Psalms 63 Cross References - MSTC

¹ {A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is. ² Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory. ³ For thy loving-kindness is better than life itself; my lips shall praise thee. ⁴ As long as I live will I magnify thee and lift up my hands in thy name. ⁵ My soul is satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. ⁶ Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking? ⁷ For thou hast been my helper, and under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. ⁸ My soul hangeth upon thee; thy righthand upholdeth me. ⁹ These also that seek the hurt of my soul, they shall go under the earth. ¹⁰ They shall fall into the sword, and be a portion for foxes. ¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; all they that swear by him shall be commended, for the mouth of liars shall be stopped.

²⁶ And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." And he said, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." ²⁷ And he said unto him, "What is thy name?" He answered, "Jacob." ²⁸ And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

² The LORD is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. He is my God, and I will glorify him! He is my father's God, and I will lift him up on high!

³ There the people thirsted for water, and murmured against Moses and said, "Wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

¹⁸ And he said, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory." ¹⁹ And he said, "I will make all my good go before thee, and I will be called in this name Jehovah before thee, and will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD." ³¹ And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

¹³ But fear the LORD thy God and serve him, and swear by his name,

²¹ And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" — Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead. ²² And therefore she said, "Honour is gone from Israel," because the ark of God was taken.

³⁷ And David spake moreover, "The LORD that delivered me out of the hands of the Lion and out of the hands of the Bear, he shall deliver me also out of the hands of the Philistine." Then said Saul to David, "Go, and the LORD be with thee."

⁵ And the prophet Gad said unto David, "Abide not in castles, but depart and go to the land of Judah." Then David departed and came into the forest of Hereth.

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him all his life, but God delivered him not into his hand. ¹⁵ And David saw that Saul was come out, to seek his life, while David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a thicket. ¹⁶ And Jonathan Saul's son arose and went to David to the thicket, and strengthened him in God, ¹⁷ and said unto him, "Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I must be next unto thee: And Saul my father thereto knoweth that it shall be so."

²³ See therefore and know all the lurking places where he lurketh, and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you. And then if he be in the land, I will hunt him out with all the thousands of Judah. ²⁴ And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the wild field, on the righthand of the wilderness. ²⁵ For when Saul was gone with his men to seek, it was told David. And therefore he went unto a rock and dwelt in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he followed after David into the wilderness of Maon.

²⁰ And now I know well that thou shalt be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.

²⁹ And if any man rise to persecute thee and to seek thy soul, the soul of my lord be bound in a bundle of life with the LORD thy God. And the souls of thy enemies be slung in the middle of a sling.

¹ After that came the Ziphites unto Saul to Gibeah saying, "David hideth himself in the hill of Hachilah even before the wilderness." ² Then Saul arose and went to the wilderness of Ziph, and three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, for to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. ³ And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah which lieth before the wilderness, by the wayside. But David dwelt in the wilderness. And when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,

¹⁰ And David said furthermore, "As sure as the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and there perish:

¹⁹ And moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines. And tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me, and the LORD shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the Philistines."

¹ And as the Philistines fought against Israel, the men of Israel fled away from the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed after Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons. ³ And the battle went sore against Saul, insomuch that shooters with bows had found him, and he was sore wounded of the shooters. ⁴ Then said Saul unto his harness bearer, "Draw out thy sword and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come thrust me through and make a mockingstock of me." But his harness bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. Wherefore Saul took a sword and fell upon it. ⁵ And when his harness bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him. ⁶ And so Saul died and his three sons and his harness bearer, and thereto all his men, that same day together.

²⁸ And see, I will tarry in the fields of the wilderness until there come some word from you to be told me."

