Psalms 50 Cross References - Leeser

¹ A psalm of Assaph. The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting. ² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth. ³ Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm. ⁴ He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people. ⁵ “Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.” ⁶ And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah. ⁷ “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I. ⁸ Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. ⁹ I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰ For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains. ¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it. ¹³ Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats? ¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows; ¹⁵ And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,—and so wilt thou glorify me.” ¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth? ¹⁷ And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. ¹⁸ When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion. ¹⁹ Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. ²⁰ Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother’s son thou utterest slander. ²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.” ²² Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, with none to deliver. ²³ Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, in which its seed is upon the earth: and it was so. ¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees yielding fruit, in which its seed is after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven. ²¹ And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply on the earth.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ²⁹ And God said, Behold I have given unto you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree on which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

¹⁹ And the Lord God had formed out of the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and he brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that should be its name.

¹⁷ Every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee; that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

² And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be yours for food; even as the green herbs have I given you all things.

¹ And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be thou perfect.

²⁵ Far be it from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be this from thee; shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice?

⁹ Thus God took away the cattle of your father, and gave them to me.

¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, I will be that I will be: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I will be hath sent me unto you.

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine:

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation; these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

² I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

³ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the laws of justice; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, all the words which the Lord hath spoken will we do. ⁴ And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord, and he rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ And he then sent the young men of the children of Israel, and they offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings unto the Lord, of oxen. ⁶ And Moses took the half of the blood, and put it in basins; and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said, all that the Lord hath spoken will we do and obey. ⁸ And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

² And there went out a fire from before the Lord, and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.

¹⁰ And if there be a man that committeth adultery with a man’s wife, whoever it be that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife: then shall the adulterer be put to death, together with the adulteress.

² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If a man make a particular vow, to give the estimated value of persons in honor of the Lord: ³ If the estimated value concern a male from twenty years old, and unto sixty years old, then shall the estimation be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴ And if it be a female, then shall the estimation be thirty shekels. ⁵ And if the person be from five years old and unto twenty years old, then shall the estimation of the male be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ⁶ And if the person be from a month old and unto five years old, then shall the estimation of the male be five shekels of silver, and for the female the estimation shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷ And if the person be from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, then shall the estimation be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ⁸ But if he be too poor for this estimation, then shall he present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability to pay of him that hath vowed shall the priest value him. ⁹ And if it he a beast, whereof men can bring an offering unto the Lord, all that a man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy. ¹⁰ He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad one, or a bad for a good one; and if he should change beast for beast, then shall it together with its exchange be holy. ¹¹ And if it be any unclean beast, of which they cannot offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then shall he present the beast before the priest: ¹² And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad; as the priest valueth it, so shall it be. ¹³ And if he will redeem it, then shall he add a fifth part thereof unto the estimated value. ¹⁴ And if a man sanctify his house as holy unto the Lord, then shall the priest value it, whether it be good or bad; as the priest may value it, so shall it stand. ¹⁵ And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then shall he add the fifth part of the money of the estimated value unto it, and it shall remain his. ¹⁶ And if a man sanctify some part of a field of his possession unto the Lord, then shall the estimation be in proportion to its required seed: the seed of a chomer of barley at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷ If immediately after the year of the jubilee he sanctify his field, according to this estimation shall it stand. ¹⁸ But if after the jubilee he sanctify his field, then shall the priest reckon unto him the money in proportion to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the estimation. ¹⁹ And if he that sanctified the field will redeem it, then shall he add the fifth part of the money of the estimated value unto it, and it shall be assured to him. ²⁰ But if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. ²¹ But the field, when it is freed in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a devoted field: to the priest shall it belong as his possession. ²² And if a man sanctify a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession, unto the Lord: ²³ Then shall the priest reckon unto him the amount of the estimated value to the year of the jubilee; and he shall give this estimation on that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord. ²⁴ In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom he bought it, to the one to whom belongeth the possession of the land. ²⁵ And all estimations of value shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. ²⁶ Only the first-born which shall, by being first born, be sacred unto the Lord among cattle, no man shall sanctify; whether it be ox, or lamb, it is the Lord’s. ²⁷ And if it be an unclean animal, then shall he redeem it according to the estimated value, and he shall add its fifth part thereto; and if it be not redeemed, then shall it be sold according to the estimated value. ²⁸ But any devoted thing, which a man may devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall not be sold nor redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord. ²⁹ Any one condemned, who shall be condemned to death among men, shall not be redeemed: he shall be put to death. ³⁰ And every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, belongeth to the Lord; it is holy unto the Lord. ³¹ And if a man will redeem any part of his tithe, its fifth part shall he add thereto. ³² And concerning the tithe of the herds, or of the flocks, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord. ³³ He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he should change it, then both it and the exchange thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. ³⁴ These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children on mount Sinai.

