Isaiah 22 Cross References - MLV

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have entirely gone up to the housetops? ² O you that are full of shouts, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle. ³ All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.
⁴ Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls and a crying to the mountains.
⁶ And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen and Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷ And it happened, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
⁸ And he took away the covering of Judah and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. ⁹ And you* saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many. And to fortify the wall, you* gathered together the waters of the lower pool, ¹⁰ and you* numbered the houses of Jerusalem and you* broke down the houses. ¹¹ You* also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you* did not look to him who had done this, nor had you* respect to him who purposed it long ago.
¹² And in that day the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, called for weeping and for mourning and for baldness and for girding with sackcloth. ¹³ And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die. ¹⁴ And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you* till you* die, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
¹⁵ The Lord says thus, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, ¹⁶ What are you doing here? And whom have you here, that you have hewed you out here a sepulcher? Hewing him out a sepulcher on high, carving a habitation for himself in the rock!
¹⁷ Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently. Yes, he will wrap you up closely. ¹⁸ He will surely wind you round and round, tossing like a ball into a large country. There you will die and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house. ¹⁹ And I will thrust you from your office and you will be pulled down from your station.
²⁰ And it will happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. ²¹ And I will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your belt. And I will commit your government into his hand and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder and he will open and none will shut and he will shut and none will open.
²³ And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he will be for a throne of glory to his father's house. ²⁴ And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoot, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.
²⁵ In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way and it will be hewn down and fall. And the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for Jehovah has spoken it.

¹⁷ And God heard the voice of the lad. And the messenger of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Do not fear, God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

⁸ When you build a new house, then you will make a guard rail for your roof, that you not bring blood upon your house, if any man falls from there.

²³ And they cried out to the sons of Dan. And they turned their faces and said to Micah, What troubles you that you come with such a company?

¹ And the child Samuel served Jehovah before Eli. And the word of Jehovah was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

⁵ And behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field and Saul said, What troubles the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

⁵ And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow and my husband is dead.

²⁸ And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son that we may eat him today and we will eat my son tomorrow.

⁵ What is it to you, O you the sea, that you flee? You Jordan, that you turn back?

² As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around his people from this time forth and until forever.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise Jehovah.

¹⁸ Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint, but he who keeps the law, he is fortunate.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

³ In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

¹³ Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and of the rock of the plain, says Jehovah, you* who say, Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?

³⁸ On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it, there is lamentation everywhere.
For I have broken Moab like a vessel of which none delights, says Jehovah.

¹² Let the nations move themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.

⁶ Therefore it will be night to you*, that you* will have no vision. And it will be dark to you*, that you* will not divine. And the sun will go down upon the prophets and the day will be black over them.

² Much, according to every manner! For indeed, first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the institution of the law and the divine service and the promises; ⁵ whose are the fathers and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all: God is gracious forever. Amen.

¹² And in that day the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, called for weeping and for mourning and for baldness and for girding with sackcloth. ¹³ And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.

⁷ Is this your* joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to journey?

¹³ Thorns and briers will come up on the land of my people, yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

³³ Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the king of Assyria, He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. Neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

³⁶ And the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

¹⁸ If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

² Jehovah says thus: He who abides in this city will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans will live and his life will be to him for a prey and he will live.

⁶ In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

²⁰ See, O Jehovah and behold to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

⁹ Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these are a flowing away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

³ You* who put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near, ⁴ who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall, ⁵ who scatter-words to the mouth of the harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David, ⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

⁴ Then a breach was made in the city and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around) and the king went by the way of the Arabah. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.
⁶ Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah. And they gave judgment upon him. ⁷ And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters and carried him to Babylon.

¹⁸ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold. ¹⁹ And he took an officer out of the city who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
²⁰ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ²¹ And the king of Babylon killed* them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

¹ For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water, ² the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder, ³ the captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counselor and the expert craftsman and the skillful enchanter.
⁴ And I will give sons to be their rulers and babes will rule over them. ⁵ And the people will be oppressed, every one by another and every one by his neighbor. The child himself will behave-proudly against the old man and the base against the honorable.
⁶ When a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler and let this ruin be under your hand, ⁷ in that day he will lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You* will not make me ruler of the people.
⁸ For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their practices are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁴ And it happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls and he went out toward the Arabah.
⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath and he gave judgment upon him.
⁶ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. Also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah. ⁷ Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

²⁴ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold. ²⁵ And from the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city and the scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
²⁶ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ²⁷ And the king of Babylon killed* them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do you* call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has testified against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?

² I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble. My hand was stretched out in the night and did not slack. My soul refused to be comforted.

⁷ Behold, their valiant ones cry outside. The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is in an uproar in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

²⁶ O daughter of my people, gird with sackcloth and wallow yourself in ashes. You make mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer will suddenly come upon us.

