Psalms 106 Cross References - MKJV

¹ Praise Jehovah. O give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or cause all His praise to be heard? ³ Blessed are those who keep judgment, he who does righteousness at all times. ⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation, ⁵ that I may see the good of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled at the sea, even at the Red Sea. ⁸ But He saved them for His name's sake, to make His mighty power known. ⁹ And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of the hater, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ And the waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left. ¹² Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise. ¹³ They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel; ¹⁴ but they lusted greedily in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. ¹⁵ And He gave them what they asked, but sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of Jehovah. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the melted image. ²⁰ And they changed their Glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass. ²¹ They forgot God their Deliverer, who had done great things in Egypt; ²² wonderful works in the land of Ham, fearful things by the Red Sea. ²³ And He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them. ²⁴ And they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word, ²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah. ²⁶ And He lifted up His hand to them, to overthrow them in the wilderness; ²⁷ to overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead, ²⁹ and provoked Him to anger with their doings; and the plague broke in on them. ³⁰ Then Phinehas stood and interceded, and the plague was stayed. ³¹ And it was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forevermore. ³² And they angered Him at the waters of strife so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes; ³³ because they provoked his spirit so that he spoke rashly with his lips. ³⁴ They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them; ³⁵ but were mixed among the nations, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. ³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, ³⁸ and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood. ³⁹ And they were defiled with their works, and went lusting in their doings. ⁴⁰ And the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against His people, and He detested His inheritance. ⁴¹ And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them. ⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand. ⁴³ Many times He delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel and sank in their iniquities. ⁴⁴ And He looked on their affliction when He heard their cry; ⁴⁵ and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies. ⁴⁶ And He gave them to tender mercies before the face of all their captors. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name and to triumph in Your praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise Jehovah!

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth, ²³ that I will take from all that is yours, not from a thread even to a shoestring, lest you say, I have made Abram rich.

⁶ And he believed in Jehovah. And He counted it to him for righteousness.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and soup of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. And Esau despised his birthright.

¹ And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I will die.

¹⁶ And they moved from Bethel. And there was only a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor in her bearing. ¹⁷ And it happened when she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also. ¹⁸ And it happened as her soul was departing (for she died) that she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

⁸ And I will bring you in to the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a heritage. I am Jehovah!

¹⁶ And for this I have made you stand, to make you see My power, to declare My name in all the land.

¹¹ And they said to Moses, Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness because there were no graves in Egypt? Why have you dealt this way with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? ¹² Did we not tell you this word in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. ¹³ And Moses said to the people, Do not fear. Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will prepare for you this day. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them anymore.

²¹ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And Jehovah caused the sea to recede by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. ²² And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

²⁵ And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them go heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah fights for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. ²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea. And the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it. And Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea. And the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it. And Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There did not remain so much as one of them.

²⁸ And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There did not remain so much as one of them. ²⁹ But the sons of Israel walked upon dry land in the middle of the sea. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. ³⁰ So Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. ³¹ And Israel saw that great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared Jehovah, and believed Jehovah and His servant Moses.

⁵ The depths have covered them; they sank into the bottom like a stone. ⁶ Your right hand, O Jehovah, has become glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. ¹⁰ You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹⁰ You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹³ You in Your mercy have led forth the people which You have redeemed. You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.

¹⁷ You shall bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, O Jehovah, You have made for You to dwell in; the Sanctuary, O Jehovah, which Your hands have established.

¹⁹ For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them. But the sons of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea.

²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

² And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

² And the people wrangled with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you wrangle with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah?

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not?

⁴ You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

³³ They shall not dwell in your land lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it surely will be a snare to you.

³⁶ And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and carve on it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.

⁴ And he took them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool. And he made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ⁵ And when Aaron saw, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow is a feast to Jehovah. ⁶ And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. ⁷ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go! Get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, are corrupted. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And now leave Me alone, so that My wrath may become hot against them and so that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation. ¹¹ And Moses prayed to Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. ¹⁴ And Jehovah repented as to the evil which He spoke of doing to His people.

¹⁴ And Jehovah repented as to the evil which He spoke of doing to His people.

³² And now will You forgive their sin! And if not, I pray You, blot me out of Your book which You have written.

³⁵ And Jehovah plagued the people because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and call you, and you eat of his sacrifice; ¹⁶ and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

¹⁶ and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

⁷ And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to goats, after whom they have gone whoring. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

⁵ then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go lusting after him to commit adultery with Molech, from among their people. ⁶ And the soul that turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go lusting after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

²³ And you shall not walk in the ways of the nation which I cast out before you. For they committed all these things, and therefore I loathed them.

⁶ They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of Jehovah, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy. ⁷ They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or defiled. Neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband. For he is holy to his God. ⁸ And you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you. For I am holy, Jehovah who sanctifies you.

¹⁰ And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes. ¹¹ Neither shall he come near to any dead person, nor defile himself for his father nor for his mother. ¹² Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am Jehovah.

³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.

⁴⁰ If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,

⁴⁰ If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me, ⁴¹ I also will walk contrary to them and will bring them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity, ⁴² then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land.

⁴ And the mixed multitude in their midst lusted with great lust. And the sons of Israel also turned and wept, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

³¹ And a wind went forth from Jehovah. And it cut off quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits high upon the face of the earth. ³² And the people stood up all that day and all night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails. And he that gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. ³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague. ³⁴ And he called the name of that place Graves of Lust, because there they buried the people that lusted.

³² And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched to the sons of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up those who live in it. And all the people whom we saw in it were men of stature.

¹ And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried. And the people wept that night. ² And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness! ³ And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? ⁴ And they said to one another, Let us make a leader, and let us return to Egypt.