³⁵ And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had offered the incense.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not fulfill it?

^{2 (30:3)} If a man make a vow unto the Lord, or he swear an oath to bind his soul with an obligation: he shall not profane his word; according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth shall he do. ^{3 (30:4)} And if a woman make a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by an obligation, being in her father’s house in her youth; ^{4 (30:5)} And her father hear her vow, and her obligation wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father be silent to her: then shall all her vows stand, and every obligation wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. ^{5 (30:6)} But if her father disallow her on the day that he heareth it: all her vows or her obligations, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall not stand; and the Lord will forgive her, because her father hath disallowed her. ^{6 (30:7)} And if she be given to a man, and have vows upon her, or what she may have uttered with her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; ^{7 (30:8)} And her husband hear it, and be silent to her on the day that he heareth it: then shall her vows stand, and her obligations wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand. ^{8 (30:9)} But if on the day of her husband’s hearing it, he disallow her: then doth he annul her vow which is upon her, and that which she hath uttered with her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; and the Lord will forgive her. ^{9 (30:10)} But regarding the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, all, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand for her. ^{10 (30:11)} And if she had vowed in her husband’s house, or had bound her soul by an obligation with an oath; ^{11 (30:12)} And her husband heard it, and was silent to her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation, wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand. ^{12 (30:13)} But if her husband hath annulled them on the day he heard them: then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, concerning her vows, or concerning the obligation of her soul, shall not stand; her husband hath annulled them; and the Lord will forgive her. ^{13 (30:14)} Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the person, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may annul it. ^{14 (30:15)} But if her husband should be silent to her from day to day: then hath he confirmed all her vows, or all her obligations, which are upon her; he hath confirmed them, because he was silent to her on the day that he heard them. ^{15 (30:16)} But if he should annul them after the day that he hath heard them: then shall he bear her iniquity. ^{16 (30:17)} These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth, in her father’s house.

²⁶ I call this day the heavens and the earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not remain many days upon it, but ye shall surely be destroyed.

³⁶ Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice, to correct thee: and upon the earth he caused thee to see his great fire; and his words didst thou hear out of the midst of the fire.

³ Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God it is who goeth over before thee, he is a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before thy face; and thou wilt drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath spoken unto thee.

¹⁴ Behold, to the Lord thy God belong the heavens and the heavens of heavens, and the earth with all that is thereon;

^{21 (23:22)} When thou makest a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

¹⁷ Thou hast this day acknowledged the Lord, that he is thy God, and that thou wilt walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice; ¹⁸ And the Lord hath acknowledged thee this day, that thou art unto him a peculiar people, as he hath spoken unto thee, and that thou shouldst keep all his commandments;

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;

¹⁹ Now therefore write ye for yourselves this song, and teach it the children of Israel, put it in their mouth; in order that this song may become for me a witness against the children of Israel. ²⁰ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat: then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. ²¹ And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their inclination which they have shown, even this day, before I have brought them into the land which I have sworn.

²⁸ Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers; and I will speak in their ears these words, and I will call as witnesses against them the heavens and the earth.

¹ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou wast unmindful, and forgottest the God that had brought thee forth.

² And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them: he shone forth from mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of saints; from his right hand he gave a fiery law unto them.

² And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them: he shone forth from mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of saints; from his right hand he gave a fiery law unto them. ³ Yea, thou also lovedst the tribes; all their saints were in thy hand; and they, prostrate before thy feet, received thy words.

²² The God of gods, the Eternal, the God of gods, the Eternal, he knoweth, and Israel also shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, aid us not this day,

²² For the Lord will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name; because it hath pleased the Lord to make you a people unto himself. ²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you; but I will teach you the good and the right way: ²⁴ Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for see what great things he hath done with you. ²⁵ But if ye will in any wise do wickedly, both ye yourselves as also your king shall perish.

⁴² They look about, but there is none to help; unto the Lord—but he answereth them not.

⁹ And thou hast done more evil than all that were before thee; and thou art gone and hast made unto thyself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and me hast thou cast behind thy back:

²¹ And Elijah approached unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between the two opinions? if the Lord be the God, follow him; and if Ba’al—follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

³⁶ And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening-sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O Lord, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, this day let it be known that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that at thy word I have done all these things. ³⁷ Answer me, O Lord, answer me, and let all this people know that thou, O Lord, art the true God, and thou wilt then have turned their heart back again.

¹¹ And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and, behold, the Lord passed by, and a wind, great and strong, rending the mountains, and breaking in pieces the rocks went before the Lord; but not in the wind was the Lord: and after the wind was an earthquake: but not in the earthquake was the Lord; ¹² And after the earthquake was a fire; but not in the fire was the Lord; and after the fire was the sound of a soft whisper.

