Malachi 1 Cross References - MLV

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
² I have loved you*, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says Jehovah. Yet I loved Jacob, ³ but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, Jehovah of hosts says thus: They will build, but I will throw down and men will call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom Jehovah has indignation everlasting. ⁵ And your* eyes will see and you* will say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel.
⁶ A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name? ⁷ You* offer polluted bread upon my altar. And you* say, How have we polluted you? In that you* say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.
⁸ And when you* offer the blind for sacrifice, you* say, It is no evil! and when you* offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to your governor. Will he be pleased with you, or will he accept your person? says Jehovah of hosts.
⁹ You* say, And now, I beseech you*, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us; this has been by your* means. Will he accept any of your* persons? says Jehovah of hosts.
¹⁰ Oh that there was among you* who would shut the doors, that you* might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you*, says Jehovah of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your* hand. ¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says Jehovah of hosts.
¹² But you* profane it, in that you* say, The table of Jehovah is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible. ¹³ You* also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you* have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of hosts. And you* have brought what was taken by violence and the lame and the sick. Thus you* bring the offering.
Should I accept this at your* hand? says Jehovah. ¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

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

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

¹ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

¹ In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah),

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.
Jehovah says thus, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb and two peoples will be separated from your guts. And the one people will be stronger than the other people. And the elder will serve the younger.

²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Jehovah has blessed. ²⁸ And God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and new wine. ²⁹ Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed is he who curses you and blessed is he who graces you.
³⁰ And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

³³ And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, Who then is he who has taken game and brought it to me and I have eaten of all before you came and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.

³ And God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, ⁴ and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land of your travels, which God gave to Abraham.

¹³ And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you I will give it and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed will be as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your seed.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.
²⁹ And Jacob asked him and said, I beseech you, tell me your name.
And he said, Why is it that you ask for my name? And he blessed him there.
³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.

⁴ and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.

³⁷ And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt,

⁶ For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. ⁷ Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah has brought you* out with a mighty hand and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

¹⁵ Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them, even you* above all peoples as at this day.

⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
⁹ For Jehovah's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. ¹⁰ He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. ¹¹ As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spreads abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.
¹² Jehovah alone led him and there was no foreign god with him. ¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth and he ate the increase of the field and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock, ¹⁴ butter of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

⁸ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, ⁹ you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth and called from the corners of it and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away.

⁴ Since you have been precious in my sight and honorable and I have loved you, therefore I will give men instead of you and peoples instead of your life.

⁵ Jehovah says thus: What unrighteousness have your* fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me and have walked after vanity and have become vain?

³¹ O generation, see you* the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to you?

³ Jehovah appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.

⁶ A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name? ⁷ You* offer polluted bread upon my altar. And you* say, How have we polluted you? In that you* say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.

¹⁷ You* have wearied Jehovah with your* words. Yet you* say, How have we wearied him? In that you* say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

⁷ From the days of your* fathers you* have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts. But you* say, How will we return?
⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you* rob me. But you* say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.

¹³ Your* words have been stout against me, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, What have we spoken against you? ¹⁴ You* have said, It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his charge and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

²⁹ But he, wishing to make himself righteous, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

¹⁰ Now not only so, but also Rebecca having an impregnation from one man, our father Isaac; ¹¹ for the children not yet having been born, nor having practiced anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not from works, but from the one who is calling. ¹² It was said to her, ‘The greater will be serving the inferior.’ ¹³ Just-as it has been written, ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’

²⁸ According to the good-news they are indeed enemies because of you, but according to the choice, they are beloved because of the fathers. ²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are unregrettable.

³⁰ And he also went in to Rachel and also he loved Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet seven other years.

³¹ And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one hated and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated, ¹⁶ then it will be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the one hated, who is the firstborn.

²¹ But wild beasts of the desert will lie there and their houses will be full of doleful creatures. And ostriches will dwell there and wild goats will dance there. ²² And wolves will cry in their castles and jackals in the pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come and her days will not be prolonged.

⁹ And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land of it will become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever. ¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. And the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion and the plummet of emptiness. ¹² They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none will be there. And all its rulers will be nothing.
¹³ And thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the wild beasts of the desert will meet with the wolves. And the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl will settle there and will find her a place of rest.

⁷ And the glowing sand will become a pool and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, will be grass with reeds and rushes.