¹⁸ Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

¹ Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ But if you* will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your* pride. And my eye will weep greatly and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.

¹⁵ Jehovah says thus: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

⁸ For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals and a lamentation like the ostriches.

¹⁸ ‘A voice was heard in Ramah, mourning, and weeping, and much anguish, Rachel weeping for her children. And she did not wish to be comforted, because they are not there.’

⁷⁵ And Peter was reminded of the declaration which Jesus had said to him, Before the rooster crows, you will be denying me three-times. And having gone outside, he wept bitterly.

² just-as they gave them to us, who from the beginning became eyewitnesses and attendants of the word,

⁴¹ And as he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

³ And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth.

¹⁰ And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.

¹⁵ The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down.

⁶ I will send him against a profane nation and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have entirely gone up to the housetops?

¹⁰ For the hand of Jehovah will rest on this mountain.
And Moab will be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

³ And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth.

⁷ Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it.

⁵ Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper. For Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young sons have gone into captivity before the adversary.

² The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers of it.

⁸ The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars and they will say to the mountains, Cover us and to the hills, Fall on us.

¹⁸ Woe to you* who desire the day of Jehovah! Why would you* have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness and not light. ¹⁹ As if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him. ²⁰ Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light, even very dark and no brightness in it?

⁴ The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come. Now will be their perplexity.

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

³⁰ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us, and to the hills, Hide us.

¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us and hide us from the face of the one who is sitting upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

²² The sons of Shem were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

⁹ And the king of Assyria listened to him. And the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it and carried the people of it captive to Kir and killed Rezin.

¹ The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

² A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.

³⁵ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. ³⁶ And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds. And there will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.
³⁷ And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them. ³⁸ And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from there king and rulers, says Jehovah. ³⁹ But it will happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Jehovah.

⁵ And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says Jehovah.

⁷ Are you* not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?

⁷ now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will come up over all its channels and go over all its banks, ⁸ and it will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

²⁸ He has come to Aiah. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he lays up his baggage. ²⁹ They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O you poor Anathoth! ³¹ Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. ³² This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³⁴ By the way that he came, he will return by the same and he will not come to this city, says Jehovah.

¹ And it happened when Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. ² In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
³ And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate, that is, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

² For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon. The length of it was a hundred cubits and the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

¹⁷ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

²⁷ And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard who kept the door of the king's house. ²⁸ And it was so, that, as often as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bore them and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all the shields of the mighty men.

¹ Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. ² And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the launder's field.
³ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came out to him, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

²⁰ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹ After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah and encamped against the fortified cities and thought to win them for himself.
² And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib came and that he intended to fight against Jerusalem, ³ he took counsel with his rulers and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were outside the city. And they helped him. ⁴ So there was gathered together many people. And they stopped all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
⁵ And he took courage and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised it up to the towers and the other wall outside and strengthened Millo in the city of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.
⁶ And he set captains of war over the people and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

³⁰ This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

¹⁶ After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to the place opposite the sepulchers of David and to the pool that was made and to the house of the mighty men.

⁴ Then a breach was made in the city and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

⁶ But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there. And have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria and have not relied on Jehovah your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
⁸ Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceedingly many? Yet, because you relied on Jehovah, he delivered them into your hand.
⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong to those whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly, for from hereafter you will have wars.

³ he took counsel with his rulers and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were outside the city. And they helped him. ⁴ So there was gathered together many people. And they stopped all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?

¹⁷ And I will wait for Jehovah, who hides his face from the house of Jacob and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

⁷ In that day men will look to their maker and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah!

²⁶ Have you not heard how I have done it from afar and formed it of long-ago? Now I have made it occur, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

² Jehovah says thus who does it, Jehovah who forms it to establish it; Jehovah is his name: ³ Call to me and I will answer you and will show you great things and difficult, which you do not know.

⁴ And it happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls and he went out toward the Arabah.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to Jehovah. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel, and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

³ And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard and sat down confounded.

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was the governor and Ezra the priest the scribe and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Jehovah your* God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your* way, eat fat things and drink sweet things and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be you* grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your* strength.
¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be you* grieved. ¹² And all the people went their way to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great gladness, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

⁹ And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

²⁰ Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshiped.

⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Also he has set the everlasting in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

² They have gone up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. On all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off.

¹³ Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, you* priests. Wail, you* ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you* ministers of my God. For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your* God.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar and let them say, Spare your people, O Jehovah and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

¹⁰ And I will turn your* feasts into mourning and all your* songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head and I will make it as the mourning for an only son and the end of it as a bitter day.

⁶ And the news reached the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

¹⁶ You make yourself bald and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight. Enlarge your baldness as the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you.

⁸ Draw near to God and he will be drawing near to you. Cleanse your hands sinners and purify your hearts you indecisive! ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy be turned to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will be exalting you.

¹ Come now you rich, weep, howling in your miseries, in those which are coming upon you.

¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

²² Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink,

⁴ My heart wanders. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, you* rulers, anoint the shield.

⁷ And even these reel with wine and wander around with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They wander around with strong drink; they reel in vision; they stumble in judgment. ⁸ For all tables are full of vomit, filthiness, no place clean.

¹² Come you*, they say, I will fetch wine and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be as this day, great beyond measure.

³ You* who put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near, ⁴ who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall, ⁵ who scatter-words to the mouth of the harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David, ⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
⁷ Therefore they will now go into exile with the first who go into exile and the banqueting of those who stretched themselves will pass away.

²⁶ And just-as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being betrothed, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

³² If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to the manner of man, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised up, ‘We should eat and drink, for the next-day we die.’

⁵ You have caroused upon the land and are self-indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

²⁵ And the priest will make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel and they will be forgiven, for it was an error and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire to Jehovah and their sin offering before Jehovah, for their error. ²⁶ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven and the stranger who travels among them, for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
²⁷ And if one soul sins unwittingly, then he will offer a female-goat a year old for a sin offering. ²⁸ And the priest will make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him and he will be forgiven. ²⁹ You* will have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who travels among them.
³⁰ But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a traveler, the same blasphemes Jehovah and that soul will be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he has despised the word of Jehovah and has broken his commandment, that soul will utterly be cut off; his iniquity will be upon him.

¹⁴ And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house will not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering everlasting.

¹⁵ Now Jehovah had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

⁹ In my ears says Jehovah of hosts, of a truth many houses will be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹¹ And I will punish the world for the evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

²¹ For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.

¹³ therefore this iniquity will be to you* as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

¹³ In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you were not cleansed, you will not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

⁷ Surely the lord Jehovah will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

²¹ Therefore Jesus said again to them, I am going away and you will be seeking me and will be dying in your sin; where I am going, you are not able to come.
²² Therefore the Jews were saying, Will he kill himself, because he says, Where I am going, you are not able to come?
²³ And he said to them, You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world. ²⁴ Therefore I said to you, that you will be dying in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am, you will be dying in your sins.

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after the receiving of the full knowledge of the truth, then a sacrifice is left no more for us concerning sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectancy of judgment and a zeal of fire which is about to eat the adversaries.

¹¹ He who is doing wrong, let him still do wrong and the filthy, let him still be filthy and the righteous, let him still practice righteousness and the holy one, let him still be holy.
¹² Behold, I am coming shortly, and my reward is with me, to give to each one as his work will be.

⁶ and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced-labor.

⁵ And he who was over the household and he who was over the city, the elders also and those who brought up the sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all that you will bid us. We will not make any man king. Do you what is good in your eyes.

¹⁸ And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

²⁶ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, I beseech you, speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. And do not speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.

³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

² And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests (covered with sackcloth) to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

²⁵ And Azmaveth the son of Adiel was over the king's treasures. And Jonathan the son of Uzziah was over the treasures in the fields, in the cities and in the villages and in the castles.

³ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came out to him, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

¹¹ Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, I beseech you, speak, to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.

²² Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

² And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

²⁷ And he stood up and traveled away.
And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch, (a sovereign under Candace, the queen of Ethiopia, who was in charge over all her treasure), who had come to Jerusalem to worship,

¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king's valley, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. And he called the pillar after his own name and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.

¹⁴ And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' art. And they made a very great burning for him.

¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house.

⁵ Now therefore, what do I do here, says Jehovah, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl, says Jehovah. And because of you* my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

¹⁰ Arise and depart, for this is not your* resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewed out in the rock and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb and went away.

⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, who then is it?

³ And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded and cover their heads,

¹³ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them. And they will flee far off and will be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like the whirling dust before the storm.

¹⁷ Therefore Jehovah says thus: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword and your land will be divided by line and you yourself will die in a land that is unclean. And Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.

¹¹ Pour forth the overflowing of your anger and look upon everyone who is proud and humble him.
¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

⁶ Because neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes lifting up.
⁷ Because God is the judge. He put one down and lifts another up.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

⁵² He has taken down sovereigns from their thrones and has exalted the humble.

⁴² And Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. ⁴³ And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him, Bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt.

⁸ So now it was not you* that sent me here, but God and he has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

⁴ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his apparel, even to his sword and to his bow and to his belt.

² And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government will be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from hereafter until everlasting. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man and there can be no opening.

² And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart trembled and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

¹⁸ But I also say to you, that you are ^{F} Peter and upon this, the rock, I will be building my congregation of believers, and the gates of Hades will not be prevailing against her. ¹⁹ I will be giving to you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind upon the earth will have already been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loose upon the earth will have already been loosed in the heavens.

