Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. |
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1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD. |
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1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. |
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Daniel 10:17
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. |
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Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? |
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Genesis 18:3
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: |
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Judges 6:13
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. |
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Matthew 22:44
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? |
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Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? |
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Psalms 18:1-3
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. |
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Psalms 42:1
{To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
And said, my lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
my lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And he said unto him, my lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
And Moses said unto the LORD, O my lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, my lord Moses, forbid them.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
And he said unto him, Oh my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, my lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, my lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
And he answered, my lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
And she said unto him, my lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
And Nathan said, my lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
And the king of Israel answered and said, my lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, my lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
{A Psalm of David.} The LORD said unto my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
And he cried, A lion: my lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
my lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, my lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
The LORD said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
But and if that servant say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
And the lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And the lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
And Abram said, lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
And Sarai said unto Abram, my wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the lord judge between me and thee.
And said, my lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
my lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
And I will make thee swear by the lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
The lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
And he said, O lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And he said, Blessed be the lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the lord led me to the house of my master's brethren.
And the lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
And he said unto me, The lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the lord hath appointed out for my master's son.
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the lord, and blessed the lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
And the lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the lord before my death.
And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the lord thy God brought it to me.
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the lord hath blessed:
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And he said unto him, my lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
And the lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The lord hath not appeared unto thee.
And Moses said unto the lord, O my lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And thou shalt say unto him, The lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
And the lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the lord.
And the lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the lord in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. read more And the lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the lord our God, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the lord. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the lord. And the lord did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. show less
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the lord in the midst of the earth.
Then the lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
And the lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. read more As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: And he that regarded not the word of the lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. And the lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Intreat the lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the lord'S. But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the lord God. And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the lord had spoken by Moses. show less
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the lord'S.
And the lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the lord.
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
And the lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the lord, as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
The lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Then said the lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the lord that doth sanctify you.
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
And the lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
And Moses said unto the lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. read more For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. show less
And the lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O lord, let my lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the lord your God.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the lord.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the lord your God.
And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the lord.
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the lord.
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the lord do sanctify them.
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the lord.
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the lord.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the lord which hallow you,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the lord your God.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the lord their God.
And the lord said unto Moses, Is the lord'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, my lord Moses, forbid them.
And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the lord'S people were prophets, and that the lord would put his spirit upon them!
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
And Israel vowed a vow unto the lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the lord my God, to do less or more.
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the lord hath put in my mouth?
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the lord to battle, as my lord saith.
And they said, The lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the lord thy God in Horeb, when the lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the lord doth drive them out from before thee.
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
According to all that thou desiredst of the lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And thou shalt speak and say before the lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
And the lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the lord; and how much more after my death?
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
And Joshua said unto Achan, my son, give, I pray thee, glory to the lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the lord my God.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the lord my God.
And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the lord.
And an angel of the lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
And the anger of the lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
my heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the lord.
And I said unto you, I am the lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
And Gideon said unto him, Oh my lord, if the lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
And he said unto him, Oh my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the lord shall rule over you.
Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the lord'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the lord, and I cannot go back.
And she said unto him, my father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
Then Manoah intreated the lord, and said, O my lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
And the angel of the lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
And Samson called unto the lord, and said, O lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the lord, my son.
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the lord until even, and asked counsel of the lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the lord said, Go up against him.)
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the lord is gone out against me.
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
And he said, Blessed be thou of the lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the lord.
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the lord.
And Hannah prayed, and said, my heart rejoiceth in the lord, mine horn is exalted in the lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the lord'S people to transgress.
And the lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
And when Samuel saw Saul, the lord said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
And he said unto them, The lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
For, as the lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the lord all night.
Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the lord.
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the lord thy God.
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the lord'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
And Jonathan said unto David, O lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the lord hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the lord, saying, The lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
Then said David, O lord God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the lord said, They will deliver thee up.
And he said unto his men, The lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the lord'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the lord.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, my lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the lord'S anointed.
The lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
Swear now therefore unto me by the lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Now therefore, my lord, as the lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
And it shall come to pass, when the lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the lord; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
The lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the lord'S anointed.
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Now then do it: for the lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the lord for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
Then went king David in, and sat before the lord, and he said, Who am I, O lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, my lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the lord thy God will be with thee.
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the lord, in Hebron.
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the lord hath bidden him.
And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
And he answered, my lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
In my distress I called upon the lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
The lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Therefore the lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
The lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
And Joab said unto the king, Now the lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
And David spake unto the lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
And she said unto him, my lord, thou swarest by the lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
And Nathan said, my lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
And the king sware, and said, As the lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
Even as I sware unto thee by the lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the lord God of my lord the king say so too.
As the lord hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
And also thus said the king, Blessed be the lord God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the lord.
Now therefore, as the lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
And the lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
And now, O lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the lord put them under the soles of his feet.
But now the lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the lord my God, as the lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
And he said, Blessed be the lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the lord God of Israel.