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ But I have made Esau bare. I have uncovered his secret places and he will not be able to hide himself. His seed is destroyed and his brothers and his neighbors and he is not.

¹⁶ As for your formidableness, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
¹⁷ And Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss at all the plagues of it. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Jehovah, no man will dwell there, nor will any son of man journey in it.

³⁷ And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.

¹³ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they will know my vengeance, says the lord Jehovah.

³ And say to it, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir and I will stretch out my hand against you and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. ⁴ I will lay your cities waste and you will be desolate.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.

⁷ Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation and I will cut off from it he who passes through and he who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses will fall who are slain with the sword.

³ therefore prophesy and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Because, even because they have made you* desolate and swallowed you* up on every side, that you* might be a possession to the residue of the nations and you* are taken up in the lips of talkers and the evil report of the people, ⁴ therefore, you* mountains of Israel, hear the word of the lord Jehovah.
The lord Jehovah says thus to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and scorning to the residue of the nations that are all around,

⁷ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are all around you*, they will bear their shame.

⁹ For, behold, I am for you* and I will turn into you* and you* will be tilled and sown.

¹⁴ therefore you will no more devour men, nor bereave your nation any more, says the lord Jehovah. ¹⁵ Neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, nor will you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the lord Jehovah.

¹⁹ Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

¹⁰ Shame will cover you for the violence done to your brother Jacob and you will be cut off everlasting.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble. And they will burn among them and devour them and there will not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken it.
¹⁹ And those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau and those of the lowland the Philistines. And they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath. And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the South. ²¹ And saviors will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau and the kingdom will be Jehovah's.

²⁶ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and also, still his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? It is the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

¹ Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Jehovah guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.

⁷ Remember, O Jehovah, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation of it.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

⁹ And all the people will know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, ¹⁰ The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

⁴ They will only bow down under the prisoners and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against he who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against he who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up he who is not wood.
¹⁶ Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones, leanness and under his glory there will be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.

¹⁴ And they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they will despoil the sons of the east. They will put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon will obey them.

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it will come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

¹⁰ It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
² Why are you red in your apparel and your garments like he who treads in the wine vat? ³ I have trodden the winepress alone and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments and I have stained all my garments. ⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart and the year of my redeemed has come.
⁵ And I looked and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me. ⁶ And I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

¹⁷ And there is hope for your latter end, says Jehovah and your sons will come again to their own border.

³⁷ Who is he that says and it happens, when the Lord does not command it?

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken and will make yourself naked.
²² The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.

¹⁰ You* will fall by the sword. I will judge you* in the border of Israel.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they will know my vengeance, says the lord Jehovah.

⁹ I will make you a everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

² Pass to Calneh and see and from there go to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your* border?

³ but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

³⁰ He who is not with me is against me and he who is not gathering with me scatters.

¹³ Come now, you who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and spend one year there and be a merchant and make a gain. ¹⁴ You do not know what the next-day will bring, for what is your life? For it will be a vapor, which appears for a few but thereafter also disappears. ¹⁵ Instead of that, you should say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, then we might do this or that. ¹⁶ But now you boast in your self-importance. All such boasting is evil.

³ Your* eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor. For all the men who followed Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

⁷ but your* eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he did.

⁷ And when they cried out to Jehovah, he put darkness between you* and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them. And your* eyes saw what I did in Egypt and you* dwelt in the wilderness many days.

¹⁶ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Jehovah will do before your* eyes.

⁸ Therefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem and he has delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you* see with your* eyes.

²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who have become great against me.
²⁷ Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, Jehovah become great, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

¹⁰ A righteous man will rejoice because he sees the vengeance. He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, ¹¹ so that men will say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.

¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish, ¹⁸ that they may know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

¹⁶ And you will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I will be made holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

²³ And I will magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

²¹ And I will set my glory among the nations. And all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them. ²² So the house of Israel will know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and forward.

⁴ And he will stand and will feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God and they will abide. For now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

²³ And having turned to the disciples, he said privately, The eyes which see what you see are fortunate. ²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you are seeing and did not see them, and to hear the things which you are hearing and did not hear them.

²² And you will say to Pharaoh, Jehovah says thus, Israel is my son, my firstborn, ²³ and I have said to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill* your son, your firstborn.