¹⁸ Assuredly, I am saying to you again, As many things as you may bind upon the earth will have already been bound in heaven, and as many things as you may loose upon earth will have already been loosed in heaven. ¹⁹ Assuredly I say to you again, that if two of you agree together upon the earth concerning any matter, whatever they ask, it will happen for them from my Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁸ and the Living One, and I became dead and behold, I am living forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Amen.

⁷ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia:
He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things:

⁹ You* hasten and go up to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph; God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ And you will dwell in the land of Goshen and you will be near to me, you and your sons and your sons' sons and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. ¹¹ And there will I nourish you, because there are yet five years of famine, lest you come to poverty, you and your household and all that you have.
¹² And behold, your* eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you*. ¹³ And you* will tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you* have seen. And you* will hasten and bring down my father here.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's and he has set the world upon them.

⁸ And now for a little moment favor has been shown from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

¹⁴ For if you altogether keep quiet at this time, then relief and deliverance will arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

³ For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus and great among the Jews and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.

⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne and they are exalted.

¹¹ The words of the wise are as cattle-prods and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

⁴ From him will come out the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

²⁹ and I also covenant to you, just-as my father covenanted to me a kingdom, ³⁰ in order that you may eat and may drink upon my table in my kingdom, and you will be sitting upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²¹ He who overcomes, I will be giving to him to sit with me at my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father at his throne.

⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh and without you no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

¹¹ And Joseph placed his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹² And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. ¹³ And there was no bread in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. ¹⁴ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
¹⁵ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us bread, why should we die in your presence? Because our money fails.
¹⁶ And Joseph said, Give your* cattle and I will give you* for your* cattle, if money fails. ¹⁷ And they brought their cattle to Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses and for the flocks and for the herds and for the donkeys. And he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
¹⁸ And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die and that the land not be desolate.
²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. ²² Only he did not buy the land of the priests, because the priests had a portion from Pharaoh and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
²³ Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you* this day and your* land for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you* and you* will sow the land. ²⁴ And it will happen at the harvest gathering, that you* will give a fifth to Pharaoh and four parts will be your* own, for seed of the field and for your* food and for those of your* households and for food for your* little ones.
²⁵ And they said, You have saved our lives. Let us find favor in the sight of my lord and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

³ Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? Or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?

¹ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom, ² and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, that these satraps might give account to them and that the king should have no damage.
³ Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and upon earth.

²² For the Father is judging no one, but has given all judgment to the Son; ²³ in order that all may honor the Son, just-as they are honoring the Father. He who is not honoring the Son, is not honoring the Father who sent him.
²⁴ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who hears my word and believes in the one who sent me, has everlasting life, and is not coming into judgment, but has stepped out of death into the life.
²⁵ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For just-like the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son, to have life in himself, ²⁷ and he also gave authority to him to make judgment, because he is a son of man.

²¹ Therefore Jesus said to them again, Peace to you; just-as the Father has sent me; I am also sending you. ²² And after having said this, he infused them and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³ If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven to them by God; if you hold-fast anyone’s sins, those sins have been held-fast.

²² But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carried us, vessels of wrath having been framed for destruction, in much patience; ²³ and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

²⁰ Now vessels are not only golden and silver in a great house, but also wooden and clay, and indeed the things to honor and the things to dishonor. ²¹ Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, having been made holy and is useful to the master, having been prepared for every good work.

⁵ And the Jews killed* all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and with slaughter and destruction and did what they would to those who hated them. ⁶ And in Shushan the palace the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. ⁷ And they killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha, ⁸ and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha, ⁹ and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha, ¹⁰ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they did not lay their hand on the spoil.
¹¹ On that day the number of those who were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. ¹² And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? And it will be granted you, or what is your request further? And it will be done.
¹³ Then Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. ¹⁴ And the king commanded it so to be done. And a decree was given out in Shushan and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

²⁴ because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them. ²⁵ But when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up and pluck you out of your tent and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

³ Do not put your* trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

¹⁵ The Lord says thus, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, ¹⁶ What are you doing here? And whom have you here, that you have hewed you out here a sepulcher? Hewing him out a sepulcher on high, carving a habitation for himself in the rock!

²³ And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.

¹¹ calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also make it occur. I have purposed. I will also do it.

¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he will make his way prosperous.

²⁸ For this the earth will mourn and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it and I have not relented, nor will I turn back from it.

⁵ Jehovah says thus: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from Jehovah. ⁶ For he will be like the heath in the desert and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

¹³ Thus my anger will be accomplished and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.

¹⁵ So it will be a reproach and a taunt, a lesson and an astonishment, to the nations that are all around you, when I will execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath and in wrathful rebukes–I, Jehovah, have spoken it–

¹⁷ And I will send upon you* famine and evil beasts and they will bereave you. And pestilence and blood will pass through you. And I will bring the sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

⁴ But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none will make them afraid. For the mouth of Jehovah of hosts has spoken it.