¹³ The Lord had indeed warned Israel and Judah, by means of all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn ye back from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I have sent to you by means of my servants the prophets.

¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and of his brethren, Assaph the son of Berechyahu, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushayahu;

³⁷ And he left there in charge before the ark of the covenant of the Lord Assaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, at the work of every day on its day,

² Of the sons of Assaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethanyah, and Asharelah, the sons of Assaph under the supervision of Assaph, who uttered praise under the supervision of the king.

⁶ All these were under the supervision of their father at the singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, under the supervision of the king, Assaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

¹⁴ For who am I, and what is my people, that we should possess the power to offer voluntarily after this sort? for from thee is every thing, and out of thy own have we given unto thee. ¹⁵ For strangers are we before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope of abiding. ¹⁶ O Lord our God! all this abundant store which we have prepared to build for thee a house for thy holy name, is out of thy own hand, and thine is all.

⁵ Wherefore the Lord his God gave him up into the hand of the king of Syria; and they defeated his people, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And also into the hand of the king of Israel was he given up, and he defeated his people with a great slaughter.

³⁰ And king Hezekiah and the princes then said to the Levites to sing praises unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Assaph the seer. And they sang praises with great joy, and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.

¹² And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the true God.

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.

²⁶ Then became they disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and they slew thy prophets who had warned them to bring them back unto thee, and they practised great provocations.

²⁹ And thou gavest them warning to bring them back unto thy law: yet they acted presumptuously, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, and sinned against thy ordinances, which a man is to do that he may live through them: and they rendered their shoulder rebellious, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. ³⁰ Yet thou gavest them indulgence many years, and didst warn them through thy spirit by means of thy prophets; but they gave no ear: therefore didst thou give them up into the hand of the nations of the lands.

³² And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest the covenant and kindness, let not be esteemed as little before thee all the hardship that hath befallen us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:

²⁷ Thou wilt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and thy vows wilt thou pay.

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;

⁴¹ Who provideth for the raven his provision? when his young ones cry unto God, and wander about for lack of food?

¹³ The wing of the ostrich moveth joyfully: hath she the pinions and plumage of the careful stork? ¹⁴ No, for she intrusteth her eggs to the earth, and letteth them be hatched out on the dust: ¹⁵ And she forgetteth that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may stamp them down. ¹⁶ He hath made her callous against her young, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain, but she feeleth no dread; ¹⁷ Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding. ¹⁸ At the time she raiseth herself up on high, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.

²⁶ Is it through thy understanding that the hawk flieth along, and spreadeth out his wings toward the south? ²⁷ Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest? ²⁸ On a rock he dwelleth, and spendeth his nights, on a rocky crag and mountain fastness. ²⁹ From there he espieth his food, from afar can his eyes behold. ³⁰ His young ones, also, sip up blood: and where the slain be, there is he.

¹⁵ Only behold Behemoth, which I made near thee: grass he eateth like the ox. ¹⁶ Only see, how great is his strength in his loins, and his force, in the muscles of his belly. ¹⁷ He stretcheth out his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his loins are closely wrapped together. ¹⁸ His bones are like pipes of brass: his frame is like bars of iron. ¹⁹ He is the first in rank of the works of God: he that made him can alone bring his sword near unto him. ²⁰ But truly the mountains bear for him his food, and all the beasts of the field play there. ²¹ Under shady trees he lieth down, in the covert of the reeds, and swamp. ²² Shady trees cover him as his shadow: willows of the brook encompass him about. ²³ Behold, a river sweepeth violently along, but he hasteneth not away: he remaineth quiet, though a Jordan rusheth up to his mouth. ²⁴ Can one catch him before his eyes? pierce his nose by means of snares?—

^{11 (41:3)} Who hath shown me favor, that I should repay him! whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.—

^{9 (5:10)} For there is not in their mouth any sincerity; their inward part is full of deception; an open sepulchre is their throat: they flatter with their tongue.

^{2 (7:3)} Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. ^{3 (7:4)} O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be injustice in my hands; ^{4 (7:5)} If I have recompensed him that was at peace with me with evil; If I have taken aught from my assailants without cause: ^{5 (7:6)} May the enemy hotly pursue my soul, and overtake it; and tread down upon the earth my life, and cause my honor to be in the dust. Selah.

^{6 (8:7)} Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; every thing hast thou placed beneath his feet: ^{7 (8:8)} Flocks and herds altogether, and also the beasts of the field; ^{8 (8:9)} The birds of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

^{16 (9:17)} The Lord is made known: he executed justice: through the doing of his own hands is the wicked ensnared. Higgayon, Selah. ^{17 (9:18)} The wicked shall return into hell, all the nations that are forgetful of God.