¹¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

¹³ And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them. ¹⁴ And they will say to the inhabitant of this land, They have heard that You, Jehovah, are among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You are Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ And will You kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

²² Because all those men who have seen My glory and My miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me. ²⁸ Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you.

²⁸ Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you. ²⁹ Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,

²⁹ Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, ³⁰ you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹ But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.

³¹ But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised. ³² But as for you, your bodies shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness. ³⁴ According to the number of the days in which you searched the land, forty days, each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know My alienation. ³⁵ I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die.

³⁹ And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commands of Jehovah, and do them; and so that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you prostitute yourself,

¹ Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, took both Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben; ² even they rose up before Moses with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the assembly, elect men in the congregation, men who were well-known. ³ And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of Jehovah? ⁴ And Moses heard and fell on his face. ⁵ And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even tomorrow Jehovah will show who are His, and him who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him; even him whom He has chosen, He will cause to come near to Him.

⁵ And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even tomorrow Jehovah will show who are His, and him who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him; even him whom He has chosen, He will cause to come near to Him. ⁶ Do this. Take fire-pans, Korah and all his company, ⁷ and put fire in them, and put incense in them before Jehovah tomorrow. And it shall be the man whom Jehovah chooses, he shall be holy. You take too much upon you, sons of Levi! ⁸ And Moses said to Korah, Hear now you sons of Levi; ⁹ is it only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? ¹⁰ And He has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. And do you seek the priesthood also? ¹¹ For this cause you and all your company are gathered against Jehovah. And what is Aaron, that you murmur against him? ¹² And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up. ¹³ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also seize dominion over us? ¹⁴ Besides, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance in fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. ¹⁵ And Moses was very angry, and said to Jehovah, Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. ¹⁶ And Moses said to Korah, Stand before Jehovah, you and all your company, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. ¹⁷ And every man take his fire-pan and put incense in them, and let every man bring his fire-pan before Jehovah, two hundred and fifty fire-pans, you also, and Aaron, each with his fire-pan. ¹⁸ And every man took his fire-pan and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹ And Korah gathered all the congregation against them, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the congregation. ²⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²¹ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, so that I may devour them in a moment. ²² And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will You be angry with all the congregation? ²³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying, ²⁴ Speak to the congregation saying, Get away from the tent of Korah and Dathan and Abiram. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram. And the elders of Israel followed him. ²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, I pray you, get away from the tents of these wicked men. And touch nothing of theirs lest you be destroyed in all their sins. ²⁷ So they got away from the tent of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants. ²⁸ And Moses said, By this you shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, and that not from my own heart. ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited according to the examination of all men, Jehovah has not sent me.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited according to the examination of all men, Jehovah has not sent me. ³⁰ But if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked Jehovah.

³⁰ But if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked Jehovah. ³¹ And it happened, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.

³¹ And it happened, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. ³² And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their goods.

³² And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their goods. ³³ They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation.

³³ They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel around them fled at their cry. For they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. ³⁵ And there came out a fire from Jehovah and burned up the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense.

³⁵ And there came out a fire from Jehovah and burned up the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense. ³⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

³⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying, ³⁷ Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder. For they are holy.

³⁷ Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder. For they are holy. ³⁸ The fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them into broad plates, a covering for the altar; for they offered them before Jehovah, therefore they are made holy. And they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.

³⁸ The fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them into broad plates, a covering for the altar; for they offered them before Jehovah, therefore they are made holy. And they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel. ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the bronze fire-pans, the ones with which those who had been burned up had offered, and they were made into broad plates, a covering of the altar,

³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the bronze fire-pans, the ones with which those who had been burned up had offered, and they were made into broad plates, a covering of the altar, ⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, that no stranger not of the seed of Aaron may come near to offer incense before Jehovah, so that he may not be as Korah and as his company, as Jehovah said to him by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, that no stranger not of the seed of Aaron may come near to offer incense before Jehovah, so that he may not be as Korah and as his company, as Jehovah said to him by the hand of Moses. ⁴¹ But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying, You have killed the people of Jehovah. ⁴² And it happened when the congregation was gathered together against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation. And behold! The cloud covered it, and the glory of Jehovah appeared. ⁴³ And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁴⁴ And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying, ⁴⁵ Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. ⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a fire-pan, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation and make an atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from Jehovah. The plague has begun.

⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a fire-pan, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation and make an atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from Jehovah. The plague has begun. ⁴⁷ And Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation. And behold! The plague had begun among the people. And he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed. ⁴⁹ And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand, seven hundred, besides the ones who died about the matter of Korah. ⁵⁰ And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the plague was stayed.

² And there was no water for the congregation. And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron. ³ And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah! ⁴ And why have you brought up the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die there? ⁵ And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It is no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to them. ⁷ And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying, ⁸ Take the rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. So you shall give the congregation and their animals drink. ⁹ And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah as He commanded him. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now you rebels. Must we bring water for you out of this rock?

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now you rebels. Must we bring water for you out of this rock? ¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice. And the water came out plentifully, and the congregation and their animals drank.

¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice. And the water came out plentifully, and the congregation and their animals drank. ¹² And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. ¹³ These are the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel fought with Jehovah, and He showed Himself holy among them.

²³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, ²⁴ Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the Waters of Strife.

¹ And Israel lived in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab. ² And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods. ³ And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.

⁵ And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal-peor. ⁶ And behold! One of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁷ And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand. ⁸ And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel. ⁹ And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹¹ Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy. ¹² Therefore say, Behold! I give him My covenant of peace. ¹³ And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the sons of Israel. ¹⁴ And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, was Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites. ¹⁵ And the Midianite woman's name who was killed was Cosbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

¹⁰ And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men. And they became a sign.

