Psalms 106 Cross References - YLT

¹ Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, is His kindness. ² Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise? ³ O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times. ⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation. ⁵ To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph. ⁸ And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might, ⁹ And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left. ¹² And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
¹³ They have hasted—forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel. ¹⁴ And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert. ¹⁵ And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one. ¹⁷ Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked. ¹⁹ They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image, ²⁰ And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs. ²¹ They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt, ²² Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph. ²³ And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying. ²⁴ And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. ²⁵ And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah. ²⁶ And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness, ²⁷ And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands. ²⁸ And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead, ²⁹ And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them, ³⁰ And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained, ³¹ And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations—unto the age. ³² And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes, ³³ For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
³⁴ They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, ³⁵ And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works, ³⁶ And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare. ³⁷ And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers, ³⁸ And they shed innocent blood—Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood. ³⁹ And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. ⁴⁰ And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance. ⁴¹ And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them, ⁴² And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand. ⁴³ Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry, ⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness. ⁴⁶ And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'

³⁴ Give thanks to Jehovah, for good, For to the age, is His kindness,

⁴¹ And with them are Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age is His kindness,

¹¹ And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age His kindness is over Israel, and all the people have shouted—a great shout—in giving praise to Jehovah, because the house of Jehovah hath been founded.

⁴ Enter ye His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise, Give ye thanks to Him, bless ye His Name. ⁵ For good is Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

¹ Give ye thanks to Jehovah—call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.

⁴⁵ That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

¹ `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness:'

¹ Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness.

⁶⁸ Good Thou art, and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.

¹ Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness.

¹¹ Is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, The voice of those saying, Thank Jehovah of Hosts, for Jehovah is good, For His kindness is to the age, Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah, For I turn back the captivity of the land, As at the first, said Jehovah.

¹⁷ And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound, ²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁸ in every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

⁵ And the Levites say, even Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise, bless Jehovah your God, from the age unto the age, and they bless the name of Thine honour that is exalted above all blessing and praise.

⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

¹⁴ Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

⁵ Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

¹⁷ And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum! ¹⁸ I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

³ Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching. ⁴ Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare. ⁵ The honour—the glory of Thy majesty, And the matters of Thy wonders I declare. ⁶ And the strength of Thy fearful acts they tell, And Thy greatness I recount. ⁷ The memorial of the abundance of Thy goodness they send forth. And Thy righteousness they sing. ⁸ Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness. ⁹ Good is Jehovah to all, And His mercies are over all His works.
¹⁰ Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee. ¹¹ The honour of Thy kingdom they tell, And of Thy might they speak, ¹² To make known to sons of men His mighty acts, The honour of the majesty of His kingdom.

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

¹⁸ that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

¹⁹ `Thou dost not steal.

¹ `And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; ² But—in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night: ³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

² He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

¹¹ For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness. ¹² Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.

¹ Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, ² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him. ³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.

²⁰ Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

⁴⁴ And I keep Thy law continually, To the age and for ever.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I confirm it, To keep the judgments of Thy righteousness.

¹¹² I have inclined my heart To do Thy statutes, to the age—to the end!

¹ Thus said Jehovah: `Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near is My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.' ² O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.

⁵ Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them is continuance, and we are saved.

¹⁵ Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father—did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then it is well with him. ¹⁶ He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well—is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

²¹ And the wicked—when he turneth back From all his sins that he hath done, And he hath kept all My statutes, And hath done judgment and righteousness, He doth surely live, he doth not die. ²² All his transgressions that he hath done Are not remembered to him, In his righteousness that he hath done he liveth.

³⁵ for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, ⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

⁴⁷ Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like; ⁴⁸ he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock. ⁴⁹ `And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

⁴² `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

¹⁷ if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' ²² Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' <sup>23</sup> Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

¹⁴ ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

⁷ to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility—life age-during;

⁹ and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap—not desponding;

²⁵ and he who did look into the perfect law—that of liberty, and did continue there, this one—not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work—this one shall be happy in his doing.

¹⁵ because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;

¹⁴ `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

¹⁹ Remember for me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

¹⁴ Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.

²² And I say to the Levites, that they be cleansed, and, coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the sabbath-day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Thy kindness.

³¹ and for the wood-offering at appointed times, and for first-fruits. Be mindful of me, O my God, for good.

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹³² Look unto me, and favour me, As customary to those loving Thy name.

⁶⁸ `Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant,

⁴² and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'

¹⁴ Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

⁶ for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.

³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

⁷ `Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When Jehovah doth turn back To a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice—Israel is glad!

¹¹ Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.

⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

⁴³ And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

¹⁵ A voice of singing and salvation, Is in the tents of the righteous, The right hand of Jehovah is doing valiantly.

⁶ Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst is the Holy One of Israel!'

¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

²⁵ In Jehovah are all the seed of Israel justified, And they boast themselves.'

¹⁰ Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her,

²³ And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered—in the beginning.

¹⁴ Cry aloud, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Rejoice and exult with the whole heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses.

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

²² `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

¹⁵ And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings—the sons also of Israel;

⁴ according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

³ for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

¹³ And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹⁴ these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'

⁴⁰ `And—they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

¹⁴ `And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men—sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

⁴⁷ and they have turned it back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely—we have done wickedly;

⁶ and say, `O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens. <sup>7</sup> `From the days of our fathers we are in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given—we, our kings, our priests—into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as at this day.

⁷ we have acted very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commands, and the statutes, and the judgments, that Thou didst command Moses Thy servant.

¹⁶ `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

³² `And now, O our God—God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness—let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day; ³³ and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly; ³⁴ and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

⁸ And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

²⁵ We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against Jehovah our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God!

⁵ we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments: ⁶ and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets, who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ `To Thee, O Lord, is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee. <sup>8</sup> `O Lord, to us is the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.

³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye; ⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

¹¹ And they say unto Moses, `Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in a wilderness? what is this thou hast done to us—to bring us out from Egypt? ¹² Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

¹⁵ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

⁴ and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

²⁸ For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them. ²⁹ If they were wise—They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end:

⁷ And I, in the abundance of Thy kindness, I enter Thy house, I bow myself toward Thy holy temple in Thy fear.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

¹¹ And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

⁴² They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.