⁴ The wicked, according to the pride of his wrathfulness, saith, He will not require, There is no God in all his plans.

⁷ Of the false oaths is his mouth full, and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

^{2 (12:3)} Deceptively do they speak every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips, with a double heart do they speak. ^{3 (12:4)} May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh boastful things:

^{7 (18:8)} Then shook and trembled the earth; and the foundations of the mountains were moved; and they were shaken, because he was wroth. ^{8 (18:9)} Smoke went up in his anger and consuming fire out of his mouth: coals flamed forth from him. ^{9 (18:10)} And he bent the heavens, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet: ^{10 (18:11)} And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he flitted by upon the wings of the wind. ^{11 (18:12)} He made darkness his hiding-place, round about him as his pavilion, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies. ^{12 (18:13)} From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed away, with hail-stones and coals of fire. ^{13 (18:14)} And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, with hail-stones and coals of fire. ^{14 (18:15)} And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them. ^{15 (18:16)} And then were seen the channels of the waters, and there were laid open the foundations of the world, through thy rebuke, O Lord, through the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

^{23 (22:24)} Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and be in dread of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

^{25 (22:26)} Of thee shall be my praise in a great assembly: my vows will I pay in the presence of those who fear him.

¹ Of David a psalm. Unto the Lord belongeth the earth with what filleth it, the world and they that dwell therein; ² For upon seas hath he founded it, and upon rivers hath he established it.

⁴ He that is of clean hands, and pure of heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, and hath not sworn deceitfully: ⁵ He shall bear away blessing from the Lord, and the reward of righteousness from the God of his salvation.

¹⁴ The secret counsel of the Lord is for those that fear him, and his covenant—to make it known to them.

⁶ And now will my head be lifted up above my enemies all round about me; and I will sacrifice in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy: I will sing, and I will triumphantly play unto the Lord.

^{4 (30:5)} Sing unto the Lord, O ye his pious ones, and give thanks to the memorial of his holiness.

^{18 (31:19)} Let the lying lips be made dumb, which speak hard things against the righteous, with pride and contempt.

^{3 (34:4)} Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. ^{4 (34:5)} I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and from all that I dreaded did he deliver me.

^{3 (36:4)} The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good. ^{4 (36:5)} He deviseth wickedness upon his couch; he placeth himself on a way that is not good; evil he despiseth not.

^{6 (40:7)} Sacrifice and meat-offering thou desirest not—ears hast thou hollowed out unto me—burnt-offering and sin-offering thou demandest not. ^{7 (40:8)} Then said I, Lo, I come: in the roll of the book it is written down for me; ^{8 (40:9)} To fulfill thy will, O my God, do I desire; and thy law is within my heart.

^{2 (48:3)} A beautiful district, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, the farthest north, the city of the great King.

^{14 (48:15)} For this One is God, our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

¹ To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm. ^(49:2) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the perishable world:

¹ To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm. ^(49:2) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the perishable world: ^{2 (49:3)} Both the sons of the low and the sons of the high, rich and needy, altogether.

³ Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.

⁶ And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah.

⁸ Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows; ¹⁵ And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,—and so wilt thou glorify me.”

²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”

²³ Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.

^{16 (51:18)} For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: in burnt-offering hast thou no delight.

^{2 (52:4)} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sharpened razor, thou worker of deceit. ^{3 (52:5)} Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood more than speaking righteousness. Selah. ^{4 (52:6)} Thou lovest all words of destruction, the tongue of deceit.

^{12 (55:13)} For it is not an enemy that reproached me; then I could bear it: not he that hateth me hath magnified himself against me; then I would have hidden myself from him;

^{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.

^{12 (56:13)} Upon me, O God, rest thy vows: I will pay thanksgiving offerings unto thee.

^{8 (61:9)} So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may pay my vows day by day.

^{3 (64:4)} Who whet their tongue like a sword, who aim with their arrow, the bitter word: ^{4 (64:5)} To shoot in secret at the innocent; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. ^{5 (64:6)} They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they tell secretly of laying snares: they say, Who will see them?

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm and song of David. ^(65:2) For thee praise is waiting, O God, in Zion: and unto thee shall vows be paid.

¹³ I will enter thy house with burnt-offerings: I will pay unto thee my vows, ¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in distress. ¹⁵ Burnt-offerings of fatlings will I offer up unto thee, with the incense of rams; I will prepare steers with he-goats. Selah. ¹⁶ Come, hear, and I will relate, all ye that fear God, what he hath done for my soul. ¹⁷ Unto him I cried with my mouth, and a song of extolling was on my tongue. ¹⁸ If I had looked on wickedness with my heart, the Lord would not have heard; ¹⁹ But verily God hath heard; he hath listened to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰ Blessed be God, who hath not removed my prayer from him, nor his kindness from me.

