Acts 3:19 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁹ Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be blotted out, that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord;

²⁹ Yet there, on seeking the Lord your God you will find him, when you seek him with your whole heart and with your whole soul; ³⁰ In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice; ³¹ because the Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee utterly, nor totally destroy thee. He will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord confirmed to them with an oath.

⁴⁸ and turn to thee with their whole heart, and with their whole soul, in the land of their enemies, to which thou hast transported them; and direct their prayers to thee, toward this land which thou gavest to their fathers, and this city which thou hast chosen, and this house which I have built for thy name; ⁴⁹ thou indeed wilt hearken from heaven, from thy settled habitation, ⁵⁰ and pardon the iniquities which they have committed against thee, and all the acts of disobedience of which they have been guilty; and make them objects of compassion in the sight of those who have captivated them, that they may have compassion on them.

¹ On understanding. By David. Happy they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ² Happy the man, to whose account the Lord will not charge sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile. ³ Because I kept silence, my bones were consumed; by reason of my crying all the live long day. ⁴ Because day and night thy hand was heavy on me, I was reduced to misery by a piercing thorn. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime, ² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin. ³ For I acknowledge my transgression; and my sin is continually before me.

⁹ Turn away thy face from my sins; and blot out all mine iniquities.

¹³ that I may teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners may turn to thee.

⁶ Let him descend like rain on a fleece; and like showers gently falling on the ground. ⁷ In his days let righteousness spring up, with abundance of peace, till the moon is no more. ⁸ And let him rule from sea to sea; and from the river to the limits of the World. ⁹ Let the Ethiopeans bow down before him; and let his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents. ¹¹ Let all the kings pay him homage; all the nations serve as vassals. ¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper: ¹³ he will spare the afflicted and needy; and save the lives of those in distress; ¹⁴ from usury and injustice he will redeem their lives; and their name will be precious in his sight: ¹⁵ and he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia; and prayer shall be made for him continually: and he will be blessed all the day long. ¹⁶ Let there be in the land a settlement on the tops of the mountains; the fruit thereof will overtop Libanus: and they of a city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for ever! His name shall endure longer than the sun: and by him all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed. All the nations shall hail him happy. ¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; who alone doth wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever and ever: and let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen. Amen.

¹ A Psalm by David. Sing to the Lord, a new song, that the Lord hath done wonderful things. His own right hand and his holy arm hath saved him. ² The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath displayed his forgiving mercy before the nations. ³ He remembered his mercy for Jacob; and his truth to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴ Raise a shout of triumph to God, all ye of the earth! Sing and exult and sing in harmonious strains. ⁵ Sing to the Lord with a kithara; with a kithara and a tuneful psalm. ⁶ With spiral trumpets and the sounding cornet, raise a shout of triumph for the Lord, before the king. ⁷ Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof; the World and they who dwell therein. ⁸ Let the rivers unite in applauses; let the mountains exult with joy; ⁹ that he is come to judge the earth. He will judge the World with righteousness, and the several tribes with equity.

¹² Far as the east is distant from the west, he hath removed from us our transgressions.

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: ¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool. ¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land: ²⁰ but if you refuse and hearken not to me, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words."

¹ The word which came to Esaias, son of Amos concerning Judea and concerning Jerusalem. ² Because in the last days, the mount of the Lord will be conspicuous; and the house of God will be on the top of mountains; and exalted above the hills: therefore all the nations will come to it. ³ Many nations indeed, will go saying, "Come, let us go up to the mount of the Lord; and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his way, and we will walk therein." For from Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

²⁵ I even I, THE I AM, am he who blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and of thy sins I will no more make mention:

²² For, lo! I have made thy transgressions vanish like a cloud; and thy sins like the murky vapour. Return to me and I will redeem thee.

¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor shall they thirst, nor shall the burning wind nor the sun smite them; but he who hath compassion on them will comfort them and lead them to bursting springs of water. ¹¹ And I will make every mountain a highway, and every path a pasture for them. ¹² Behold they from afar shall come, some from the north and the west and others from the land of the Persians." ¹³ [c] Rejoice heavens; and let the earth be glad, let the mountains resound with bursts of joy; for God hath compassionated his people, and comforted those of his people who were afflicted. ¹⁴ [M] Hath Sion then said, "The Lord hath quite forsaken me, "and, "Why hath the Lord forgotten me?" ¹⁵ can a woman forget her child? or not have compassion on the offspring of her womb? Grant that a woman may forget even these, but I will not forget thee, said the Lord. ¹⁶ Behold I have engraven thy walls on my hands; and thou art continually before me. ¹⁷ And thou shalt be speedily rebuilt by them who destroyed thee; and they who laid thee waste shall become thine offspring. ¹⁸ Look up with thine eyes all around and view them all; behold they are gathered together and coming to thee. As I live saith the Lord, Thou shalt clothe thyself with them all, as with raiment, and wrap them about thee as a bride doth her dress. ¹⁹ Because thy waste and desolate and ruinated places will now be too narrow for the inhabitants, and they who devoured thee shall be removed far from thee; ²⁰ therefore thy sons whom thou hast lost will say in thine ears, This place is too strait for me: make room for me, where I may dwell. ²¹ Whereupon thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me? I indeed was childless and a widow, Who then hath brought up these for me? I was abandoned and alone; whence then have I these? ²² Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daughters on their shoulders:

¹¹ For under the guidance of the Lord they shall be brought back, and shall come to Sion with joy and everlasting gladness; for praise shall crown their head and joy shall overtake them. Grief and sorrow and sighing are fled.

¹ Awake, awake, Sion! clothe thyself, Sion, with thy strength. Put on thy glory. O Jerusalem, thou holy city! No more shall the uncircumcised and the unclean pass through thee. ² Shake off the dust, and stand up: assume thy seat, O Jerusalem! Loose the chain from thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion! ³ For thus saith the Lord, You were sold for nought; and you shall be ransomed, not with money. ⁴ Thus saith the Lord, My people went down to Egypt at first to sojourn there; and to the Assyrians they were carried by force. ⁵ Now therefore why are you here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people were taken away for nought, [express your amaze; and raise the mournful cry! Thus saith the Lord, On your account my name is continually reviled among the nations. ⁶ Therefore in that day my people shall know my name. Because I THE I AM, the same who am speaking, am at hand, ⁷ like beauty on the mountains; like the feet of one proclaiming peace, like one proclaiming glad tidings. Because I will cause thy salvation to be proclaimed, Saying, Sion, thy God will reign; ⁸ because the voice of thy watchmen is lifted up; with the voice therefore let all at the same time express joy. [c] Because eyes will look to eyes when the Lord compassionateth Sion; ⁹ let the ruins of Jerusalem break out together with bursts of joy. Because the Lord hath compassionated her and delivered Jerusalem; ¹⁰ let the Lord therefore make bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations! and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation come from our God.