⁵ Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

¹⁸ They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

⁷ The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

¹² that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

¹⁷ And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened? <sup>18</sup> Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember? <sup>19</sup> When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, `Twelve.' ²⁰ `And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, `Seven.' ²¹ And he said to them, `How do ye not understand?'

¹¹ Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

¹⁰ and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, ¹¹ and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie, ¹² that they may be judged—all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

¹⁶ `And yet for this I have caused thee to stand, so as to show thee My power, and for the sake of declaring My Name in all the earth;

⁶ Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Is become honourable in power; Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Doth crush an enemy.

¹³ And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst, <sup>14</sup> and they have said it unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen—O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, —and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. <sup>15</sup> `And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying, ¹⁶ From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them—He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

²⁶ I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; ²⁷ If not—the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

⁹ and the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land do hear, and have come round against us, and cut off our name out of the earth; and what dost Thou do for Thy great name?'

⁶ The power of His works He hath declared to His people, To give to them the inheritance of nations.

¹¹ For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,

⁷ Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

²¹ Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

⁹ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they are, Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

²² And I have turned back My hand, And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them out.

⁴⁴ And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In My dealing with you for My name's sake, Not according to your evil ways, And according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

¹⁷ and now, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, and cause Thy face to shine on Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. ¹⁸ `Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that are many. ¹⁹ O lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do not delay, for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy name is called on Thy city, and on Thy people.'

¹⁷ for the Writing saith to Pharaoh—`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

²¹ And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and Jehovah causeth the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and maketh the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved, ²² and the sons of Israel go into the midst of the sea, on dry land, and the waters are to them a wall, on their right and on their left.

²⁷ And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and the sea turneth back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and Jehovah shaketh off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the waters turn back, and cover the chariots and the horsemen, even all the force of Pharaoh, who are coming in after them into the sea—there hath not been left of them even one. ²⁹ And the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters are to them a wall, on their right and on their left;

¹¹ And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.

¹⁵ And seen are the streams of waters, And revealed are foundations of the earth. From Thy rebuke, O Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of Thine anger.

⁶ He hath turned a sea to dry land, Through a river they pass over on foot, There do we rejoice in Him.

¹⁹ In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known. ²⁰ Thou hast led as a flock Thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron!

¹³ He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.

⁵² And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness, ⁵³ And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

³ The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward. ⁴ The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock. ⁵ What—to thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, thou turnest back! ⁶ O mountains, ye skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock! ⁷ From before the Lord be afraid, O earth, From before the God of Jacob,

¹³ To Him cutting the sea of Suph into parts, For to the age is His kindness, ¹⁴ And caused Israel to pass through its midst, For to the age is His kindness, ¹⁵ And shook out Pharaoh and his force in the sea of Suph, For to the age is His kindness. ¹⁶ To Him leading His people in a wilderness, For to the age is His kindness.

¹⁴ And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines westward, Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and Moab sending forth their hand, And sons of Ammon obeying them. ¹⁵ And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams, And hath caused men to tread it with shoes. ¹⁶ And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!

² Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

¹⁰ Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?

¹¹ And He remembereth the days of old, Moses—his people. Where is He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock? Where is He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit? ¹² Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during. ¹³ Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not. ¹⁴ As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.

⁴ He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

²⁶ And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;

³⁰ and Jehovah saveth Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel seeth the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore,

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — ¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

¹³ Thou hast led forth in Thy kindness The people whom Thou hast redeemed. Thou hast led on in Thy strength Unto Thy holy habitation.

⁴ and that which He hath done to the force of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariot, when He hath caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow against their faces in their pursuing after them, and Jehovah destroyeth them, unto this day;

²² Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me? ²³ And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say, Whom He redeemed from the hand of an adversary.

²⁴ And He delivereth us from our adversaries, For to the age is His kindness.

⁴ For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

¹³ And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, station yourselves, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He doth for you to-day; for, as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye add no more to see them—to the age;

²⁷ And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and the sea turneth back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and Jehovah shaketh off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the waters turn back, and cover the chariots and the horsemen, even all the force of Pharaoh, who are coming in after them into the sea—there hath not been left of them even one.

⁵ The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.

¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

¹⁹ For the horse of Pharaoh hath gone in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah turneth back on them the waters of the sea, and the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea.

⁵³ And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

³¹ and Israel seeth the great hand with which Jehovah hath wrought against the Egyptians, and the people fear Jehovah, and remain stedfast in Jehovah, and in Moses His servant.

¹³ `And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

³⁰ As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;
³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

¹⁷ Thou dost bring them in, And dost plant them In a mountain of Thine inheritance, A fixed place for Thy dwelling Thou hast made, O Jehovah; A sanctuary, O Lord, Thy hands have established;

²⁴ And the people murmur against Moses, saying, `What do we drink?'

² And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? —ye strive with me, what? —ye try Jehovah?'

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

¹¹ Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.

²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest. ¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

⁴ And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

³³ The flesh is yet between their teeth—it is not yet cut off—and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people—a very great smiting; ³⁴ and one calleth the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, for there they have buried the people who lust.

²² for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice—

²² `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. ¹⁹ And they speak against God—they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?' <sup>20</sup> Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also—bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

³⁰ They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? ⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

⁸ Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, ⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years; ¹⁰ wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

³¹ And a spirit hath journeyed from Jehovah, and cutteth off quails from the sea, and leaveth by the camp, as a day's journey here, and as a day's journey there, round about the camp, and about two cubits, on the face of the land. ³² And the people rise all that day, and all the night, and all the day after, and gather the quails—he who hath least hath gathered ten homers—and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.

²⁹ And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them. ³⁰ They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth, ³¹ And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

¹⁶ Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.

¹⁶ From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, woe is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

³⁶ `And thou hast made a flower of pure gold, and hast opened on it—openings of a signet—`Holy to Jehovah;'

⁶ they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy. ⁷ `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God; ⁸ and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy am I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

¹⁰ `And the high priest of his brethren, on whose head is poured the anointing oil, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments, ¹¹ nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself; ¹² nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah.