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

³ Every man will fear his mother and his father. And you* will keep my Sabbaths. I am Jehovah your* God.

¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

²⁸ And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? And did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the sons of Israel made by fire?
²⁹ Why do you* kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?
³⁰ Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house and the house of your father, should walk before me everlasting, but now Jehovah says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

¹¹ There is a generation who curses their father and does not praise their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out and the young eagles will eat it.

² Hear, O heavens and listen, O earth, for Jehovah has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons and they have rebelled against me.

⁸ But now, O Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter and we are all the work of your hand.

²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, entirely a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
²² For though you wash with lye and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the lord Jehovah.

³⁰ An astonishing and horrible thing has happen in the land. ³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will you* do in the end of it?

¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says Jehovah.

⁹ They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.

²⁶ Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them.

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you, that you will be no priest to me. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your sons.

¹ Hear this, O you* priests and listen, O house of Israel and listen, O house of the king, for to you* is the judgment. For you* have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

⁸ And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they will find no iniquity in me that is sin.

⁸ But you* are turned aside out of the way. You* have caused many to stumble in the law. You* have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁴ Yet you* say, Why?
Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt with treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. ¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your* spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. ¹⁶ For I hate putting away, says Jehovah, the God of Israel and he who covers his garment with violence, says Jehovah of hosts. Therefore take heed to your* spirit, that you* deal not treacherously.
¹⁷ You* have wearied Jehovah with your* words. Yet you* say, How have we wearied him? In that you* say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

⁹ Therefore pray thus: our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy.

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also be forgiving you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father be forgiving your trespasses.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is practicing the will of my Father, the one in the heavens.

⁴ For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of their father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’

⁶ and then should never honor his father and mother, and thus you invalidated the commandment of God because of your tradition.

¹⁹ Honor your father and mother.

¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’

¹⁹ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not falsely testify. Do not defraud. Honor your father and mother.’

³⁶ Therefore, become compassionate, just-as your Father is also compassionate.

⁴⁶ Now why are you calling me, Lord, Lord and yet do not practice the things which I say?

²⁰ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not falsely testify. Honor your father and your mother.’

¹³ You address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you say well; for so I am. ¹⁴ Therefore, if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For I gave you an example, in order that you should also do like I have done for you. ¹⁶ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord; nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, you are fortunate if you practice them.

² Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment in the promise),

¹ As many as are bondservants under the yoke, let them deem their own masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed. ² But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve them, because they are believing and beloved who are being helped by your good work. Teach and encourage these things.

⁹ Encourage bondservants to subject themselves to their own masters and be well pleasing to them in all things, not contradicting them; ¹⁰ not pilfering things, but showing all good faith fulness; in order that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things.

¹⁷ And if you call upon the Father, who impartially judges according to the work of each one, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your foreign residency here;

¹⁷ Honor all men. Love^*\'b0 the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
¹⁸ Domestic servants, be subject to your masters in all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked. ¹⁹ For this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of his consciousness of God.

¹¹ No meal offering, which you* will offer to Jehovah, will be made with leaven, for you* will burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Jehovah.

⁶ They will be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they will be holy.

²¹ And if it has any blemish, as lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you will not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.

¹⁵ And before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have boiled flesh from you, but raw. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first and then take as much as your soul desires, then he would say, No, but you will give it to me now and if not, I will take it by force.
¹⁷ And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.

²² The altar was of wood, three cubits high and the length of it two cubits and the corners of it and the length of it and the walls of it, were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before Jehovah.

⁸ And when you* offer the blind for sacrifice, you* say, It is no evil! and when you* offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to your governor. Will he be pleased with you, or will he accept your person? says Jehovah of hosts.

¹² But you* profane it, in that you* say, The table of Jehovah is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.

²¹ You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

²¹ for while you are eating, each one is taking his own supper before others can, and one is hungry and another is drunken. ²² For do you not have houses that you should eat and drink in? Or do you despise the congregation of God and are shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I should not praise you in this.

²⁷ So-then whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, unworthily of the Lord, will be liable to the body and of the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man test himself and so let him eat from the bread and let him drink out of the cup. ²⁹ For he who unworthily eats and drinks, is eating and drinking condemnation to himself, if he is not discerning the body of the Lord.
³⁰ Because of this, many among you are weak and sick and a considerable number fall-asleep. ³¹ For if we were discerning ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we should not be condemned together with the world.