²² And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the sight of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his hands to heaven, ²³ and said, "LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above or in the earth beneath, that keepest appointment and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts: ²⁴ which also hast kept with thy servants David my father, that thou promisedest him. Thou spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled with thine hand, as it is come to pass this day. ²⁵ And now LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father, that thou promisedest him, saying, 'Thou shalt not be without one or other before me, sitting on the seat of Israel: Howbeit, if thy children shall take heed to their ways that they walk before me, as thou hast walked before me.' ²⁶ Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be stable which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. ²⁷ But indeed can God dwell on the earth? Behold: neither heaven, nor heaven above all heavens are able to contain thee — how much less then this house that I have built? ²⁸ But look to the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, to give an ear unto the voice and prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day, ²⁹ that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day; and upon the place, of which thou hast said, my name shall be there: that thou hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray in this place. ³⁰ And hearken unto the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel which they shall pray in this place. And hear thou, up unto heaven thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest have mercy. ³¹ And if any man trespass against his neighbour, and his neighbour take an adjuration to adjure him withal, and the adjuration come before thine altar at this house, ³² then hearken thou up to heaven, and work and judge thy servants, that thou condemn the wicked to bring his way upon his head, and justify the righteous to give him according to his righteousness. ³³ When thy people Israel be put to the worse before their enemies, because they have sinned against thee, and afterward turn again to thee and praise thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house: ³⁴ Then hear thou up to heaven and be merciful unto the sin of thy people Israel, and bring thee again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. ³⁵ If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee: yet if they pray in this place and praise thy name and turn from their sins, through thy scourging of them: ³⁶ then hear thou up to heaven, and be merciful unto the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel, that thou show them a good way to walk in, and give rain upon thy land that thou hast given unto thy people to inherit. ³⁷ If there chance dearth in the land, pestilence, blasting or withering of corn, or that the fruits be devoured of grasshoppers or caterpillars, or if their enemies besiege them in the land and in their own cities, or whatsoever plague or sickness chance: ³⁸ then hear thou up to heaven thy dwelling place, all the prayers and supplications that shall be made of all men throughout all thy people Israel, which shall knowledge every man the plague of his own heart, and stretch forth his hands unto this house. ³⁹ And be merciful, and work, and give every man according to his ways — even as thou only knowest every man's heart, for thou knowest the hearts of all the children of Adam - ⁴⁰ that they may fear thee as long as they live upon the earth which thou gavest unto their fathers. ⁴¹ And likewise, if a stranger that is not of thy people Israel come out of a far country for thy name's sake ⁴² — for they shall hear of thy great name and of thy mighty hand and stretched-out arm — and therefore if he come and pray at this place, ⁴³ hear thou up to heaven thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee as do thy people Israel, and that it may be known that this house which I have built is called after thy name. ⁴⁴ And when they go out to battle against their enemies whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name: ⁴⁵ hear thou their prayers and supplications, up to heaven, and judge their cause. ⁴⁶ And finally, when they shall have sinned against thee — for there is no man that sinneth not — and thou art angry with them and hast delivered them to their enemies, that they be carried away prisoners unto the land of their enemies, whether far or near; ⁴⁷ yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed,' ⁴⁸ and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: ⁴⁹ then hear thou their prayer and supplication up to heaven thy dwelling place, and judge their causes, ⁵⁰ and be merciful unto thy people that have sinned against thee, and unto all their trespass that they have trespassed against thee, and get them favour in the sight of them that hold them captive that they may have compassion on them. ⁵¹ For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron. ⁵² And let thine eyes be open unto the prayer of thy servant and unto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them, in all that they call unto thee for. ⁵³ For thou didst separate them to be thine inheritance, above all the nations of the earth, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah." ⁵⁴ And when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD and from kneeling on his knees and stretching of his hands up to heaven, ⁵⁵ and stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, ⁵⁶ "Blessed be the LORD that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised: so that there is not one word escaped of all the good promises which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. ⁵⁷ And the LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and forsake us not, neither leave us, ⁵⁸ but that he bow our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, ordinances and customs which he commanded our fathers. ⁵⁹ And these my words which I have prayed before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he defend the cause of his servant and of his people Israel evermore, ⁶⁰ that all nations of the earth may know that the LORD, he is God and there is none other. ⁶¹ And I pray God that your hearts may be sound with the LORD our God, to walk in his ordinances and to keep his laws as we do this day." ⁶² And the king, and all Israel with him, offered offerings before the LORD. ⁶³ And the peace offerings that Solomon offered unto the LORD, were twenty two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: And so the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. ⁶⁴ And the same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that is before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings. ⁶⁵ And Solomon held that same time a high feast and all Israel with him, a mighty congregation, even from the coasts of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and yet seven days, that is, fourteen days. ⁶⁶ And the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went unto their tents joyous and glad in heart for all the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David his servant and to Israel his people.

¹¹ Seek the LORD and his strength: Seek his presence always!

²¹ And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.

¹¹ And they sang together, giving praise and thanks unto the LORD; because he is gracious, and because his mercy endureth forever upon Israel. And all the people shouted loud in praising the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. ¹² Many also of the old priests and Levites and ancient fathers which had seen the first house - when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes - wept with a loud voice. And many shouted with joy, ¹³ so that the noise gave a great sound, insomuch that the people could not know the joyful sound for the noise of the weeping among the people: for the people shouted with a loud cry, so that the noise was heard afar off.