^{20 (68:21)} Our God is to us the God of salvation: and by the Eternal the Lord are the escapes from death.

^{24 (68:25)} Men see thy goings forth, O God! the goings forth of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

^{30 (69:31)} I will praise the name of God with song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. ^{31 (69:32)} And this will please the Lord better than an ox or bullock having horns and cloven hoofs.

^{31 (69:32)} And this will please the Lord better than an ox or bullock having horns and cloven hoofs.

¹ BOOK THIRD: A Psalm of Assaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure of heart.

¹¹ And they say, How should God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

^{7 (75:8)} But God is the judge: he lowereth one, and lifteth up another,

^{11 (76:12)} Make vows, and pay them unto the Lord your God, all ye that are round about him: let men bring presents unto him that exciteth fear.

^{2 (77:3)} On the day of my distress I sought the Lord; in the night my hand was stretched out, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted.

³⁶ Nevertheless they prayed insincerely to him with their mouth, and with their tongue they lied unto him. ³⁷ For their heart was not firm with him, and they were not faithful in his covenant. ³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not awaken all his fury.

¹ To the chief musician upon Shoshannim; an ‘Eduth by Assaph; a psalm. ^(80:2) O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

^{17 (80:18)} Let thy hand be over the man of thy right hand, over the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

^{7 (81:8)} In distress thou didst call, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. ^{8 (81:9)} Hear, O my people, and I will give warning unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldst but hearken unto me!

^{10 (81:11)} I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it. ^{11 (81:12)} But my people did not hearken to my voice; and Israel was not willing to follow me. ^{12 (81:13)} So I let them go in the stubbornness of their own hearts: and they walked in their own counsels.

¹ A song or psalm of Assaph. ^(83:2) O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!

^{9 (85:10)} Surely, nigh is his salvation unto those that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.

^{13 (85:14)} Righteousness will walk firmly before him, and will make level the way by its steps.

⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name.

¹² I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will honor thy name for evermore.

² The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

^{5 (89:6)} And the heavens praise thy wonder, O Lord: also thy faithfulness in the assembly of holy ones.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: with him will I be in distress; I will deliver him, and grant him honor. ¹⁶ With length of days will I satisfy him, and I will let him see my salvation.

¹ O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.

⁷ And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it. ⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent! ⁹ He that hath planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that hath formed the eye, shall he not see? ¹⁰ He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge! ¹¹ The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.

¹³ Before the Lord; for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and people in his truth.

³ A fire goeth before him, and burneth up round about his adversaries. ⁴ His lightnings give light to the world: the earth seeth it, and trembleth. ⁵ The mountains melt away like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth. ⁶ The heavens tell of his righteousness, and all the people his glory.

¹⁰ Ye that love the Lord, hate ye the evil: he preserveth the souls of his pious ones; out of the hand of the wicked he ever delivereth them.

⁹ Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and people with equity.

¹² By them have the fowls of the heaven ever their habitation, from between the branches they send forth their voice.

¹⁴ Thou art he who causeth grass to grow for the cattle, and herbs by the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth;

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵ Here is this great and wide-extended sea; therein are moving things without number, living creatures both small and great.

⁶ Then they cried unto the Lord when they were in distress, and out of their afflictions he delivered them. ⁷ And he led them forth on the right way, that they might go to an inhabited city. ⁸ They therefore shall give thanks unto the Lord for his kindness, and proclaim his wonders to the children of men! ⁹ For he satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul he filled with good.— ¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in misery and fetters of iron;— ¹¹ Because they have rebelled against the words of God, and have contemned the counsel of the Most High; ¹² And he humbled with trouble their heart; they stumbled, and there was none to help; ¹³ But when they cry unto the Lord when they are in distress, he saveth them out of their afflictions;

¹⁹ But when they cry unto the Lord when they are in distress, he saveth them out of their afflictions.

²¹ They therefore shall give thanks unto the Lord for his kindness, and proclaim his wonders to the children of men! ²² They shall also sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and relate his deeds with joyful song.—

²⁸ And they cried unto the Lord when they were in distress, and he brought them out of their afflictions.

¹ To the chief musician, by David, a psalm. O God of my praise, do not keep silence. ² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken with me with the tongue of falsehood. ³ Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me, and they fight against me without a cause.

³ From the rising of the sun unto his going down the name of the Lord is praised.

¹⁵ Blessed are ye of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of the Lord; but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

¹² What shall I give in return unto the Lord for all his bounties toward me? ¹³ The cup of salvation will I lift up, and on the name of the Lord will I call. ¹⁴ My vows will I pay unto the Lord, yea, in the presence of all his people.