¹ rejoice thou barren, who bearest not; break forth with shouts of joy, thou who sufferest not the pangs of child birth; for many more are the children of the desolate than of her who hath a husband. For the Lord said, ² Enlarge the place of thy tent and thy curtains; fix up; spare not; lengthen thy cords and make thy stakes strong. ³ Extend still farther to the right and left. And thy seed shall inherit nations and thou shalt inhabit wasted cities. ⁴ Be not terrified because thou hast been exposed to shame; nor blush because thou hast been reproached. For thou shalt forget the shame of ancient times, and the reproach of thy widowhood ⁵ thou shalt remember no more. For the Lord who is thy maker, whose name is the Lord of Hosts; even he who delivered thee, shall be called the God of Israel, in the whole earth. ⁶ The Lord hath not called thee as a wife forsaken and disconsolate; nor as a wife that hath been hated from her youth. ⁷ Thy God hath said, "I left thee for a little while; but with great mercy I will compassionate thee: ⁸ in a short wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on thee." The Lord who delivered thee hath said, ⁹ "From the flood which was in Noah's time this is my purpose; as I solemnly promised him at that time that I would no more be angry with the earth on thine account, nor in rebuking thee overturn the mountains; ¹⁰ and that thy hills should no more be moved; so my kindness for thee shall not fail, nor shall the covenant of thy peace ever be changed: for he said for thee, Be appeased, Lord." ¹¹ [J] thou afflicted and storm beaten! Art thou not comforted? Behold I am preparing for thee carbuncles for thy building stones, and the sapphire for thy foundations; ¹² and for thy battlements I will lay jasper; and crystal, for thy gates; and for thy circumambient walls, precious stones: ¹³ even thy sons, all instructed of God; and thy children in great prosperity. ¹⁴ And with righteousness thou shalt be rebuilded. Abstain from injustice and thou shalt not be affrighted; and as for terror, it shall not approach thee.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

¹ Be enlightened: be enlightened, Jerusalem! for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold darkness will cover the earth and thick darkness the nations: but upon thee the Lord will shine and his glory over thee will be conspicuous. ³ And kings will walk by thy light: and nations by thy splendour. ⁴ Raise thine eyes around and behold thy children gathered together; all thy sons are come from afar, and thy daughters shall be carried on shoulders. ⁵ Then thou wilt look and be filled with awe and astonished at heart; because the riches of the sea and of nations and peoples will pour in upon thee. ⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified. ⁸ [c] Who are those? They are flying like clouds, and like doves with their young towards me! ⁹ [J] For me the islands waited, and among the first the ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious; ¹⁰ therefore strangers shall rebuild thy walls and their kings shall wait upon thee. For on account of my wrath I smote thee, but for mercy's sake I have loved thee; ¹¹ and thy gates shall be open continually [by day or by night they shall not be shut] to introduce to thee the wealth of nations and their kings pompously attended. ¹² For the nations and kings which will not serve thee shall perish; such nations indeed shall be utterly laid waste. ¹³ The glory of Lebanon also shall come to thee, with the cypress and the pine and the cedar, to adorn the place which is dedicated to me. ¹⁴ And to thee shall come trembling the sons of them who afflicted and humbled thee, and thou shalt be called, City Sion of the Holy one of Israel. ¹⁵ Because of thy having been forsaken and hated when there was no helper, I will make thee an everlasting boast; a joy for perpetual generations. ¹⁶ And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and feed on the wealth of kings, and shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and that thy Redeemer is the God of Israel. ¹⁷ And instead of brass I will bring thee gold; and instead of iron I will bring thee silver; and instead of wood I will bring thee brass and instead of stones iron. And I will make thy chiefs peaceful and thine overseers righteous; ¹⁸ and violence shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery in thy borders; but thy walls shall be called Salvation and thy gates, sculpture. ¹⁹ And thou shalt no more have the sun for a light by day nor shall the rising of the moon enlighten thy night; but the Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; and thy God will be thy glory. ²⁰ For thy sun shall not go down nor shall thy moon ever wane: For the Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. ²¹ And thy people shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever, preserving the plant, the works of their hands, for glory. ²² The fewest in number shall become thousands, and he who is smallest, a great nation. I the Lord in due time will gather them.

³ that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

⁹ and their seed shall be distinguished among the nations? and their offspring in the midst of peoples. Every one who seeth them will know them, that they are a seed whom God hath blessed.