¹³ And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as Aaron your brother was gathered. ¹⁴ For you rebelled against My command in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the water before their eyes; they were the Waters of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague was on the congregation of Jehovah.

¹⁴ And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

⁵² then you shall drive out all those who live in the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images and pluck down all their high places.

⁵⁵ But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain shall be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live. ⁵⁶ And it shall be, as I thought to do to them, so I shall do to you.

³³ So you shall not defile the land in which you are. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.

²⁶ But you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Jehovah your God. ²⁷ And you murmured in your tents and said, Because Jehovah hates us, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

³² Yet in this thing you did not believe Jehovah your God,

³⁴ And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was angry and swore, saying, ³⁵ Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

³⁷ Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there.

²⁶ But Jehovah was angry with me because of you and would not hear me. And Jehovah said to me, Let it be enough for you. Speak no more to Me of this matter.

³ Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor. For Jehovah your God has destroyed from among you all the men that followed Baal-peor.

²¹ And Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

²⁶ I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land which you are crossing over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. ²⁷ And Jehovah shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.

³⁴ Or has God gone forth to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

¹⁹ And you shall not steal.

²² And Jehovah gave signs and wonders, great and evil signs, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes.

² and Jehovah your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

⁶ For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

¹⁶ And you shall destroy all the people which Jehovah your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for they will be a snare to you.

¹⁸ You shall not be afraid of them, but shall well remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. ¹⁹ Remember the great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall Jehovah your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.

²³ And Jehovah your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed. ²⁴ And He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

⁷ For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, ⁹ a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any thing in it. It is a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

⁸ Also in Horeb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, so that Jehovah was angry with you to have destroyed you.

¹² And Jehovah said to me, Arise! Get down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten image. ¹³ And Jehovah spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

¹³ And Jehovah spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁴ Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

¹⁴ Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. ¹⁵ So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And I looked, and behold! You had sinned against Jehovah your God, and had made you a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.

¹⁹ For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah listened to me at that time also.

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as small as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain. ²² And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked Jehovah to anger. ²³ And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you did not believe Him, nor listened to His voice.

²⁵ And I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, that I had thrown myself down, for Jehovah had said to destroy you.

²⁹ Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm.

¹⁰ And I stayed in the mountain, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights. And Jehovah listened to me at that time also. Jehovah would not destroy you.

²¹ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.

¹ Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and His commandments always.

⁴ And you know what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and Jehovah has destroyed them to today.

⁶ and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance in their possession, in the midst of all Israel.

¹¹ But the land which you are entering to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of the heavens. ¹² It is a land which Jehovah your God cares for. The eyes of Jehovah your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

³⁰ take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise? ³¹ You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

⁹ But you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. ¹⁰ And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he has sought to drive you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. ¹¹ And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

¹⁵ you shall surely strike those who live in that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that is in it, and all the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶ And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its street, and shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, every bit of it, for Jehovah your God. And it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. ¹⁷ And let nothing of the cursed thing cling to your hand, so that Jehovah may turn from the heat of His anger and show you mercy, and give mercies to you, and multiply you as He has sworn to your fathers,

¹⁵ And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch,

¹⁶ But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes. ¹⁷ But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as Jehovah your God has commanded you,

⁹ So you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do the right in the sight of Jehovah.

¹³ You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.

²⁵ Jehovah shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁹ And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall always be pressed down and spoiled forever, and no man shall save you.

³³ The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

³⁷ And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where Jehovah shall lead you.

⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies which Jehovah shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

⁶⁴ And Jehovah shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other, and you shall serve other gods there, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But Jehovah shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.

⁴ Yet Jehovah has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until today.

¹⁶ They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. ¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ones newly come up, whom your fathers did not fear.

¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ones newly come up, whom your fathers did not fear.

¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ones newly come up, whom your fathers did not fear. ¹⁸ You forgot the Rock who brought you forth, and ceased to care for God who formed you.

¹⁸ You forgot the Rock who brought you forth, and ceased to care for God who formed you. ¹⁹ And Jehovah saw, and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters.

¹⁹ And Jehovah saw, and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters. ²⁰ And He said, I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness. ²¹ They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²⁶ I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men, ²⁷ were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared, lest their enemies should misconstrue; lest they should say, Our hand is high and Jehovah has not done all this. ²⁸ For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them. ²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end! ³⁰ How shall one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Jehovah had shut them up?

³⁶ For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.

⁴⁰ For I lift up My hand to Heaven and say, I live forever! ⁴¹ If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me. ⁴² I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.

⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall surround us, and shall cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?

¹² And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.

⁶³ As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

¹⁰ And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. But the Canaanites live among the Ephraimites until this day, and serve under tribute.

¹² Yet the sons of Manasseh were not able to occupy these cities, but the Canaanites wanted to live in that land. ¹³ And it happened when the sons of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute. But they did not completely drive them out. ¹⁴ The sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, Why have you given me one lot and one portion to inherit, since I am a great people, because Jehovah has blessed me until now? ¹⁵ And Joshua answered them, If you are a great people, and if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you, get up to the forest and cut down more for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants. ¹⁶ And the sons of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those who are of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel.

¹⁷ Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not been made clean until today? Yea, a plague came on the congregation of Jehovah!