¹⁶ that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.

⁵ If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

¹³ cast them down into the mire, and cover their faces with darkness;

⁶ "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion."

⁶ There be many that say, "Who will show us any good? LORD lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."

³ My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O LORD. Early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

¹¹ And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoice. They shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them. They that love thy name shall be joyful in thee;

¹⁷ The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of an eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

¹⁵ They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

³⁵ Thou hast given me the defense of thy salvation; thy right hand also shall hold me up, and thy loving correction shall make me great. {TYNDALE: And thou hast saved me with thy shield, and keptest me ever in meekness.}

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O LORD; exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation.

⁶ For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity, and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.

⁴ One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.

⁹ O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succor; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God my Saviour.

² Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry unto thee, when I hold up my hands towards the mercy seat of thy holy temple.

⁵ For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life; heaviness may well endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

¹² Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.

¹⁴ But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

⁴ Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.

²⁶ Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me.

⁷ How excellent is thy mercy, O God! And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. ⁸ They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house, and thou shalt give them drink of the river of thy pleasures. ⁹ For with thee is the well of life; and in thy light shall we see light.

²⁴ Though he fall, he shall not be hurt, for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

¹² They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

¹⁴ Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

¹² Thou hast upholden me because of my innocency, and set me before thy face forever.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God. ² My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God; when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

⁸ The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

¹¹ Why art thou so vexed, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

⁴ and that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God.

¹⁵ Open my lips, O LORD, that my mouth may show thy praise.

³ For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah. ⁴ But lo, God is my helper: it is he that upholdeth my soul.

¹⁵ Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

²³ But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

¹ {To the Chanter, Destroy Not, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth in thee: and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge, until this tyranny be overpast.

⁴ I will dwell in thy tabernacle forever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings. Selah.

⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and receivest unto thee; he shall dwell in thy court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

¹⁷ I called unto him with my mouth, and gave him praises with my tongue.

²⁴ It is well seen, O God, how thou goest; how thou, my God and King, goest in the sanctuary.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies.

² Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.

²³ My lips would fain sing praises unto thee; and so would my soul whom thou hast delivered.

¹⁷ until I went into the Sanctuary of God. Then understood I the end of these men. ¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.

²³ Nevertheless, I am always by thee; thou holdest me by my righthand.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is nothing upon earth, that I desire in comparison of thee.

⁴ Thou heldest mine eyes waking, I was so feeble, that I could not speak. ⁵ Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past. ⁶ I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit.

¹³ Thy way, O God, is holy: who is so great a God as our God? ¹⁴ Thou art the God that doest wonders, and hast declared thy power among the people.

³⁴ When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.

⁶¹ He delivered their power into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.

² My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

² My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. ³ For the sparrow hath found her a house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. ⁴ Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be always praising thee. Selah. ⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are thy ways, ⁶ who going through the vale of misery use it for a well; and the pools are filled with water. ⁷ They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of Gods appeareth every one of them in Zion. ⁸ O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. ⁹ Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. ¹⁰ For one day in thy court is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly. ¹¹ For the LORD God is a light and defense; the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

¹³ For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.

² I will say unto the LORD, "O my hope, and my stronghold; my God, in whom I will trust."

¹⁸ When I said, "My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."

⁶ Glory and worship are before him; power and honour are in his Sanctuary. {TYNDALE: Praise and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.}

³ For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ For the voice of my groaning, my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh.

³³ I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will praise my God while I have my being. ³⁴ O that my words might please him, for my joy is in the LORD.

⁴ Seek the LORD, and his strength; seek his face evermore.

⁴² The righteous will consider this and rejoice; the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped.

¹⁴ The LORD is my strength, and my song, and is become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous, for the righthand of the LORD bringeth mighty things to pass.

²⁸ Thou art my God, and I will thank thee; thou art my God, and I will praise thee.

⁵⁵ I have thought upon thy name, O LORD, in the night season, and have kept thy law.

⁸¹ {Khaf} My soul longeth for thy salvation, for my good hope is in thy word.

¹⁴⁷ Early in the morning do I cry unto thee; for in thy word is my trust. ¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might be occupied in thy words.

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and praise the LORD.

³ O praise the LORD, for the LORD is gracious; O sing praises unto his name, for it is lovely.

¹⁷ How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God! O how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.

⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. Selah.

⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

¹⁰ Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee; for thou art my God. Let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness.