¹ And Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, taketh both Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, ² and they rise up before Moses, with men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty, princes of the company, called of the convention, men of name, ³ and they are assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and say unto them, `Enough of you! for all the company—all of them are holy, and in their midst is Jehovah; and wherefore do ye lift yourselves up above the assembly of Jehovah?' <sup>4</sup> And Moses heareth, and falleth on his face, <sup>5</sup> and he speaketh unto Korah, and unto all his company, saying, `Morning! —and Jehovah is knowing those who are his, and him who is holy, and hath brought near unto Him; even him whom He doth fix on He bringeth near unto Him. ⁶ This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company, ⁷ and put in them fire, and put on them perfume, before Jehovah to-morrow, and it hath been, the man whom Jehovah chooseth, he is the holy one; —enough of you, sons of Levi.' ⁸ And Moses saith unto Korah, `Hear ye, I pray you, sons of Levi; <sup>9</sup> is it little to you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the company of Israel to bring you near unto Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the company to serve them? — <sup>10</sup> yea, He doth bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee—and ye have sought also the priesthood! <sup>11</sup> Therefore, thou and all thy company who are met are against Jehovah; and Aaron, what is he, that ye murmur against him?'
<sup>12</sup> And Moses sendeth to call for Dathan and for Abiram sons of Eliab, and they say, `We do not come up; ¹³ is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us? ¹⁴ Yea, unto a land flowing with milk and honey thou hast not brought us in, nor dost thou give to us an inheritance of field and vineyard; the eyes of these men dost thou pick out? we do not come up.' ¹⁵ And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, `Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.' <sup>16</sup> And Moses saith unto Korah, `Thou and all thy company, be ye before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; ¹⁷ and take ye each his censer, and ye have put on them perfume, and brought near before Jehovah, each his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and thou and Aaron, each his censer.' ¹⁸ And they take each his censer, and put on them fire, and lay on them perfume, and they stand at the opening of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹ And Korah assembleth against them all the company unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and the honour of Jehovah is seen by all the company. ²⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²¹ `Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' <sup>22</sup> and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh—the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
²³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ `Speak unto the company, saying, Go ye up from round about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' <sup>25</sup> And Moses riseth, and goeth unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel go after him, <sup>26</sup> and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.' ²⁷ And they go up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from round about, and Dathan, and Abiram have come out, standing at the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants. ²⁸ And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart; <sup>29</sup> if according to the death of all men these die—or the charge of all men is charged upon them—Jehovah hath not sent me; <sup>30</sup> and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol—then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.' <sup>31</sup> And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, <sup>32</sup> and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, <sup>33</sup> and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly; <sup>34</sup> and all Israel who are round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'
³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume. ³⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ `Say unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, and he lifteth up the censers from the midst of the burning, and the fire scatter thou yonder, for they have been hallowed, <sup>38</sup> even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.' <sup>39</sup> And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar— <sup>40</sup> a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.
<sup>41</sup> And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur, on the morrow, against Moses and against Aaron, saying, `Ye—ye have put to death the people of Jehovah.' ⁴² And it cometh to pass, in the company being assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they turn towards the tent of meeting, and lo, the cloud hath covered it, and the honour of Jehovah is seen; ⁴³ and Moses cometh—Aaron also—unto the front of the tent of meeting. ⁴⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ `Get you up from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' and they fall on their faces, <sup>46</sup> and Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah—the plague hath begun.' ⁴⁷ And Aaron taketh as Moses hath spoken, and runneth unto the midst of the assembly, and lo, the plague hath begun among the people; and he giveth the perfume, and maketh atonement for the people, ⁴⁸ and standeth between the dead and the living, and the plague is restrained; ⁴⁹ and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah; ⁵⁰ and Aaron turneth back unto Moses, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and the plague hath been restrained.

²⁹ if according to the death of all men these die—or the charge of all men is charged upon them—Jehovah hath not sent me; ³⁰ and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol—then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.' ³¹ And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, ³² and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, ³³ and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;

¹⁰ and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them and Korah, in the death of the company, in the fire consuming the two hundred and fifty men, and they become a sign;

⁶ and that which He hath done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, sons of Reuben, when the earth hath opened her mouth and swalloweth them, and their houses, and their tents, and all that liveth, which is at their feet, in the midst of all Israel:

³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume. ³⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ `Say unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, and he lifteth up the censers from the midst of the burning, and the fire scatter thou yonder, for they have been hallowed, ³⁸ even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.' ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar— ⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.

⁴⁶ and Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah—the plague hath begun.'

²⁹ for also our God is a consuming fire.

⁴ and he receiveth from their hand, and doth fashion it with a graving tool, and doth make it a molten calf, and they say, `These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' <sup>5</sup> And Aaron seeth, and buildeth an altar before it, and Aaron calleth, and saith, `A festival to Jehovah—to-morrow;' ⁶ and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.
⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go, descend, for thy people whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt hath done corruptly, ⁸ they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

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

⁸ even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you—to destroy you.

¹² and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them—they have made to themselves a molten thing! ¹³ `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it is; <sup>14</sup> desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it. <sup>15</sup> `And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands, ¹⁶ and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you.

²¹ and your sin, which ye have made—the calf—I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it is small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.

¹⁸ `Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,

⁴¹ `And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,

⁷ Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

⁴ `Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth. ⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

¹⁷ For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

¹⁸ And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him? ¹⁹ The graven image poured out hath a artisan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining. ²⁰ He who is poor by heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artisan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image—not moved. ²¹ Do ye not know—do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood From the foundations of the earth? ²² He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in. ²³ He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made; ²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away. ²⁵ And unto whom do ye liken Me, And am I equal? saith the Holy One.

¹¹ Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

³⁴ Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors—according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

²² and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

¹⁸ thou art not afraid of them; thou dost surely remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt, ¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out; so doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.

²¹ He is thy praise, and He is thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful things which thine eyes have seen:

¹⁷ They sacrifice to demons—no god! Gods they have not known—New ones—from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers! ¹⁸ The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.

¹⁰ and dost give signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land, for Thou hast known that they have acted proudly against them, and Thou makest to Thee a name as at this day. ¹¹ And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.

¹³ Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea-monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters, ¹⁴ Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

¹¹ And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them. ¹² Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan.

⁴² They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary. ⁴³ When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan, ⁴⁴ And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not. ⁴⁵ He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them, ⁴⁶ And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost, ⁴⁸ And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames. ⁴⁹ He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress—A discharge of evil messengers. ⁵⁰ He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. ⁵¹ And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.