¹² Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you, ¹³ know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

¹³ know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

¹⁹ And Jehovah was with Judah. And he took possession of the mountain. But he could not drive out those who lived in the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

²⁷ And Manasseh had not taken possession of Beth-shean and its daughter-villages, nor Taanach and its daughter-villages, nor struck the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter-villages, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter-villages, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter-villages. For the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ And it happened, when Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not completely expel them. ²⁹ And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. ³⁰ And Zebulun did not expel those who lived in Kitron, nor those who lived in Nahalol. But the Canaanites lived among them and became tributaries. ³¹ And Asher did not expel those who lived in Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob. ³² But the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land, for they did not expel them. ³³ And Naphtali did not expel those who lived in Beth-shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and they lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land. But those who lived in Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became tributaries to them. ³⁴ And the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the mountain. For they would not allow them to come down to the valley. ³⁵ But the Amorites desired to stay in Mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy so that they became tributaries. ³⁶ And the border of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock and upward.

² And you shall make no treaty with those who live in this land. You shall throw down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. What is this that you have done? ³ And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

³ And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

¹² And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. And they followed other gods of the gods of the people who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger. ¹³ And they forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had said, and as Jehovah had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed. ¹⁶ But Jehovah raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who spoiled them. ¹⁷ And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of Jehovah; these did not do so.

¹⁷ And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of Jehovah; these did not do so. ¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised judges up for them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groanings before their oppressors and their crushers.

¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised judges up for them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groanings before their oppressors and their crushers. ¹⁹ And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way. ²⁰ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,

⁵ And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.

⁵ And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁶ And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

⁶ And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. ⁷ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah and forgot Jehovah their God, and served Baals and the Asherahs. ⁸ And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. And the sons of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. ⁹ And when the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, Jehovah raised up a deliverer to the sons of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.

¹² And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of Jehovah.

¹ And the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of Jehovah when Ehud was dead. ² And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The captain of his host was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the nations. ³ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

⁸ They chose new gods; then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

¹ And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. ² And the hand of Midian was strong against Israel. Before the faces of Midian, the sons of Israel made themselves dens in the mountains, and caves and strongholds. ³ And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, even they came up against them. ⁴ And they camped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. And they left no food for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. ⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it.

⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel was made very poor because of the Midianites. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah.

⁶ And Israel was made very poor because of the Midianites. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah. ⁷ And it happened, when the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah because of the Midianites, ⁸ Jehovah sent a man, a prophet to the sons of Israel, who said to them, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage. ⁹ And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you and gave you their land. ¹⁰ And I said to you, I am Jehovah your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not obeyed My voice.

⁶ And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals and Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they left Jehovah, and did not serve Him. ⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon. ⁸ And that year they troubled and oppressed the sons of Israel; all the sons of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead, for eighteen years. ⁹ And the sons of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed. ¹⁰ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also have served the Baals.

¹⁰ And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also have served the Baals. ¹¹ And Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, Did not I deliver you from Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

¹¹ And Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, Did not I deliver you from Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines? ¹² And the Sidonians and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you. And you cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

¹² And the Sidonians and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you. And you cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

¹² And the Sidonians and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you. And you cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hand. ¹³ Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore, I will deliver you no more.

¹³ Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore, I will deliver you no more. ¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do You to us whatever is good in Your eyes; only deliver us, we pray You, today.

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do You to us whatever is good in Your eyes; only deliver us, we pray You, today. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was moved by the misery of Israel.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was moved by the misery of Israel. ¹⁷ Then the sons of Ammon were gathered and camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled themselves together and camped in Mizpeh. ¹⁸ And the people and rulers of Gilead said to one another, What man is there who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

⁸ And the sons of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease from crying to Jehovah our God for us, so that He will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁹ And Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered a whole burnt offering to Jehovah. And Samuel cried to Jehovah for Israel, and Jehovah answered him. ¹⁰ And it happened as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But Jehovah thundered with a great noise on that day on the Philistines, and troubled them. And they were beaten before Israel. ¹¹ And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them as far as below Beth-car. ¹² And Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Jehovah has helped us until now.

⁹ And they forgot Jehovah their God. And He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. ¹⁰ And they cried to Jehovah, and said, We have sinned because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and Ashtoreths. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You. ¹¹ And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived safely.

¹⁹ And there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

²² And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams! ²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!

¹⁶ And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah turned from the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, Enough! And stay your hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.

⁴⁷ yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,

⁵⁰ and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, even all their sins which they have done against You, and give them pity before their captors, so that they may have pity on them.

⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal. Do not let one of them escape. And they took them. And Elijah brought them down to the torrent Kishon and killed them there. ⁴¹ And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink, because of the sound of plenty of rain.

²³ And Jehovah was gracious to them, and had pity on them, and had respect to them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And He would not destroy them, nor cast them from His presence as yet.

²⁶ For Jehovah had seen the affliction of Israel to be very bitter. And one was bound, and none was free, and there was no helper for Israel. ²⁷ And Jehovah did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash.

³ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Yes, and he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out from before the sons of Israel.

⁸ and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Jehovah cast out from before the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which the nations had made. ⁹ And the sons of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Jehovah their God. And they built high places in all their cities for themselves, from the Watch Tower to the fortified city. ¹⁰ And they set up images and Asherahs for themselves in every high hill, and under every green tree. ¹¹ And they burned incense in all the high places, like the nations whom Jehovah had removed from before them; and did evil things to provoke Jehovah to anger.

¹⁶ And they left all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made molten images, two calves, for themselves. And they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. ¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire. And they used divination and incantations, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire. And they used divination and incantations, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

⁶ And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times and used fortune-tellers. And he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards. He worked much wickedness in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

¹⁶ And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

⁴ and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah would not pardon.

³⁴ O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever. ³⁵ And say, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us, and deliver us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to Your holy name, and glory in Your praise. ³⁶ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel forever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised Jehovah.

⁴¹ And he left with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were called by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, because His mercy endures forever.