¹⁷ Unto thee will I offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and on the name of the Lord will I call. ¹⁸ My vows will I pay unto the Lord, yea, in the presence of all his people,

³ Great is the Lord, and greatly praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. ⁴ One generation shall praise thy works to the other, and thy mighty acts shall they declare. ⁵ On the majestic glory of thy excellence, and on thy wondrous deeds will I meditate. ⁶ And of the might of thy terrible acts shall men converse: and thy greatness will I relate.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait hopefully upon thee, and thou givest them their food in its due season. ¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

¹ Hallelujah; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is comely; him becometh praise.

⁹ Who giveth to the beast its food, to the young ravens which cry.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹ If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent; ¹² We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit; ¹³ We shall find all kinds of precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty; ¹⁴ Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all: ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path; ¹⁶ For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird: ¹⁸ While they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch in concealment for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every one that is greedy after unlawful gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.

²⁸ Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me; ²⁹ For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;

⁸ That men may keep the paths of justice; and the way of his pious servants doth he guard.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the adulteress, from the alien woman that useth flattering speeches; ¹⁷ That forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For she sinketh unto death—her house, and unto the departed lead her tracks. ¹⁹ All that come unto her return not again, and they will not reach the paths of life.

¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof; ¹³ While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;

¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off: ²⁰ The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.” ²¹ She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him. ²² He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool: ²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me doth violence to his own soul: all those that hate me love death.

¹⁸ He that hideth hatred hath lips of falsehood; and he that spreadeth abroad an evil report, is a fool.

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

⁷ Too feebly hang down the thighs on a lame man: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

¹ A man that, having received many admonitions, still hardeneth his neck, will suddenly be broken, and this without remedy.

^{4 (5:3)} When thou makest a vow unto God, do not delay to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in such fools: that which thou hast vowed must thou pay. ^{5 (5:4)} It is better that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

¹⁴ On the day of prosperity be happy, but on the day of adversity look on: also this hath God made in equal measure with the other, to the end that man should not find the least to censure him.

¹¹ Because the punishment against evil deeds is not executed speedily, therefore is the heart of the sons of men filled up in them to do evil. ¹² But let a sinner do evil a hundred times, and God withhold long his punishment from him; still do I truly know for certain that it will be well with those that fear God, because they are afraid of him;

¹⁴ For every deed will God bring into the judgment concerning every thing that hath been hidden, whether it be good, or whether it be bad.

¹⁶ His palate is full of sweets, and every thing in him is agreeable. This is my friend, and this is my beloved, O daughters of Jerusalem.—

² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire.

¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire. ¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts?

¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts? ¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering.

¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them, ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool. ¹⁹ If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat; ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. ²¹ How is she become a harlot, the faithful town! she, that was full of justice; righteousness lodged therein; but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is drugged with water; ²³ Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away as with lye thy dross, and remove all thy tin: ²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; after that shalt thou be called, The city of righteousness, the town that is faithful. ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness. ²⁸ But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish. ²⁹ For people shall be ashamed because of the terebinths which ye had desired, and ye shall be put to the blush because of the gardens that ye had chosen. ³⁰ For ye shall be as a terebinth the leaves of which wither, and as a garden that hath no water. ³¹ And the mighty oppressor shall become as tow, and his workman as a spark; and they shall both burn together, with none to quench.

²³ Who justify the wicked in lieu of a bribe, and who deprive the righteous of their right!

^{6 (9:5)} For a child is born unto us, a son hath been given unto us, and the government is placed on his shoulders; and his name is called, Wonderful, counsellor of the mighty God, of the everlasting Father, the prince of peace,

³ And he shall be animated by the fear of the Lord; and not after the sight of his eyes shall he judge, and not after the hearing of his ears shall he decide; ⁴ But he shall judge with righteousness the poor, and decide with equity for the suffering ones of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

² Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust him; for my strength and song is Yah the Eternal: and he is become my salvation.”

⁶ Call aloud and shout, inhabitress of Zion; for great is in the midst of thee the Holy One of Israel.

³ I have charged my prepared ones, I have also called my heroes for my anger, those that rejoice in my highness.

¹⁰ If favor be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not regard the majesty of the Lord.

²¹ For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more be a cover over her slain.

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;

²⁰ And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, thou alone.

¹⁵ Behold, nations are as a drop out of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance are they accounted: behold, isles are like the flying dust. ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient for burning, and its beasts do not suffice for burnt-offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as naught before him; less than nothing, and vanity are they accounted to him. ¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

¹³ The Lord—as a mighty one will he go forth, like a man of war will he arouse his vengeance: he will shout, yea, raise the war-cry; against his enemies will he show his strength. ¹⁴ I have a long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now like a travailing woman will I cry; I will destroy and devour all together.