¹³ They have hasted—forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

⁹ He sent tokens and wonders into thy midst, O Egypt, On Pharaoh and on all his servants.

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me.

⁸ And He saith, Only My people they are, Sons—they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.

³² Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

⁷ and the house of Judah I pity, and have saved them by Jehovah their God, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.'

⁴⁷ And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

³ (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

²⁵ and turneth aside the wheels of their chariots, and they lead them with difficulty, and the Egyptians say, `Let us flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians.' <sup>26</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch out thy hand toward the sea, and the waters turn back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.'

⁵¹ And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.

²³ And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁷ They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word. ²⁹ He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish. ³⁰ Teemed hath their land with frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings. ³¹ He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border. ³² He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire is in their land. ³³ And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border. ³⁴ He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm—innumerable, ³⁵ And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

¹⁰ and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.' ¹¹ And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? <sup>12</sup> why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people. <sup>13</sup> `Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;' ¹⁴ and Jehovah repenteth of the evil which He hath spoken of doing to His people.

³² and now, if Thou takest away their sin—and if not—blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'

⁵ and he speaketh unto Korah, and unto all his company, saying, `Morning! —and Jehovah is knowing those who are his, and him who is holy, and hath brought near unto Him; even him whom He doth fix on He bringeth near unto Him.

¹³ `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it is; ¹⁴ desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.

¹⁹ `For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.

²⁵ `And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said—to destroy you;

¹⁰ `And I—I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee.

²⁶ He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.

¹ Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness—Then am I propitious to her.

⁵ Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

⁸ And—they rebel against Me, And have not been willing to hearken to Me, Each, the detestable things of their eyes, They have not cast away, And the idols of Egypt have not forsaken, And I say—to pour out My fury on them, To complete Mine anger against them, In the midst of the land of Egypt.

¹³ And—rebel against me do the house of Israel in the wilderness, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have despised, Which the man who doth—liveth by them. And My sabbaths they have greatly polluted, And I say to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

³⁰ And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land—not to destroy it, And I have not found.

¹⁸ `Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,

¹⁹ if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you.

¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

³⁴ and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

³² and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied unto the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we passed over to spy it, is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst are men of stature;

¹¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

³¹ `As to your infants—of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become—I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

³² `And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God,

⁷ `For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain: ⁸ a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey; ⁹ a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;

²³ and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice;

¹¹ but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water; ¹² a land which Jehovah thy God is searching; continually are the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.

¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father—ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

⁶ In that day I did lift up My hand to them, To bring them forth from the land of Egypt, Unto a land that I spied out for them, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it is to all the lands,

⁵ and they, having disregarded it, went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;

¹² See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

¹⁸ and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? — ¹⁹ and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

² for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

⁶ since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief—

¹⁴ Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—may we hold fast the profession,

¹⁶ lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

⁵ and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;

¹ And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night; ² and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died! <sup>3</sup> and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?' <sup>4</sup> And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

²⁷ `Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard; ²⁸ say unto them, I live—an affirmation of Jehovah—if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears—so I do not to you; ²⁹ in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

²⁶ `And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, ²⁷ and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite—to destroy us;

⁷ For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear— ⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

¹⁵ in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

²² and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, `I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth— ²³ from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I—I have made Abram rich;

⁸ and I have brought you in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and have given it to you—a possession; I am Jehovah.'

²⁸ say unto them, I live—an affirmation of Jehovah—if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears—so I do not to you; ²⁹ in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me; ³⁰ ye—ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun. ³¹ `As to your infants—of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become—I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against; ³² as to you—your carcases do fall in this wilderness, ³³ and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness; ³⁴ by the number of the days in which ye spied the land, forty days, —a day for a year, a day for a year—ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off; ³⁵ I am Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; —in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'

³⁴ `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying, ³⁵ Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,

⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live—to the age! ⁴¹ If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay! ⁴² I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.

¹¹ Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest—!'

¹⁵ And also, I, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, Not to bring them in to the land that I had given, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it is to all the lands,

¹¹ so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest—!')

¹⁸ and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? —

⁵ And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven, ⁶ and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it—that time shall not be yet,

³³ And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

²⁶ I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed; ²⁷ and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

³⁷ and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.

⁶⁴ and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone. ⁶⁵ `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;

¹¹ Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

²³ I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.

¹ And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab, ² and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods, ³ and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.

⁵ And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'

¹⁶ lo, they—they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

³ `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

¹⁷ They sacrifice to demons—no god! Gods they have not known—New ones—from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!

¹⁷ Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day—and the plague is in the company of Jehovah,

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands, ⁵ A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not, ⁶ Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not, ⁷ Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not; ⁸ Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

⁸ And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself. ⁹ Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful—all of them. ¹⁰ And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

¹⁰ As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They—they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

¹⁹ what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? — ²⁰ no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

¹⁴ `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

⁹ and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

¹⁶ They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry. ¹⁷ They sacrifice to demons—no god! Gods they have not known—New ones—from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers! ¹⁸ The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.
¹⁹ And Jehovah seeth and despiseth—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters. ²⁰ And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what is their latter end; For a froward generation are they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness. ²¹ They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

⁸ O Jehovah, our God, Thou hast afflicted them, A God forgiving Thou hast been to them, And taking vengeance on their actions.

³⁹ And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

²⁹ See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they—they have sought out many devices.

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, ²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

⁸ neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

⁶ And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting; ⁷ and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, seeth, and riseth from the midst of the company, and taketh a javelin in his hand, ⁸ and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman—unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

¹⁴ And the name of the man of Israel who is smitten, who hath been smitten with the Midianitess, is Zimri son of Salu, prince of the house of a father of the Simeonite; ¹⁵ and the name of the woman who is smitten, the Midianitess, is Cozbi daughter of Zur, head of a people—of the house of a father in Midian is he.