¹⁰ And David blessed Jehovah before all the congregation. And David said, Blessed are You, Jehovah, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

¹⁵ And he ordained priests for himself for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

⁹ For if you turn again to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.

² But he did the evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the heathen whom Jehovah had cast out before the sons of Israel. ³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall My name be forever. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also practiced secret arts, and used fortune-telling, and used witchcraft, and dealt with mediums, and with soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of Jehovah in order to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have set apart for your fathers; only if they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to err, to do worse than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the sons of Israel.

¹¹ And they sang, praising and giving thanks to Jehovah, because He is good, for His mercy endures forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

⁶ And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God. For our iniquities have increased over our heads, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great sin until this day. And for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to shame of face, as it is this day.

⁹ For we were slaves, yet our God has not left us in our bondage, but has given mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us some life, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its waste, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

⁷ We have acted very wickedly against You, and have not kept the commandments nor the statutes nor the judgments which You commanded Your servant Moses.

¹¹ O Jehovah, I pray You, let now Your ear be open to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name. And I pray You, bless Your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. (For I was the king's cupbearer.)

¹⁹ Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

⁵ And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God forever and ever. And blessed be Your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

¹⁰ and gave out signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants and upon all the people of his land. For You knew that they were acting proudly against them. So You got Yourself a name, as today. ¹¹ And You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep, like a stone into the mighty waters.

¹¹ And You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep, like a stone into the mighty waters.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commandments.

¹⁸ Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had worked great blasphemies,

²⁷ And You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who troubled them. And in the time of their trouble, they cried to You, and You heard from Heaven. And according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. ²⁸ But after they had rest, they did evil again before You, and You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the rule over them. But they returned and cried to You, and You heard from Heaven. And many times You delivered them according to Your mercies, ²⁹ and testified against them that You might bring them again to Your Law. But they acted proudly and did not listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. ³⁰ And many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets, but they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands. ³¹ But for Your great mercies, You did not completely destroy them nor forsake them. For You are a gracious and merciful God. ³² And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful God, who keeps covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day, seem little before You.

³² And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful God, who keeps covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day, seem little before You. ³³ But You are just in all that is brought upon us, for You have done right, but we have done wickedly.

³³ But You are just in all that is brought upon us, for You have done right, but we have done wickedly. ³⁴ And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept Your Law, nor listened to Your commandments and Your words with which You testified against them.

³⁴ And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept Your Law, nor listened to Your commandments and Your words with which You testified against them. ³⁵ For they have not served You in their kingdom, and in Your great goodness which You gave them, and in the large and rich land which You gave before them, and they did not turn from their wicked works. ³⁶ Behold, we are servants today. And the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit, and its good, behold, we are servants in it. ³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. ³⁸ And because of all this we are cutting a sure covenant, and write it, and our princes, Levites, and priests are sealing it.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices of it.

²² And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy.

³¹ and for the wood offering, at chosen times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good!

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

⁹ Who is doing great things, even beyond searching; marvelous things without number,

²² Did I say, Give to me? or, Offer a bribe for me from your wealth; ²³ or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand; or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

¹⁴ Lo, these are the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?

² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

⁴ Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken; but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will go no further.

⁷ And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. ⁸ And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful. ² But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night. ³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed.

⁷ But I, in the abundance of Your grace, I will come into Your house; I will worship in Your fear toward Your holy temple.

⁷ Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Zion? When Jehovah brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

² He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart;

¹⁵ Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹ To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

⁵ O Jehovah my God, many things You have done, Your wonderful works and Your thoughts which are toward us; they cannot be set in order to You; I will declare and speak, for they are more than can be numbered.

¹³ Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen and Amen!

¹¹ You have given us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

¹¹ Let the daughters of Judah shout for joy because of Your judgments!

¹ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

⁶ He turns the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

¹⁶ Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be His glorious name forever; and all the earth is filled with His glory! Amen and Amen.

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. O God, have You cast us off forever? Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

¹³ You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. ¹⁴ You cracked open the heads of leviathan, and gave him to be food to the people living in the wilderness.

¹⁹ Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known. ²⁰ You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁸ and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

¹¹ And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them.

¹¹ And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them. ¹² He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand in a heap.

¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust. ¹⁹ And they spoke against God; they said, Can God set a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people?

²⁹ So they ate, and were filled to the full; for He gave them their own desire. ³⁰ They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths,

³⁰ They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths, ³¹ the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel.

⁴⁰ How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!

⁴⁰ How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert! ⁴¹ Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and pained the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember His hand, the day when He delivered them from the enemy;

⁴² They did not remember His hand, the day when He delivered them from the enemy; ⁴³ how He had set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. ⁴⁴ He turned their rivers into blood, and their floods, so that they could not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet. ⁴⁸ He gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire. ⁴⁹ He sent on them the heat of His anger, wrath and fury and trouble, by sending evil angels. ⁵⁰ He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague, ⁵¹ and struck all the first-born in Egypt, the first of the strong in the tents of Ham;

⁵¹ and struck all the first-born in Egypt, the first of the strong in the tents of Ham; ⁵² and led His people forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies.

⁵³ And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies.

⁵⁸ For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. ⁵⁹ When God heard, He was angry, and turned away from Israel; ⁶⁰ so that He left the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men, ⁶¹ and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hands. ⁶² He also gave His people over to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

⁷ You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

¹² So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; and they walked in their own conceits.

¹¹ For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. ¹² O Jehovah of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You.

¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength; and in Your favor our horn shall be lifted up.

⁵² Blessed is Jehovah forevermore. Amen and Amen.

¹³ Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants.

⁷ For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice, ⁸ harden not your heart, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness; ⁹ when your fathers tempted Me, tested Me, and saw My work.