¹⁷ for there shall be a new heaven and the earth shall be new: and they shall no more remember former things, nor shall they ever come again into their mind. ¹⁸ But in this they shall find joy and gladness: for behold I am about to make Jerusalem a subject of joy, and this people of mine a subject of rejoicing. ¹⁹ And I will exult in Jerusalem and rejoice in my people; and there shall no more be heard therein, the voice of wailing nor the sound of a mournful cry. ²⁰ Nor shall there any more be there an untimely birth, nor an old man, who shall not complete his term. For he who is a hundred years old shall be young; and the sinner, who dieth at a hundred years, shall be deemed accursed. ²¹ And they shall build houses and dwell therein: and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof. ²² They shall not build, and others inhabit: nor shall they plant and others eat: for according to the days of the tree of that life, shall be the days of this my people: for they shall wear out the works of their toils. ²³ My chosen ones shall not labour in vain, nor shall they bring forth children for a curse. Because they are a seed blessed of God, both they and their offspring: ²⁴ therefore it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking I will say, "What is the matter." ²⁵ Then shall the wolves and the lambs feed together: and the lion shall eat straw like the But the serpent shall eat dust as bread. They shall not hurt, nor shall they destroy on my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ Rejoice Jerusalem! and sing praises therein, all ye who love her! Be exceedingly joyful with her, all ye who mourn for her! ¹¹ That you may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolation; that you may suck and be fed deliciously, at the commencement of her glory. ¹² For thus saith the Lord, Behold I will glide to them like a peaceful stream, and like a torrent deluging the glory of nations. Their children shall be carried on shoulders, and shall be dandled on knees. ¹³ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and in Jerusalem you shall find consolation. ¹⁴ And you shall see it, and your heart shall rejoice; and your bones shall flourish like a green herb. And the hand of the Lord will be made known to them who fear him. And it will terrify them who are disobedient.

¹⁸ As I know their works and their reasoning I am coming to gather together all the nations and the tongues, and they shall come and see my glory. ¹⁹ And I will leave among them a sign, and those of them who escape I will send to the nations; to Tharsis and Phud and Lud and Mosach and to Thobel and Greece and to the far distant isles. They who have not heard my name nor seen my glory; even they shall proclaim my glory among the nations; ²⁰ and they shall bring your brethren from all the nations, as a gift for the Lord with horses and chariots, in litters borne by mules with umbrellas over them, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord; as the children of Israel brought up their sacrifices for me with songs of praise to the house of the Lord. ²¹ And of them I will take priests and Levites, said the Lord. ²² For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, shall remain in my presence, saith the Lord; so shall your seed and your name be established.

¹⁸ I have heard the voice of Ephraim moaning, "Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised. I like a bullock was uninstructed, bring me back that I may return; for thou art the Lord my God. ¹⁹ For after my captivity I reformed and after I gained knowledge I groaned for my days of shame and shewed thee that I was ashamed of my youth." ²⁰ Ephraim is a beloved son; my darling child; since my words are in him I will surely remember him. For this cause I have been anxious for him, I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

²² How long shall it be, ere thou wilt return, despised daughter! Since the Lord hath created safety for a new plantation, with safety men may walk about. ²³ For thus saith the Lord, Again they shall use this form of words in the land of Juda and in his cities when I have brought back his captivity, "Blessed be the Lord on his righteous, his holy mountain." ²⁴ It shall be used by them who dwell in the cities of Juda and in all his land, and shall be repeated by the husbandman and among the flocks. ²⁵ For I have satisfied with drink every thirsty soul; and every soul that was hungry I have filled. ²⁶ [p] Upon this I awoke and beheld and my sleep was sweet to me.

³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know me from the greatest to the least of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities and no more remember their sins.

³⁷ behold I will gather them from every land through which I have in my wrath and in my great indignation dispersed them: and I will bring them back to this place and cause them to live securely. ³⁸ And they shall be my people and I will be their God. ³⁹ And I will give them another way and another heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to them and their children after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, which I will not turn away from them; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not apostatise from me; ⁴¹ and I will watch over them to do them good, and plant them in this land with faithfulness even with my whole heart and soul.

²⁰ In those days and at that time, search shall be made for the iniquity of Israel; but none shall remain: and for the sins of Juda; but none shall be found. For I will be merciful to them who are left.

⁴⁰ Our way hath been searched and tried; let us then return to the Lord.