¹ {A Praise of David} I will magnify thee, O God my king; I will praise thy name for ever and ever. ² Every day will I give thanks unto thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever. ³ Great is the LORD, and marvelous, worthy to be praised; there is no end to his greatness.

¹¹ They show the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power,

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Praise the LORD, O my soul. ² While I live will I praise the LORD; yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Sing unto the LORD a new song, and let the congregation of saints praise him. ² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him, and let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise his name in the dance, let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp.

⁵ Let the saints be joyful with glory; let them rejoice in their beds.

²⁷ even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you. ²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

¹⁷ I am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.

⁴ Draw thou me unto thee; we will run after thee. The king hath brought me into his privy chamber: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we think more of thy love than of wine. They that be righteous love thee.

⁶ His left hand lieth under my head, and his righthand shall embrace me.

¹⁵ Get us the foxes, yea the little foxes that hurt the vines, for our vines bear blossoms.

¹ By night in my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth: yea, diligently sought I him, but I found him not.

¹ By night in my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth: yea, diligently sought I him, but I found him not. ² I will get up, thought I, and go about the city, in the ways and in all the streets will I seek him whom my soul loveth: but when I sought him, I found him not.

² I will get up, thought I, and go about the city, in the ways and in all the streets will I seek him whom my soul loveth: but when I sought him, I found him not.

² I will get up, thought I, and go about the city, in the ways and in all the streets will I seek him whom my soul loveth: but when I sought him, I found him not. ³ The watchmen that go about the city found me, to whom I said: Saw ye not him whom my soul loveth?

² As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.

⁸ I charge you therefore, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him how that I am sick for love.

⁹ Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats,

¹⁵ Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

¹⁹ and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -

¹⁸ In that day shall the five cities of Egypt speak with the Canaanites' tongue, and swear by the LORD of Hosts: the city of desolation shall be called one of them.

⁶ Moreover, the LORD of Hosts shall once prepare a feast for all people upon the hill: A plenteous, costly, pleasant feast, of fat and well-fed beasts, of sweet and most pure things.

⁹ My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.

² He shall be unto men, as a defense for the wind, and as a refuge for the tempest, like as a river of water in a thirsty place, and the shadow of a great rock in a dry land.

⁷ The dry ground shall turn to rivers, and the thirsty to springs of water. Whereas dragons dwelt afore, there shall grow sweet flowers and green rushes.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for I will be with thee. Look not behind thee, for I will be thy God, to strengthen thee, help thee, and to keep thee with this righthand of mine.

¹⁸ I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water.

¹ Behold now therefore, this is my servant whom I will keep to myself: mine elect; In whom my soul shall be pacified. I will give him my spirit, that he may show forth judgment and equity among the Gentiles.

²³ I swear by myself: out of my mouth cometh the word of righteousness, and that may no man turn: but all knees shall bow unto me, and all tongues shall swear by me,

¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee: The fir trees, Boxes and Cedars together, to garnish the place of my Sanctuary, for I will glorify the place of my feet.

¹⁶ Whoso rejoiceth upon earth, shall rejoice in the true God: And whoso sweareth upon earth, shall swear in the true God. For the old enmity shall be forgotten, and taken away out of my sight.

²¹ Therefore let their children die of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sword. Let their wives be robbed of their children, and become widows: let their husbands be slain, let their young men be killed with the sword in the field.

¹ At the same time, sayeth the LORD, shall I be the God of all the generations of Israel, and they shall be my people."

⁴ I will repair thee again, O thou daughter of Israel, that thou mayest be fast and sure. Thou shalt take thy tabrets again, and go forth, with them that lead the dance.

³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁹ {Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.