⁹ `But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; ¹⁰ and thou hast stoned him with stones, and he hath died, for he hath sought to drive thee away from Jehovah thy God, who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants; ¹¹ and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

¹⁵ `Thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword; devoting it, and all that is in it, even its cattle, by the mouth of the sword; ¹⁶ and all its spoil thou dost gather unto the midst of its broad place, and hast burned with fire the city and all its spoil completely, before Jehovah thy God, and it hath been a heap age-during, it is not built any more; ¹⁷ and there doth not cleave to thy hand any of the devoted thing, so that Jehovah doth turn back from the fierceness of His anger, and hath given to thee mercies, and loved thee, and multiplied thee, as He hath sworn to thy fathers,

¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you—if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

⁴⁰ And Elijah saith to them, `Catch ye the prophets of Baal; let not a man escape of them;' and they catch them, and Elijah bringeth them down unto the stream Kishon, and doth slaughter them there.
<sup>41</sup> And Elijah saith to Ahab, `Go up, eat and drink, because of the sound of the noise of the shower.'

¹² And he saith unto them, `Lift me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea doth cease from you; for I know that on my account this great tempest is upon you.' <sup>13</sup> And the men row to turn back unto the dry land, and are not able, for the sea is more and more tempestuous against them. <sup>14</sup> And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.' ¹⁵ And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

⁶ And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him—righteousness.

¹¹ `Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal. <sup>12</sup> `Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace, ¹³ and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.'

¹³ thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.

³ And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head; ⁴ and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made? <sup>5</sup> for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her. <sup>6</sup> And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me; ⁷ for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always; ⁸ what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming. ⁹ Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of—for a memorial of her.'

² And there hath been no water for the company, and they are assembled against Moses, and against Aaron, ³ and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah! <sup>4</sup> and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts? <sup>5</sup> and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink. <sup>6</sup> And Moses and Aaron go in from the presence of the assembly unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and fall on their faces, and the honour of Jehovah is seen by them. <sup>7</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>8</sup> `Take the rod, and assemble the company, thou and Aaron thy brother; and ye have spoken unto the rock before their eyes, and it hath given its water, and thou hast brought out to them water from the rock, and hast watered the company, and their beasts.' ⁹ And Moses taketh the rod from before Jehovah, as He hath commanded him, ¹⁰ and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, `Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?' <sup>11</sup> and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts. <sup>12</sup> And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.' ¹³ These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have `striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

²³ and Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron in mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, saying, ²⁴ `Aaron is gathered unto his people, for he doth not go in unto the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because that ye provoked My mouth at the waters of Meribah.

¹³ and thou hast seen it, and thou hast been gathered unto thy people, also thou, as Aaron thy brother hath been gathered, ¹⁴ because ye provoked My mouth in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the company—to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes;' they are waters of Meribah, in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.

³⁷ `Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;

²⁶ `And Jehovah sheweth himself wroth with me, for your sake, and hath not hearkened unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, Enough for thee; add not to speak unto Me any more about this thing:

²¹ `And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance;

⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

⁷ In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

¹ And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.'

¹⁶ And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; ¹⁷ and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.' ¹⁸ And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

¹⁰ and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, `Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?' ¹¹ and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts.

¹⁰ And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

² Who is this—darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth. ⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

⁷ And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job. ⁸ And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

¹ To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. —A Psalm of David. I have said, `I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

³ Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

⁵² then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

⁵⁵ `And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, are for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling, ⁵⁶ and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them—I do to you.'

² and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them—thou dost utterly devote them—thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

¹⁶ `And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it is to thee.

²³ and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them—a great destruction—till their destruction; ²⁴ and He hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them.

¹⁶ `Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing; ¹⁷ for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

⁶³ As to the Jebusites, inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah have not been able to dispossess them, and the Jebusite dwelleth with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem unto this day.

¹⁰ and they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute—a servant.

¹² And the sons of Manasseh have not been able to occupy these cities, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in this land, ¹³ and it cometh to pass when the sons of Israel have been strong, that they put the Canaanite to tribute, and have not utterly dispossessed him.
¹⁴ And the sons of Joseph speak with Joshua, saying, `Wherefore hast thou given to me an inheritance—one lot and one portion, and I a numerous people? hitherto hath Jehovah blessed me.' <sup>15</sup> And Joshua saith unto them, `If thou art a numerous people, go up for thee to the forest, then thou hast prepared for thee there, in the land of the Perizzite, and of the Rephaim, when mount Ephraim hath been narrow for thee.' ¹⁶ And the sons of Joseph say, `The hill is not found to us, and a chariot of iron is with every Canaanite who is dwelling in the land of the valley—to him who is in Beth-Shean and its towns, and to him who is in the valley of Jezreel.'

¹² `But—if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, ¹³ know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

¹⁹ and Jehovah is with Judah, and he occupieth the hill-country, but not to dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, for they have chariots of iron.

²¹ And the Jebusite, inhabiting Jerusalem, the sons of Benjamin have not dispossessed; and the Jebusite dwelleth with the sons of Benjamin, in Jerusalem, till this day.

²⁷ And Manasseh hath not occupied Beth-Shean and its towns, and Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Iblaim and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in that land; ²⁸ and it cometh to pass, when Israel hath been strong, that he setteth the Canaanite to tribute, and hath not utterly dispossessed it. ²⁹ And Ephraim hath not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in its midst, in Gezer. ³⁰ Zebulun hath not dispossessed the inhabitants of Kitron, and the inhabitants of Nahalol, and the Canaanite dwelleth in its midst, and they become tributary. ³¹ Asher hath not dispossessed the inhabitants of Accho, and the inhabitants of Zidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob; ³² and the Asherite dwelleth in the midst of the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land, for it hath not dispossessed them. ³³ Naphtali hath not dispossessed the inhabitants of Beth-Shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-Anath, and he dwelleth in the midst of the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-Shemesh and of Beth-Anath have become tributary to them. ³⁴ And the Amorites press the sons of Dan to the mountain, for they have not suffered them to go down to the valley; ³⁵ and the Amorite is desirous to dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, and the hand of the house of Joseph is heavy, and they become tributary; ³⁶ and the border of the Amorite is from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock and upward.

³ Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

²² And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams; ²³ for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'

¹⁹ Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, `Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?' <sup>20</sup> And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

² and saith, `I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye—ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land—their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice—what is this ye have done? ³ And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

⁵ And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, ⁶ and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;

⁶ For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.

⁶ Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

³³ they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.'