¹⁹ that you* may be accepted, you* will offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
²⁰ But whatever has a blemish, that you* will not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you*. ²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it. ²² Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a skin tumor, or scurvy, or scabbed, you* will not offer these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to Jehovah. ²³ Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free-will offering, but it will not be accepted for a vow. ²⁴ What has its testicles bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, you* will not offer to Jehovah, neither will you* do thus in your* land. ²⁵ Neither from the hand of a foreigner will you* offer the bread of your* God of any of these, because their corruption is in them; there is a blemish in them. They will not be accepted for you*.

⁸ Now therefore, take to you* seven bullocks 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*, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you* after your* senselessness. For you* have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

³ remember all your offerings and accept your burnt-sacrifice (Selah),

¹⁰ Jehovah says thus to this people: Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

¹³ As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They will return to Egypt.

¹⁰ Oh that there was among you* who would shut the doors, that you* might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you*, says Jehovah of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your* hand.

¹³ You* also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you* have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of hosts. And you* have brought what was taken by violence and the lame and the sick. Thus you* bring the offering.
Should I accept this at your* hand? says Jehovah. ¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

¹¹ And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why does your wrath grow hot against your people, whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

²⁷ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah and entreat the favor of Jehovah. And Jehovah relented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we commit great evil against our own souls.

¹⁸ But if they are prophets and if the word of Jehovah is with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, not go to Babylon.

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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. ¹⁴ Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your* God and cry to Jehovah.

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?

¹ And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. ² And Jehovah said to Satan, Jehovah rebuke you, O Satan. Yes, Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?
³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the messenger. ⁴ And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel. ⁵ And I said, Let them set a clean miter upon his head. So they set a clean miter upon his head and clothed him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah was standing by.

³¹ But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and if he is practicing his will, he hears him.

¹⁵ But the evil spirit having answered, said to them, I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you? ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and having mastered, prevailed against them, so-that they fled out of that house, naked and traumatized.

¹¹ for there is no favoritism with God.

²⁶ For such a high-priest was suitable to us, holy, guiltless, undefiled, has been separated away from sinners and became exalted from the heavens; ²⁷ who has no necessity every day to offer up sacrifices just-like the high-priests, (beforehand on behalf of their own sins), and thereafter for those of the people; for he did this once for all, having offered up himself.

⁹ Then Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ Have you not made a hedge on every side on behalf of him and his house and all that he has? You have blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land. ¹¹ But put forth your hand now and touch all that he has and he will renounce you to your face.

¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your* sacrifices? says Jehovah. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of male-goats. ¹² When you* come to appear before me, who has required this at your* hand–to trample my courts?
¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies–I cannot bear wickedness and the solemn assembly. ¹⁴ Your* new moons and your* appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
¹⁵ And when you* spread forth your* hands, I will hide my eyes from you*. Yes, when you* make many prayers, I will not hear; your* hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Yes, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 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.

¹³ For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

²⁰ To what purpose does there come to me frankincense from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far country? Your* burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your* sacrifices pleasing to me.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹² When they fast, I will not hear their cry. And when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence.

⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

²¹ I hate, I despise your* feasts and I will take no delight in your* solemn assemblies. ²² Yes, though you* offer me your* burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your* fat beasts. ²³ You take away from me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your viols. ²⁴ But let justice roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe and the priests of it teach for a wage and the prophets of it divine for money.
Yet they lean upon Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

¹² But the hired-servant and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, views the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

¹³ Do you not know that those who work at the sacred things, eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait-upon the altar have their part together with the altar?

²¹ For they are all seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

³⁸ But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him.’

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly;

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Jehovah and all the kinfolk of the nations will worship before you. ²⁸ Because the kingdom is Jehovah's and he is the ruler over the nations.
²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth will eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust will bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰ A seed will serve him. It will be told of the Lord to the next generation. ³¹ They will come and will declare his righteousness to a people that will be born, that he has done it.

¹ The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down of it.

² that your way may be known upon earth, your salvation among all nations.