²¹ Turn us to thee, Lord, and we shall be turned and renew our days as heretofore. Because thou wast cast off, thou hast cast us off; thou hast been provoked against us to a high degree.

³⁰ I will judge you, saith the Lord, house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity. ³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel, ³² since I desire not the death of him who dieth? saith the Lord.

²³ And I will set up over them one shepherd who shall feed them, even my servant David, who shall be their shepherd: ²⁴ and I the Lord will be their God; and David shall be chief among them. I the Lord have spoken; ²⁵ and with this David I will make a covenant of peace, and remove the wild beasts entirely out of the land; so that they may dwell in the desert and sleep in the Woods. ²⁶ And I will place them around my mountain, and give them the rain the rain of blessing: ²⁷ and the trees of the plain shall yield their fruit; and the earth shall yield its increase; and they shall dwell in their land securely; And know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke: and I will rescue them out of the hand of them who enslaved them, ²⁸ and they shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the wild beasts of the earth any more devour them, so they shall dwell secure and none shall make them afraid. ²⁹ I will indeed raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more be consumed with famine in the land; nor shall they any more bear the revile of nations; ³⁰ and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and that they are my people. house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord, you are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I, the Lord, am your God, saith the Lord, Lord.

²¹ thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will take the whole house of Israel from among the nations, whither they went; and I will gather them from all those around them, and bring them to the land of Israel, ²² and make them a nation in my land even on the mountains of Israel. And there shall be one chief over them. And they shall no more be two nations; nor shall they any more be split into two kingdoms, ²³ that they may no more be polluted with their idols. And I will deliver them from all their iniquities and purify them from all their sins which they have committed. And they shall be my people, and I the Lord will be their God. ²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them, ²⁵ therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only chief forever. ²⁶ And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. ²⁷ And I will place my sanctuary in the midst of them forever. And my habitation shall be among them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ²⁸ And the nations shall know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth them, by my sanctuary being in the midst of them forever.

²⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will now bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion on the house of Israel. And I will shew a zeal for my holy name, ²⁶ when they shall have suffered disgrace, for the rebellion of which they were guilty, when they dwelt peaceably in their own land. And there shall be none to make them afraid, ²⁷ when I have brought them back from among the nations and gathered them from the countries of the nations. So I shall be hallowed by them in the sight of the nations ²⁸ and they shall know that I the Lord am their God, when I manifest myself to them among the nations. ²⁹ And I will no more turn away my face from them, for as much as I have poured out my wrath on the house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹³ According to what is written in the law of Moses all those evils have come upon us. We indeed did not supplicate the favour of the Lord our God, by turning from all our wickedness, therefore that we might be made sensible of all thy truth,

¹⁹ and betroth thee to myself forever. I will indeed betroth thee to myself by righteousness and by judgment and by compassion and by tender mercies: ²⁰ and I will betroth thee to myself by fidelity; and thou shalt acknowledge the Lord. ²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth, ²² and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil, and they shall hearken to Jezrael; ²³ and I will plant her for myself in the land, and love her who was not beloved; and to them who were not my people I will say, "Thou art my people:" and they will say, "Thou the Lord art my God."

² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips.

¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and full of compassion, and relenteth at evils.

¹⁶ and the Lord will utter a shout from Sion, and from Jerusalem he will send forth his voice; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken: but the Lord will spare his people and strengthen the sons of Israel. ¹⁷ And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain, and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall no more pass through it. ¹⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall distil new wine; and the hills shall send forth streams of milk; and all the fountains of Juda shall pour out water; and a fountain shall issue from the house of the Lord, which shall water the valley of bulrushes. ¹⁹ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea a scene of destruction, for the injuries done to the children of Juda; for their having shed innocent blood in their land: ²⁰ but Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem for generations of generations: ²¹ and I will make inquisition for their blood, and will not pass it over unrevenged: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

¹³ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When the harvester shall overtake the grape gatherer; and the grape shall begin to ripen at seeding time; and the mountains shall distil sweet wine; and all the hills shall be planted. ¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel; and they shall rebuild the wasted cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; and make gardens and eat the fruits of them. ¹⁵ I will indeed plant them in their own land; and they shall no more be rooted up from the land, which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

¹⁴ [p] Feed thou thy people with thy crook; the flock of thy heritage; them who are by themselves in a forest in the midst of yonder Carmel. [J] They shall feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. ¹⁵ And as in the days of thy coming out of Egypt, you shall see wonderful things.