¹⁵ `Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and one hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

¹³ know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

³ And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

¹² and forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who are round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah, ¹³ yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies; ¹⁵ in every place where they have gone out, the hand of Jehovah hath been against them for evil, as Jehovah hath spoken, and as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and they are distressed—greatly.

¹⁷ and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah—they have not done so.

¹⁹ And it hath come to pass, at the death of the judge—they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.

⁵ And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, ⁶ and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods; ⁷ and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and forget Jehovah their God, and serve the Baalim and the shrines.

⁶ And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the Bene-Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsake Jehovah, and have not served Him;

⁸ and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made; ⁹ and the sons of Israel do covertly things that are not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city, ¹⁰ and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree, ¹¹ and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,

¹⁶ And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image—two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal, ¹⁷ and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;

² and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, ³ and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father hath broken down, and raiseth altars for Baalim, and maketh shrines, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them. ⁴ And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, `In Jerusalem is My name to the age.' <sup>5</sup> And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. <sup>6</sup> And he hath caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. <sup>7</sup> And he placeth the graven image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name to the age, ⁸ and I add not to turn aside the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers, only, if they watch to do all that I have commanded them—to all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.' ⁹ And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

⁵⁸ And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

¹⁵ And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by—to him it is. ¹⁶ And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in—nor shall it be! ¹⁷ And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them, ¹⁸ And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them. ¹⁹ And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance—thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ²⁰ And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms, ²¹ That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them? ²² And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast! ²³ And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Woe, woe, to thee—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah), ²⁴ That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place. ²⁵ At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms, ²⁶ And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours—great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way. ²⁸ And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also—thou hast not been satisfied. ²⁹ And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan—toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied. ³⁰ How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman. ³¹ In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And—hast not been as a whore deriding a gift. ³² The wife who committeth adultery—Under her husband—doth receive strangers. ³³ To all whores they give a gift, And—thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about—in thy whoredoms. ³⁴ And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms, That after thee none doth go a-whoring; And in thy giving a gift, And a gift hath not been given to thee; And thou art become contrary.
³⁵ Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah, ³⁶ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them; ³⁷ Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness. ³⁸ And I have judged thee—judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy. ³⁹ And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare. ⁴⁰ And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords, ⁴¹ And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more. ⁴² And I have caused My fury against thee to rest, And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee, And I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more. ⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.
⁴⁴ Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother—her daughter! ⁴⁵ Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ And—in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done—she and her daughters—As thou hast done—thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. ⁵⁰ And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen. ⁵¹ As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins—she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done. ⁵² Thou also—bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters. ⁵³ And I have turned back to their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst, ⁵⁴ So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them. ⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Do turn back to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state, And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state. ⁵⁶ And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy, ⁵⁷ Before thy wickedness is revealed, As at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about. ⁵⁸ Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁵⁹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath—to break covenant.
⁶⁰ And I—I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during. ⁶¹ And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters—Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant. ⁶² And I—I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah. ⁶³ So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

²⁸ And I bring them in unto the land, That I did lift up My hand to give to them, And they see every high hill, and every thick tree, And they sacrifice there their sacrifices, And give there the provocation of their offering, And make there their sweet fragrance, And they pour out there their libations. ²⁹ And I say unto them: What is the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called `high place' to this day. ³⁰ Therefore, say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the way of your fathers are ye defiled? And after their detestable things go a-whoring? ³¹ And in the offering of your gifts, In causing your sons to pass through fire, Ye are defiled by all your idols to this day, And I am sought by you, O house of Israel! I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I am not sought by you. ³² And that which is going up on your mind, It is not at all—in that ye are saying: We will be as the nations, as the families of the lands, To serve wood and stone.

⁷ and they sacrifice not any more their sacrifices to goats after which they are going a-whoring; a statute age-during is this to them, to their generations.

³⁰ take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so—even I? ³¹ `Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.

¹⁰ there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,

³ and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, and also his son he hath caused to pass over into fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

¹⁷ and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;

⁶ and he hath caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah—to provoke to anger.

¹⁵ and he establisheth to him priests for high places, and for goats, and for calves, that he made—

⁵ Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

³¹ And have built the high places of Tophet, That are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters with fire, Which I did not command, Nor did it come up on My heart.

³⁵ And they build the high places of Baal, that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

²⁰ And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms, ²¹ That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?

²⁶ And I defile them by their own gifts, By causing to pass away every opener of a womb, So that I make them desolate, So that they know that I am Jehovah.

³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And blood is in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food.

⁴⁷ And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn.

²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

²⁰ no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

³³ `And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

⁹ and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁶ And also, innocent blood hath Manasseh shed very much, till that he hath filled Jerusalem—mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he hath caused Judah to sin, to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁴ and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

⁵ And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

²¹ For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

³⁴ Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.

²³ Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

³ and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.

¹⁶ and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

⁵ then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people. ⁶ `And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

³⁹ and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;

⁵ And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during. ⁶ Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

¹ Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah. ² Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.

⁶ And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, `Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there. ⁷ And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see it doth her treacherous sister Judah. ⁸ And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication—she also. ⁹ And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.

¹⁸ And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

³⁰ Therefore, say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the way of your fathers are ye defiled? And after their detestable things go a-whoring? ³¹ And in the offering of your gifts, In causing your sons to pass through fire, Ye are defiled by all your idols to this day, And I am sought by you, O house of Israel! I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I am not sought by you.

⁴³ And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.