¹¹ to whom I swore in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest.

⁸ You answered them, O Jehovah our God; You were a God who forgave them, though You take vengeance for their deeds.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him, and bless His name. ⁵ For Jehovah is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations.

¹⁷ But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness is to sons of sons;

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah; call on His name; make known His deeds among the people.

⁵ Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth, ⁶ seed of His servant Abraham, sons of Jacob His chosen.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations;

²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob resided in the land of Ham.

²⁶ He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen. ²⁷ They showed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His Word. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. ³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs in the rooms of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders. ³² He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. ³³ He struck their vines also and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their borders. ³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came, and larvae without number; ³⁵ and they ate up all the plants in their land, and ate the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ He also struck all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength.

⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen with gladness,

⁴⁵ so that they might take heed to His Precepts and keep His Laws. Praise Jehovah!

⁴⁵ so that they might take heed to His Precepts and keep His Laws. Praise Jehovah!

¹³ They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel;

²⁹ and provoked Him to anger with their doings; and the plague broke in on them.

³⁹ And they were defiled with their works, and went lusting in their doings.

⁴⁵ and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, ³ and gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

¹¹ because they rebelled against the Words of God, and despised the advice of the Most High.

⁶ He has shown His people the power of His works, to give to them the inheritance of the nations.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. ⁵ What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back, ⁶ O mountains that skipped like rams, O little hills like lambs? ⁷ Earth, tremble at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ⁶ they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. ⁸ The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; because His mercy endures forever.

¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Jehovah does mighty things.

¹ ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah. ² Blessed are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with all the heart. ³ They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.

⁴⁴ And I shall keep Your Law continually forever and ever.

⁶⁸ You are good, and do good; teach me Your Precepts.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I raised it, that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

¹¹² I have bowed down my heart to do Your Precepts always to the end.

¹³² Look on me, and be merciful to me, as You usually do to those who love Your name.

¹ A Song of degrees. When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.

⁹ who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants;

¹⁴ For Jehovah will judge His people, and He will have pity on His servants.

¹ Oh give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.

¹³ to Him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the middle of it; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁵ but threw Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁶ To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever.

²⁴ and has redeemed us from our enemies; for His mercy endures forever.

¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

³ Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

¹¹ O Jehovah, for Your name's sake enliven me; for Your righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble.

³ Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; and there is no searching out His greatness. ⁴ One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. ⁵ I will speak of the glorious honor of Your majesty, and of Your wonderful works. ⁶ And men shall speak of the might of Your awesome works; and I will declare Your greatness. ⁷ They shall pour forth the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness. ⁸ Jehovah is gracious and full of pity; slow to anger, and of great mercy. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works. ¹⁰ All Your works shall praise You, O Jehovah; and Your saints shall bless You. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power, ¹² to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.

² Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

²² How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

²⁵ but you have despised all my advice, and would have none of my warning.

³⁰ They would have none of my counsel; they despised all my correction,

²⁹ Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

¹⁵ And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

⁶ For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob, because they have become full from the east, and are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. And they clap their hands with the children of strangers.

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹⁴ But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west; they shall spoil the sons of the east together; they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the sons of Ammon shall obey them. ¹⁵ And Jehovah shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind He shall shake His hand over the River, and shall strike it into seven streams, and make one tread it with shoes. ¹⁶ And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria; as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

² Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.

⁶ Cry out and shout, O dweller of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

⁵ And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

⁵ And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and they who dwell in it are deserted; therefore the people of the earth are burned, and few men left.

¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we have heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me! Deceivers deceive, even with treachery. Deceivers deceive!

²¹ For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

¹⁸ To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him? ¹⁹ The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains. ²⁰ He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter. ²¹ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? ²² It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in; ²³ who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity. ²⁴ Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled? says the Holy One.

¹⁸ They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

²¹ Declare and bring near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this of old? Who has told it from then? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

²⁵ In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

¹⁷ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. ¹⁸ Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

² Who knows why I have come, and no one is here? I called and no one answered. Is My hand shortened at all so that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

¹⁰ Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

¹ So says Jehovah, Keep judgment and do justice; for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed. ² Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping the sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing any evil.

⁵ being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

⁷ I will mention the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah has benefited for us, and the great good to the house of Israel by which He benefited them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses. ⁸ For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that will not lie; so He was their Savior.

¹¹ Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him; ¹² who led them by the right hand of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name? ¹³ He led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they would not stumble. ¹⁴ As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused him to rest. So You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.

⁵ You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, and we will be saved.

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her;

¹¹ Has a nation changed their gods who are yet no gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

³⁴ Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.

¹ They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah. ² Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.

⁶ Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there. ⁷ And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. ⁸ And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also. ⁹ And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.

¹⁹ But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.

²⁵ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

¹ Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

³¹ They have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command them, nor did it come into My heart.

⁸ But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities. ⁹ Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skillful ones. ¹⁰ But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.

⁷ O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

²¹ Do not abhor us for Your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

¹¹ Jehovah said, Truly I will free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

¹⁵ Do you reign, because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. ¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not to know Me? says Jehovah.

³⁵ And they built the high places of Baal, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. ³⁸ And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. ³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their sons after them. ⁴⁰ And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. ⁴¹ Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and all My whole soul.

¹¹ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise Jehovah of Hosts, for Jehovah is good, for His mercy endures forever; and the voice of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says Jehovah.

¹² And I will show mercies to you, so that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.

⁷ Jehovah has cast off His altar; He rejected His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in the house of Jehovah, as a day of meeting.

³² for though He causes grief, yet He will have pity according to the multitude of His kindnesses.

²³ Make a chain; for the land is full of bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence.