¹⁸ "Thou son of man, Take up a lamentation upon the people of Egypt, and cast them down, yea and the mighty people of the Heathen also, even with them that dwell beneath: and with them that go down into the grave. ¹⁹ Down, how fair soever thou be, and lay thee with the uncircumcised! ²⁰ Among those that be slain with the sword, shall they lie. The sword is given already: he shall be drawn forth and all his people. ²¹ The mighty worthies and his helpers, that be gone down and lie with the uncircumcised and with them that be slain with the sword: shall speak to him out of the hell. ²² Assyria is there also with his company, and their graves round about, which were slain and fell all with the sword, ²³ whose graves lie beside him in the low pit. His commons are buried round about his grave: all together wounded and slain with the sword, which men afore time brought fear in to the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Elam also with all his people, and their graves round about: which all being wounded and slain with the sword, are gone down uncircumcised under the earth. Which, nevertheless, sometime brought fear into the land of the living: for the which they bear their shame, with the others that be gone down to the grave. ²⁵ Their burial is given them and all their people, among them that be slain. Their graves are round about all them, which be uncircumcised, and with them that be slain through the sword: for seeing that in times past they made the land of the living afraid, they must now bear their own shame, with them that go down to the pit, and lie among them, that be slain. ²⁶ There is Meshech also and Tubal, and their people, and their graves round about. These all are among the uncircumcised, and them that be slain with the sword, because afore time they made the land of the living afraid. ²⁷ Should not they then lie also among the worthies, and uncircumcised Giants which with their weapons are gone down to hell? Whose swords are laid under their heads, whose wickedness is upon their bones, because that as worthies they have brought fear in to the land of the living. ²⁸ Yea, among the uncircumcised shalt thou be destroyed, and sleep with them, that perish through the sword. ²⁹ There is the land of Edom with her kings and princes also, which with their strength are laid by them that were slain with the sword. Yea, among the uncircumcised, and them which are gone down in to the pit. ³⁰ Moreover, there be all the princes of the north, with all of the Sidonians, which are gone down to the slain. With their fear and strength they are come to confusion, and lie there uncircumcised, among those that be slain with the sword: and bear their own shame, with them that be gone down to the pit. ³¹ Now when Pharaoh seeth this, he shall be comforted over all his people that is slain with the sword: both Pharaoh and all his host, sayeth the LORD God. ³² For I have given my fear in the land of the living. But Pharaoh and all his people shall lie among the uncircumcised, and among them that be slain with the sword, sayeth the LORD God."

⁵ Forsomuch as thou bearest an old enemy against the children of Israel, and with a cruel hand hast made them afraid, what time as they were troubled and punished for their sin:

⁴ Thou with all thine heap, and all the people that is with thee, must fall upon the mountains of Israel. Then will I give thee unto the fouls and wild beasts of the field, to be devoured.

¹⁷ And thou son of man: thus sayeth the LORD God: Speak unto all the fouls and every bird, yea and to all the wild beasts of the field, 'Heap you together and come; gather you round about upon my slaughter that I have slain for you: even a great slaughter upon the mountains of Israel: eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of the worthies, and drink the blood of the princes of the land: of the wethers, of the lambs, of the goats, and of the oxen that be all slain at Bashan. ¹⁹ Eat the fat your belly full, and drink blood till ye be drunken of the slaughter, which I have slain unto you. ²⁰ Fill you at my table, with horses and strong horsemen: with captains and all men of war, sayeth the LORD God.'

¹⁵ I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.

² Take words with you and turn unto the Lord. And say unto him, "Remit all wickedness and given things, and we will pay thee openly

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and they tembled, the water stream went away: the deep made a noise at the lifting up of thine hand.

⁵ yea, and such as upon their house-tops worship and bow themselves unto the host of heaven: which swear by the LORD, and by their Milcom also:

⁹ And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

³³ But rather, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof; and all these things shall be ministered unto you.

¹² From the time of John Baptist, hitherto, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,

⁴³ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh throughout dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

²⁴ "Strive with yourselves to enter in at the strait gate: For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her: lest at the last she come, and hag on me.'" ⁶ And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge sayeth. ⁷ And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them:

³⁷ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.

¹⁷ Jesus said unto her, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father. But go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father, and your father: to my God and your God."

²⁵ that the one may take the room of this ministration, and apostleship from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place."

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

¹⁹ I will speak grossly because of the infirmity of your flesh. As ye have given your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, from iniquity unto iniquity: even so now give your members servants unto righteousness, that ye may be sanctified.

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.

²⁰ For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.

¹⁰ and which delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver — on whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliver us,

⁴ in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus to be the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For it is God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, which hath shined in our hearts, for to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

²³ I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:

¹² Wherefore, my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed — not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence — even so work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

²⁹ Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.

¹⁰ For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

¹⁵ For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

² Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more neither thirst, neither shall the sun light on them, neither any heat. ¹⁷ For the lamb which is in the midst of the seat, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

⁵ And a voice came out of the seat, saying, "Praise our Lord God all ye that are his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great." ⁶ And I heard the voice of much people, even as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of strong thunderings, saying, "Hallelujah, for God omnipotent reigneth. ⁷ Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him: for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his wife made herself ready.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel stand in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly by the midst of heaven, "Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, ¹⁸ that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and of high captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all free men and bond men, and of small and great."