³ And they go a-whoring in Egypt, In their youth they have gone a-whoring, There they have bruised their breasts, And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity. ⁴ And their names are Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names—Samaria is Aholah, And Jerusalem is Aholibah. ⁵ And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians, ⁶ Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses, ⁷ And she giveth her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them—even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she hath been defiled. ⁸ And her whoredoms out of Egypt she hath not forsaken, For with her they lay in her youth, And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, And they pour out their whoredoms on her. ⁹ Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted. ¹⁰ They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.
¹¹ And see doth her sister Aholibah, And she maketh her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister. ¹² On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones—clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them. ¹³ And I see that she hath been defiled, One way is to them both. ¹⁴ And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead, ¹⁵ Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers—all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth. ¹⁶ And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea. ¹⁷ And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them. ¹⁸ And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister. ¹⁹ And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses—their issue. ²¹ Thou lookest after the wickedness of thy youth, In dealing out of Egypt thy loves, For the sake of the breasts of thy youth.
²² Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about. ²³ Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them—rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them. ²⁴ And they have come in against thee, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against thee round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged thee in their Judgments. ²⁵ And I have set My jealousy against thee, And they have dealt with thee in fury, Thy nose and thine ears they turn aside, And thy posterity by sword falleth, They, thy sons and thy daughters do take away, And thy posterity is devoured by fire. ²⁶ And they have stripped thee of thy garments, And have taken thy beauteous jewels. ²⁷ And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again. ²⁸ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am giving thee into a hand that thou hast hated, Into a hand from which thou wast alienated. ²⁹ And they have dealt with thee in hatred, And they have taken all thy labour, And they have left thee naked and bare, And revealed hath been the nakedness of thy whoredoms, And the wickedness of thy whoredoms. ³⁰ To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols, ³¹ In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand. ³² Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The cup of thy sister thou dost drink, The deep and the wide one, (Thou art for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain. ³³ With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria. ³⁴ And thou hast drunk it, and hast drained it, And its earthen ware thou dost gnaw, And thine own breasts thou pluckest off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, ³⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten Me, And thou dost cast Me behind thy back, Even thou also bear thy wickedness and thy whoredoms.'
³⁶ And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, Dost thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations. ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And blood is in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food. ³⁸ Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted. ³⁹ And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house, ⁴⁰ And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom thou hast washed, Painted thine eyes, and put on adornment. ⁴¹ And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it. ⁴² And the voice of a multitude at ease is with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads. ⁴³ And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms—she also! ⁴⁴ And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah—the wicked women. ⁴⁵ As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they are adulteresses, And blood is in their hands. ⁴⁶ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling. ⁴⁷ And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn. ⁴⁸ And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness. ⁴⁹ And they have put your wickedness on you, And the sins of your idols ye bear, And ye have known that I am the Lord Jehovah!

¹ `Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.

¹ And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, <sup>2</sup> with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;' <sup>3</sup> and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns, <sup>4</sup> and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom, <sup>5</sup> and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.' ⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder—having seen her—with great wonder;

²³ and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;

²⁹ and they are Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!

¹⁹ And Jehovah seeth and despiseth—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies;

²⁰ And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, `Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice—

⁸ And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He selleth them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram-Naharaim, and the sons of Israel serve Chushan-Rishathaim eight years;

²⁷ and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries. ²⁸ `And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times, <sup>29</sup> and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they—they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, —which man doth and hath lived in them—and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened. <sup>30</sup> `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands, ³¹ and in Thine abundant mercies Thou hast not made them a consumption, nor hast forsaken them; for a God, gracious and merciful, art Thou. ³² `And now, O our God—God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness—let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day; <sup>33</sup> and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly; <sup>34</sup> and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them; <sup>35</sup> and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings. <sup>36</sup> `Lo, we—to-day—are servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good—lo, we are servants on it, ³⁷ and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress. ³⁸ And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed are our heads, our Levites, our priests.'

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

⁵⁹ God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel. ⁶⁰ And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, ⁶¹ And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary, ⁶² And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.

⁷ The Lord hath cast off His altar, He hath rejected His sanctuary, He hath shut up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces, A noise they have made in the house of Jehovah Like a day of appointment.

⁸ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

²⁵ `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;

²⁹ and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;

⁴⁸ thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.

³⁰ How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not—that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

¹² and the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; and Jehovah strengtheneth Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because that they have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

¹ And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah when Ehud is dead, ² and Jehovah selleth them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who hath reigned in Hazor, and the head of his host is Sisera, and he is dwelling in Harosheth of the Goyim;

¹ And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Midian seven years, ² and the hand of Midian is strong against Israel, from the presence of Midian have the sons of Israel made for themselves the flowings which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. ³ And it hath been, if Israel hath sowed, that Midian hath come up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, yea, they have come up against him, ⁴ and encamp against them, and destroy the increase of the land till thine entering Gaza; and they leave no sustenance in Israel, either sheep, or ox, or ass; ⁵ for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel is very weak from the presence of Midian, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

⁷ and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He selleth them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the Bene-Ammon, ⁸ and they crush and oppress the sons of Israel in that year—eighteen years all the sons of Israel who are beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead. ⁹ And the Bene-Ammon pass over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, and Israel hath great distress.
¹⁰ And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, `We have sinned against Thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.' <sup>11</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the sons of Israel, `Have I not saved you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorite, from the Bene-Ammon, and from the Philistines? ¹² And the Zidonians, and Amalek, and Maon have oppressed you, and ye cry unto Me, and I save you out of their hand; ¹³ and ye—ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you. ¹⁴ Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they—they save you in the time of your adversity.' ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel say unto Jehovah, `We have sinned, do Thou to us according to all that is good in Thine eyes; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.' <sup>16</sup> And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel. <sup>17</sup> And the Bene-Ammon are called together, and encamp in Gilead, and the sons of Israel are gathered together, and encamp in Mizpah. <sup>18</sup> And the people—heads of Gilead—say one unto another, `Who is the man that doth begin to fight against the Bene-Ammon? he is for head to all inhabitants of Gilead.'

³ and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, for he hath nine hundred chariots of iron, and he hath oppressed the sons of Israel mightily twenty years.

¹² And the Zidonians, and Amalek, and Maon have oppressed you, and ye cry unto Me, and I save you out of their hand;

¹⁶ And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers; ¹⁷ and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah—they have not done so. ¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up to them judges—then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.

⁸ He chooseth new gods, Then war is at the gates! A shield is not seen—and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel.

⁵ for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it.

⁹ and they forget Jehovah their God, and He selleth them into the hand of Sisera, head of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fight against them, ¹⁰ and they cry unto Jehovah, and say, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and serve the Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and now, deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we serve Thee. ¹¹ `And Jehovah sendeth Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivereth you out of the hand of your enemies round about, and ye dwell confidently.

¹⁹ And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, `Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;'

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

²⁹ And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up to them judges—then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.