And the lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
And the lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the lord God of Israel.
Therefore now, lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the lord, be nigh unto the lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
And the lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Wherefore the lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the lord, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
And she said, As the lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
And he cried unto the lord, and said, O lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the lord, and said, O lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
As the lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the lord from my youth.
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the lord, how I hid an hundred men of the lord'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
And he said, I have been very jealous for the lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And he said, I have been very jealous for the lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And the king of Israel answered and said, my lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
And Naboth said to Ahab, The lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
In this thing the lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the lord pardon thy servant in this thing.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, my lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the lord. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Yet the lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the lord.
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
And he built altars in the house of the lord, of which the lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
And the lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, my name shall be there.
And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the lord thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the lord will build thee an house.
And Joab answered, The lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O lord my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
And David said to Solomon, my son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the lord my God:
But the word of the lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Now, my son, the lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the lord thy God, as he hath said of thee.
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the lord an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
Howbeit the lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
And of all my sons, (for the lord hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the lord over Israel.
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the lord.
Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the lord God. Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal: read more The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the lord? Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the lord, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. Wherefore David blessed the lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own. I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. O lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision. show less
Now, O lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Behold, I build an house to the name of the lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
And he said, Blessed be the lord God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the lord God of Israel.
The lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the lord God of Israel.
Now therefore, O lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, my wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the lord hath come.
And when the lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
my sons, be not now negligent: for the lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
Also he built altars in the house of the lord, whereof the lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the lord. And the people did according to this promise.
And the lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
And it was so, that after the lord had spoken these words unto Job, the lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, my wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
I will declare the decree: the lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Arise, O lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
{To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my words, O lord, consider my meditation.
my voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Lead me, O lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
{Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the lord, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.} O lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
The lord shall judge the people: judge me, O lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
{To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.} I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
Have mercy upon me, O lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} In the lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Consider and hear me, O lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the lord.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the lord, Thou art my lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
I will bless the lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Arise, O lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the lord, who spake unto the lord the words of this song in the day that the lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O lord, my strength.
The lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
In my distress I called upon the lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
The lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Therefore hath the lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the lord for ever.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O lord.
{A Psalm of David.} The lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
One thing have I desired of the lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the lord, and to inquire in his temple.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, lord, will I seek.
{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
The lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
{A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.} I will extol thee, O lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
O lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O lord; and unto the lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O lord, and have mercy upon me: lord, be thou my helper. read more Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. show less
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} In thee, O lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Have mercy upon me, O lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
But I trusted in thee, O lord: I said, Thou art my God. my times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
{A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.} I will bless the lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
All my bones shall say, lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Judge me, O lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the lord.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Hear my prayer, O lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} I waited patiently for the lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. read more Many, O lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O lord, to deliver me: O lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The lord be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. show less
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the lord.
Many, O lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O lord, thou knowest.
But I am poor and needy; yet the lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Yet the lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O lord.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O lord our shield.
The lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
Let not them that wait on thee, O lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O lord, make no tarrying.
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
In the day of my trouble I sought the lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
my soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
I will praise thee, O lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
{Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the mercies of the lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Remember, lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Because thou hast made the lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
To shew that the lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the lord.} Hear my prayer, O lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
{A Psalm of David.} Bless the lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the lord, O my soul.
Bless the lord, O my soul. O lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
I will sing unto the lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the lord, O my soul. Praise ye the lord.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
I will greatly praise the lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
{A Psalm of David.} The lord said unto my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Praise ye the lord. I will praise the lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
O lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
The lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the lord than to put confidence in princes. All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the lord will I destroy them. read more They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the lord I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the lord I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the lord helped me. The lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the lord doeth valiantly. The right hand of the lord is exalted: the right hand of the lord doeth valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the lord. show less
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O lord, and teach me thy judgments.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O lord, quicken me according to thy judgment. They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. Thou art near, O lord; and all thy commandments are truth.
TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O lord: give me understanding according to thy word.
my soul waiteth for the lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
{A Song of degrees of David.} lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Keep me, O lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
O GOD the lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
{A Psalm of David.} lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
{Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.} I cried unto the lord with my voice; with my voice unto the lord did I make my supplication.
I cried unto thee, O lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
{A Psalm of David.} Hear my prayer, O lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Hear me speedily, O lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Quicken me, O lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
{A Psalm of David.} Blessed be the lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
my mouth shall speak the praise of the lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
While I live will I praise the lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
my son, fear thou the lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the lord GOD of hosts.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
For so the lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
Whom the lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
And the lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
And he cried, A lion: my lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
O lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Seek ye out of the book of the lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
By thy servants hast thou reproached the lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
O lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
The lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the lord.
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the lord which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
I am the lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the lord'S servant?
Ye are my witnesses, saith the lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the lord, that I am God.
Thus saith the lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Thus saith the lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the lord of hosts.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the lord, and my work with my God.