¹¹ Yes, all kings will fall down before him. All nations will serve him.
¹² Because he will deliver a needy man when he cries and a poor man, who has no helper. ¹³ He will have pity on a poor and needy man and he will save the souls of the needy.
¹⁴ He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. And their blood will be precious in his sight, ¹⁵ and they will live. And to him will be given of the gold of Sheba. And men will pray for him continually. They will praise him all the day long.
¹⁶ There will be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit of it will shake like Lebanon. And they from the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.
¹⁷ His name will endure everlasting. His name will be continued as long as the sun. And men will call him fortunate. All nations will call him fortunate.

¹ O sing to Jehovah a new song, because he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm, has worked salvation for him. ² Jehovah has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

³ From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.

² Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

⁹ They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.
¹⁰ And there will be a root of Jesse in that day and he who arises to rule over the Gentiles. In him will the Gentiles hope and his resting place will be glorious.

¹⁴ These will lift up their voice. They will shout. For the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea. ¹⁵ Therefore glorify you* Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea. ¹⁶ From the outermost part of the earth we have heard songs. Glory to the righteous.
But I said, I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously, yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

¹⁰ Sing to Jehovah a new song and his praise from the end of the earth, you* who go down to the sea and all that is in it, the isles and the inhabitants of it. ¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains. ¹² Let them give glory to Jehovah and declare his praise in the islands.

⁶ that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am Jehovah and there is none else.

²² Look to me and be you* saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else.
²³ I have sworn by myself, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness and will not return, that to me every knee will bow, every tongue will confess to God.

⁶ yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
⁷ Jehovah says thus, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings will see and arise, rulers and they will worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.

²² The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they will bring your sons in their bosom and your daughters will be carried upon their shoulders. ²³ And kings will be your nursing fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am Jehovah and those who wait for me will not be put to shame.

¹ Sing, O barren, you who did not bear. Break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says Jehovah.
² Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations. Spare not. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. ³ For you will spread abroad on the right hand and on the left. And your seed will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

⁵ For your maker is your husband. Jehovah of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

¹⁹ So they will fear the name of Jehovah from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun. For he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Jehovah drives.

¹ Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you. ² For, behold, darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the peoples. But Jehovah will arise upon you and his glory will be seen upon you. ³ And nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. ⁴ Lift up your eyes all around and see. They all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far and your daughters will be carried in the arms. ⁵ Then you will see and be radiant and your heart will thrill and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you. ⁶ The multitude of camels will cover you. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense and will proclaim the praises of Jehovah. ⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you. They will come up with acceptance on my altar and I will glorify the house of my glory.
⁸ Who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their windows? ⁹ Surely the isles will wait for me and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Jehovah your God and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. ¹⁰ And foreigners will build up your walls and their kings will minister to you. For in my wrath I killed* you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you. ¹¹ Your gates also will be open continually. They will not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations and their kings led captive.

¹⁶ You will also suck the milk of the nations and will suck the breast of kings. And you will know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. ¹⁷ For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace and your overseers righteousness.
¹⁸ Violence will no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. ¹⁹ The sun will no more be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give light to you, but Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light and your God your glory. ²⁰ Your sun will no more go down, nor will your moon withdraw itself, for Jehovah will be your everlasting light. And the days of your mourning will be ended.
²¹ Your people also will all be righteous. They will inherit the land everlasting, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. ²² The little one will become a thousand and the small one a strong nation. I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

¹⁹ And I will set a sign among them and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory and they will declare my glory among the nations.
²⁰ And they will bring all your* brothers out of all the nations for an oblation to Jehovah, upon horses and in chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Jehovah, as the sons of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah.

¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that are called by my name, says Jehovah who does this.

¹¹ Jehovah will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

⁹ For then I will turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.

⁷ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.

²⁰ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Peoples will yet come and the inhabitants of many cities. ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah of hosts. I will go also. ²² Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.
²³ Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.

¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

⁹ Therefore pray thus: our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy. ¹⁰ Let your kingdom come. Let your will happen as in heaven, also upon the earth.

¹⁹ When you travel, make disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside in the hour of incense.

²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you will be worshiping the Father, neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father also is seeking such who are worshiping him.

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days till this hour, I was fasting and praying in the ninth hour in my house, and behold, a man stood in my sight in bright apparel, ³¹ and says, Cornelius, your prayer is heard and your charity is remembered in God’s sight. ³² Therefore send to Joppa, and call to you Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he is lodged in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea. When he comes; he will be speaking to you. ³³ Therefore, promptly I sent for you, and having come, you did well. Therefore, now we are all here in God’s sight, to hear all things which have been commanded to you by God.