¹⁴ I have a long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now like a travailing woman will I cry; I will destroy and devour all together.

²³ Thou hast not brought unto me the lamb of thy burnt-offerings; and with thy sacrifices hast thou not honored me: I have not troubled thee with meat-offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense. ²⁴ Thou hast not bought for me sweet cane, and with the fat of thy sacrifices hast thou not satisfied me; but thou hast troubled me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

¹⁷ But Israel shall be helped by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and not be confounded unto all eternity.

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the spring of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel,—not in truth, nor in righteousness. ² For of the holy city they call themselves, and upon the God of Israel they stay themselves,—The Lord of hosts is his name.

²² There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

⁶ And he said, It is too light a thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved of Israel! but I will also appoint thee for a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach as far as the end of the earth.

⁵ My righteousness is near; my salvation goeth forth, and my arms shall judge the people: on me the isles shall wait, and for my arm shall they hope. ⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall exist for ever, and my righteousness shall not be delayed.

¹³ And thou forgettest the Lord, thy Maker, who hath spread out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou dreadest continually, all the day, because of the fury of the oppressor, whenever he aimeth to destroy: and where is now the fury of the oppressor?

⁵ For thy husband is thy Maker, the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, “The God of all the earth,” shall he be called.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁹ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

¹¹ And of whom hadst thou dread or fear, that thou becamest false, and didst not remember me, nor lay it to thy heart? is it not so? I kept silence, and this from earliest times, and therefore thou fearest me not!

¹ Cry with a full throat, spare not, like the cornet lift up thy voice, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. ² Yet me do they ever seek day by day, and to know my ways do they always desire; as a nation that hath done righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God: continually do they ask of me the ordinances of justice—do they desire to draw nigh unto God. ³ “Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest it not? have we afflicted our soul, and thou regardest it not?” Behold, on the day of your fasting ye follow your business, and all your acquired gains do ye exact. ⁴ Behold, for contention and strife do ye fast, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not so at this day, to cause your voice to be heard on high. ⁵ Is such then the fast which I can choose? a day that a man afflicteth his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes for his couch? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day of acceptability unto the Lord? ⁶ Is not this rather the fast that I will choose? to open the snares of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye should break asunder every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh?

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue uttereth deception. ⁴ No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.

⁶ Behold, it is written before me; I will not keep silence, till I have recompensed, yea, recompensed into their bosom.— ⁷ Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills have blasphemed me: and I will measure out their work at first into their bosom.

⁴ Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain?

⁹ Therefore will I contend yet farther with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I contend.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her decorations? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

⁸ As robust horses they rose by times in the morning: every one neighed after the wife of his neighbor. ⁹ Shall I not for these things inflict punishment? saith the Lord: and shall on a nation such as this my soul not be avenged?

⁴ But do not rely on the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, as they say. ⁵ For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; ⁶ If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after other gods to your own hurt: ⁷ Then will I permit you to dwell in this place, in the land that I have given to your fathers, from eternity to eternity.

²¹ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings unto your peace-sacrifices, and eat the flesh thereof. ²² For I spoke not with your fathers, and I commanded them not on the day of my bringing them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering or sacrifice; ²³ But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, they are discouraged and caught, lo, the word of the Lord have they rejected; and what wisdom have they now?

^{5 (9:4)} And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and the truth will they not speak: they have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁶ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord: thou alone art great, and great is thy name in might.

¹² And they said, It is useless: for after our own thoughts will we walk, and we will every one do after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

⁵ It is I who have made the earth, the men, and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I have given it unto the one who seemeth proper in my eyes. ⁶ And now it is I who have given all these countries into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and also the beasts of the field have I given him to serve him.

¹⁸ Thou exercisest kindness unto the thousandth generation, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers unto the bosom of their children after them; thou art the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his name; ¹⁹ Great in counsel, and mighty in execution: thou whose eyes are open over all the ways of the sons of man, to give unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

²³ And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four pages, that he cut it with the writer’s knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the coal-pan, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the coal-pan. ²⁴ Yet they were not terrified, nor did they rend their garments, either the king, or any of his servants that had heard all these words. ²⁵ And although Elnathan and Delayahu and Gemaryahu had also made intercession with the king that he might not burn the roll, he would not listen to them. ²⁶ And the king commanded Yerachmeel the son of the king, and Serayahu the son of ‘Azriel, and Shelemyahu the son of ‘Abdeel, to seize on Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the Lord hid them. ²⁷ Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, after the king had burnt the roll, and the words which Baruch had written down from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, ²⁸ Take thee again another roll, and write on it all the former words that have been on the first roll, which Jehoyakim the king of Judah hath burnt. ²⁹ And concerning Jehoyakim the king of Judah shalt thou say, Thus hath said the Lord, Thou hast indeed burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease therefrom man and beast! ³⁰ Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning Jehoyakim the king of Judah, He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat in the day, and to the cold in the night. ³¹ And I will visit on him and on his seed and on his servants their iniquity; and I will bring over them, and over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and against the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken against them, while they did not hearken. ³² And Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriyahu the scribe; who wrote thereon from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoyakim the king of Judah had burnt in the fire: and there were yet added unto them many words like them.