⁵ You have not gone up into the breaks, nor built the wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his. ¹⁶ And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be. ¹⁷ And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered dresses and covered them, and you have given to their face My oil and My incense. ¹⁹ Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, says the Lord Jehovah. ²⁰ And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. Are your fornications small?

²⁰ And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. Are your fornications small? ²¹ You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.

²¹ You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them. ²² And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and squirming in your blood. ²³ Woe, woe to you says the Lord Jehovah! For it happened after all your evil, ²⁴ that you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street. ²⁵ You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications. ²⁶ You have also whored with the Egyptians, your neighbors great of flesh, and have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way. ²⁸ You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied. ²⁹ And your whoredom is idolatry in the land of Canaan, to the Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this. ³⁰ How weak is your heart, says the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot; ³¹ in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages. ³² Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers. ³³ They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication. ³⁴ And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. In this you are opposite. ³⁵ Therefore, O harlot, hear the Word of Jehovah. ³⁶ So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them; ³⁷ behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. ³⁸ And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They shall also raise a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords. ⁴¹ And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again. ⁴² And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no more. ⁴³ Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these things; so, behold, I will also repay your way on your head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations. ⁴⁴ Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter. ⁴⁵ You are your mother's daughter, who despises her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their hateful deeds; but, as if it were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they were in all your ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty and did abominable things before Me, so I turned away as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Nor has Samaria sinned as much as half your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done. ⁵² You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins which you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you! Yes, blush and bear your shame, since you have justified your sisters. ⁵³ When I shall return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then also the captivity of your captivity in their midst; ⁵⁴ that you may bear your shame, and blush in all that you have done, since you are a comfort to them. ⁵⁵ When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state. ⁵⁶ For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, ⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from all around. ⁵⁸ You are bearing your wickedness and your abominations, says Jehovah. ⁵⁹ For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. ⁶⁰ But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. ⁶² And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Jehovah; ⁶³ so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be possible to open your mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.

²¹ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²² All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be mentioned to him; in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

⁶ in the day that I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

⁸ But they rebelled against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not each man throw away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said, I will pour out My fury against them to fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations among whom they were, for I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them. And they greatly profaned My sabbaths. And I said, I will pour out My fury on them in the wilderness to destroy them. ¹⁴ But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.

¹⁴ But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out. ¹⁵ And also I lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey; it is the glory of all lands;

¹⁸ But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

²² But I withdrew My hand and worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, from whom I brought them out in their eyes. ²³ I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and scatter them through the lands,

²⁶ And I defiled them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that open the womb to pass through the fire, that I might waste them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

²⁸ When I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there. And there they offered their provoking gifts. There also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out their drink offerings there. ²⁹ And I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And the name of it is called High Place to this day. ³⁰ Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiled in the same way as your fathers? And do you go whoring after their abominations?

³⁰ Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiled in the same way as your fathers? And do you go whoring after their abominations? ³¹ For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I Live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.

³¹ For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I Live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you. ³² And what comes up on your spirit shall not happen at all, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

⁴³ And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings in which you have been defiled. And you shall despise yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which you have committed. ⁴⁴ And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I have worked with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

³ And you shall say, So says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.

³ And they fornicated in Egypt; they whored in their youth, their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples were worked. ⁴ And their names were Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah. ⁵ And Oholah whored under Me. And she lusted after her lovers, to her Assyrian neighbors, ⁶ clothed with purple, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses. ⁷ So she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria; with all of them, and with all whom she lusted after; she defiled herself with all their idols. ⁸ Nor did she leave her fornications from Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they worked her virgin nipples, and poured their fornications on her. ⁹ Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she lusted. ¹⁰ They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her. ¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom. ¹² She lusted to the sons of Assyria, governors and rulers nearby, clothed most perfectly; horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men. ¹³ And I saw that she was defiled, one way was to both of them. ¹⁴ And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall; images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermilion, ¹⁵ girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the sons of Babylon in Chaldea, the land of their birth; ¹⁶ and she lusted after them, to the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. ¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her mind was alienated from them. ¹⁸ So she uncovered her fornications and uncovered her nakedness. And My soul was alienated from her just as My soul was alienated from her sister. ¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ And she lusted on her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses. ²¹ So you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Egyptians worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth. ²² So, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will raise up against you your lovers, from whom your soul is alienated; and I will bring them against you from all around; ²³ the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, all of them, third heads and called ones; all of them riding on horses. ²⁴ And they shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; buckler and shield and helmet shall set against you all around. And I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you by their judgments. ²⁵ And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire. ²⁶ They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. ²⁷ So I will make your wickedness to cease from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt. And you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor shall you remember Egypt any more. ²⁸ For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of whom your soul was alienated from them. ²⁹ And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and your fornications. ³⁰ These things will be done to you because you have whored after the nations, and because you are defiled with their idols. ³¹ You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand. ³² So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much. ³³ with drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, the cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria. ³⁴ You shall even drink it and empty it. And you shall break its pieces, and tear off your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah. ³⁵ So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries. ³⁶ And Jehovah said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their abominations, ³⁷ that they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands? And they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire to them, to devour them.