³⁴ Now Peter opened his mouth and said, In truth, I comprehend that God is not one who shows-favoritism ³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him and is working righteousness, is acceptable to him.

¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom my name has been called, says the Lord, the one who is doing all these things,’ ¹⁸ (known to God are all his works from the age.)

¹ Therefore brethren, I am encouraging you through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your logical divine service.

⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God on behalf of his mercy; as it has been written, ‘Because of this, I will profess you among the Gentiles and sing-praise to your name.’ ¹⁰ And again he says, ‘Gentiles be joyous with his people.’ ¹¹ And again, ‘Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.’

¹⁶ that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, having done the sacred work of the good-news of God, in order that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been made holy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ But I have all things, and I am abounding. I have been filled, having accepted from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an aroma of a sweet-fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

⁸ Therefore I will that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and evil reasoning.

¹⁵ Therefore, let us always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing in his name. ¹⁶ But do not forget the practice of good and fellowship; for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

⁸ And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down in the Lamb’s sight, each one having a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the holy-ones.

³ And another messenger came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer, and many incenses were given to him in order that he should give it to the prayers of all the holy-ones upon the golden altar which is in the sight of the throne. ⁴ And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the holy-ones, went up in God’s sight out of the messenger’s hand.

¹⁵ And the seventh messenger sounded, and there became loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will be reigning forevermore.

⁴ Who should never fear you, Lord, and should glorify your name? Because only you are holy, because all the nations will be coming and will be worshiping in your sight, because your righteousnesses were manifested.

⁴ And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, ⁶ but now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all except this manna to look upon.
⁷ And the manna was like coriander seed and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. ⁸ The people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

¹⁴ However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you will surely die.

²¹ But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
²² Therefore say to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: I do this not for your* sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you* have profaned among the nations where you* went. ²³ And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you* have profaned in the midst of them.
And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, says the lord Jehovah, when I will be made holy in you* before their eyes.

³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem. And the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.

⁷ those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

⁶ A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name? ⁷ You* offer polluted bread upon my altar. And you* say, How have we polluted you? In that you* say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.
⁸ And when you* offer the blind for sacrifice, you* say, It is no evil! and when you* offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to your governor. Will he be pleased with you, or will he accept your person? says Jehovah of hosts.

¹³ You* also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you* have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of hosts. And you* have brought what was taken by violence and the lame and the sick. Thus you* bring the offering.
Should I accept this at your* hand? says Jehovah.

²⁴ ‘For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,’just-as it has been written.

⁸ What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he will not eat to defile himself with it. I am Jehovah.

¹⁹ that you* may be accepted, you* will offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
²⁰ But whatever has a blemish, that you* will not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you*. ²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it. ²² Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a skin tumor, or scurvy, or scabbed, you* will not offer these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to Jehovah. ²³ Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free-will offering, but it will not be accepted for a vow.

²⁹ Why do you* kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

¹² When you* come to appear before me, who has required this at your* hand–to trample my courts?

²² Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob, but you have been weary of me, O Israel. ²³ You have not brought me from your sheep for burnt offerings, nor have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

⁶ Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot, even to them you have poured a drink offering; you have offered an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things?

⁹ Will you* steal, murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you* have not known, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name and say, We are delivered, that you* may do all these abominations?
¹¹ Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your* eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Jehovah.

²¹ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Add your* burnt offerings to your* sacrifices and eat you* flesh. ²² For I spoke not to your* fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice and I will be your* God and you* will be my people. And walk you* in all the way that I command you*, that it may be well with you*. ²⁴ But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.

³¹ The priests will not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or beast.

²¹ I hate, I despise your* feasts and I will take no delight in your* solemn assemblies. ²² Yes, though you* offer me your* burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your* fat beasts. ²³ You take away from me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your viols.

⁵ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

³ O my people, what have I done to you? And in what have I wearied you? Testify against me.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you* fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did you* at all fast to me, even to me? ⁶ And when you* eat and when you* drink, do you* not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

¹³ And this again you* do: You* cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your* hand.