⁹ and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, and Jehovah raiseth a saviour to the sons of Israel, and he saveth them—Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother;

⁶ And Israel is very weak from the presence of Midian, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.
⁷ And it cometh to pass when the sons of Israel have cried unto Jehovah, concerning Midian, ⁸ that Jehovah sendeth a man, a prophet, unto the sons of Israel, and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I—I have brought you up out of Egypt, and I bring you out from a house of servants, ⁹ and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all your oppressors, and I cast them out from your presence, and I give to you their land, ¹⁰ and I say to you, I am Jehovah your God, ye do not fear the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling: —and ye have not hearkened to My voice.'

¹⁰ And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, `We have sinned against Thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.' <sup>11</sup> And Jehovah saith unto the sons of Israel, `Have I not saved you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorite, from the Bene-Ammon, and from the Philistines? ¹² And the Zidonians, and Amalek, and Maon have oppressed you, and ye cry unto Me, and I save you out of their hand; ¹³ and ye—ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you. ¹⁴ Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they—they save you in the time of your adversity.' ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel say unto Jehovah, `We have sinned, do Thou to us according to all that is good in Thine eyes; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.' ¹⁶ And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

⁸ And the sons of Israel say unto Samuel, `Keep not silent for us from crying unto Jehovah our God, and He doth save us out of the hand of the Philistines.' <sup>9</sup> And Samuel taketh a fat lamb, and causeth it to go up—a burnt-offering whole to Jehovah; and Samuel crieth unto Jehovah for Israel, and Jehovah answereth him; <sup>10</sup> and Samuel is causing the burnt-offering to go up—and the Philistines have drawn nigh to battle against Israel—and Jehovah doth thunder with a great noise, on that day, upon the Philistines, and troubleth them, and they are smitten before Israel. <sup>11</sup> And the men of Israel go out from Mizpeh, and pursue the Philistines, and smite them unto the place of Beth-Car. <sup>12</sup> And Samuel taketh a stone, and setteth it between Mizpeh and Shen, and calleth its name Eben-Ezer, saying, `Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.'

²⁶ for Jehovah hath seen the affliction of Israel—very bitter, and there is none restrained, and there is none left, and there is no helper to Israel; ²⁷ and Jehovah hath not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and saveth them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

¹⁴ and Jehovah repenteth of the evil which He hath spoken of doing to His people.

⁴⁰ `And—they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition, ⁴¹ also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, — ⁴² then I have remembered My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.

³⁶ For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth—the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

¹⁶ and the messenger putteth forth his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying among the people, `Enough, now, cease thy hand;' and the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

²³ and Jehovah doth favour them, and pity them, and turn unto them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and hath not been willing to destroy them, nor to cast them from His presence as yet.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me,

¹³ Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

⁸ He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

¹⁴ For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants comforteth Himself.

⁸ How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

³ Jehovah hath repented of this, `It shall not be,' said Jehovah.

⁶ Jehovah hath repented of this, `It also shall not be,' said the Lord Jehovah.

⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, ⁷² To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant,

⁵⁰ and hast forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee, even all their transgressions which they have transgressed against Thee, and hast given them mercies before their captors, and they have had mercy on them—

⁹ for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful is Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'

⁹ for servants we are, and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

¹¹ `I beseech Thee, O Lord, let, I pray Thee, Thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto the prayer of Thy servants, those delighting to fear Thy Name; and give prosperity, I pray Thee, to Thy servant to-day, and give him for mercies before this man;' and I have been butler to the king.

¹¹ Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

¹² And I give to you mercies, and he hath pitied you, and caused you to turn back unto your own ground.

³⁵ And say, Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather us, and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To triumph in Thy praise. ³⁶ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age and unto the age;' And all the people say, `Amen,' and have given praise to Jehovah.

¹ `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness:' ² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say, Whom He redeemed from the hand of an adversary. ³ And from the lands hath gathered them, From east and from west, From north, and from the sea.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

² Building Jerusalem is Jehovah, The driven away of Israel He gathereth.

³⁷ Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently; ³⁸ and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God; ³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: ⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me; ⁴¹ and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.

²⁴ And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land,
²⁵ And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. ²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them. ²⁸ And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I—I am to you for God.

²¹ and speak thou unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am taking the sons of Israel, From among the nations whither they have gone, And have gathered them from round about, And I have brought them in unto their land. ²² And I have made them become one nation in the land, on mountains of Israel, And one king is to them all for king, And they are no more as two nations, Nor are they divided any more into two kingdoms again. ²³ Nor are they defiled any more with their idols, And with their abominations, And with any of their transgressions, And I have saved them out of all their dwellings, In which they have sinned, And I have cleansed them, And they have been to Me for a people, And I—I am to them for God. ²⁴ And My servant David is king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them. ²⁵ And they have dwelt on the land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob, In which your fathers have dwelt, And they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, And their son's sons—unto the age, And David My servant is their prince—to the age. ²⁶ And I have made to them a covenant of peace, A covenant age-during it is with them, And I have placed them, and multiplied them, And placed My sanctuary in their midst—to the age. ²⁷ And My tabernacle hath been over them, And I have been to them for God, And they have been to Me for a people. ²⁸ And known have the nations that I Jehovah am sanctifying Israel, In My sanctuary being in their midst—to the age!'

²⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Now do I bring back the captivity of Jacob, And I have pitied all the house of Israel, And have been zealous for My holy name. ²⁶ And they have forgotten their shame, And all their trespass that they trespassed against Me, In their dwelling on their land confidently and none troubling. ²⁷ In My bringing them back from the peoples, I have assembled them from the lands of their enemies, And I have been sanctified in them before the eyes of the many nations, ²⁸ And they have known that I am Jehovah their God, In My removing them unto the nations, And I have gathered them unto their land, And I leave none of them any more there. ²⁹ And I hide not any more My face from them, In that I have poured out My spirit on the house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

¹⁴ and to God are thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

¹⁰ and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation is to Him who is sitting upon the throne—to our God, and to the Lamb!' <sup>11</sup> And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, <sup>12</sup> saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, are to our God—to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

¹⁰ And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age.

¹³ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age—and unto the age. Amen and Amen.

¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders, ¹⁹ And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

⁵² Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

⁴⁵ That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

¹⁶ since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?