³⁷ that they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands? And they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire to them, to devour them. ³⁸ And yet they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in that day, and have profaned My sabbaths. ³⁹ And when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And lo, this they have done in the midst of My house. ⁴⁰ And they have even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And lo, they came. You washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments, ⁴¹ and sat on a stately bed with a table prepared before it, on which you set My incense and My oil. ⁴² And the sound of a crowd was at ease with her; and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind; and they put bracelets on their hands, and crowns of beauty on their heads. ⁴³ And I said about the one worn in adulteries, Will they now whore with her, and she with them? ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as they go in to a woman of harlotry; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the wicked women. ⁴⁵ And as righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. ⁴⁶ For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and stripped. ⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ So I will cause wickedness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught, even not to go after your wickedness. ⁴⁹ And they shall put your wickedness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

²⁴ For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all lands, and will gather you into your own land. ²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them. ²⁸ And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

²¹ And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and will bring them into their own land. ²² And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be king to them all. And they shall not still be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. ²³ Nor shall they be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in them where they sinned, and will cleanse them. And they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God. ²⁴ And David My servant shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My Laws, and do them. ²⁵ And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, the land in which your fathers have lived. And they shall dwell in it, even they and their sons, and the sons of their sons for ever. And My servant David shall be their ruler forever. ²⁶ And I will cut a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ And My tabernacle shall be with them. Yea, I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ²⁸ And the nations shall know that I Jehovah sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever.

²⁵ Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: And I will return the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name; ²⁶ after they have borne their shame and all their sins by which they have sinned against Me, when they dwell securely in their land and no one terrifies; ²⁷ when I have brought them again from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; ²⁸ then they shall know that I am Jehovah their God who exiled them among the nations. But I have gathered them to their own land, and have not left any of them there. ²⁹ Nor will I hide My face from them any more, for I have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

⁵ we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments. ⁶ Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is today to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, and to all Israel who are near and who are afar off, through all the countries where You have driven them because of their sin which they have sinned against You. ⁸ O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

¹⁷ And now, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. ¹⁸ O my God, bow down Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and behold our ruins, and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not present our prayers before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies. ¹⁹ O Jehovah, hear; O Jehovah, forgive; O Jehovah, listen and do. Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

⁷ But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

¹ O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

²³ Be glad then, sons of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God. For He has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain in the first month.

³ Jehovah repented for this; It shall not be, says Jehovah.

⁶ Jehovah repented for this; This also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹² And he said to them, Take me up and throw me out into the sea. And the sea shall be calm to you; for I know that this great storm has come on you for my sake. ¹³ But the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not, for the sea was going on and being stormy against them. ¹⁴ And they cried to Jehovah and said, We beg You, O Jehovah, we beg You, let us not perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O Jehovah, have done as it pleased You. ¹⁵ And they lifted Jonah up and threw him out into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

⁴ For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of slaves; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.

⁴ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon withers.

¹⁴ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is righteous and victorious, meek and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.

⁸ I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.

²⁶ And He said to them, Why are you afraid, little-faiths? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

¹⁸ "Behold My Child whom I have chosen; My Beloved, in whom My soul is well pleased. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He shall declare judgment to the nations.

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus apart, and said, Why could we not cast him out? ²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you.

¹⁷ And He said to him, Why do you call Me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

⁵ But not caring, they went their ways, one to his field, another to his trading.

³² and you fill up the measure of your fathers.

³⁵ For whoever does the will of God, the same is My brother and My sister and My mother.

¹² so that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

¹⁷ And knowing it, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason that it is because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Have you still hardened your heart? ¹⁸ Do you have eyes and do not see? Do you have ears and do not hear? And do you not remember? ¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many hand baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve. ²⁰ And when the seven among four thousand, how many lunch baskets full of fragments did you take up? And they said, Seven. ²¹ And He said to them, How do you not understand?

³ And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined, a woman came with an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of spikenard. And she broke the vial and poured it on His head. ⁴ And some were indignant to themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? ⁵ For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and be given to the poor. And they were incensed with her. ⁶ And Jesus said, Let her alone! Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work towards Me. ⁷ For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you desire you may do them good. But you do not have Me always. ⁸ She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for the burying. ⁹ Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be proclaimed in all the world, this also that she has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.

⁴⁷ and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

⁶⁸ Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people ⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

⁷¹ that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us, ⁷² to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant,

⁷⁴ that He would grant to us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁴⁷ Whoever comes to Me and hears My Words, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock; and a flood occurring, the stream burst against that house and could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock. ⁴⁹ But he who hears and does not perform, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, on which the stream burst, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.

¹³ Those on the rock are the ones who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy. And these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

²⁸ But He said, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.

⁴² But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to leave the other undone.

⁴² And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.

³⁰ As He spoke these words, many believed upon Him. ³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed.

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If a man loves Me, he will keep My Word. And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

¹⁶ You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²² And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their own hands.

⁵¹ O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ Even as Simon has declared how God at the first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His name.

¹⁶ And in this I exercise myself, always to have a blameless conscience toward God and men.

²¹ Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools

²² Professing to be wise, they became fools ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

⁷ indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.

²⁰ But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, ²¹ so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth."

²⁰ No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way?

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁶ And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted. ⁷ Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." ⁸ Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. ⁹ Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him and were destroyed by serpents.

¹⁹ What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything? ²⁰ But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

²⁰ But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

¹⁶ Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?

³³ Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.

¹⁴ Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.

⁹ But we should not lose heart in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

⁴ according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength

¹¹ Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

³ For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;

¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, ¹² so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned. ¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

³ but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)

¹⁰ not stealing, but showing all good faith, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear His voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

⁸ do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. ¹⁰ Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. ¹¹ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest." ¹² Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

¹⁵ while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."

¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe?

¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

² For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

⁶ Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,

¹⁴ Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

¹⁶ (lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

²⁹ for also, "Our God is a consuming fire."

²⁵ But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

² For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.

¹⁶ Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

⁵ But I intend to remind you, you once knowing these things, that the Lord having delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed the ones not believing.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb. ¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God, ¹² saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. And He sitting on the throne will dwell among them.

⁵ And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the earth lifted his hand to the heaven, ⁶ and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there should no longer be time.

¹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth. ³ And he carried me away into a desert by the Spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.

¹⁴ These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.

¹⁴ Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.