¹ Take-heed not to do your charity before men, to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father, the one in the heavens.
² Therefore, whenever you are doing charity, do not sound a trumpet before you just-like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the lanes, that they may be glorified by men. Assuredly I am saying to you, They are having their reward.

⁵ And whenever you pray, do not be just-like the hypocrites, because they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may appear devout to men. Assuredly I am say to you, that they are having their reward.

¹⁶ Now whenever you fast, do not become just-like the hypocrites, with a gloomy face; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly I am saying to you, They are having their reward.

⁴ But there were some being indignant to themselves, and saying, For what purpose has the waste of the perfume happened? ⁵ For this perfume was able to have been sold for above three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they were scolding her.

³⁷ And he comes and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Were you not strong-enough to watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray, in order that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed eager, but the flesh is weak.

¹² My father will perhaps feel me and I will seem to him as a deceiver. And I will bring a curse upon me and not a blessing.

¹⁸ Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, Whoever he is of the house of Israel, or of the travelers in Israel, who offers his oblation, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their free-will offerings, which they offer to Jehovah for a burnt offering, ¹⁹ that you* may be accepted, you* will offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
²⁰ But whatever has a blemish, that you* will not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you*. ²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it.

⁵⁸ If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,

¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart and have also stolen and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.
¹² Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you* any more unless you* destroy what was set apart from among you*.

² Because Jehovah Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³⁵ O God, awesome out of your holy places, the God of Israel, he gives strength and power to his people. Praise God.

¹² He will cut off the spirit of rulers. He is fearful to the kings of the earth.

³ Because Jehovah is a great God and a great King above all gods.

⁴ When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, because he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. ⁵ It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a crushed and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the crushed.

¹⁰ But Jehovah is the true God. He is the living God and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

¹⁰ Cursed be he who does the work of Jehovah negligently and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth and his ways justice. And he is able to humble those who walk in pride.

⁴ And I prayed to Jehovah my God and made confession and said, Oh, Lord, the great and fearful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

⁹ And Jehovah will be King over all the earth. In that day Jehovah will be one and his name one.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁹ You* are cursed with the curse, for you* rob me, even this whole nation.

³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet; nor in Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King,

⁵¹ and will flog him, and will place his part with the hypocrites–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁴¹ And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus was viewing how the crowd cast brass coins into the treasury, and many who were rich were casting in much. ⁴² And a poor widow came and she cast in two bronze-coins, which is equal to a copper coin. ⁴³ And he called his disciples to him and says to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, This poor widow has cast in more-than all those who are casting in much into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they all cast in out of what is abounding to them, but she cast in, out of her lack of all things, as many things as she had, her whole livelihood.
{Joh 12:20-50) In the Temple, Tues.}

⁸ What she had, this she did. She took upon herself beforehand to perfume my body for its burial.

¹ At which time, when ten-thousand from the crowd were gathered together, so-that they trampled down one another, he began to say to his disciples first, Take-heed to yourselves, stay away from the leaven of the Pharisees; it is hypocrisy.
² But nothing is covered up, that will not be revealed; or secret, that will not be known.

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will be flogging him and will be placing his part with the unbelieving.

¹ But a certain man, Ananias by name, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a property, ² and pilfered part of the price, his wife also having been conscious of it, and brought a certain part, laid it beside the apostles’feet. ³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Adversary filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to pilfer part of the price of the parcel of ground? ⁴ When it remained unsold, was it not remaining yours? And when it was sold, was it not still in your authority? Why did you purpose this matter in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God. ⁵ But Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired, and there became great fear upon all those who heard these things. ⁶ Now when the younger-men stood up, they enshrouded him and carried him out and buried him.
⁷ Now it happened after an interval of approximately three hours, his wife also came in, not knowing what has happened. ⁸ But Peter answered her, Tell me if you were given so-much for the parcel of ground?
And she said, Yes, for so much.
⁹ But Peter said to her, Why is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door and they will be carrying you out. ¹⁰ Now she fell down instantly beside his feet and expired and the young-men came in and found her dead and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

¹² For if the eagerness lays before you, according to whatever someone has, it is acceptable, not according to what he does not have.

¹⁵ Which in its own times, he will show, the Blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who are reigning, and a Lord of those who have lordship over others;

²⁹ for our God is also a consuming fire.

⁸ But to the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and detestable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and to all the false witnesses, their part will be in the lake which is burning with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.