And now, saith the lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Thus saith the lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Thus saith the lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
For the lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Thus saith thy lord the lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
For thus saith the lord GOD, my people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the lord thy Redeemer.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the lord that hath mercy on thee.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Thus saith the lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
For thus saith the lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the lord; my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the lord, from henceforth and for ever.
I will greatly rejoice in the lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
Thus saith the lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
But ye are they that forsake the lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the lord.
Thus saith the lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Hear the word of the lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the lord.
Then the lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Then said the lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the lord GOD of hosts.
O generation, see ye the word of the lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the lord.
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Circumcise yourselves to the lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Wherefore thus saith the lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Fear ye not me? saith the lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the lord.
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the lord.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the lord.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
And the lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
But, O lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Thus saith the lord against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the lord'S flock is carried away captive.
Then the lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Therefore thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Then said the lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
O lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Therefore thus saith the lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
For thus saith the lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
O lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The lord.
Heal me, O lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
But the lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
But, O lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
O house of David, thus saith the lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Therefore thus saith the lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
As I live, saith the lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the lord.
Therefore thus saith the lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the lord.
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the lord, and because of the words of his holiness.
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the lord.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the lord.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the lord.
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
For thus saith the lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the lord of hosts.
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
For I have not sent them, saith the lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
For thus saith the lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the lord.
Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the lord.
Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the lord.
For, lo, the days come, saith the lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
At the same time, saith the lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the lord.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the lord my God.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the lord.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the lord:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the lord, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the lord.
Thus saith the lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Thus saith the lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the lord.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the lord in the ears of the people in the lord'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
my lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
And say unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
Therefore hear ye the word of the lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The lord GOD liveth.
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the lord; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the lord.
my people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the lord.
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
The lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
The lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Behold, O lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the lord'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the lord was strong upon me.
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Then said I, Ah lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Wherefore, as I live, saith the lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the lord.
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the lord'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
And ye shall know that I am the lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the lord GOD.
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the lord GOD.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
And say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the lord.
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the lord.
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the lord.
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the lord GOD.
For thus saith the lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the lord, when I set my face against them.
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the lord GOD.
my meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the lord GOD.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the lord GOD.
Yet ye say, The way of the lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the lord that sanctify them.
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the lord your God.
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
And ye shall know that I am the lord, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the lord GOD.
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
That all flesh may know that I the lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the lord have said it.
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the lord have poured out my fury upon you.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the lord GOD.
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the lord GOD; Thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the lord GOD.
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Thus saith the lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Speak, and say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, my river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
Thus saith the lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the lord GOD.
Now the hand of the lord was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
As I live, saith the lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
For thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
And I the lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the lord have spoken it.
Thus shall they know that I the lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the lord GOD.
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the lord GOD.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the lord, and are gone forth out of his land.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the lord, saith the lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
And ye shall know that I am the lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the lord.
And the heathen shall know that I the lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Thus saith the lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the lord, the Holy One in Israel.
And, thou son of man, thus saith the lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the lord GOD.
Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the lord GOD.
Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the lord filled the house of the lord: and I fell upon my face.
Thus saith the lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the lord GOD:
Thus saith the lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the lord GOD.
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, my lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
And I set my face unto the lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
And I prayed unto the lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
O lord, hear; O lord, forgive; O lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
So shall ye know that I am the lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
And the lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
And the lord took me as I followed the flock, and the lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the lord that doeth this.
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O lord my God.
And he prayed unto the lord, and said, I pray thee, O lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Therefore now, O lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the lord.
I will bear the indignation of the lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Art thou not from everlasting, O lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
The lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Therefore as I live, saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
In that day, saith the lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the lord of hosts.
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
Therefore thus saith the lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts; my cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
And many nations shall be joined to the lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Thus saith the lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the lord of hosts.
And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
I will bring it forth, saith the lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Thus saith the lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the lord of hosts their God.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The lord is my God.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the lord of hosts.
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the lord of hosts. my covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the lord of hosts.
And they shall be mine, saith the lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Not every one that saith unto me, lord, lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
The centurion answered and said, lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
And another of his disciples said unto him, lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Then came Peter to him, and said, lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
The lord said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, lord, that I might receive my sight.
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Thus hath the lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
And another also said, lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
But and if that servant say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, lord, that I may receive my sight.
Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The lord said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Peter said unto him, lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The lord said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
But I said, Not so, lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
That the residue of men might seek after the lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the lord, who doeth all these things.
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the lord.
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
In the name of our lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our lord Jesus Christ,
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the lord to be faithful.
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our lord? are not ye my work in the lord?
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the lord.
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the lord Almighty.
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the lord Jesus.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. read more Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; show less
But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the lord, shall make known to you all things:
And many of the brethren in the lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the lord, my dearly beloved.
All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the lord:
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our lord.
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our lord.
The lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, my son, despise not thou the chastening of the lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
So that we may boldly say, The lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
my brethren, have not the faith of our lord Jesus Christ, the lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
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