For thus hath said the Lord unto me, Within yet one year, like the years of a hired laborer, shall all the glory of Kedar be at an end:

¹⁴ They are dead, they will not live again; they are departed, they will not rise again; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made to perish every memorial of them.

¹⁹ Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing ye, that dwell in the dust; for a dew on herbs is thy dew, and the earth shall cast out the departed.

⁵ Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus hath said the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

¹¹ I had said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall not behold man any more among the inhabitants of the regions of death. ¹² My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me. ¹³ I waited with patience till morning, whether as a lion, so would he break all my bones: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.

¹⁵ What shall I speak? he hath promised it unto me, and he hath also accomplished it; I will make pilgrimages to God’s house all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.

² Speak ye comfort to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out unto her, that her time of sorrow is accomplished, that her iniquity is atoned for; for she hath received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

⁶ A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field: ⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.

¹¹ O thou afflicted, tossed by the tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

^{9 (64:8)} Be not wroth, O Lord, so very greatly, and do not for ever remember our iniquity: behold, look, we beseech thee, thy people are we all.

²⁴ And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.

²⁵ “Prevent thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from being thirsty;” but thou saidst, It is useless; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

⁴ Prepare ye war against her! “Arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day waneth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

^{7 (9:6)} Therefore thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and probe them; for how else shall I do because of the daughter of my people?

¹⁵ Thou well knowest it, O Lord! remember me and think of me, and avenge me on my persecutors; not according to thy long-suffering act thou for me: know, that for thy sake I have borne shame.

⁷ He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.

¹² He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow.

⁴² We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned. ⁴³ Thou hast covered us with thy anger, and made pursuit after us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. ⁴⁴ Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.

²⁰ Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time? ²¹ Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old. ²² For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?

⁴³ And ye shall remember there your ways, and all your doings, whereby ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves, because of all your evil deeds that ye have committed.

² Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou didst deem thyself like a young lion among the nations: while thou art as a crocodile in the seas; and thou issuedst forth with thy rivers, and madest turbid the waters with thy feet, and didst stir up their rivers. ³ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, I will therefore spread out my net over thee through the assemblage of many people, and they shall draw thee up in my net.

¹ And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, whereat his spirit was troubled, and his sleep that was upon him was gone.

² And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to disgrace and everlasting abhorrence.

¹⁰ Many shall be selected and cleansed, and purified; but the wicked will deal wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand: but the intelligent will understand.

^{2 (14:3)} Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, “Pardon all our iniquity, and accept our return to good; and let us repay the steers of sacrifice with the prayer of our lips.

³ And now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my soul from me; because it is better for me to die, than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God made ready a hot east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint; and he wished for himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

¹⁸ Who is a god like unto thee, pardoning iniquity, and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He will again have mercy on us, he will suppress our iniquities; yea, thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and I will refine them as one refineth silver, and will probe them as gold is probed: they will call on my name, and I will answer their prayer; I will say, They arc my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

⁵ And I will come near unto you to hold judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those that swear falsely, and against those that withhold the wages of the hired laborer, oppress the widow, and the fatherless, and that do injustice to the stranger, and fear me not, saith the Lord of hosts.