¹⁵ All that pass by this way clap their hands on account of thee; they hiss and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem: saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty. The joy for all the earth?

¹⁵ If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they depopulate it, and it becometh desolate, without any one to pass through because of the beasts: ¹⁶ These three men if they were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Eternal, should not save either sons or daughters: they only should be saved, but the land should be made desolate.

²⁷ Again, when the wicked turneth away from his wickedness which he hath committed, and executeth justice and righteousness: he shall indeed preserve his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

⁵ And say unto them, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, On the day when I made choice of Israel, I lifted up my hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt: and I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God.

⁷ And I said unto them, Cast ye away every one of the abominations of his eyes, and on the idols of Egypt shall ye not defile yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ I am the Lord your God: in my statutes must ye walk, and my ordinances must ye keep, and do them; ²⁰ And my sabbaths must ye sanctify; and they shall be as a sign between me and between you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; ³⁸ And I will separate from you those that have rebelled, and those that have transgressed against me: out of the country where they sojourn will I cause them to go forth, but into the land of Israel shall not one of them enter; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

³⁸ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, hath he given the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven into thy hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art the head of gold.

¹⁰ A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; thousand times thousands ministered unto him, and myriad times myriads stood before him: they sat down to hold judgment, and the books were opened.

² There is false swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery: they break the bounds, and blood toucheth on blood.

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, so will I also reject thee, that thou shalt not be a priest to me; and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, so will I myself also forget thy children.

¹⁴ For I am as a lion unto Ephraim, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I myself will tear in pieces and go away; I will bear away, and none shall deliver. ¹⁵ I will go from here, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek for me.

⁶ For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings.

⁸ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and I will rend their closed-up heart; and I will devour them there like a lioness, the beasts of the field shall rend them.

^{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.

¹⁴ And refuge shall vanish from the swift, and the strong shall not make use of his force, neither shall the mighty man escape with his life.

⁸ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord Eternal hath spoken, who will not prophesy?

⁷ Sworn hath the Lord by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will not forget to eternity all their works.

¹¹ And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand persons, who know not how to discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?

^{8 (5:7)} And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many people, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep: who, if he break in, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, while none can deliver.

¹ Do but hear now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

¹ Do but hear now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. ² Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth! for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and with Israel will he plead.

² Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth! for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and with Israel will he plead. ³ O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherewith have I wearied thee? testify against me. ⁴ Although I had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bond-men; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. ⁵ O my people, do but remember what Balak the king of Moab resolved, and what Bil’am the son of Be’or answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, in order that ye may know the gracious benefits of the Lord. ⁶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, bow myself before the God on high? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old! ⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with myriads of streams of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ He hath told thee, O man, what is good; and what the Lord doth require of thee: nothing but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God.

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.

⁵ Mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away; and the earth is lifted up at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. ⁶ Before his indignation who can stand? and who can subsist before the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down by him. ⁷ The Lord is good, a strong-hold on the day of distress; and he knoweth those that trust in him.

^{15 (2:1)} Behold, upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, Celebrate thy feasts, O Judah, fulfill thy vows; for never more shall the wicked pass again through thee, he is utterly cut off.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple: be silent before him all the earth.

³ When God from Theman came, and the Holy One from mount Paran, Selah: his glory covered the heavens, and of his praise the earth was full. ⁴ And his brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed forth out of his hand unto them; and there was the hiding of his power. ⁵ Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth in his steps.

⁵ Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart unto your ways.

¹⁷ For how great will be that generation’s happiness, and how great its beauty! corn shall make the young men sing joyfully, and new wine the virgins.

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 ye shall flee from the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal; and ye shall flee, just as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of ‘Uzziyah the king of Judah: and then will come the Lord my God, and all the saints with thee.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even unto his going down my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burnt and there is offered unto my name, even a pure offering; for great is my name among the nations, saith the Lord of hosts.

² But who can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the melter, and like the lye of the washers: ³ And he will sit as a melter and purifier of silver; and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness

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.

^{1 (3:19)} For, behold, the day is coming, which shall burn as an oven; and all the presumptuous, yea, and all who practise wickedness shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, who will not leave them root or bough.