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee, taking away iniquities, and passing by the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? He hath not kept his anger in remembrance; because he delighteth in mercy; ¹⁹ he will turn and have compassion on us: he will bury deep our iniquities: they shall be whelmed in the depths of the sea.

¹⁴ Rejoice, daughters of Sion, Make proclamation, daughters of Jerusalem! Be glad and rejoice with thy whole heart, daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ The Lord hath taken away thy transgressions; he hath redeemed thee out of the hand of thine enemies. The king of Israel; the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shalt no more see evils. ¹⁶ At that time the Lord will say to Jerusalem, " Take courage, Sion. Let not thy hands hang down. ¹⁷ The Lord thy God is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with joy as in the day of a festival; ¹⁸ when I have gathered those of you who have been bruised." [J] Ha! who is this that hath taken up a reproach against her? ¹⁹ Behold here am I; I am dealing with thee for thy sake at that time, saith the Lord, and I will save her who hath been trodden down; and take back her who hath been put away; and I will make them a boast and renowned in every land. ²⁰ And they shall be ashamed at that time when I deal kindly with you. Even at the time when I take you back. For I will make you renowned and a boast among all the people of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before their eyes, saith the Lord.

²⁰ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, There shall yet come many peoples; and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ even the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to pray before the Lord and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty. ²² I am going. So many peoples and many nations will come to seek the face of the Lord Almighty at Jerusalem, and to conciliate the favour of the Lord. ²³ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If in those days ten men of all the tongues of the nations take hold, they must take hold of the skirt of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee, for we have heard that God is with you.

¹⁵ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return that I may heal them."

³ and said, Verily I say to you, Unless you be changed, and be like children you shall never enter the kingdom of the heavens.

¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

⁶ When they therefore were come together they asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel?

³⁸ Thereupon Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized to the remission of sins for the name of Jesus Christ, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

²¹ whom the heaven must receive till the time of the consummation of all which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets of old:

¹⁸ Having heard this they acquiesced and glorified God, saying, God hath then indeed granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life.

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

³ They therefore, being forwarded on their journey by the congregation, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria; and by declaring fully the conversion of the Gentiles, they gave great joy to all the brethren.

²⁶ and hath made of one blood the whole nation of men to inhabit the whole face of the earth, having marked out times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitation,

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive a remission of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified by the belief in me. ¹⁹ From that time, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but made proclamation first to them at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the nations, to reform and turn to God, performing works worthy of the change of mind.

²⁷ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn that I may heal them."

²⁵ For, that you, brethren, may not have too high an opinion of your selves, I would not have you ignorant of this secret, That a partial blindness hath come upon Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles shall have come in,

⁷ and to you who are afflicted, rest with us at the manifestation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

¹⁰ on the day when he shall come to be glorified by his saints, and to be admired by all those who believe that he was intrusted with this testimony of ours to you:

²⁵ with meekness instructing opposers: perhaps God may grant them a change of mind so as to acknowledge the truth,

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. ⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into grief; and your joy into con fusion of face. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you. Speak not, brethren, against one another. He who speaketh against a brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against law, and judgeth law. Now if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law, but a judge.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any among you hath wandered from the truth and another hath brought him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who hath brought back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

²⁵ For you were like sheep going astray, but are now brought back to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there shall no more be death; nor shall grief, nor screaming, nor pain be any more; for the former things are gone.